“Hey, everyone. GE. It’s super-cheap. We should own it long. Big.”
That’s a stock idea. Not necessarily a good idea. But an idea. And that’s how things go inside the thick walls of an investment company or mutual fund club that talks about stocks. They have stock ideas. Sometimes they act on ‘em. Most of the time, they don’t.
Ideas: one dime, one dozen.
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