is google a good stock to invest in?

Question

i just lost a LOT of money in the stock market game and i was wondering if i should sell it because google lost us like over 4 thousand dollars thanks

Answer 1

This question is similar to another one which I would answer as below:

Any form of investment without knowledge is not advisable especially when you are using your life saving...

Buying google is not a bad choice if you know what you are doing. My suggestion for you is to spend a bit of your saving to do some reading up about how you can insure your stock investment.

There are ways to hedge your investment and insure your google stock from falling down by purchasing options on that stock so that in case google collapses just like Enron, you will not be left with nothing.

Do learn about what you are going to invest in, just like an 8 year old trying to drive a car is very dangerous but a well trained and experience 30 year old driver will not be dangerous. This called managing risk.

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Answer 2

Google has been on a general upward trend. In the stock market game, and in real life also, you can't look at the hour to hour values unless you have to sell at a time when the stock is down. If you have a lot of your stock market game money invested in any stock, there will be ups and downs through the day - if you buy and sell because it goes down for an hour or so, you won't do well at the game.

That said, I wouldn't buy Google now - but I'd be putting in real money.

Answer 3

You lost on Google?

How did you lose on Google when it is at its all time high at $745 today? It was around $511 start of Sept, then $582 start of October and now it is $700++

If you invested even just a month ago, you'd have made money with Google; more so if you invested in 2005 a year after the IPO when the stock was trading around $200

But if you're going to buy now, then I'd think twice about it.

Answer 4

Google is still a good stock to own, it's high and going to $1000.00 per share according to the experts. Their new phone hasn't hit the market yet. The draw back is, they are expensive and there is no sure thing, so you are risking more capital , there are other stocks that are more affordable and can give you good returns. Look at yahoo who owns a good percentage of alibaba that has just came out with a better ipo than google. The other is foster wheeler, they just reported great earnings plus they are going to split in January, 2 good reasons to go up big. There are many more but look into those for now.

Answer 5

Google at that price is also cheap. At that price, it trades at P/E of about 29.18 at 2007 earnings. That P/E is not high considering its high growth rate. Its a growth stock. Compare it to Yahoo and you will find it cheap. A better parameter PEG ratio which is P/E divided by growth rate, will tell you that this stock is really cheap. But do not forget all the competition it is getting and might get soon from Yahoo, Microsoft, AskJives and couple of others. Plus this company has spend heavily on R&D recently. Including spreadsheets, maps etc. The profits are yet to come.

Answer 6

Yes.

Answer 7

tremendous one

Answer 8

i think its overvalued myself