In January 2018, the trading app Robinhood released a list of the top stocks that 20-year-old and 30-year-old investors are buying, and it instantly revealed the best millennial stocks to buy.
You see, "Generation Me" is buying up three of Money Morning Director of Technology & Venture Capital Research Michael A. Robinson's favorite tech stocks...
Robinson is a 34-year Silicon Valley veteran and one of the top technology financial analysts working today.
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Robinson's work as a consultant, senior advisor, and board member for Silicon Valley venture capital firms has placed him at the center of several major tech innovations.
And while users of Robinhood are some of the newest investors in the market, these young traders are following Robinson's five rules of investing to the tee.
What are the five investing rules they are following?
Three of the stocks millennials are buying fit all of those rules.
And these are millennial stocks with staying power - ones you could buy and hold for years or even decades at a time.
For the first millennial-favorite stock on the list, it could climb by 22% in the next 12 months, and that could just be a conservative estimate...[mmpazkzone name="in-story" network="9794" site="307044" id="137008" type="4"]
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) was the seventh-most-owned stock by Robinhood users, and Microsoft is one of Robinson's favorite way to play the booming $6.7 billion legal North American marijuana industry.
In the summer of 2016, Microsoft invested in Kind Financial, a maker of software that helps state and local governments track the cannabis business.
"Just about everyone I talk with in the California cannabis community praises Microsoft for this crucial piece of technology, which will help legal marijuana companies grow by making sure buyers and sellers comply with rules and regulations," Robinson said.
And Microsoft has much more to offer than just software for the cannabis industry...
"Microsoft gives us a lot of balance from its Office products, its moves into artificial intelligence and augmented reality, and the growth in its overall cloud computing unit," said Robinson.
Like Robinson, Piper Jaffray analysts are also very bullish on the MSFT stock price...
Over the next 12 months, Piper Jaffray projects that the MSFT stock price will climb to $115 per share. From yesterday's (Feb. 27) closing price of $94.20, that's a potential profit of 22.08%.
Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) was No. 5 on the list of top 20 stocks held by Robinhood users, and it's one of Robinson's favorite tech picks for long-term growth.
By 2020, Robinson projects the FB stock price will reach $250 per share.
And some analysts are even more bullish, as Wedbush Securities has a $260 price target for FB stock in the next 12 months.
From yesterday's closing price of $181.46, that's a potential profit of 43.28%.
First, Instagram, the picture app acquired by Facebook in 2012, will see its revenue skyrocket.
In 2016, Facebook generated between $650 and $750 million in revenue from Instagram. In 2021, research site Statista projects Instagram will generate $9.5 billion in revenue.
That's potentially more than 1,000% growth in revenue in just five years.
Second, Facebook will also generate billions in revenue from its virtual reality (VR) company, Oculus VR.
Zuckerberg paid $2 billion for Oculus VR in 2014, but it will soon pay for itself. By 2020, research company Tractica believes $21.8 billion will be generated from sales of VR head-mounted displays, VR content, and VR accessories industry-wide.
Those two catalysts alone could propel Facebook higher.
"There is no question in my mind at this point that Facebook will hit $250. The only question is when, and 2020 strikes me as a solid forecast at this point," Robinson told me.
From today's opening price of $175.62, that's a potential profit of 42.35%. But that doesn't mean the Facebook stock price would stop climbing after it hits $250.
If there are two things Zuckerberg knows, they're how to scale a business and how to make shareholders a ton of money along the way.
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) was second on the list of top holdings for Robinhood users.
From 2017 to 2018, the Apple stock price climbed 46.94%, and Robinson expects those gains to continue thanks to Apple bringing its overseas cash hoard back to America.
As of right now, Apple has $250 billion overseas.
But thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that U.S. President Donald Trump signed on Dec. 22, 2017, the corporate tax rate will fall from 35% to 21%.
Apple will now clear $210 billion after taxes if it brings that money back home.
Our tech guru said $150 billion will go toward shareholder-friendly programs like buybacks and dividends.
"That's money directly in your pocket," Robinson said.
Because of all the cash coming back and sales for Apple's well-known products, Robinson projects Apple will hit $250 per share in the next 30 months.
From yesterday's closing price of $178.39, that's a potential gain of 40.14% by 2021.
"To me, all this makes Apple a 'buy-more-on-the-dips' for current shareholders... and a 'buy-for-the-first-time' for everyone else," Robinson said in his Jan. 29 report.
And while Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple have extraordinary potential, those aren't the only profit opportunities out there.
We also had to make sure Money Morning readers could access all the details about the future $20 billion California cannabis industry...
California is bracing for a tsunami-sized wave of wealth - and if you play your cards right, you could make more money from the marijuana markets than you've ever seen in your life.
You see, thanks to The Golden State's complete cannabis legalization, $20.2 BILLION is expected to flood this industry, delivering massive upward momentum to tiny cannabis startups currently trading for pennies apiece.
But as soon as the money starts flowing into these small companies, and their share prices go from $1, to $5, to $20, or more... you may never see a chance like this again.
Your first step on the road to marijuana millions starts right here.
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