If you had to put a large chunk of your own money in one of these companies (or any alternative company of your choice), which would you pick (please specify if another)?

Google: 642.23
FB: 20.72
AMZN: 234.38
AAPL: 619.86

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Well clearly you wouldn't put all your eggs in one basket...

All of these are tech stocks with varying degrees of exposure to social networking and inovation in the mobile and tablet market... If shit hits the proverbial fan then they're all going down...

What's the aim of this poll anyway?

'overpriced' amazon winning so far...

I presume having 'facebook' as an option is your attempt at humor.

If not, then stay away from the stock market and keep your money under the mattress. You will be better off.

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Facebook - when everybody is selling, its a good time to buy! (Not QUITE yet though - in 3 months time)

Aside from the list though, I'd buy Target, the US stores

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE)

Does it have to be IT related or it can be a different field company?

Do we have to buy today or can we wait for the next market correction? How long do we have to hold the shares for?

I bought Nestle at 45 last year when Europe seemed to be dieing, and would do so again if it got back to those sorts of levels, but at 60 it's a different question.

Our of your four, if it was a buy-and-hold strategy I would probably pick Amazon as having the best long-term business model, but would need to spend a lot of time doing some financial modelling to decide if the risk/reward was good enough currently.

I bought Siemens at 62.50 about two weeks ago and they're just short of 74 right now. ABB was 15.50 at the time and is now well over 17 (didn't buy unfortunately). No guarantee they'll stay there though.

Quite - timing is everything, which is the point I was trying to make although perhaps not very clearly It is hard to reply to the OP without more details of the restrictions on the investment.

I see everybody goes with their favourite pick, here is mine. ALXN is really interesting pick for me, it's a company that has no competition in what they do and nobody knows (yet) how they produce and how their drug works. Currently above 100, I follow it since 2 year ago and the price just keep going up and up...

There were some rumors this morning that Roche offerent around 130 per share to buy them...

They have been buying out competitors and smaller companies and just nothing can stop them in growing...

Their current drug will be licensed for production to other companies by 2014 but they are doing huge investments in other pipeline in inventing other drugs...

Safe? Probably, but you never know. Interesting? Definitely.

None of the above actually..all of them are already over priced and most dont even pay dividends.

If you are considering investing in stocks,first dont think about the short term but rather long term(unless you have the time to follow the whole industry you invested in), second try to find companies not already grown but with the the potential to grow.

Suggestions: companies which are going to benefit from rebuilding of Syria, local energy companies who are likly to cooperate with the chinese suppliers.

Nestlé have performed solidly for years and pay good dividends.

Of the above I'd buy Facebook as it must be near the bottom just now. But I think this is not the month or year to be buying shares. The euro needs sorting out first...

FB at $10 will be an investment

Even at 10 it's gardly a bargain.

http://alephblog.com/2012/08/07/reta...+Aleph+Blog%29

article i saw today: claims that stocks are overvalued by various metrics.

Good link. I like the quote "The market is always finding new ways to make a fool out of you"

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11...in-six-months/

should have trusted my instincts and shorted apple...

Would you have even be able to short?
Probably time to go long buy another lot!