INTEL: I made Over 14,000% Profit since 1981 by Investing in Intel Stock

I’m one of those old timers that invested in Intel during its early days as a company… in the early 80’s. I recall buying some shares for a total cost of $1,000 dollars. That was lot of money in those days and commission paid was a disgrace. Stock brokers were king of the hill and roamed the streets like God’s gift to humanity.

I had to liquidate all my position in Intel during the Dot Com bust of 2000… around May of that year. I think it was just before the last stock split the company had. However, it was not all that bad, because I managed to sell pretty close to the all time high and I remember bragging about my good fortune and fortitude to have stayed the course to make over 14,000% profit… for a net gain of over $140,000 dollars. That’s right… over $140,000 in profit including dividends and the stock splits.

I always believed in investing in companies that ride the wave of change or bring about the paradigm shift with an eye on the long term growth prospects. In the last 30 odd years that I have been investing, I had my share of good fortune and misfortune. However, what’s important is the fact that I managed to secure my financial future and live today to talk about my strategy of investing in companies that ride the wave of change or bring about a paradigm shift. Some of these companies have grown to be huge enterprises and have made their early investors, like me, over 10,000% or over since their inception. Some day, I will tell you about my other [early] investment in companies like Dell, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Cisco, Healthsouth [after the 2003 perfect storm] and most recently Microvision. And while Dell has had disappointing returns since the turn of the century, its business is still strong and investors have not even come close to losing everything.

Currently, I’m out of all the stocks except Microvision [Nasdaq: MVIS]. The past performers in my portfolio have served well. However, these companies like Intel, Dell, Qualcomm, Microsoft and Healthsouth are past their hyper growth phase and are now too big and are just slow earnings growth vehicles. No disrespect to these fine companies… it’s just that they don’t fit the “hyper growth” company model any more.

My only stock holding now, besides an options income portfolio, is Microvision. If you would like to find out why I consider Microvision to be the next 50,000% profit producer, then click on the link to my blog post and make sure to read all the related articles.

Access to my blog is free and my profile will tell you why I’m taking this time and making an effort to reach out and share information that already exists in the Internet sphere…

http://mirro7.blogspot.com/2009/09/microvision-from-here-to-picop-ubiquity.html

http://mirro7.blogspot.com/2009/09/yes-virginia-its-intel-inside-but-image.html

Anant Goel
http://www.wealthbyoptions.com/

Yes Virginia: “Its Intel Inside… but Image by PicoP.”

Intel has become one of the world's most recognizable computer brands following its long-running “Intel Inside” campaign. The campaign, which started in 1991, was created by Intel marketing manager Dennis Carter. The five-note jingle was introduced the following year and by its tenth anniversary was being heard in 130 countries around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Corporation#Logos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSuaVfpKa7s

“Image by PicoP” is, or so it seems at this early stages of Microvision’s marketing campaign, the slogan [or the champion theme] for its line of laser based PicoP Display Engines. With the commercial launch of SHOWwx today─ the world’s first laser based Accessory PicoP projector─ the Microvision company has laid the foundation for its future marketing campaign by embracing “Image by PicoP” as its champion theme.

http://www.microvision.com/

“Intel Inside” campaign is considered as the most suceesful and key component of Intel’s marketing strategy responsible for the ubiquitous status of its CPUs in the personal computer market place.

How well the “Image by PicoP” campaign will work for Microvision’s PicoP Display Engines remains to be seen as its just the beginning of the journey to achieving the ubiquitous status in the Pico projection market place… that consists of over 2 billion digital devices as potential candidates for adoption.

http://mirro7.blogspot.com/2009/09/microvision-from-here-to-picop-ubiquity.html

According to Wikipedia…

“An advertising campaign is a series of advertising messages that share a single idea and theme which make up an Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC). The critical part of making an advertising campaign is determining a champion theme, as it sets the tone for the individual advertisements and other forms of marketing communications that will be used. The campaign theme is the central message that will be communicated in the promotional activities. The campaign themes are usually developed with the intention of being used for a substantial period but many of them are short lived due to factors such as being ineffective or market conditions and/or competition in the marketplace and marketing mix.”

Anant Goel
http://www.WealthByOptions.com/