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Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!
That's about what we have and we make a quick report every meeting with a Valueline and SSG.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:35 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:
Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!
Our Club has fourteen members and at the moment we own fourteen stocks. We've probably had as many as twenty, but we also had eighteen members until recently.
I've heard that a portfolio can be adequately balanced with about sixteen holdings.

We've been a club for eighteen years. Our AIRR excluding cash (according to Bivio) is 12.2%

Linda Glein
Treasurer
STAR Investment Club





On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:
Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!
We are a club of 14 members and hold 24 stocks, a comfortable number for us. Members (excluding the President and Treasurer) each follow about 2 stocks as our portfolio shifts with purchases and sales. Our AIRR excluding cash (according to Bivio) is 10.7%.
Robin

Helen Keller was once asked if there was anything that could have been worse than losing her sight. Keller replied: "Yes, I could have lost my vision."



On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM Linda Glein via bivio.com <user*21345500001@bivio.com> wrote:
Our Club has fourteen members and at the moment we own fourteen stocks. We've probably had as many as twenty, but we also had eighteen members until recently.
I've heard that a portfolio can be adequately balanced with about sixteen holdings.

We've been a club for eighteen years. Our AIRR excluding cash (according to Bivio) is 12.2%

Linda Glein
Treasurer
STAR Investment Club





On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:
Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!
Typically, one or two stocks per member.  More than that becomes too unwieldy and generally doesn't help the portfolio's performance.
 
Bob
On 08/20/2025 10:24 AM EDT John Grajczyk via bivio.com <user*36432700001@bivio.com> wrote:
 
 
That's about what we have and we make a quick report every meeting with a Valueline and SSG.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:35 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:
Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!
My club currently has 6 members and 10 stocks. We've typically held between 1 and 2 stocks per member. Our IRR excluding cash is 10.9% since October 1999.

Ira Smilovitz

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM Bob Mann via bivio.com <user*12614800001@bivio.com> wrote:
Typically, one or two stocks per member. More than that becomes too unwieldy and generally doesn't help the portfolio's performance.
Bob
On 08/20/2025 10:24 AM EDT John Grajczyk via bivio.com <user*36432700001@bivio.com> wrote:
That's about what we have and we make a quick report every meeting with a Valueline and SSG.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:35 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:
Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!

We are 17 members currently holding 13 stocks (normally we are around 15 stocks).  We typical have one stock assigned per person and assign stocks to officers last as these members already have elevated responsibilities.  Our IRR since 2000 is 10%.

Jimmy

James P. Dickerson

TLP Investment Club

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Typically, one or two stocks per member.  More than that becomes too unwieldy and generally doesn't help the portfolio's performance.

 

Bob

On 08/20/2025 10:24 AM EDT John Grajczyk via bivio.com <user*36432700001@bivio.com> wrote:

 

 

That's about what we have and we make a quick report every meeting with a Valueline and SSG.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:35 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:

Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!

Our club has 12 members and currently hold 13 stocks.

On Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 09:36:07 AM EDT, Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:


Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!
We are seven and follow 2 stocks each.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:
Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!
We are 12 members and have 15 stocks

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM Vickie Rabourn via bivio.com <user*26711600001@bivio.com> wrote:
We are seven and follow 2 stocks each.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:
Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!


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Donna O'Connell
Instead of concentrating on numbers of stocks. We tried to make sure each stock represents at least 3% of holdings 



On Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 10:54 AM, Donna OConnnell via bivio.com <user*23240500001@bivio.com> wrote:

We are 12 members and have 15 stocks

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM Vickie Rabourn via bivio.com <user*26711600001@bivio.com> wrote:
We are seven and follow 2 stocks each.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:
Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!


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Donna O'Connell
We are a club of 19 members. We own shares in 35 companies.

Debi Thorne
Our club of eight people own 10 stocks and two exchange traded funds (ETF's).  We use the two ETF's to maintain Better Investing's recommended asset allocation in Large-, Medium- and Small-Cap stocks within our portfolio.  Since we're generally heavy on Large-Caps, we hold VO (mid-cap index fund) and VB (small-cap index fund) that we don't do any research on.  We meet monthly and members find no difficulty watching, reporting on and recommending a Buy, Hold or Sell rating on their assigned stocks (all within five minutes per stock).

Leo (Secretary)
Pure Strategies Investment Club
West Bend, Wisconsin

On Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 11:22:50 AM GMT-6, Kim Potter via bivio.com <user*22890200001@bivio.com> wrote:


Our club has 12 members and currently hold 13 stocks.

On Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 09:36:07 AM EDT, Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:


Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!

We're a 15 member club with 48 stock holdings - consisting of:

  • 13 members are responsible for tracking and reporting on 36 stocks
  • 2 members are responsible for tracking and reporting on a cohort of 12 "Hatchery" stocks - these are typically high-risk, high-reward stocks that we make a minimal investment in (<$300) while we watch their growth potential. We find that having an interest in them (vs just on a watch list) forces us to pay attention to them. Two stocks have graduated from the Hatchery to our full portfolio.

Michael Boyd, Treasurer
Salt Pond Investment Club

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:

Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!

I like that idea - Hatchery. Our watch list is long and though we reference it every month, we often end up 'watching' a stock for so long w/o ever actually buying it, that we miss the buying opportunity and take it off the watch list. Thanks for sharing your info!
Lynda
TERIC club


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On Aug 21, 2025, at 9:01 AM, Michael Boyd via bivio.com <user*37394800001@bivio.com> wrote:



We're a 15 member club with 48 stock holdings - consisting of:

  • 13 members are responsible for tracking and reporting on 36 stocks
  • 2 members are responsible for tracking and reporting on a cohort of 12 "Hatchery" stocks - these are typically high-risk, high-reward stocks that we make a minimal investment in (<$300) while we watch their growth potential. We find that having an interest in them (vs just on a watch list) forces us to pay attention to them. Two stocks have graduated from the Hatchery to our full portfolio.

Michael Boyd, Treasurer
Salt Pond Investment Club

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM Jodi Simpson via bivio.com <user*40000300001@bivio.com> wrote:

Hello! We are a club of 12 members. We currently own 30 different stocks having just sold off three stocks completely. Each member is responsible for tracking 2 or 3 and reporting on them from time to time. We're curious to know how many stocks other clubs hold. Sometimes our roster seems a bit unwieldy. What do you think? Thanks in advance!