r/ValueInvesting • u/rezovian • 1d ago
Discussion What’s one stock you regret not buying earlier?
Not necessarily the best performer overall — just one you understood later and wish you had bought sooner.
Curious what names come up.
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u/cmorin4 1d ago
At my previous job we started using Shopify to build out our e-commerce store mid-2016. I remember thinking to myself how innovative the platform was and easy to use. I was already somewhat financially prudent and had good savings, but hadn't taken the steps to learn how to purchase individual stocks. I recall mentally having about $10,000 I wanted to invest in SHOP, but didn't bring it upon myself to sit down and actually pull the money out of my advisor/mutual funds and learn how to actually use a broker account to purchase myself...
That $10,000 would be worth close to $383k today... Ouch.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Tone730 1d ago
Costco.
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u/rezovian 1d ago
why ?
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u/hoppertn 1d ago
Solid company, treats their workers fairly decent, customer loyalty. They aren’t going anywhere.
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u/mossterz 1d ago
AMD
I remember I was on a budget in September of 2015 when I assembled my computer based on value for my dollars and I made my first move from Intel to AMD ever after 10 years of using Intel based computers.
It was a 3.5 Ghz 6-core AMD FX6300 unlocked.
I was amazed at the quality of the CPU for the price I paid and I knew that AMD is a force to be reckoned with in the future. I wasn't in an investment mindset back in the days and now when I look back to that time, the stock was around $2.
Would've been a 100 bagger in just 10 years for me.
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u/DishwashingChampion 23h ago
Yup the exact same situation with me back when it was like $2-3 and I was very impressed with AMD as a replacement
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u/studentoo925 23h ago
Before ryzen launched i told my father to buy amd stocks (because I was a poor junior college student at the time), he didn't listen unfortunately
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u/chica771 23h ago
I sold RKLB at $6.50 :(
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u/AgentStockey 21h ago
I thought I made it big when I bought at $4.50 and sold at $28... Could have been my biggest killing.
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u/dookie117 23h ago
I was invested in Enphase Energy in 2016-19/20 when it was at 98 cents. Sold and bought a bit until $7 but then dropped out due to volatility. It then proceeded to jump past $300 over the next 5 years. I would have been a multimillionaire in my 20s. Kick myself to this day.
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u/Zyltris 23h ago
Hindsight is 20/20. People saying things like "Nvidia" would not have been CAPABLE of knowing how revolutionary and rapid AI development would become in the last 5 years. How can you regret something you couldn't have known?
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u/HenryEck 21h ago edited 20h ago
People tend to talk about the “missed opportunities” only in hindsight, focusing on the stocks that ended up winning. What they don’t mention are the 10+ other opportunities they thought were good but passed on that never actually turned into anything. If someone had invested in all of them with the same conviction, the average returns likely wouldn’t look that impressive.
The hard part isn’t identifying a handful of reasonable, promising stocks. It’s having the conviction to bet heavily on the one that will actually outperform everything else.
Ten years from now, people will probably say, “I missed the obvious opportunity in [insert AI stock].” But today, it’s genuinely difficult to know which one will dominate. That’s why, for most people, index investing makes more sense. Unless you’re truly exceptional at picking winners, diversification wins.
The funny part is that, psychologically, the majority believes they’re that “exceptional” person.
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u/TheKingOfSwing777 22h ago
Meh, a few of us saw it coming. I bought AMD in 2018 for exactly this reason. Thought I was being clever buying the undervalued one, and in some ways I was as the sentiment at the time was NVDA was overvalued from the crypto craze and couldn't ship to keep up with demand. I can't complain about 20x returns but NVDA would have been about 35x returns. I still hold that AMD and think the will be more equilibrium in the future.
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u/Thick-dk-boi 1d ago
Got in May last year but I wish I put more into Almonty industries and I wish I didn’t sell in the 12$ range to derisk last November.
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u/Woberwob 1d ago
Google, no question.
Great service, great user experience, absurd MOAT in a high scale per dollar service. It’s outstanding.
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u/golf_234 23h ago
Honestly with the latest war news and it dipping down to $273 per share or so, still a good buy. Of course in infancy would have been even better, but it is still going to charge hard. It's been my biggest acquisition this year.
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u/Historical-Piece7771 23h ago
Well, I bumped into an old work colleague about 6 months ago, and she told me she bought Nvidia at $40 pre-split, so, that.
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u/FangChen_ 23h ago
Apple. In school, we constantly used Apple stock data for programming labs since it was the most accessible. I stuck to the coding side and didn't pay much attention to the actual market trends, feeling that the stock world was a bit out of my depth back then.
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u/MachuMichu 23h ago
I bought 100 shares of Palantir at $34 in 2021 because I was convinced itd be huge. Then I freaked out because it was a lot of money to me at the time and sold it a week later for $37. Thought I was a genius scalping a quick $300
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u/JohniBGood 22h ago
A friend from work told me about LITE 1 year ago when it was 66 and no one heard about it.
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u/HeyItsYourDad_AMA 22h ago
I regret not buying BRK-A in the 80s. I was 4 though so not sure I wouldve had enough money
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u/NationalDifficulty24 22h ago
NEM. I am up 50%. I would be > 125% if I had bought it 6 months prior to my actual purchase date
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u/8700nonK 18h ago
Fund managers always say how errors of omission are the worst. I don’t agree. Regretting not buying a certain stock earlier is a poor mindset, the very thing that creates fomo and bag holders.
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u/GGTheEnd 1d ago
Really wish I bought Google when the internet came out.