Stock Club

This week, we’re heading to safer shores — trading moonshots for mailboxes — and bringing you Emmet and Mike’s favorite dividend stocks.
We’re growth investors at heart and would usually rather see smart R&D spending than dividend distributions. But for many investors, especially those approaching retirement, a few value stocks can be a smart addition to a portfolio.
Emmet walks us through why a company might start offering a dividend — and why it might not. The decision can come down to a mix of cash availability, tax laws, pressure from large shareholders, and a desire to stay in the market’s good graces over the long term.
He kicks things off with the Dividend Aristocrats (NOBL) ETF, an index of US companies that have increased their dividends for 25 consecutive years and meet certain size and liquidity requirements. Emmet calls it “the most solid investment in the world.”
He then revisits the pitch from recent Stock Club guest Porter Stansberry and makes the case for Altria Group Inc (MO). He finishes his list with Verizon (VZ), a wireless giant with a healthy moat and a 6%+ dividend. But it’s also staring down the looming threat of satellite internet providers.
Mike returns to familiar territory with Investor AB (STO: INVE-B), the “Swedish Berkshire Hathaway”, it's a holding company with stakes in public companies, medtech firms, and smaller private businesses. It’s a lovely way to snag a piece of the Swedish economy and is currently Mike’s largest position.
He then heads east with Tokio Marine (TYO: 8766), a Japanese insurance company riding the wave of the country’s stock market recovery. He shocks no one by pitching a stock that made last week’s portfolio as well: Waste Management (WM). At least this time, you get the reassurance that it’s also this month’s Stock of the Month.
We wrap up by checking in on Finance Minister Simon Harris’s recent comments about deemed disposal and the avenues available for investing in Ireland. With €170 billion sitting in Irish bank accounts, it’s clear that at least some of it could be put to work.
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00:00 Intro
02:16 Dividend Stocks Setup
11:33 Why Dividends Stick
17:09 Modern Era Buybacks
21:34 Dividend Aristocrats ETF
25:46 Investor AB
29:45 Altria
34:33 Tokio Marine
37:58 Verizon
44:56 Waste Management
46:32 Irish Investing Law and Deemed Disposal

To celebrate Stock Club’s 300th episode, Emmet and Mike attempt to find the next Nvidia.
The idea spawned from a portfolio Emmet assembled back in 2019 in our early episode: “13 Stocks That Could Be the Next Netflix or Dell.” These represent the golden gooses of his investing career and prove it only takes one great stock to change your life.
The original lineup included Shopify (SHOP), iRobot (IRBT), The Trade Desk (TTD), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Twilio (TWLO), Arista Networks (ANET), Tesla (TSLA), Baozun (BZUN), Duluth Trading (DLTH), Stitch Fix (SFIX), and H World Group (HTHT).
Over the last seven years, there have been losers, but the winners more than made up for them. The total portfolio has returned 227% vs. the S&P 500’s 100%.
So this week, Mike and Emmet attempt to recapture the magic and assemble a list of six stocks that could be future compounders.
Mike starts conservatively with Waste Management (WM), the indisputable, undisruptable king of bins. It’s a dirty business, but someone has to do it, and it seems no one else is willing — giving this long-time Wall Street favorite a considerable moat.
Emmet follows this up with a riskier stock, to say the least. He opted for Rocket Lab (RKLB), which was also a buy-and-hold pick of David Gardner on his recent Stock Club episode. It’s clear the race for space is heating up, and it’s arguably the best option on the market.
Mike stays in the futuristic lane, picking Uber (UBER). He’s betting that it will be the great aggregator and the gateway between consumers and the somewhat segmented autonomous vehicle market. But it could get disrupted by a provider going straight to the people.
Emmet then pitches one of his investing regrets, MercadoLibre (MELI), as he let these shares go too soon. It’s a slice of Latin America’s e-commerce and banking sectors and has an undersaturated market. In Brazil alone, its market share has doubled since 2020.
They then wrap up with long-discussed CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), the leading provider of gene therapy, and Constellation Software (CSU), the great acquirer down in the dumps.
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00:00 Intro04:31 Time Machine Setup05:27 2019 Picks Recap19:20 Growth Portfolio Takeaways24:11 Waste Management26:36 Rocket Lab30:12 Uber
33:56 Mercado Libre40:15 CRISPR43:10 Constellation Software52:40 Podcast Favorites Recap

There are three princes in the autonomous taxi race: Google’s Waymo, Tesla, and Amazon’s Zoox. But who will win and claim the crown? All the smartest investors want to know.
Luckily for them, this week Derek Reilly drops by Stock Club, fresh off the CES trade show, where he saw the latest self-driving tech.
Derek believes Waymo is the gold standard, having achieved Level 4 autonomy thanks to its use of lidar, radar, cameras, and sophisticated mapping. With its expansion focused on dense urban areas, he thinks adoption will look like a hockey stick. But hot on its heels is Zoox, Amazon’s purpose-built autonomous vehicle (imagine a fridge on wheels).
While Tesla may have been first to market, Derek feels its decision to forgo lidar could undermine its safety and performance. Skipping lidar may have made its system cheaper, easier to scale, and sleeker in design—but using multiple sensors helps ensure performance regardless of conditions.
When it comes to seeing any of these providers on the streets of Ireland, it will likely be a few years yet. The United States is an easier testing ground, with standardized road signs and lenient regulations. The same cannot be said for the EU.
Beyond taxis, NVIDIA’s “Alpamayo” chip could help all car manufacturers work toward autonomy, making it a compelling pick-and-shovel play in the space. But telling someone NVIDIA is a great stock isn’t exactly breaking news.
Derek does highlight, however, a slew of autonomous-driving stocks focused on software, processors, data storage, and lidar sensors—for those looking for names outside the Magnificent Seven.
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00:00 Intro04:33 Autonomous Driving 10106:27 Why Waymo Leads13:13 NVIDIA’s ‘AlphaMayo’16:48 Tesla FSD Debate22:56 Zooxs33:44 Beyond Robotaxis: Where Autonomous is Going38:32 Pick-and-Shovel Stock Plays

Salesforce, Workday, HubSpot, Atlassian, ServiceNow, Adobe, and more are all down in the dumps.
Is the age of B2B software supremacy at an end?
Long favored for their revenue growth and strong margin profiles, many of these stocks have benefited from (and struggled with) lofty valuations. But AI—and the advent of “vibe coding”—is putting their moats under threat, so Mike and Emmet dig in to determine which software giants are oversold and which may be entering terminal decline.
The one thing they agree on: being mission-critical makes all the difference.
Software that provides systems of record, essential workflows, or cybersecurity is unlikely to be disrupted by internal tools built with Claude Code. As Emmet puts it, “outsiders are confusing creation with responsibility.” Most large organizations have complex, layered tech stacks that must be consistently maintained and cannot be readily replaced. It’s far more likely that existing providers will add AI capabilities. This argument has made CrowdStrike, Adobe, and Atlassian appealing to Emmet.
Beyond this, Mike believes software specialists creating tools for tight verticals and peculiar niches are unlikely to be upended by AI newcomers, as their markets are too small to attract meaningful attention. This has kept Constellation Software on his watchlist.
However, both agree that non-essential business software, like Notion or Typeform, could be on the chopping block.
We wrap with an edition of Follow Prophet.
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00:00 Intro03:52 The SaaS Apocalypse09:37 Mission Critical Software: Winners and Losers25:33 Switching Costs: The Underappreciated Moat28:28 Vertical Software and Niche Markets35:12 Resilient Software Companies49:55 Follow Prophet

This week, Emmet is joined by a legend in financial publishing, Porter Stansberry. Porter is a master at recognizing and managing financial risk—and educating the public along the way. He even delivered positive returns during the 2008 financial crisis.
Porter shares his bull and bear case for America, weighing freedom of opportunity against excessive borrowing. He’s wary of U.S. Treasuries and worries the country could face a technical default similar to those in 1933 and 1971. He also outlines his views on the A.I. bubble, drawing lessons from the Dot-Com era.
Tune in to hear why Porter believes corporate spinoffs are underappreciated investments, the role of gold in your portfolio, and which psychological traits differentiate successful investors.
We wrap up with Buy, Hold, or Sell and an edition of Desert Island Stocks.
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00:00 Intro
04:56 The Bull and Bear Case for America12:23 Navigating the AI Investment Landscape17:00 The Value of Corporate Spinoffs22:08 Psychological Traits of Successful Investors24:23 Investing in Essential Services31:39 Quickfire Round: Buy, Hold, or Sell36:30 Desert Island Stocks