In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, host Dylan Lewis and Motley Fool contributor Brian Feroldi kick off 2021 with their favorite tech stocks for the upcoming year (but really, decade) and take a look back at 2020 — the biggest winners, regrets, and the lessons from the past year. Find out more about these companies’ growth opportunities, their valuation and more.
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This video was recorded on Jan. 8, 2021.
Dylan Lewis: Awesome. All right. It’s Friday, Jan. 8, and we are talking about the top tech stocks for 2021. I’m your host, Dylan Lewis, and I’m joined by fool.com’s tenacious, trusted, treasure trove of tip top tongue-twister titles, Brian Feroldi. Brian, how are you doing?
Brian Feroldi: Dylan, you’re starting off the new year with nailing my title yet again, but it is good to see you, my friend.
Lewis: Well, I had some encouragement. I was delighted to get the Feroldi family holiday card over the course of December and that just reminded me I’ve got to stay on top of my game. We took a couple of weeks off there, but I’m not sleeping. I’m still doing my tongue-twisters even if we’re not airing.
Feroldi: It is going to be, I think, three weeks since we had a Friday where we could do Industry Focus, so awesome to be back.
Lewis: In some ways, it was nice to get the break but I’ve got to say, I’m ready. We’ve been planning, we’ve got a killer show, I’m really excited. We are going to be talking about the top tech stocks for us for 2021 in terms of what we see out there, and what we’re interested in, and put some money behind. We’re also going to be talking a little bit about the year that was with 2020 in both our biggest winners and some of our biggest regrets. Loved this, though. We’ve had a week of people from Industry Focus pitching their top tech shares. We’re giving people a nice, well-rounded basket of stocks for 2021, all the sectors represented, Brian.
Feroldi: I think it’s a great idea and of course, we couldn’t finish out this week without talking about some tech stocks, because tech was, once again, the sector to be in in 2020.
Lewis: It was. I don’t know about you, I’m someone that is heavily, heavily overweight tech. I figure, you know what, I’m a little bit more balanced when it comes to the stuff in my 401(k) and some of my retirement accounts. My personal brokerage account, I can be a little bit more focused. I can invest individually in stocks that I follow and understand more, and take a little bit more risks. Because of that, my portfolio did pretty well in 2020. Brian, how about you?
Feroldi: I’m not a big believer that you have to own stocks from every sector. My personal strategy is to own as many awesome companies as I can and as few…
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