There are two bankable trends that are still in the early stages and will grow for the next five years: 5G phones and financial technology.
Five years ago, on July 11, 2013, I wrote an article called “Three Cloud Stocks Set to Outperform the Market.”
The stocks I talked about were PANW, CSCO, and MU. If you owned those stocks for five years, you would have made 375%, 300%, and 103%. And CSCO, the 103% gainer, would have paid a fat dividend over that time, growing from $0.17 to $0.49 a quarter…
You’d take those gains and like it.
5G Free-for-All
Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile have initiated 5G services in some U.S. cities. And 5G services are also already available in parts of Europe and Asia.
It’s expected that by the end of this year, every major mobile carrier will be offering 5G services nationwide with new phones and plans. By 2024, it’s expected that 1.5 billion people around the world will be connected to 5G networks.
The next generation of mobile technology will upgrade your smartphone with faster speeds and greater connectivity. It will essentially upgrade your cell phone’s speed and connectivity from dial-up to broadband.
But 5G is bigger than just faster smartphones.
5G is expected to propel innovation across multiple fields, including transportation, manufacturing, defense, health care, agriculture, shipping, warehousing, education… the list goes on.
In manufacturing, 5G is already being implemented and experimented with in efforts to improve efficiency, prevent maintenance, and generally lower costs associated with the manufacturing process.
In health care, 5G will offer more customers new access to care outside of traditional hospital environments, provide new methods of delivering treatments and services, and give hospitals much-needed data management programs.
In my investment service, I’ve found three safe plays that will profit from this super trend. They are up 24%, 34%, and 46% over the last six months. They all pay nice dividends.
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Fintech
Three years ago, when I picked up my stepdaughter from Virginia Tech, she said something offhand to her roommate about splitting a storage unit. “I’ll Venmo it to you.” This is the first time I heard about Venmo, but I was intrigued.
For those who don’t know, Venmo is a mobile payment system owned by PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL). You want to split grocery costs with your roommate? You Venmo your friend $50. Five people eating dinner and no cash? Venmo.
It is simple, fast, and clears in half an hour. You can pay directly into a Venmo account, or you can link it to your debit or credit card.
In the first quarter of 2018, the company moved $12 billion. In the latest quarter, earnings grew 56%. It is also why PayPal’s share price has tripled over the past three years and is still undervalued.
Venmo is popular because it makes money transfers easy and instantaneous. With kids in college and high school, it makes paying for field trips and coaches’ gifts simple and easy. Every team parent needs to pay $20 for new pompoms? Boom, done.
No forgotten checks, trips to the bank, or tracking down parents who aren’t there. A wire transfer may take three days; Venmo settles in half an hour. The company charges a 1% fee for each transfer.
Venmo is just one example of fintech going on in the financial industry. It isn’t even the most exciting.
You see, like many other industries that have been transformed by creative destruction over the past 20 years that have lowered costs to consumers and added benefits, the big banks and financial institutions have hidden behind regulations and sheer size to prohibit new technology. But this is changing rapidly.
Finance is seen as one of the industries most vulnerable to disruption by software because financial services, much like publishing, are made of information rather than concrete goods. In particular, blockchains have the potential to reduce the cost of transacting in a financial system.
After all, what is a bank but a company that leverages knowledge? Smartphones for mobile banking and investing and cryptocurrencies are changing how and where the money goes.
Global investment in financial technology increased more than 2,200% from $930 million in 2008 to more than $22 billion in 2015. In 2018, fintech companies raised $51 billion with 1,707 deals. By February 2019, that number hit $112 billion.
GlobeNewswire recently reported that the fintech market will reach $205.7 billion by 2023. It is that type of growth that I want to be investing in. I’ve found three companies that I’m doing my due diligence on. Look for a free report over the next few weeks.
All the best,
Christian DeHaemer
Check us out on YouTube!Christian is the founder of Bull and Bust Report and an editor at Energy and Capital. For more on Christian, see his editor’s page.
