Here is the share price performance of the companies I track continuously. I focus on the period from 01.12.2024 - 15.01.2025

• 3i Group $III (-1%) -0,64%
• TJX Companies $TJX (-1,44%) -5,61%
• Dollar Tree $DLTR (-1,36%) -3,39%
• Dollar General $DG (+1,92%) -11,85%
• Five Below $FIVE (-2,21%) -4,68%
• Dollarama $DOL (-0,51%) -8,75%
• Pepco Group $PCO (+0,97%) -4,43%

My portfolio currently contains shares in 3iGroup.

Action published its latest figures in November, which underline its strong growth in Europe. Action has achieved achieved net sales of 10.733 billion eurosaccompanied by an operating EBITDA of 1.532 billion euros - an impressive increase of 26 %. increase of 26 % compared to the previous year. What particularly impresses me is the like-for-like growth of 10.1%, driven entirely by volume increases. In a rising cost of living environment, Action shows how effective a strategy that passes on discounts directly to customers can be. Despite industry-wide price increases, Action remains a model of efficiency. In the first nine reporting periods of the year, 189 new stores were opened and 350 new stores were planned for the full year 2024. I assume that this target has been achieved. I find the rapid expansion in Italy, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain particularly exciting.

Basically, it can be said that US stocks (e.g. Dollar Tree and Dollar General) recorded high losses in 2024. Among other things, this was due to a lack of efficiency, but also to the threat of Trump's punitive tariffs on goods from China. Therefore, another exciting candidate for me is Dollarama, as they operate exclusively in Canada and Latin America.

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$NVDA (-3,63%)

$SNOW (-3,37%)

$WMT (-2,31%)

$PANW (-3,05%)

$NIO (+2,04%)

$SYM

$TGT (-2,56%)

$ZIM (+0,89%)

$TCOM (+1,93%)

$WKHS

$LOW (-2,87%)

$BTBT

$POWL (-7,64%)

$BIDU (+2,23%)

$PDD (+5,26%)

$XPEV (+4,3%)

$TJX (-1,44%)

$JACK (-1,87%)

$WIX (-2,38%)

$BTDR (-9,49%)

$DE (-2,08%)

$MDT (+2,67%)

$AZEK (-3,27%)

$BRBR (-1,06%)

$CPA (-3,22%)

$EH

$ROST (-1,53%)

$DY (-0,31%)

$ESTC (-2,54%)

$GPS (-0,7%)

$INTU (-1,66%)

$BRC (-6,32%)

$TUYA (+4,85%)

$TWST (-7,99%)

$SQM (+0%)

$KEYS (-4,73%)

$BJ

$FUTU (+1,75%)

$VIPS (+0,72%)

$VIK

$ZTO (+2,05%)

$MMS

$MOND

$ATAT

$ACM

$ALLT (-4,8%)

$WSM (-6,38%)

$LZB (+0,94%)

$MYTE

$J (-0,81%)

I share with you my first purchase of a classic long-running stock:

TJX Companies has been under the radar of many investors, with the stock's performance in recent years resembling a home run.

The retailer with over 2,500 TJ MAXX and 900 HomeGoods stores in the USA is known in this country as TK MAXX and is pursuing an extremely successful sales strategy.

What made me buy it was the outstanding business model in which TJX presents the shopping experience as a treasure hunt. High-quality remaining stock from brands such as e.l.f. Beauty, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta and co. are sold for unbeatable prices - the stock varies from store to store and is changed at regular intervals, encouraging customers to keep an eye out for new treasures every week. This goes down incredibly well with the younger generation in particular, who post the treasures they find on social media, which in turn creates an incentive for other young consumers to check out the TJX stores and make impulse purchases.

The fact that most middle-class customers of LVMH, Kering, Burberry and co. have less money in their wallets but still want to "treat themselves" only strengthens TJX's business.

Added to this are the generous dividend growth rates with a current dividend yield of 1%.

Now I would like to know: Have you guys ever been shopping at a TK MAXX? What were your experiences in the stores? Unfortunately, there is no TK MAXX near me :(

#buyandhold

The coming week summarized:

Monday:

• New home sales (January)
• Quarterly reports from Workday ($WDAY (-1,61%) ), Zoom Video Communications ($ZM (-0,3%) ), Domino's Pizza ($DPZ (-1,75%) ) and Unity Software ($U (+1,7%) )

Tuesday:

• Orders for durable goods (January)
• S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index
• Consumer Confidence (February)
• Quarterly reports from Lowe's ($LOW (-2,87%) ), ONEOK ($OKE (+0,82%) ), Bank of Montreal ($BMO (-0,06%) ), American Tower ($AMT (-0,19%) ) and AutoZone ($AZO (-0,72%) )

Wednesday:

• Gross Domestic Product of the USA (first revision of the fourth quarter)
• US trade balance (January)
• Retail inventories (January)
• Wholesale inventories (January)
• Quarterly reports from Salesforce ($CRM (-2,41%) ), Snowflake ($SNOW (-3,37%) ), Royal Bank of Canada ($RY (-0,25%) ), HP ($HPQ (-0,12%) ), TJX ($TJX (-1,44%) ), Paramount Global ($PARA (+0,27%) ) and Monster Beverage Corp. ($MNST (+4,14%) )

Thursday:

• Personal Consumer Price Index (PCE)
• Initial claims for unemployment benefits
• Pending home sales (January)
• Statements by Atlanta Fed President
  Raphael Bostic, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee and Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester
• Quarterly reports from Anheuser-Busch InBev ($BUD (+1,97%) ), Dell Technologies ($DELL (-1,59%) ), Toronto-Dominion Bank ($TD.PR.P ), Hewlett Packard Enterprise ($HPE (-2,32%) ) and Best Buy ($BBY (-0,46%) )

Friday:

• Statements from Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan, Federal Reserve Board Gov. Christopher Waller, Atlanta Fed President Bostic and San Francisco Fed President Mary C. Daly
• Quarterly reports from RadNet ($RDNT (-4,6%) ), Plug
  Power ($PLUG (-4,22%) ) and FuboTV ($FUBO )

Outlook for next week.

Monday

• Mizuho Financial Group ($MFG (-2,7%) ), XP Inc. ($XP (-2,37%) ), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Tyson Foods ($TSN (+3,39%) ) and AECOM ($ACM (-1,58%) ) present their quarterly reports are presented.
• Publication of the New York Fed Consumer Inflation Expectations (October).

Tuesday

• The Home Depot ($HD (-2,25%) ), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group ($8316 (-0,25%) ), Mitsubishi Financial Group ($8306 (-0,86%) ), Nu Holdings ($NU (-11,11%) ), Sea Limited ($SE (-2,53%) ) and Tencent Music Entertainment Group ($TME (+13,99%) ) report their quarterly results.
• Publication of the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index (October) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) (October).

Wednesday

• Cisco Systems ($CSCO (-0,55%) ), TJX Companies ($TJX (-1,44%) ), Palo Alto Networks ($PANW (-3,05%) ), Target ($TGT (-2,56%) ), JD.com ($JD. (-1,25%) ), XPeng ($XPEV (+4,3%) ), Catalent ($CTLT ) and Tetra Tech ($TTEK (+0,7%) ) present their quarterly figures.
• Publication of the Producer Price Index
  (PPI) (October), the New York Fed Empire State Manufacturing Index (November), the Business Inventories (September) and the Retail Sales (October).

Thursday

• Walmart ($WMT (-2,31%) ), Alibaba Group ($BABA (+5,86%) ), Applied Materials Inc. ($AMAT (-1,89%) ), NetEase Inc. ($NTES (+2,07%) ), Ross Stores ($ROST (-1,53%) ), Warner Music Group ($WMG (-0,75%) ), NICE Ltd. ($NICE (+0,01%) ), Bath & Body Works ($BBWI (-4,2%) ), The Gap Inc. ($GPS (-0,7%) ), Macy's ($M (-3,7%) ) and Spire Inc. ($SR (+2,14%) ) present their quarterly reports.
• Publication of the Industrial Production (October) and the National Association of Home Builders Housing Market Index (November).

Friday

• BJ's Wholesale Club ($BJ (-1,52%) ), Atkore Inc. ($ATKR (-2,22%) ) and Spectrum Brands Holdings ($SPB (+0,66%) ) present their quarterly figures.
• Deadline for funding of the US government.
• Publication of the Housing Starts (October).

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 🗞️

𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 / 𝗚𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗨𝗺𝘀𝗮𝘁𝘇𝘇𝗶𝗲𝗹 / 𝗟𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗯𝗼𝘅

𝗘𝘅-𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 📅

As of today, among others, Chevron Corporation ($CHV (-0,58%)), Microsoft ($MSF (-1,57%)), SBA Communications ($SBJ (+1,83%)), Thomson Reuters ($TOCB) and Valero Energy ($V1L (-2,32%)) are trading ex-dividend.

𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀𝘇𝗮𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗻 📈

Today, among others, Baidu ($B1C (+2,23%)), Bath&Body Works ($LTD0 (-4,2%)), Bilibili ($71BA (+2,84%)), Cisco Systems ($CIS (-0,55%)), Copart ($CO6 (-2,4%)), Experian ($EXPGY), Lowe's ($LWE (-2,87%)), Nvidia ($NVD (-3,63%)), SSE plc ($SCT (-0,55%)), Target Corporation ($DYH (-2,56%)), TJX Companies ($TJX (-1,44%)) and ZTO Express ($ZTOA (+2,05%)) presented their figures.

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 🏛️

Siemens Healthineers ($SHL (+0,45%)) - Following the acquisition of U.S. cancer specialist Varian, Siemens Healthineers aims to grow significantly profitably in the medium term. The "New Ambitions" are to serve as a benchmark for the next three years starting in the next fiscal year 2022/23. For example, sales are to be increased by 6 to 8 percent annually, as well as 12 to 15 percent more adjusted earnings per share in each case. Previously, the forecast was somewhat lower, but with Varian, the radiation therapy provider acquired in the meantime, the targets are now more ambitious. For 2024/25, Varian is targeting an adjusted EBIT margin of over 20 percent.

Auto1Group ($AG1 (+0,69%)) - The parent company of Autohero and wirkaufendeinauto.de Auto1Group has again raised its sales target this year. In the current year, sales are expected to increase to 4.5 to 4.6 billion euros. In 2020, sales were still at 2.8 billion euros. The hard-hit stock of the online used car retailer was driven by strong quarterly figures and the annual sales forecast, which was raised again. After the IPO in February, the stock had fallen sharply from its record high of just under 57 euros to almost 28 euros. The Japanese technology investor Softbank ($SFT (-1,64%)) is currently the largest shareholder with 18 percent of the shares.

𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 💎

Sandbox - After four years of development, the Sandbox Metaverse Alpha launches on November 29. As virtual real estate and gaming company opens up part of its Metaverse to players for the first time via a multi-week play-to-earn (P2E) alpha event. Players can monetize time spent in the Metaverse via a P2E model. They can buy land in-game, create NFTs, and earn the Sandbox Token ($SAND/EUR (-2,04%)). The price of SAND reached a new all-time high of $3.42 today. In 2021, SAND experienced a meteoric rise, gaining 8663.5% in the last 12 months.

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