What do you do with vested stocks (MSFT) ?
Title says it all
I buy Microsoft stocks out of pocket considering that its a pretty high growth stock that also gives great dividends (.46$ per fiscal quarter or roughly 2%pa). That's higher dividends than what even the best savings account can pay, and if its reinvested then it even compounds, this is not even considering the growth of the stock and just the dividends. I envy your position that you get such financial benefits for free 😉 I'd hold on to it unless I have immediate plans to invest it elsewhere.
I believe it's higher than $.46 per year. I think it's $.42 quarterly. When I last checked it was closer to $1.68 per year.
A fiscal quarter isn't a year
Btw, Amazon and Google stocks don't pay dividends so the only considerations for holding them would be the growth factor. So comparing those with Microsoft stocks is like comparing apples to oranges.
I think the post was supposed to go into the Microsoft only area... lol
You can immediately sell and reinvest in something else with no tax penalty. It's much better to invest in something more diversified.
I eat them, with salt and pepper.
Sell half and reinvest in index funds. Keep other half.
Prudent thing is probably sell and diversify. But I'm on the cloud gravy train right now and the stock is doing well. Hodl
Holding cash for the recession now
Sell immediately and dump into AMZN. Been doing that for the past 3 years..
The question is flawed. Your question should be: do I believe in MSFT stock so much that I’d buy X% of my salary of this independent of where I worked? For Amazon when I was there, most of the time the answer was no. I didn’t feel comfortable putting all my eggs in one basket. So usually I sold for cash some portion of my stock vests and then reinvested elsewhere. In hindsight I did alright but could have done better if I left it all in Amazon. Still there’s nothing to say it won’t go in the other direction.
That was probably a bad choice to sell your amzn stock
As I said: in hindsight I might have done better holding, but that’s impossible to know. I did build a diversified portfolio that performed very well though and I didn’t have to stress about all my eggs in one basket