Profitable Investments Today
By www.ProfitableInvestingTips.com
Sometimes finding profitable investments today
takes a little homework. A recent article
in Scientific American is a case in point.
Scientists at MIT were able to increase charge
capacity and power output of lithium batteries
using carbon nanotubes. The researchers found
a tenfold increase in power delivery and a
threefold increase in charge stored. Profitable
investments today will commonly come from
new science like that just reported. New science
can lead to profitable investments today just
as it did in the past with the telephone,
radio, television, plastics, and more. However,
profitable investments today require taking
a good idea and cost effectively creating
a useful or popular product. The researchers
pointed to this when questioned by Scientific
American. The research was done on a small
scale and may have early applications to microelectronic
devices but no one currently knows if the
technology is scalable for use in larger,
commercially viable devices. In asking what
is a good investment one needs to consider
commercial applications of any new, breakthrough
science.
What is the first step to investing in new
technology? Profitable investments today often
start with advanced physics, esoteric biotechnology,
or carbon nano tubes 1/50,000 the diameter
of a human hair. Learning the physics of the
situation is not really necessary to invest
in such technology as no one really knows
the exact science yet. When the science becomes
known the problem becomes an engineering solution
to solve. At that point the problem for the
investor is having a sense of how fast a product
can be envisioned, developed as a prototype,
and then brought to market as a profitable
product. Sometimes the introduction of an
advanced technology is not profitable to the
investor as there may not currently be a market
for whatever the new technology does. In the
pre personal computer era IBM out performed
its often more technically advanced competitors
with a more accomplished sales staff and attention
to just what the customer understood and wanted.
In asking what are safe investments, high
tech can be on the list. However, the investor
will typically want to invest in a company
or individual in research or management with
a proven track record.
Profitable investments today have included
the likes of Apple where Steve Jobs returned
from exile and injected new ideas and profitability
into a languishing company. A problem with
investing in a company with a proven track
record in innovation is the dilution effect.
Even though companies such as 3M and Hewlett
Packard are idea machines they are also huge
companies. Ideas take root in their research
labs and products are moved quickly and efficiently
to market. However, the market discounts this
proven ability by paying a higher price for
their stocks than one might for another company.
These companies may be good for the long term
but their values may be too high to be good
investments in the short term. In the meantime
be on the lookout for lithium batteries, small
sized, with a lot more storage capacity and
even greater power release. The question is
just how large and just how soon and they
will become profitable investments today.
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