Today, I'm breaking down the top 11

stocks that Benjamin Franklin would

invest in if he were looking at the

stock market today. And these picks are

based on principles that made him one of

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Franklin wasn't just a founding father,

he was an entrepreneur, an inventor, a

scientist, and honestly, one of the

first content creators in American

history. He built one of the most

prolific printing businesses of his time

and discovered electricity, founded

public libraries, and helped shape the

Constitution that we have today, making

his way onto the $100 bill without ever

being a president of the United States.

The investments that he made early on in

his 100-year experiment, for example, in

Boston and Philadelphia, he invested

$1,000 in each city and increased to

millions of dollars. And so, as we're

celebrating 250 years, what would he

actually buy? Nobody knows for certain

today, but I'm going to be going over

the top 11 that reflect his principles

that made him successful. So, the top

markets that we're going to be looking

at today include 11 stocks across seven

names and markets. We're going to talk

shipping. I've read Benjamin Franklin's

biography multiple times, and one of his

favorite things to do was travel across

the great Atlantic Ocean. In doing so,

he would track weather patterns, he

would track the stars, he would track

the birds, he would see how the ocean

life moves and study the wind patterns

and was one of the first people to chart

a lot of the wind patterns and some of

the astronomy that we even use today.

Maersk is one of the top companies that

does all the shipping for the most part

across the Atlantic across the pond. It

could be on the Pacific Ocean, it could

be on the Atlantic Ocean all the way

down to Argentina.

Those big conex big containers that you

see the shipping containers are usually

Maersk shipping containers. So, we're

going to go into that one. Photonics.

Photonics is a new technology that's

connecting computers and data centers

and AI. And it uses rather than copper

wiring, which has been around for,

you know, ever since electricity really,

you have photonics being the

transference of light in order to

transfer the data and energy. And so,

the transference of light is something

that I think uh

Benjamin Franklin would be big on. So,

we'll go into a few ticker symbols there

along with quantum computing. You know,

quantum computing is so early in its

technology, but it's one of the most

potentially groundbreaking technologies

we could see impact the next 5-10 years.

And so, that's why we have it there.

We'll go over to some of those ticker

symbols. We found a lot of quantum

computing stocks around a dollar, two

dollars a share way back when. And so,

we'll talk about uh what we look for in

some of the long-term projections there.

Intuit. Intuit handles a lot of taxes um

you know, when it comes to the the uh

financial space. I think if there was a

company that Benjamin Franklin may be

very interested in, he would either

extremely despise it or he would invest

in it, which would be Intuit. And then

PG&E. PG&E is an infrastructure play in

the uh electricity grid that is powering

basically most of the West Coast

including uh

uh California. And they have seen a lot

of sell-offs in their their um not too

bad of an infrastructure play that I

think would be of interest to the

long-term growth for Benjamin Franklin.

And then of course we got if expeditions

were his favorite and you see a lot of

growth in

uh space explorations now, it's kind of

the equivalent of the frontier of uh

ship travel back when over the oceans,

except it's through space now. I'm sure

he'd be interested. And then also he was

a printer himself. He was one of the

best uh

writers in history. And during that time

he had his own newspaper, kind of like

how you'd say he owns uh YouTube. He

would allow other people to publish

articles and that whether it was uh the

gazettes or it was Poor Richard's

Almanac or it was the uh the the

developments of uh the the Philadelphia

uh

and and Boston kind of rivalry. It was

like YouTube competing with, you know,

Snapchat or Meta competing with uh you

know, Instagram Instagram and uh uh

Facebook competing with uh LinkedIn or

YouTube. And so he kind of owned a

YouTube back then. It was like the uh

the distribution channel and it was

really one of the things that made him

the most wealthy. And so Google today, I

think with all the innovations they

have, but also YouTube would be of great

interest to um to Benjamin Franklin. So

let's jump into the individual

individual stocks. First one you got AP

Moller. So uh this is Maersk. Um so if

you were to search this company, it's

going to be under shipping, okay? And

they're going to be AMKBY.

They recently pulled down from $19 a

share. They're down to around $12 a

share. They've been in an extremely

consistent uptrend. They're one of the

top shipping companies, if not the best

shipping company in the world. They're a

large company already. They've been

around a very long time and they most

likely are going to be a long-term pick.

So, if you're looking at their levels

right now, they are down in valuation. A

lot of people were focusing on AI,

they're focusing on data centers,

focusing on

nuclear or defense stocks. And that's

all great, but when you have a company

that is the main They're shipping the

GPUs, they're shipping the computers,

they're shipping all the semiconductor,

the microchips across the oceans.

They're going to be a company that's

going to continue to make money. And

we'll go into the financials in a sec,

but they have pulled down from 14 back

down to 12 right now, and they have a

little trend here on the medium-term

bouncing around this 200-day moving

average. That's going to be a 200-day

green line right here that they often

times will hold above in a bullish

pattern like we see here, or they're

going to be below there, you know, in a

a bearish pattern. For example, you have

through April 2022 until April 2024,

they were in a bear trend getting

rejected right around that 200-day

moving average, that green line. Then

you start to see things shift into 2024,

into 2025,

uh right around kind of elections

actually. And then you had now this

trend where they're holding above this

green line. And they're holding above

the 200-day moving average with targets

up to $15 in the near term. That's a 25%

margin for profit, and that's not only

uh close term, but that's not to their

their all-time highs that we saw back

here, which they most likely will reach

again at some point, which is about a

60% increase. So, as Benjamin Franklin,

if he was looking with $100,000,

uh back then it was probably the

equivalent of $1,000, and he was looking

to make 600 bucks, this might be a stock

that he would heavily consider in the

medium, even to long term. So, if you

look at their financials real quick, you

know, I like to use prophecy. If you

guys aren't familiar, this is our

system. Benjamin Franklin would probably

want to see the perspectives of Grok and

Open AI and Claude and Gemini and

there's hundreds of other users that

want to see it as well and we can

actually search up um

this stock right now

and it's going to be here.

Uh

if you take a look here, their

financials are

54 billion in equity and their income

statements are annually they're doing

fine they're holding quarterly they've

got positive net income and they are

seeing revenues of around 13 billion

dollars per quarter with a market cap of

225 billion dollar market cap. You know,

they have seen some sell downs but

overall the financials continue to look

good uh annually they look very

consistent and they're a top shipping

company to consider. A lot of

projections from the top models in the

world like Grok and ChatGPT and Claude

look very bullish into the next year uh

as they're a solid pick. Now, next

companies if you had to ask uh what he

was focused on back then, he might be

looking at um some of the the

electricity potential companies that

were starting to develop or cuz he was

basically creating electricity.

But nowadays, I think photonics would be

a big one. Photonics like we said,

you've got the copper wiring that's

making its way into being developed for

these light tubes that essentially

transfer data um you know, three to five

to 10 times faster than copper wiring

and it's truly a quantum technology.

It's a new innovation. It's like if you

would have shown him an LED lights back

when

250 years ago if I showed him an LED

light, he would get freaked out if you

could touch the LED light without

getting burned, right? Because he'd be

like, "Whoa, it's it's projecting

energy. It should burn me like fire."

But no, you don't get burned when you

touch LEDs and uh that's quantum

technology. That's an innovation that

humans have been able to um uh use

physics to

do something quite amazing. And LEDs are

all around us. But, if you were to look

at um the Coherent, or the uh Marvell,

or you're to look at um

AAOI, these are some of the ticker

symbols that he would be looking at, or

LITE,

these are photonics companies. And

photonics, if you were to look at kind

of how it looks,

it kind of looks like this. It's this um

this harness of essentially, rather than

doing um copper wiring, they have this

uh I think fiber optics, but for data

transference for data centers. And they

have these uh these tubes that

essentially hold the

uh transfer the data, rather than the

um copper. And so, a lot of companies

out here, really good top companies that

we saw recent pullbacks in include

Coherent. They are invested in by

Nvidia. They got a 30% margin for profit

if they continue trend up to all-time

highs. Companies like Marvell and

companies like AAOI have seen a lot of

investments from Nvidia and recent

pullbacks that start to look more

attractive. And these are kind of the

maybe more high-growth stocks that he

might be a little more um conservative

in investing in, that he wouldn't go

super heavy in them, but he would be

very intrigued by them.

Now, the next one you got to jump into

here is going to be the top stocks in

the space tech market. Now, if we were

to look at SpaceX, he'd probably look at

SpaceX and possibly think he was a

little overvalued. He might invest in

it, but he'd probably be interested in

some of the smaller companies that are

growing. One that has a very consistent

uptrend, and one that's a top end-to-end

supplier for space technology, is going

to be Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab has this

trend where they're continuing to rally,

and they've got targets up to $150 to

$200 a share, which is about a 30% to

50% 60% upside. They've got this very

consistent trend where they're

continuing to rally. They do have some

pullback potential down to the 200-day

moving average, but they just bounced

there. So, they're starting to look

bullish. And so, what does that mean?

Well,

Benjamin Franklin would probably see

that they're end-to-end, they're

launching these rockets up into space,

and they're

shipping materials into the

out of the atmosphere into orbit. And

it's

a company that most likely he would see

as very interesting and would most

likely invest in it. I have a friend

that works here, and I've also started

investing in this company around $3 a

share. So, you guys know if you've been

following the channel for for some time

that we are

an investor in the company. But, you do

know that they are having really big

growth from a revenue perspective. If we

look at their revenue per

revenue growth as well, I'm sure that

Benjamin Franklin wouldn't consider

companies that have more liabilities

than assets, but they've got 2 billion

in equity, and their income continues to

grow annually. You can see they were

just 62 million in 2021. They're now

over 600 million in 2025, and then into

2026, they're over 200 million dollars

per quarter in revenue. So, really

growing that compound effect there is

something that if they get up to 500

million to a billion dollars per

quarter, this stock could be a hundred

billion-dollar company, and they could

be similar to that of SpaceX because

they make it possible for a lot of

companies to launch their technology

like Starlink type technology. Can I see

this one that they launched from French

are are using the the technologies. NASA

works with them. They've got government

contracts. They're seeing tremendous

amounts of investments from the private

sector as well to get their technology

out there. Um

and that's what they do. So, they

actually make it possible for other

companies to grow. One thing that's

you'd probably see Benjamin Franklin

find interesting is that they don't use

steel. They use carbon composite and

carbon fiber, which is more expensive

but ends up saving them on fuel costs

tremendously and that they have some

rockets they're launching that are

becoming very competitive to that of

SpaceX. And that's why they would be a

top Benjamin Franklin pick. The other

stocks that most likely Benjamin

Franklin's going to be heavily

considering is going to be over in the

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tickers he would probably look at in the

space tech. Surveillance, which is going

to be BlackSky and Planet Labs. These

companies, if you look at what they do,

BlackSky tracks everything that's

happening down on Earth with these

satellites. They have lots of government

contracts and they are seeing they're

tracking the ships, the airplanes, the

cars, even people down on Earth. They

have a lot of government contracts. Or

maybe over with Planet Labs. Planet Labs

is

very similar and they already have a

tremendous amount of contracts. They're

growing. They have these satellites up

in space that seem to be spaced out

every thousand miles or so or 500 miles

and they're tracking everything that's

going down on Earth. They look at it for

more AI analysis related to the planet's

developments. So, the weather, uh a lot

of maybe the changes in the environments

and different wildfires and data that

can help uh us be aware of what's

happening on Earth, you know, from a

top-down view. And so, they use AI

analytics and they're doing really well

there. And so, they that would be of

interest to him. The other one that

would probably be of interest to him,

even though it's really overvalued, they

recently pulled down to the 200-day

moving average though with some

potential growth, is ASTS. I started

investing in this company around $3 a

share and they have grown tremendously.

If you look at where they've been back

here um

in the uh technology space, what

Benjamin Franklin would find really

interesting is what they do. They're

launching these big satellites that go

up into space. They are partnered with

Google and Verizon and they have these

5G cellular broadband networks that

essentially allow users to connect their

phone to the internet from down here on

Earth and it's basically replacing a lot

of cellular towers and becoming a top um

potential growth network for AT&T and

Verizon and Rakuten and Bell. And so, uh

they just haven't seen a lot of revenue

yet, but they are looking to optimize

and revolutionize uh the

uh cellular broadband uh means by which

people get internet. That would be one

that Benjamin Franklin would be looking

at for sure. And then, you got I mean, I

could include some robotics, but you

definitely got to it's just looking back

at where where his focus would be too.

Um, quantum computing.

It's an emerging technology, but

Franklin was never afraid to bet years

of effort on ideas without proven

payoff. Electricity itself was an open

question in his time. Very high risk,

long time horizon, but the kind of

frontier bet that rewards patience over

quick certainty.

So, next gen computing, scientific

risk-taking, and the high risk uh

nature of quantum. So, quantum stocks

we've been covering since 2024.

Righetti, for example, we started

covering right here in November of 2024

along with IonQ in similar time frames

around November, October 2024. And we've

seen them really tremendously launch up.

Now, a lot of the quantum stocks have

seen contracts with the governments, but

also big contracts with companies like

AWS or Microsoft. You've got Righetti

being a provider to tap in through the

cloud, and you also have IonQ working

with the governments and also being a

top um trapped ion quantum computer

company that potentially will change the

um

the way technologies are developed

because of how fast their technology

moves. One reason that, for example, uh

Benjamin Franklin would invest in a

company like this would be that's for

finding diseases, drug discovery. You

know, they've come such a long way since

250 years ago. This company can or this

company essentially, they could take um

peptide proteins. There's thousands of

different combinations, and you have to

run thousands of different tests, but a

quantum computer could essentially

simulate or uh go through those

thousands of different peptide protein

uh uh

sim um bindings to see which ones bind

together and go through that research

fast to find cures and vaccines or

certain

anecdotes to different diseases that

come out and and cures. And so that's

where you see them innovating. They're

also innovating in just general

technology. Whether it's like they have

20 years worth of knowledge, but they

can't really go through it too well.

They'll take AI, run it through a

quantum computer to try and optimize a

lithium-ion battery. They'll come down

to eight results and they'll work

through those eight results and then

prove that lithium-ion battery. In this

case, they improved it by about 70%. And

then they can take the results, they can

run it through AI, and then they can

keep kind of going back and forth. So

the the the pairing of AI with quantum

computers has been a really big theme. I

went to a lot of different conferences

over the last 2 years from CES to the

quantum conference in New Mexico,

and then CES again, and also D-Wave and

met the CEO of some of these companies

from D-Wave to

IBM vice president of quantum. And you

got to meet a lot of these people.

And the top the top companies are all

seeing not a lot of

profits,

big spending, but a lot of promise

potentially in the future. Most of them

have pulled back significantly from

all-time highs and could be 10x or 100x

type opportunities over the next 5 to 10

years. And a lot of them, you know, as

they've cooled off, they have been very

volatile. There is that potential for

those recoveries back up into the 30 to

$50 ranges. If you're to look at

spending, it was about a year ago we

were looking for a $2.7 billion dollar

deal for quantum to pass. As of

recently, we've seen a lot of deals pass

in quantum, and you could look at

quantum

Let's see, quantum deals with Trump. As

of recently, there's been a new quantum

computing executive order that just got

launched in the last week. You've got um

from 2028 to 2031, there's hundreds of

millions here, another billion dollars

for IBM, 375 million for um others. You

got a hundred million that are going to

D-Wave. Inflection's getting a hundred

million. Psi Quantum's getting a hundred

million. Quantinuum is getting a hundred

million. D-Wave's getting 38 million.

And so these companies recently signed a

lot of deals. However, as of recently,

they haven't seen big recoveries. QBTS

got the news and they're still down here

around 23 bucks a share. With highs, it

would be up to $42 a share, which would

be a hundred percent increase from here.

So big, big potential for some of the

quantum companies as they see more

growth from the US government and from

spending to compete with China and

things like that. Um and just from

general tech. You got Google launching

the Willow chip as of recently. Amazon

launched a chip called the Ocelot chip.

And then Microsoft launched the Majorana

chip. And these are all new technologies

that have been launched by top companies

in the last year and a half for quantum.

So a lot of focus, a lot of investment.

Most likely going to see those markets

continue to do some uptrending into the

next few years. And so that looks pretty

good for Benjamin Franklin.

Now, the other markets you could go

into, again, PG&E is a big one. I think

if you were to look at PG&E from the

lines of just general infrastructure, to

me it's just one that makes sense. Um

it makes sense, PG&E, for him. Sticker

symbol PCG. They've sold down

tremendously from $71 a share back in

2017. There were some wildfires in

California. They got sued a lot. They

sold down tremendously and they haven't

recovered yet. But if you were to look

at their growth or look at their

financials,

PCG,

you could see that they have seen a

positive net income and they've got $6

billion per quarter that they're making,

6.8 billion. The balance sheet is good

with 142 billion in equity. So, they got

142 billion in equity. They got 6

billion in costs. They're bearish cuz

institutions have sold big time, but

recently we've seen State Street buying

in. BlackRock has been buying in. You

got

um some other larger hedge funds buying

in. And the reason that I like them is

because again, they're doing $6 billion

per quarter. You're 7 billion a quarter.

They're doing per year nearly $30

So, if that's the case, it's 25 to 30

billion. Their market cap's at 37

billion. Their assets are already at 141

billion. I think they're uh drastically

undervalued and they have sold off big

time from the California wildfires, but

they do continue to work. I see them

expanding in the in the California area

and they also have a lot of um different

initiatives that have made the wildfires

safer over the last two to three years,

whether it's putting power lines

underground or they had to really get

serious and get a lot of things cut back

in the last few years because of all the

wildlife wild um fire danger with um you

know, growth vegetation getting up into

the lines and they they've been keeping

it pretty clean for the most part in

northern California. I don't know how

they're doing down in southern

California, but that's how I've seen it.

So, big undersell. I think uh he could

potentially see them as a a good play.

Recoveries could put them back, you

know, 250% or more in the long term or

300% in the long term, which uh again,

very large returns for PCG.

So, when it comes to Benjamin Franklin,

again, these are my picks. I think

Google would be a big one as well as we

kind of went over YouTube and all these

uh and these are just some principles

for them. We went over well over 11

names here, but I just wanted to share

with you guys that the top thing to

realize, too, is a lot of these

technologies are

already seeing growth. So, just a

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