UCYB Using a 2x Leverage to Invest in Cybersecurity - Greater than 25x returns? - YouTube

Channel: Adventurous Investor

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U C Y B equals. Massive returns!
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Why? Because today’s cyber  security firms are growing  
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like a virus. Their stock prices have  SKYROCKETD in the last 18 months.
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And their opponents - the hackers - have only  gotten more daring, with ransomware, hacks,  
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and supply interruptions! This has a LOT of  investors thinking - me included - that cyber  
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security stocks are going to outperform most  sectors in the coming decades. And there’s  
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a brand new leveraged ETF that can deliver us  2-X returns on cybersecurity. I’m Skyler James,  
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welcome back to the channel. So what is Ultra  Cyber? And should your portfolio have it?
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Look at semiconductors and the leveraged ETF  
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SOXL that returned 25x in the last  5 years. Cybersecurity and U C Y B  
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could do that same thing over the next 5 year.  So much of our data is moving to the cloud,  
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and how much are Amazon Web Services and Google  and Apple willing to pay to protect it? Alot.
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Ultra Cyber is a straight-forward leveraged  ETF. The ULTRA designation means it offers 2-X  
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leverage - investors will earn twice the increase  on a positive day, and twice the decrease on a  
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negative one. Ultra Cyber does things a little  bit differently than other leveraged products.  
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Rather than hold a bundle of stocks and give us  2x the juice, Ultra Cyber from ProShares gives us  
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2x the returns of the FIRST TRUST Cyber ETF. if  its website is accurate, that means Ultra Cyber  
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literally uses a competing ETF to leverage. Maybe  it’s just the most convenient way for ProShares to  
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track the benchmark it hopes to deliver 2x  against? Still, not something you see every day.
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So what’s the catalyst for these  stocks being strong investments? Well,  
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have you noticed that on days when ransomware and  hacking are in the headlines, cybersecurity stocks  
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jump higher? When the VMware and Solarwinds  hacks were breaking news, the Cyber ETF  
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jumped fourteen percent in the following weeks.  Colonial pipeline ransomware attack? Cyber jumped  
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four percent. And then when the FBI recovered  the bitcoin used in that pipeline attack,  
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Cyber again rose almost 8% in a matter  of weeks. It goes back to the old saying,  
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“time in the market is more important than timing  the market.” You can’t time these hacks. These  
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hacker headlines will become more and more common,  so get these stocks into your portfolio now.
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A few facts about the UN-leveraged Cyber, since  that’s basically what Ultra Cyber is: C-I-B-R has  
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the largest AUM of the cybersecurity ETFs - over 4  billion investing dollars. That’s a big-time AUM,  
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we know the AUM leaders tend to steer the  stocks in their sector. It was the SECOND  
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cybersecurity ETF for investors to purchase,  launching after the HACK ETF from E-T-F-M-G.  
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Even without being first to market, Cyber  ended up with the most assets under management,  
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another big thumbs up. About FIFTY PERCENT  of the Cyber holdings are in the top ten  
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and annually it’s delivered 20%, for the last  five years. There are alot of things to like about  
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the Cyber ETF. Ultra Cyber has a higher expense  ratio, landing at 98 basis points, but otherwise  
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the Ultra ETF comes with all the  same perks as the unlevered ETF.
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Check out these other unleveraged cybersecurity  ETFs and how they overlap with the Cyber ETF.  
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Just a dummy check I like to perform during ETF  analysis that’s especially important for leveraged  
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products. Anytime competing ETFs have an overlap  of 50% or more, it means the holdings are pretty  
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similar in those funds, pretty well agreed upon  by the big ETF issuers. That consensus is why  
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the overlap is so high. And it VALIDATES that  the ULTRA cyber ETF is giving us access to the  
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BEST investment choices. Ultra Cyber isn’t using  some mish-mash, foggy definition of cybersecurity.  
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And I’m not here to pick a SINGLE winner, I’m  here for levered exposure to the WHOLE scene.  
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Big-time analysts talk about the  COMPETITIVENESS of cybersecurity firms,  
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and how difficult it is to pick a winning horse  anyway. Why not just easy-button it with an ETF?
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Ultra Cyber offers us 2x the  risk and 2x the reward of some  
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40 tech stocks. Run through these  names with me. Z-Scaler, Crowdstrike,  
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Okta, Fortinet, Cyberark, Palo Alto, Fireeye.  Like really, what’s missing here? Anything?  
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The Cyber ETF is all the stocks that stand to  benefit from increased enterprise spending on  
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cybersecurity. Ultra Cyber is looking  like a slam-dunk investment choice!
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Another dummy check: how does this basket of  cybersecurity firms perform against the unlevered  
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Nasdaq 100 ETF, QQQ? The Q’s have outpaced Cyber  in 2021, but not over the one-year time horizon.  
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That’s for two reasons. The first is that the  2020 story was much more about cloud, remote work,  
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and data protection during the pandemic. Those  specific niches saw demand and revenue pulled  
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forward, that’s why Cyber outperformed the Nasdaq  in 2020. And second, remember in December of 2020,  
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cybersecurity stocks launched to the  moon as part of the Solarwinds and VMware  
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blow ups. The Unlevered Cyber went up 15% that  month alone. That’s a gain not shown in the 2021  
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year to date. Both great funds, but I expect  cybersecurity to outpace the Nasdaq going forward.
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So look, I’m waiting for a pullback to start  accumulating Ultra Cyber. Just like I’ve been  
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steadily doing with Sox-L for leveraged  semi exposure. And if you aren’t convinced  
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about using leverage for cybersecurity, Cyber  from First Trust and WCBR from WisdomTree are  
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both solid, unlevered picks. Thanks for  watching and I’ll see you on the next one!