Can't ride the stock.
Quite true! But if you get in at the right time and out at the right time, you can make enough in gains to buy a new CVO for CASH! Of course, the opposite is also true. On Nov 22, 2006, high-flying HOG closed at
$75.50, and less than 2 1/2 years later on Mar 5, 2009 it closed at a dismal
$8.20 - for a loss of over
90% of its former value! Then, again less than 2 1/2 years later on July 21 of
this year, it closed back up at
$45.66. In that period, it was one of the best performing non-microcap, non-tech stocks around. If you had bought HOG at anywhere near the low, and sold at anywhere near the high, you could have easily
more than quintupled your money, and been able to pay cash for
anything the MoCo makes.
Of course... I never did buy HOG after the crash, because there was simply too much uncertainty about the MoCo's near-term financial outlook...
But I
did just buy my new 2012 FLHXSE3, and I surely CAN ride that!
So it's all good...