What Is Jeff Yastine's "Q Shares" Investment?

Have you come across a Jeff Yastine presentation with the heading “Are ‘Q Shares’ Really The Perfect Investment?” and are wondering what “Q Shares” are?

He even whets your appetite by saying:

“This little-known investment is capable of boosting your returns by as much as 2,700%”

In this article, I will walk you through the presentation and reveal what those “Q Shares” really are. Keep reading to learn more.

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What are Q Shares?

The presentation titled “Are ‘Q Shares’ Really The Perfect Investment?” by Jeff Yastine was an advert for his Total Wealth Insider newsletter.

He also used it to introduce the concept of the “Q Share,” which is a unique type of investment that functions as a share. However, Jeff states that it is better than the ordinary stock and that it attracts better returns for the same amount of investment. Here is what he said:

“Today, I am going to introduce you to something I call ‘Q Shares.’

And even though they are similar to the typical shares in your portfolio, this class of shares is much, much more powerful.”

To demonstrate how “powerful” these “Q Shares” are, he shared three examples of stocks that had you bought the Q shares instead of regular shares, you’d have made more money. The three stocks he sampled are Walgreens, Coca Cola, and Johnson & Johnson’s.

“Anyone who upgraded regular shares of Johnson & Johnson into Q Shares, would have made twice as much money today!

Then there’s Walgreens Q Shares, which are paying investors 177% more than regular shares of Walgreens.

And Coca-Cola’s Q Shares are making investors 2,769% MORE than Coke’s regular shares.”

These kinds of “secret investments” are used frequently in the world of newsletter pitches. I have shared a couple here like George Gilder 15G Stocks, which refers to 5G stocks that are expected to earn thrice (3 x 5G) the returns of other 5G stocks.

He further claims that the special shares are enshrined in IRS Code 852. If you read it, that law covers taxation of regulated investment companies and their shareholders. It spells out, among other things, how capital gains and dividends are taxed.

On top of that, he says that not many people know they exist because companies that offer them are not allowed to advertise them. He blames that on Wall Street brokers who lobbied the SEC to prevent companies from advertising those shares because the program led to them losing out on commissions.

What exactly are Q Shares?

From what Jeff Yastine shared in the presentation, I inferred that he is talking about Direct Stock Purchase Plans (DSPP). These plans enable you to buy stock directly from a company without using a broker.

Although some companies offer them directly, some require you to use a transfer agent like Computershare.

Not all companies offer them though – Yastine said that he had found 1,000 companies.

The benefits of DSPPs include:

They enable you to pay low fees or no fees at all during stock purchases.
They sometimes allow you to purchase stock at a discount.
They enable you to grow your holdings in a company gradually when you don’t have sufficient capital upfront.

To elaborate on the final benefit, DSPP programs can enable you to make monthly deposits that go towards buying more shares or fractional shares (if your deposits are not enough to buy a full share).

You can even reinvest your dividends (if the stock you buy offers them) through the Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP). This also helps you increase your holdings.

Who is Jeff Yastine?

Jeff Yastine is an executive editor at Banyan Hill Publishing. He joined the publisher in 2015 and has since been the editor of Total Wealth Insider. He is also one of the editors of the Profit Line and contributes to the Smart Profits Daily free e-letter.

Banyan Hill Publishing is an independent publisher of financial newsletters. It is owned by The Agora, which also owns Agora Publishing and InvestorPlace.

Before he started publishing newsletters, Yastine was a financial journalist and anchor. He was on PBS’s Nightly Business Report which aired from 1979 to December 2019. While he was on the show, he interviewed people like Warren Buffet and Sir Richard Branson.

He famously warned people about the Dot Com Bubble and the real estate crisis in the mid-2000s. He also covered the Deep Horizon oil spill and the handing over of the Panama Canal.

His exposé on the underfunding of public infrastructure earned him a Business Emmy nomination.

Even as a business correspondent, he was good at spotting small companies that would go on to grow exponentially and large companies that made impressive turnarounds.

What is Total Wealth Insider?

Jeff wrote a report about Q shares called Q Shares: The Perfect Investment and the only way you can get it is by subscribing to the Total Wealth Insider.

When you sign up for it, you receive monthly newsletters from Jeff as well as access to his model portfolio.

You will also be entitled to a three-month trial of Automatic Fortunes. It is a newsletter that is edited by Ian King and published by Banyan Hill Publishing.

Note that when the three-month trial ends, you will be automatically deducted the one-year subscription fee of $97 and the only way you can stop that is by contacting the customer care to cancel.

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Q Shares Conclusion

It turns out “Q shares” is just a pseudonym that Jeff uses to refer to the Direct Stock Purchase Program (DSPP). Under this program, you can buy shares directly from a company without going through your broker, sometimes at a discount.

In some cases, you may have to go through some other middleman and they will either charge you a small fee or let you purchase the stock for free.

The shares you buy are just like the ones you buy through a brokerage, just that you don’t go through the broker. The bottom line is that they enable you to save some money through discounts and lower or no fees.

That being said, I am not sure you can improve your returns by 2,700% as Jeff suggests from buying via the program.

On top of that, brokers now offer generous discounts that rival DSPPs. Most will even allow you to reinvest your dividends for free.

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