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Rachel Warren: For me, when I was thinking about this, in terms of a higher volatility stock that I would actually like to buy more of because I currently own, that would be Shopify (SHOP 1.11%). Last I checked earlier today, Shopify is down, I think, 40% over the last month.

It's down nearly 50% from its all-time high. The company reports its earnings for the full-year and fourth quarter, I believe, in early February. So I'm eager to see those. But its share price may be all over the place lately, but I just think this provides an excellent opportunity to buy the stock on sale. I mean, you could argue that it's still robustly valuated.

I think last I checked, it was trading at something like 32 times trailing earnings. But it just continues to make these strategic business moves that I think really inform a really strong long-term growth trajectory for this business.

Last week, we discussed how Shopify and the Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com (JD 6.12%) had struck up this major partnership, which is essentially going to make it really easy for U.S. merchants on Shopify to tap into the multi-trillion-dollar e-commerce market in China. China is the world's largest e-commerce market, and it's on track to hit a valuation of $3.3 trillion by 2025.

So just enormous potential there for Shopify. This is a company that continues to turn incredible top-line growth quarter after quarter, as well as just astounding gross profits. I know gross profit dollars in the most recent quarter were up 50% year-over-year. So just a fantastic company that I think has just been hit by the same downward spiral we've seen for other high-growth, tech-oriented stocks, but still a fantastic company to buy.

In terms of lower-volatility plays, a great basket I thought of just the top of my head two of which I currently own. Apple (AAPL -0.35%), always a classic play in tech, has been prone to a lot less volatility than many of the other companies in the sector have seen. A dividend payer, albeit a lower dividend, and then two classic value stocks, Procter & Gamble (PG -0.78%) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ -0.46%).

With Procter & Gamble, you're getting a company that's not going to deliver that lightning-fast portfolio growth, but the company has been selling these household name products that everyone uses for so long. It just has that constant staying power, and I think its dividend currently yields around 2.2%. Then Johnson & Johnson has a current dividend yield of about 2.5%.

Both of these companies have been paying out dividends and raised those dividends for 60 years or more. I believe this will be J&J's 60th year of consecutive dividend increases, so just really classic value plays within their respective spaces if you're wanting to invest in more stable companies.