Becton Dickinson (BDX)

They make medical devides (syringes, blood test equipment). After last year's acqusition, there are two cash-flow companies here which excites him. He's owned this for a decade. 1.3% dividend. 10% dividend and price growth. (Analysts’ price target is $270.50)

(A Top Pick Aug 29/18, Up 18%) They do healthcare--hospitals, clinics--as an end-to-end service provider. They give hospital admin the software and provide all the products you'd need, like catheters or surgical equipment. Really they have no competition. Their customers stay loyal. They made a recent acquisition that gives them more international exposure. It doesn't have as much regulatory risk as other healthcare or pharma companies.

(A top pick June 6/18, up 10%) This stock is showing no signs of consolidation and is in an uptrend. So is continuing to hold it.

A great up trending stock chart. It is consolidating at the moment with lots of time to grow. Yield 1.3%. (Analysts’ price target is $251.11)

U.S. healthcare in the short-term? He prefers individual stocks over ETFs, starting with Becton Dickinson (and Zimmer Biomet, ZBH-N). In this sector, he prefers medical devices, not drugs which are easy to copy. Becton is a long-term opportunity and a play on demographics.

(A Top Pick May 19/17, Up 17%) They merged with C.R. Bard, another medical device company, so this has opened doors for them internationally. Dividend growing 10% a year. They continue to acquire and grow. He has owned it for 10 years.

He sees this as a good company, but not in his top 25. Healthcare technology has been very profitable and medical consumables is a niche area. There is good opportunity to grow through value add like prefilled syringes. He sees them as a high quality, low cost provider.

They bought C.R. Bard, the Canadian Tire of medical supplies and basically consolidated the industry, giving them tremendous market share and pricing power. They are now the premier company in this space.

It was a top pick for him in the past recently acquired CR Bald. A one stop shop for hospitals and clinics for all one time use medical devices (needles, etc.). Full service company from sales to programming to reordering, etc. now a gigantic company. Very good earnings. Very good guidance. They are going to benefit from tax reform. Big tail winds in healthcare. The biggest risk in healthcare is what Amazon is going to do. But not a lot of competition on the space. Just the US government spends 1.3 trillion dollars a year in health care.