Alphabet Inc (GOOG)

He likes it. Quite a good company. Has shown a long history of return on capital that’s really quite impressive. But getting slightly worse, return on capital has gone down but stock price has gone up. That would generally be counterintuitive normally. The stock would go down. But they have so much cash on their balance sheet that the returns do get dragged down. If you take out the cash all of a sudden you realize that the return on capital is outstanding. It’s a stock you have to own. It’s so good, they are changing the world, they make a ton of money.It’s an amazing company.

This has been very, very good. There are multiple engines in it. Doesn't think people in this age can do anything without using this. Valuation is something he has always struggled with. If it ever had a pullback, it’s something he would seriously look at.

This has done extremely well on the price side, but its valuations have become less and less expensive, which means the fundamentals are growing at a faster pace than the price. Last quarter, they reported a year-over-year revenue growth of 24%.

(A Top Pick Dec 14/16. Up 29%.) FANG stocks have all done quite well as a group. This has online advertising and is the leader in online search. They are going to garner a natural share of online advertising.

(A Top Pick June 19/17. Up 8%.) This offers the most compelling value of any of the FANG stocks. Trading at a little over 20X earnings, but you are getting 20% earnings growth, which is a really compelling value. This company is going to be in great shape to exploit the whole AI thing because of the amount of data they can capture.

There is some regulatory risk in that they get so broad that regulators see it as anti competitive behavior. Regulators would mangle a high growth company like this. Right now the growth is good even if stretched. It is all working, but there is nothing new to the story. Technically it checks all the technical and fundamental boxes.

Alphabet (GOOGL-Q) or Apple (AAPL-Q)? He recently sold Apple. He likes this company. It is cheaper in terms of its PE/growth ratio and more diversified in terms of what they are doing. This is in a space that no one is going to enter anytime soon in a major way.

He likes it. There was a little pull back but not that much. Google tends to go sideways for a period of time, and then it breaks out and moves up again. It’s probably due for one of those period of consolidation, and then it could break up and move up again. For a long term buy and hold investor you’re probably good to go.

(A Top Pick Nov 23/16. Up 33%.) Involved in a couple of oligopolies, online search, online video and ad spending, and has a ton of cash they can deploy into areas that are going to grow hand over fist in the next decade. It isn’t trading at all that much of a premium to the S&P 500 in the context of its growth rate.

(A Top Pick Nov 28/16, Up 35%) They are doing well. Last quarter they had their fastest advertizing growth in 5 years. They are defying the laws of large numbers.

One of the best companies in the world. The stock has moved up phenomenally, but is still reasonable value given all the properties they have. He is very excited about the potential of the Cloud for this company. There is a lot of opportunity for them.

CSU-T vs. FIH.U-T vs. GOOGL-Q. You have several different options here. He likes FIH.U-T’s exposure to India. He thinks India is one of the great overlooked growth stories. GOOGL-Q is one of the death stars. It has run to quite an extent. He thinks it has a good year to run yet. This is one that will be around in one form or another for a long time.

(A Top Pick Nov 15/16. Up 35%.) The valuation is not as attractive as it was a year ago. They’re executing well. Have had over 20% revenue growth for 21 consecutive quarters. Has a lot of cash overseas, which will be a benefit if the whole US tax reform comes in for repatriation of foreign taxes.

On their latest report, they grew revenues 24% year-over-year. A very large company, but still growing very, very smartly. They are starting to monetize a lot of their supplementary initiatives. YouTube is really taking hold, with 1.5 billion monthly users watching at least an hour or more. A very real streaming opportunity for people in the over-the-top world in competition for eyeballs. They also have Waymo, a self driving car initiative, which is going to be amazing. Google has long been reputed to be behind the curve on the Cloud. Just as last week, they did a joint venture with salesforce.com, which is going to make a difference. At 28X earnings, this is a good solid holding for the long-term. (Analysts’ price target is $1180.)

This one is a long-term hold. This and Facebook (FB-Q) own mobile advertising. They have the whole data management and derivative side. The android operating system, which they give away, runs over 60% of the world's mobile devices. That's a huge monetization value. (Analysts' Price Target is $1,100.00.)