
NASDAQ:GOOG
(A Top Pick Dec 4/14. Up 41.58%.) He continues to like this. Trading at a pretty decent valuation at 24X forward earnings, with an 18% long-term growth rate. Still sees very healthy growth and monetization in mobile and video. YouTube is looking to obtain streaming rights for movies and TV to compete against Netflix and Amazon. Expects the stock will continue to do well.
(A Top Pick Dec 17/14. Up 50.07%.) This as a tremendous company with so many products coming down the turnpike. It is not just Search, it is all these other things they do, including their capability of going head-to-head with Microsoft’s office productivity products. He could see it going to $1000 a share. He would like to see them have a dividend.
(A Top Pick Oct 21/14. Up 37.53%.) He liked the way they were positioned. Have finally started to deliver on earnings in the past couple of quarters and the multiples increased. People like the restructuring. They own the most powerful smart phone operating system globally, in Android which they are giving away for free.
He is going for the new company, the hold-co. There are two businesses. The old legacy stuff is separated, but this has the rest as well. It has long term upside. It generates tons of cash. He is looking forward to their first earnings release. He took a small position just to see. He thinks the market will have better visibility and will like it.
(Top Pick Nov 19/14, Up 22.75%) It’s now called Alphabet (name change only). This name change tells him that there are so many things inside that they have not monetized. They know so much about you. It does not matter what goes on in China, this one will do well. You may see them spinning off businesses into separate companies.
(Top Pick Sep 30/14, Up 8.17%) They monetized a lot of the initiatives of some years ago. The big thing that is happening is that they are becoming a real company. They respond to their stakeholders. The street is very positive to their management change. They have grown into their stock price. They are reasonably priced. They are growing at 20% still.
He loves it. They are so dominant in their field. They are now isolating the core Google. Then you realize how profitable it is.