Meta Platforms, Inc. (META)

Have been delivering phenomenally well in the last couple of years. When you realize they had zero mobile ads when they went public a couple of years ago, and now the growth of the company over 70% of their revenues, they have done a phenomenal job of monetizing their growth. Trading at about 25X next year’s earnings. Still one of the great growth companies out there.

If you were to do a 3.5 year look at this stock, it has had a pretty good move. From here, you wonder how many more people could be sending into Facebook. However, this has proven again to be a good example of well-managed. Revenue numbers were still incredibly strong. If this company plays it right and does some acquisitions to defend their brand and their user experience, they could probably maintain their competitive edge. All of the data analytics is going to work well for this company.

He can’t give a seasonal evaluation, because it hasn’t been around long enough. You normally need about 20 years of data. Technically the chart shows a long-term trend that is definitely on the upside. However, there has just been a bit of a dip where it has broken support level, and formed a double top pattern last week. However, the long-term trend line is still on the upside. Wait until the stock gets closer to the trend line, a little bit lower than current levels, and then consider buying at that time.

One of the momentum champs until this last earnings report. It is a growth stock so the gap between a growth stock and a value stock can be a long way down. This move today does not move it out of the ranks, but it may turn into a neutral for him.

Stop loss amount? He doesn’t like stop losses, as he doesn’t like the market dictating what he is going to do. He chooses stocks based on fundamental analysis. This company came out with pretty darn good earnings last night. You would be wise to throw some money at companies like this. However, this one is too expensive for him. Trading at 30X Forward Earnings.

Just reported, and numbers were excellent in all metrics.

They are a really good company and messenger will be their secret weapon. There is talk about doing advisory bots with it.

This has totally disrupted the media business. It and a number of other players, have built a model where they are able to bypass the old distribution network, and make the customer the retail individual, and go directly to the original supplier of products. Therefore, the supplier can cut out the distributor and Facebook is able to capture the advertising revenues. Virtual reality is going to be a big thing in the augmented reality, which is really just coming out and people are beginning to understand the commercial applications of it. Growing at 26% and trading at about 25X earnings, which is not expensive to him.

Very, very high ROE, as well as growth rate. This is one of his larger positions.

(A Top Pick July 13/16. Up 9.77%.) He still likes this. You basically have Facebook and Google owning the online digital ad system. They continue to add monthly average users.

The growth rate is attractive. 35% revenue growth, 26 times earnings. Typically the PE is higher than the growth rate.

(Top Pick Sep 14/15, Up 39.66%) Grew revenues 59% last quarter, 52% previous quarter. Last quarter they had the highest increase in subscriber base (15%) in three years. It is still attractive.

Value wise, it is very hard to buy this company, but it is very clear to him that 2 people are going to dominate the online advertising business, Facebook (FB-Q) and Alphabet (GOOG-Q). The numbers are exploding. This company has done a very good job of growing the business into, not only mobile, but also the messaging and video side. In the long run, this has the potential to become a much larger company.

A remarkable company. It has 1.7 billion monthly users. They have other incredible brands like WhatsApp and Instagram. What is amazing is that they have all of this information on all of their users. You want to own this because they are targeting specific advertising, digital advertising. Digital advertising last year was 35% of advertising spend, TV was 37%. Digital spend is catching up to TV. This is only going to get better at monetizing that giant subscriber base. Google (GOOGL-Q) is as well. You need to own both of these companies. A great long-term hold.

Online advertising, and she likes that space. Doesn’t own this because of valuation, but owns Alphabet (GOOG-Q) instead. She likes the secular growth in this area, but feels Alphabet trades at a more reasonable valuation.