Adobe Systems (ADBE-Q)

Sold in late August. Exuberance in AI quickly turned to disappointment in investors' minds. He may not have agreed with that, but you have to face reality, so he made a quick exit. Still a good company, but risks with core business. He'd look elsewhere for new money.

There's something about their management. It has a stable of great products for content creation et al, but they disappoint during earnings; it's how they frame earnings. Their earnings are actually not bad, but they are so conservative that they lower their forecasts. On Dec. 13, they barely beat the top line and were in line the bottom line, but lowered guidance again. Look at Service Now, instead, in SAAS.

Down 25% this year. He continues to be patient and will hold. The disruption story to Adobe's core is overdone. It has incredible profitability, trading at a 30% discount to its 10-year average. They will figure out how to do AI.

AI darling. Q3 beat on top and bottom. But it's all about the guidance, and Q4 guidance was a bit shy. Trades at 21x the 2026 earnings, with 13% growth. Still pricey. An infectious product that's going to be more widely used going forward.

A name like this isn't only about fundamentals, it's also about the chart. Buy at some point, but not here. Definitely write puts around $400-420, and get paid the premium.

Reasonably good company. All companies are trying to monetize AI. Single product risk, and he's always wary of those companies. He prefers the consolidators for boosting revenue and cashflow. A wait-and-see story.

He likes that it's trading at lower and lower valuations. He sold this as shares ran up, because expectations were exhuberant and when investors felt that the company's AI wasn't growing fast enough. But he may move back into this at $450.

His thoughts were a lot better before this morning. Still likes it. Ancillary AI play that will eventually bring AI into product line. Will do well over time. Reaction today is overdone.

One of the cheapest tech stocks, which sagged when they tried to buy Figma a few years ago, and still hasn't fully recovered. Shares remain very cheap and have rallied recently. He values this at $750-800, huge upside ahead. They are the best. Are absolutely an AI play, though in early days. Every business wants to use AI in coming years.

It is a very successful large cap company. It is down this year because of their slow pace of modification of their AI tool. It is in a sweet spot with AI software eg. text to video. It has plans to improve in three areas. It might have competitors but has the advantage of size and being multi-faceted.. There should be an improvement in sentiment next year.      Buy 36  Hold 9  Sell 3

They report Wednesday. He likes Adobe very much, but it's been stuck in enterprise software purgatory. Not anymore. Maybe it has a good runway ahead.

A tough stock that you must be patient with, but ultimately this is a double-digit compounder with healthy fundamentals. They're seeing slower than expectation monetization of AI (Firefly). It's a show-me story. He's underwater on this, but you can buy this at current levels.

It has delivered great earnings growth in the double digit range but the price didn't follow other techs so it is much cheaper. It has under performed due to the U.S. decision to deny an acquisition. You can expect to see accelerated share buybacks, 25 cents for every dollar of free cash flow. It has already incorporated AI into a number of its products.         Buy 36  Hold 9  Sell 3

Worries that it has yet to monetize AI effectively. People can create images themselves with less sophisticated tools. Technically weak. The tech sector is not his #1 place to add right now. Look elsewhere.