He loves the cyber-security theme.  Earnings growth is projected in the 20-25% range.  A high-quality name in the space, but trading at 20-40 times earnings.  Be cautious.  

They have grown 50% a year.  Last year they had an execution issue and dropped their guidance.  He found they were growing too aggressively and it was irritating customers.  People didn’t understand this was the problem.  Over the last two quarters they have been beating expectations.  They are at 20% free cash flow growth now.  (Analysts’ target: $165.00).

(A Top Pick Oct 29/15. Up 2.18%.) Got out of this a little while ago. Longer-term, he thinks it is pretty decent. It is in the computer security business, and they are one of the highest growth companies in that space. A good long term name that he will consider entering again at some time.

Likes the name. Security is going to be a problem that is not going to disappear anytime soon in terms of corporations, governments, etc. Has owned it in the past. Volatile because it has a PE of 72-73 on a forward basis. However, it does have a 35%+ growth metric attached to it. If markets start to worry about its growth, it is going to come down, and obviously the PE is going to come down quite a bit. A higher octane type of name, but over time it will do fine.

Provides enterprise and network security solutions. Unlike a lot of anti-hacking companies, they are more of an integrated company, where they provide services and solutions across the board. There have been a lot of recent high profile security breaches with governments and companies, with credit cards and information being leaked out. That is going to be a very big thing going forward. Security breaches will continue to move higher going into the future. One of the few companies delivering a 35%-40% growth rate, and still making very, very strong revenues in earnings. Since their IPO in 2012, they have met or beat analysts’ expectations on every single quarter. The stock dropped recently creating a good buying opportunity.

A Canadian cyber security stock or ETF? He doesn’t know of any Canadian companies, and rather than using an ETF he would prefer an individual company like this one. ETF’s are going to include some names that are not necessarily 100% into cyber security. This is one that he is looking at very seriously. (See Top Picks.)

Security is a very important theme in the market. There are a couple of themes that have big tailwinds right now. Certainly the Internet of things, i.e., connected devices to the Internet, which means it is a great thing for semiconductor and software companies. The big issue that a lot of companies have right now is security risk, which is an a bull market right now. Companies that can help mitigate that are doing really well. This company appears to be the winner in this space. Their most recent quarter had 55% revenue growth and beat the estimate by about 12%. They are seeing consistent increases in the estimates coming from analysts. It is expensive, but he feels the analysts are being too conservative with their estimates of earnings and revenue growth.

Stock is expensive but what he finds exciting is that he sees a clearer runway for this company to continue to beat expectations. This is the “next generation” firewall. Applications are much more sophisticated and can get through old firewalls and initiate programs within your application. This company has come up with the ability to basically, on one pass, analyze those packets that are coming and be “application aware” and “network protocol aware” to do everything that static firewalls couldn’t do. Thinks they are 2 years ahead of the competition with that.