23 Stock Top Picks and 2 ETF (Jan 18-24)

Opinion about BAC-N: High quality. Globalization is starting to move in a different direction, so this option provides a more domestic focus.

Opinion about BRK.B-N: FFH vs. BRK.B FFH is in his Canadian dividend strategy. BRK.B is in his global strategy.Both are insurance-driven companies that are partly holding companies. Diversified businesses. Breakup NAV (not that they'd ever be broken up) is significantly higher than current share price. And that makes both of these a buy. Both are…

Opinion about WIR.UN-T: (A Top Pick Jan 12/21, Up 48%) Great-managed REIT. Taken out.

Opinion about FFH-T: What explains its tremendous performance? Good operational management long term. Stock's more than doubled in the last year and a half, and he'd have to dig to find out why. Value, instead of growth, has been in favour for the last 6 months or so. Its counterpart, BRK.B, has also done well…

Opinion about BIP.UN-T: BIP.UN vs. BN vs. BAM The closer you are to the top of the house in the Brookfield framework, the closer you are to the CEO and the Board, and the incentive structures tend to favour them. Doesn't have the great yield, but has upside. BAM offers you the yield and, broadly…

Opinion about YASKY-6506-JP: (A Top Pick Jan 22/19, Up 36%) There is some cyclicality in robotics in Japan, but they are one of two world leaders. He still owns it.

Opinion about WM-N: Potential buy. Chart trending in the correct range. Excellent trend analysis. Would recommend watching. 

Opinion about PNG-X: Really cool products like deep-sea drones. New CEO has done an outstanding job. He doesn't own now because valuation is at a premium. Government contracts can take a long time to materialize; but when they do, they're large. Good way to get exposure to the space.

Opinion about GOOG-Q: Pretty well a value stock. You can go ahead and buy this one.

Opinion about BABA-N: The country square in the bullseye of the US during the tariff war is China. Until there's resolution in tariffs, don't touch China. The future is unknown and could be negative. Both countries are at each other's throats.

Opinion about XLNX-Q: The Xilinx-AMD merger, which is supposed to close by year's end. Whoever owns Xilinx will make a lot of money. He recommends AMD over Xilinx, because he doesn't like arbitrage risk. Take some profits on Xilinx.

Opinion about MSFT-Q: He has been buying tech during this dip, in April particularly. We will eventually exit this volatility and find stability and confidence in the market again. Meta and Microsoft are some of his key holdings, and they affirmed their capex guidance--they are spending to make incredible investments over the next three years,…

Opinion about NTR-T: World's largest crop-nutrient business. Upstream production is vertically integrated with downstream retail. Gamechanger for him is that commodity price has bottomed for potash, nitrogen, and phosphate. Cash crop commodity prices are also slowly improving. Management changes. Operational changes to improve profitability. Trading at 1.1x book. Good luck tariffing potash, as the US produces…

Opinion about KL-T: (A Top Pick Feb 25/21, Up 15.3%)Stockchase Research Editor: Michael O’Reilly With the recent completed acquisition by AEM now official, we now consider this position closed. When combined with the previous recommendation to cover half the position, this results in a net investment gain of 22%.

Opinion about TECK.B-T: They dropped their coal business to become a pure metals play. The company has changed. They're pulled down along with industrials, given tariffs. Now is a buying opportunity. He might add to his holding.

Opinion about TLT-Q: The yield has been flat in the last two years though shares have been volatile with the bond market. The bond market is broken long term as a buy-and-hold; you have to be an active bond manager given inflation's impact.

Opinion about ZEM-T: Trevor Rose’s Insights - Trevor’s most-liked answers from 5i Research Keep in mind that some international funds, depending on which ones, could hold some emerging market exposure already. The sector continues to be volatile, and many countries (i.e. Vietnam) might be very vulnerable to tariffs if they come back and/or stick around…

Opinion about DOL-T: Wouldn't buy now. Has benefited from the economic uncertainty, and so valuation has come up dramatically. North of 35x PE, so risk that could contract over the long term. Wonderful business, well positioned with price points to capture a larger portion of wallets in tough times. Last conference call referenced a small impact…

Opinion about BKNG-Q: (A Top Pick Mar 27/25, Up 7.8%)Stockchase Research Editor: Michael O'Reilly Our PAST TOP PICK with BKNG is progressing well.  To remain disciplined, we recommend trailing up the stop (from $3600) to $4000 at this time.  

Opinion about DG-N: It reports Thursday. This and Dollar Tree have been eclipsed by Walmart, who is not at the mercy of the big suppliers.

Opinion about BCE-T: Investor is 62, planning to retire in 2 years. Down almost 50%, 7% position in the portfolio. Dollar cost average down? 7% in one stock is way too overweight. Expects to see a haircut on the dividend. Management hasn't been making the best decisions over the last year or two. He's been…

Opinion about TVE-T: He's been adding; he remains a top shareholder in this. He likes that most of their production is exposed to the Clearwater. Super economical: their payback period on a well is 10-11 months. All companies benefit from a weak loonie, because they sell in USD and bring back that money to Canada.…

Opinion about SGY-T: Trevor Rose’s Insights - Trevor’s most-liked answers from 5i Research SGY is quite small at $510M, but the stock is very cheap. With a 10% dividend, a buyer (or privatization) could eliminate the dividend and use internal cash flow to pay for the whole company in about three years. But, that doesn't…

Opinion about SDX-LN: (A Top Pick Aug 13/18, Down 61%) They disenfranchised the Canadian shareholders. He sold out sooner before the de listing, so did not do as badly, nor did his subscribers. He disagrees with their move.

Opinion about BXE-T: Debt concerns? BXE took bankruptcy protection when debt became too much. There is no equity value in it any longer. Companies that have debt that matures in 2020 or 2021 will have issues. He sees no issues with BIR or TVE on this topic. The new Federal relief program for large companies…