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

The yield curve is steepening which will help revenues. They have held reserves very well, and these are coming off and going to the bottom line now. The Fed after June will allow banks for buyback shares and increase their dividends, too. Also, BAC has lowered their costs and using technology more efficiently. The U.S.…

(A Top Pick Mar 12/20, Up 65%) Bought it over a year ago when markets were coming down. It represents the ultimate value stock. Since last summer, it has outperformed the market and continues to do well. Not worried about succession since he expects transition to be smooth. Value will outperform.

One of his favourite investments. Assets are all in the US. Benefits from US exposure to e-commerce. Still cheap relative to NAV. Trades at a 5% discount. A great theme that you don't have to overthink. Likes management.

Ultimately, when yields rise, income goes up. How much will yields go up? The global economy cannot handle higher interest rates. Insurance companies are doing better, but he does not expect it to last beyond the next 6 months.

ARE-T vs. BIP.UN-T. He is happy with both. In terms of catalysts, ARE-T looks to be the more undervalued of the two. He thinks things will get more positive for it after the pandemic. It is a smaller company and could move farther. BIP.UN-T bought cell phone towers in India and are trying to take…

(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.

Whole industry is mature and grows through consolidation. A local business, so prices are set by marginally small players. Not an area she's interested in. Other industries have more exciting growth opportunities than by acquisition alone.

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GOOGL vs. AMZN Price target for GOOGL of $2700, so a lift of about 17% from today. Whereas AMZN gives you a 25% lift from today to its price target of $4200. He'd recommend that you split your investment of new money 50/50 between the two. GOOGL is a core holding, and the only time…

It reports Thursday. It's the only Chinese stock he champions. He expects a great quarter. China is well ahead of the US economy, post-Covid.

He can't wait for the AMD deal to close. Likes it.

Look at it by asset allocation, which takes fear and greed out of your decisions. If you see how much MSFT and tech have moved in the last couple of years, and compare it to the relative value of the precious metals, bring it back to the beginning. Sell and rebalance.

It is a core holding for him. It has had a great run. On a long term basis, it has not done incredibly well. He was surprised at the change of CEO after the last earnings call. That argues for a bit of a catalyst at driving it. The shares are not particularly attractive at…

A core holding. Gold should be much higher a year from now, so this will be higher. An amazing story. Beautiful entry point. When the storm hits, this will be an amazing lifeboat and move much higher. Happy to hold and wait. Started a dividend. When gold goes up, there will be increasing revenue, value…

China and India demand coal It's a cyclical stock, selling coal and copper. The tightness in the coal market is due to China refusing imports from Australia, which benefits other suppliers. As for copper, Teck is building a copper mine in Chile, delayed last year because of Covid, but expected to be onstream in late-2022.…

Stockchase Research Editor: Michael O'Reilly TLT is an ETF that represents US 20 long term treasury bonds of a term of 20+ years. Yields on these treasuries have been rising steadily since the pandemic based market collapse last March from under 1.00% to 2.25% now. This is a precautionary holding, to protect in the event…

A strong one. Vanguard and iShares also have offerings. EM can benefit going forward. One of prime beneficiaries of a Covid recovery, steepening interest rates, and a Biden presidency. Allocate more capital to this space.

They reported earnings in March, good numbers, and shares moved up, but since then shares have pulled back. Puzzling. Investors are looking for reopening stocks like hotels and cinemas. DOL is a steady eddy in earnings and revenues growth, and continues to do well. It's on his radar and he'd buy on a pullback.

(A Top Pick Jan 30/20, Up 18%) Continues to buy. Growth from emerging markets over the next 10 years is quite strong. Normalization of activity will bring revenue to pre-pandemic levels by 2022. Diversified.

All the essential retailers got hammered today, but they do well on Memorial Day usually. He expects a very good spring and summer for them.

BCE vs. T He'd go with BCE if he had to choose. Telus is more wireless based. BCE also includes media aspects. BCE is a more conservative play, with a dividend of just over 6%. Telus' dividend is just under 5%. When interest rates move down, BCE tends to do better. When interest rates move…

Has done a fantastic job at scaling up and increasing their assets. They have 2 new core plays with some of the best economics in Canada. At $60 oil, trading at 2.9x enterprise value to cashflow at 23% cashflow yield. Small cap light oil names is getting more attention. Still excited about it. (Analysts’ price…

Consolidation of the small and mid-cap names is an important theme. There are better names to own in the space.

(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.

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 may be difficult…