23 Stock Top Picks and 5 ETF (Feb 01-07)

Password-sharing crackdown in the works. Happy with results this morning. Increased profitability from streaming. Struggling lower- and mid-income consumer impacting park revenues; probably a short-term concern. Phenomenal content library.

Good products, good reputation. Good long-term investment in the medical device area. If you own it, keep holding. Her exposure to the space is via ABT and JNJ. (Analysts’ price target is $379.00)

She's anticipating economic weakness, hesitant even on the consumer staples space. Consumers in Canada have seen a lot of price increases in the last 24 months; spending same $$, but taking home less. Questions ability to continue to pass on those price increases. 

Economically sensitive, rate sensitive. If you have a 5-10 year horizon, US housing is still underbuilt. Still more valuation upside. Since 2008, all in the space have become higher quality and more of a manufacturing business.

They report tomorrow. Lower interest rates will push sales, and the extreme weather is behind us.

Money-laundering fine. Asset cap on growth will really hamper growth in US. Perhaps can focus more on Canada where they've been increasing deposit base and credit card business. Depressed valuation is an entry point. Attractive dividend. Opportunity to turn it around over the medium term.

A number of P&C insurers in the US pulled back post-hurricane. Technically, not broken. Sector probably does pretty well going forward. 

(A Top Pick Nov 13/23, Up 55%) Insurance doing exceptionally well. Recently bought ZZZ. Things are chugging along well. Dividend raised from $10 to $15, significant increase. Still at a discount on price to book. In client TFSAs. Very keen on it.Just as with BRK, its insurance business takes in premiums, which get invested in…

It's all about interest rates. Probably we need to see the 30-year fall below 6.0% to trigger pent-up demand and will likely get it. We're 5 million homes short in the U.S. and have been underproducing for 14 years.

The REIT world is very interest-rate sensitive, as is your house. Watch your real estate exposure across your net worth. If you didn't own a house, an excellent play. Low vacancy, largest Canadian provider.

Wildfires and labour disruptions hurt volumes. Recent quarterly results show that's improved. Guidance cut. Part of an oligopoly. More economical than trucking. Rails will be a solid part of the economy forever. Compelling valuation, good chance to step in. Yield is 2.2%.Goods consumption has slowed as consumer spending has slowed. Question marks about tariffs and…

Big holding for him. He prefers the infrastructure builders to the owners. Lots of $$ being spent building infrastructure, and a bit more leverage in the earnings. Significant position in US power consulting with its latest acquisition; they'll be the largest in the US in this arena. Considered it for a Top Pick today. Technical setup…

(A Top Pick Oct 30/23, Up 57%) Aerospace division challenged, as BA and Airbus are having a difficult time delivering planes. On the flipside, current planes have to stay in service longer and need replacement parts, so RTX has benefited. Selloff on engineering problems proved to be overdone.

Not worried about issues in Mexico. Very strong company with legacy assets that impossible to replicate. Stock price not cheap, would have to hold for a long time (buy on share price weakness). Over the long term - company will do well. Earnings expected to slowly rise. 

(A Top Pick Oct 10/24, Up 27%)Stockchase Research Editor: Michael O'Reilly Our PAST TOP PICK with AC has achieved its target at $22.  To remain disciplined, we recommend covering half the position at this time and trailing up the stop (from $15) to $17.

(A Top Pick Feb 27/23, Down 28%)Disappointing growth in EV equipment. Rolled over and he got stopped out. Wasn't making higher highs and higher lows, no longer in an uptrend. In your portfolio, you have to quickly carve out the ones that aren't working before they hurt you.

Last year they fended off a challenge from an activist investor. Its platform enables remote work, so share soared during Covid. But then earlier this year, the activist threatened to take it over. Instead, in April, Box struck a deal with another investor, KKR, for a $500 million investment to mostly use to buyback shares.…

(A Top Pick Oct 30/23, Up 41%) Has unveiled Gemini, which many think on par with ChatGPT. Lots of exciting technologies, some of which they're monetizing. Exceptional free cashflow from advertising. Still only 20x PE. Buy now, benefit long term.

They sold their Vietnam business and original mobile antenna business, volatile, but kept good businesses--satellite communication, embedded antenna and infrastructure. The stock has been rising the past 3 months. It's a prime take-out candidate.

Recent quarter fairly good. A lot of metrics increased. Share price fairly high - would recommend waiting for a slight decrease. Better/cheaper names to invest in. Overall, a good company. Wait before buying. 

The case for them isn't as strong as it used to be. Daily active users doesn't matter anymore compared to ad growth. Chinese companies, namely Temu, have spent a lot on FB ads. But the number of Temu users have been declining and with that Facebook's growth rate.

They report next week. Revenue growth this year is 22% and EPS 32%. They know how to monetize AI.

They delivered a good quarter a few weeks ago. Long-term secular growth lies ahead.

Tilted portfolios towards developed and emerging international. Best returns will come from here.

(A Top Pick Jul 31/24, Up 2%) It is moving in a range. It is close enough to the bottom of the range and he is tight with discipline. If it breaks its support level and stays there for a number of days, then he will sell.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks IHI's MER is actually higher (at 0.39%) than the yield it pays (0.3%). Like the other names here, IHI trades at a low beta, 0.86 to be precise. So, if you're not buying this for income, what's the growth? Let's look at IHI's largest holdings. TMO offers diversity among lab testing,…

Balanced ETFs for a long-term hold? VBAL and XBAL are great, one-stop shops for smaller accounts. Leave it and forget it. Typically has about 40% fixed income, which would have had a tough run up till about a year ago. VBAL costs about 25 bps for the MER, XBAL costs about 20 bps. VBAL is 41%…

(A Top Pick Jan 07/19, Up 14%) They are one of the lead orders on this. There was a technical issue where it was listed on the TSX and NEO. The fund refused to list it on the TSX. It doesn't have good liquidity due to this and so they gave it up.