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If a recession hit? Anything valued on a multiple of revenue will suffer in a market downturn. It's had a massive move, trading at 654x--the valuation makes little sense. It's a momentum name. In a recession this will come off hard. However, he wishes he had bought this at $100.

AmEx, Visa or Mastercard? They're all great. Visa and MC are pure-play payment processors vs. AmEx which is also the issuing bank. They play on electronic payments with people buying more and more online, but V and MC reaches a wider breadth of customers/users. AmEx still focuses on richer people. V and MC will always…

(A Top Pick Aug 02/18, Up 13%)An August covered call. He sold an August call. He thought that the market was ahead of itself and he took some money off the table. The price in August was $338.50 and the option to sell at $360. It never got there. You wouldn't kept the stock. Your…

Starting to see more volatility, since it is tied to the consumer and their credit. Still likes the space in the longterm. A bit expensive right now, but secular trend of digital payment will make this a good choice for long investors.

They report on Wednesday. He's underweight FB. The options bets this week are bullish. Technicals look good and FB has a solid track record of breaking earnings. FB is a good long-term investment.

(A Top Pick Jun 28/18, Up 3%) There's been a lot of noise about regulating this space and company. GOOG owns such a broad sweep of quality assets, including things like self-driving cars that they haven't monetized yet. They can further monetize all their Youtube users, too. Also, they still attract massive online advertising and…

A safe stock to invest in. Can they upgrade their user base to 5G, he wonders. It make take longer than expected to convert users he thinks. He would be a buyer below $200. He has been a seller above $220. A core holding.

Wait for a pullback to initiate a position. Don't chase it here.

(A Top Pick Jan 28/19, Down 8%) It hasn't sold it and he'd still hold it. It needs more time. The risk is up, not down.

Uber is the well-known transportation company. It has been beaten by Lyft in the race to go public. After IPO, the company could be valued at up to $83.85 billion.

Came out at $72 and shot up to low 80s, and now at 69. Valuation looks reasonable based on sales multiples. Biggest problem for these "unicorns" is they also have losses of billions of dollars. He's skeptical, though not skeptical enough to short it. Worth watching to see how the whole story unfolds.

A fintech/e-commerce stock. It's not cheap; has a PEG ratio of 2.6. Price target of $80.

The chart is a rounded-U formation in the past 12 months. It looks a little oversold, and has broken a short-term trendline. It will probably land to $45. Wait till it consolidates. Maybe the worst is over. There isn't a real direction, so keep an eye on it.

This is effectively a processing company. In terms of the biggest boss on the street, it would be Intel, and this would be considered the baby in the corner. All the semis are up this year. When you get a cyclical decline in the semi space, and we are long overdue on one of those,…

Has a 1.75% position. Has had a haircut. Price target of $46.07. Not cheap. Dividend yield is 4.6%. Interesting, because they have an oligopoly in internet and gaming. Tremendous leadership in the video ecosystem, they have the developers and the distribution network. And now it has Tencent Music. He'd buy into the bigger holding company.

He sees it going a little higher than it is today. It has been a darling for a long time. In a recession, people tend to shop down.

Largest demographic group is the 29 years old. Ready at the point of household formation. No debt. They generate a lot of cash. (Analysts’ price target is $50.33)

(A Top Pick Jul 04/18, Up 21%) Consumer discretionary, but more defensive. Lower beta. Decent growth rate of 10-12%. Nice dividend of 2.9%. Sales performance improving. Focusing on guest experience. Strong dividend income and growth, plus earnings growth.

A higher growth story, but the whole group is at a valuation premium. Although the company is doing well today, if the growth model and valuations don’t come through, you are paying a lot today for what the company looks like a few years from now. That always makes her nervous in protecting capital.

Sell Amazon and Apple now? The stock has stagnated the past two years, but it makes more money. Apple keeps investing in near projects, which is a good sign. Hold onto both of them for the long haul. He owns a lot of each.

It has always been too expensive for him. Maybe they have built out too many stores, but it has had a hard time continuing to justify valuations.

A 3-year hold They've done well launching Disney+ and condolidating Hulu to move quickly into streaming. Movies still generate revenue but are less important now. The theme parks are also doing well. The issue is that Disney must pay licensees to stream their content and this will eat into profits. This will limit EPS growth…

A company he admires, but bad news keeps coming out. They were very reliant on retail channels which no longer have the footfall they used to. They are under-indexed to online, which is where more and more demand for soft goods is going. Their quarters for many years have shown inventory issues. Feels they have…

Making inroads against Amazon. Good earnings, recent acquisition is working. Current pullback is indicative of the market overall. Positive time of year for them. As online becomes a bigger component of sales, that will be reflected in the valuation. A defensive name, a stable investment, so it would go down less in a down market.

10.625% Bonds due July 15/15. One of the largest heavy discount US retailers. No sales over $10. Because of the recession, same-store sales have been fantastic and growing about 8%-10%.

A great buying company. 56 countries. Should track upwards.

(Not listed on exchanges.) Nintendo. Very interested in this name. The comeback story of the year. People thought it would be driven out of the gaming business but the Wii has been a tremendous successful platform. Hasn't done an evaluation of it but will be looking at it.

Buy on a pullback, not now. Their pharma division is doing very well with products in the pipeline and wide margins. A strong balance sheet. Their dividend is almost 3% with a long history of increasing. A diversified, global name. This is quite defensive and good to hold in a weak economy. Lawsuits remain an…

A quality company that pays a good dividend. Look at it now during negative sentiment due to political pressure in America over high drug prices. Be cautious near-term, but do your homework on this now.

What healthcare stock to buy? In Canada, he likes Chartwell, in the U.S, Merck (MRK-N), and in Europe, Novo Nordisk.

This is a recent acquisition. The backlog of orders for Boeing and Airbus is tremendous. He thinks China will favor Airbus over Boeing in future orders. He thinks the Bombardier acquisition gives them an advantage over Boeing across the fleet. They are also setting up a new maintenance service, which might take over work currently…

Time to take profit? She sold it way too early. They are generating great new cash flow. She is not adverse to take profits -- perhaps take out your initial investment. A lot depends on the US market in general. If it pulls back, it would be a good opportunity to buy back in.

Would sell UPS and buy Fedex. Fedex is better managing headwinds from Amazon. They also have more areas that Amazon won' tackle. Wouldn't invest in either due to high cost in order to compete. Their current infrastructure is not ready to compete in the e-commerce world, and will eat up their free cashflow.

Involved with the disruption of buying at home rather than in the store. He prefers FedEx, likes its exposure to Europe. UPS exposure to Europe is about 16% whereas FedEx was around 5% before acquiring TNT, increasing exposure by about 12%, putting them neck and neck with UPS. Fedex and UPS have both had a…