PepsiCo, Pfizer Inc and 15 Stock Top Picks (May 22-28)

(A Top Pick Aug 21/19, Up 32%) Half of what it returned is from it being a terrific company. The other half is the pandemic. It is still a great company. They have hired a lot of employees and are looking to keep 70% of them long term. It is a big player in providing…

A world lead in biscuits, candy and chocolate. Their biscuit demand has benefited from COVID and they have grown their market share. Oreo and Ritz are brands they sell. Based on their studies, 15-20% of their buyers are new to these brands. She thinks this will allow them to keep those new buyers going forward.…

He is not a gold bug but there is a time to own golds. It makes sense due to all the monetary stimulus and all the money printing around the world. They just raised their dividend 78%. They are about to start a new mine in Mexico. 90% of their production is up and running.…

Semiconductors are the basic building block of today's economy. We are headed into 5G networks. 25% of their business is data center, growing at 50% per year. 50% of their business is gaming (teenage kids at home). The rest is graphic design and they have the technology in these spaces. They may get slowed down…

What they're doing in shopping interesting while their ad business will grow a lot in the coming year. It's trading at 20x earnings, growing at 30%, while the market stands at 20x, growing at 2-3%. Incredible value. They have a relationship with Shopify. (Analysts’ price target is $240.30)

Asset tracking is becoming much more important. It has great growth opportunities over the next little while. They compete with Honeywell. ZBRA-Q has a lot of products that the Chinese manufacture for them, which is a little bit of a risk short term. It trades at about 19 times. It is a really well run…

One of the two biggest cloud companies (with Amazon). They have a huge base for Office software. They will continue to develop their Teams conference technology for work conferencing. They also have a videogaming and live sports business now in relation to virtual and augmented reality. They struck a deal with the NBA, which will…

His model price is $83.64. Yield 1.81% (Analysts’ price target is $50.78)

NEE-N vs. AQN-T. He would choose NEE-N. Part of the appeal of renewable energy is that they have one of the best R&D teams internally in the company, to ensure all projects they do come on stream as planned and to be more innovative in other green solutions including battery storage. It is the old…

This company was a spin off from from the OTX purchase by RTN and started trading April 3. They are the global leader in the elevator industry. They have a 17% market share. Service is 50% of their revenues but 80% of their profits. They usually have a 93% retention for this business. They suggest…

(A Top Pick May 13/19, Down 27%) He's disappointed, though many stocks are also down. He bought it when FedEx had already fallen 40% off highs. It seems like they've turned the corner with problems integrating DHL in Europe, and that big cyberattack from a few years ago is behind them. During the pandemic, FedEx…

Loves it. He shied away from it in the past because its product offering was concentrated. When they were spun-off from Abbot Labs, it was spun-off with the successful rheumetory arthritis drug, Humera, but the drug made up 63% of company revenues, so the risk was high. In the last year, ABBV bought Allergan which…

It is three different companies: a medical device division; personal care division; and the pharmaceutical division. It continues to execute very well. They are not dependent on their pipeline of drugs. You have a great opportunity to buy a diversified company. There have been some risks on products like talcum powder but they are very…

A Top 100 S&P company, trading in US dollars. His model price is $133.28. A good pullback in price -- good value here. He sees supply chains coming back in health back to US companies. Yield 3.2% (Analysts’ price target is $93.68)

(A Top Pick May 21/19, Down 19%) It is trading below book value. It is not a banking crisis. A lot of business comes from other areas. They stopped buybacks. They have room to increase dividends when things return to normal.