Portfolio Manager, Exempler Funds at Capital Innovations
Member since: Jan '13 · 92 Opinions
It is an infrastructure spending play. If you took a profit at this juncture you may be a bit early. The planning phase takes years for one of these projects. Infrastructure spending comes from fiscal stimulus. There is going to be more infrastructure spending and more projects. There will be a longer term need for these companies. This stock has troughed out, but you could make more in the future.
If you are looking for a company in the design and engineering space, this one can benefit. They have not experienced the benefit in the last 3 to 5 years. You could look at utilities in the shorter term. It is one of the leading companies out there and there is nothing questionable about the balance sheet. It is not the top idea in the portfolio, however.
Markets. Real assets such as Agriculture, Real Estate, Collectibles, Commodities, and infrastructure are at their cheapest relative to financial assets since the late 1920s. When you look at some of the metrics on some of these you see monetary policy. They prop up financial assets. Emerging market real estate is really quite cheap. Depending upon the type of real estate, there are different kinds of metrics. Student housing, for example, looks cheap in Latin America but in the US it looks expensive. People are going into Britain and buying real estate. Companies that export outside of the UK are doing quite well.