Allan Tong’s Discover Picks SNAP stock earnings are -$0.65 and well below the industry average of $3.84. Cash flow at -$0.59 also lags its peers. The PE is sky high, while price/sales and price-book also exceed industry averages. Essentially, SNAP is not a profitable company and carries a negative ROE. So, am I trashing SNAP and telling you to run away screaming from this stock? Millennials and kids love this social media platform. Stockchase’s research division recently noted that revenues have surged over 60% and daily users have leapt 22%. Business is so good that SNAP management revised revenue forecasts to up to $740 million vs. the street’s $703 million. Even though the U.S. is reopening, I don’t expect usage of this app will fall off, since people will continue to use their apps out of sheer habit. Read 3 Promising Stock Upgrades: SNAP, Uber, Corus for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks On the same day, analyst Youssef Squali of Truist Financial signaled a buy with a price target of $66. On the same morning, Uber leapt 4% to nearly $60. Squali is actually more conservative than his peers, who foresee a mean PT of $72.96. As with SNAP stock, Uber investors are betting on future performance. Uber’s growth is literally driven by the reopening south of the border (Canada will lag until vaccinations catch up). Again like SNAP, Uber stock’s current fundamentals reflect negative earnings and profit margins and a huge PE. Read 3 Promising Stock Upgrades: SNAP, Uber, Corus for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks The stock is climbing out of a long slump and offers upside of 23%, based on a price target of $7.71 by six analysts. Corus has cut costs and the Shaw family owns the company, so there is stability in the upper office. Meanwhile, shareowners can collect the 3.83% dividend yield. However, the fundamentals remained challenged with negative earnings, a -41% profit margin and -46% ROE. There’s still a ways to go with this story. There’s upside, but maybe not to $7.71. Consider this a partial buy. Read 3 Promising Stock Upgrades: SNAP, Uber, Corus for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks In early February, GOOS stock reported a blow-out beat of its Q3 revenues and profits, and shares popped nearly 30%. Much credit goes to its e-commerce channel, where online sales have jumped 39.3% in that quarter to allowed Canada Goose to post revenue growth for the first time during Covid. Keep in mind that GOOS had to close 25% of its stores during lockdowns and will benefit as a covid vaccination stock once shoppers can return to stores. Read April Showers and Flowers: 4 Covid Vaccination Stocks to Buy and Sell for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks BLDP stock pays no dividend and the EPS is negative. The stock narrowly missed earnings in the last three of four quarters (the fourth was in-line). Ballard is a polarizing stock where the bulls see a 38% gain in these shares to nearly $42. Why not? BLDP stock jumped to $50 two months ago, but then slid to its current $30 range. Read April Showers and Flowers: 4 Covid Vaccination Stocks to Buy and Sell for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks This translates into steady, though unspectacular growth. If you’re looking for Tesla gains, buy Tesla. If you want assured 4% annual growth plus the 3.81% dividend yield (held in a TFSA preferrably), then ERE.UN stock is it. This is ideal for seniors seeking income, for those who want to sleep at night, and those who want to balance their spec plays with a steady Eddy covid vaccination stock. Bay Street foresees nearly 10% upside at a $4.75 target, based on two buys and one hold. I agree. Read April Showers and Flowers: 4 Covid Vaccination Stocks to Buy and Sell for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks Insurers will benefit whenever interest rates rise. When this happens is anyone’s guess, but likely not this year. Until then, there’s little to recommend POW stock, which I owned years ago. For the past five years, POW stock has traded within a strict range between, plunging to the mid/low-20s and rising to $33 which is its current level. In that time, POW stock’s EPS has been -$4.32%. Meanwhile, Power pays a safe 5.42% dividend based on a 71% payout ratio. That’s basically it. Read April Showers and Flowers: 4 Covid Vaccination Stocks to Buy and Sell for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks ADW.A has recovered from a March 2020 Covid trough of $7.02, posting an over 50% comeback. Before Valentine’s Day this year, Peller reported its sales were up 9.3% in Q3 and 4.6% year-to-date, aided by a new e-commerce portal that helped offset pandemic hit of as restaurant and bar closures. Also, ADW.A stock’s EBITA rose 18.1% YTD. However, for the three months ending 2020, gross margin as a percentage of sales was 37.4% compared to 41.3% the year before. Reasons included higher imported wine costs and customers tippling more lower-margin vintages. ADW did reduce its ad spend and trim staff in response to Covid. Read Wine and Pizza: 3 Uplifting Food Stocks for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks Pizza chains are not the same, and we’re not talking taste. Pizza Pizza suffers from being a Canadian chain where reopenings will take longer to roll-out than in America. Though PZA trades at only 13.65x earnings and pays a 6.29% dividend, it’s also missed two of its last four quarters and its payout ratio is 88.67%. That ratio doesn’t leave much breathing room if there’s a drop in profits. Also, PZA’s dividend has declined about 4.5% annually over the past decade. Read Wine and Pizza: 3 Uplifting Food Stocks for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks Domino‘s benefits from scattering locations around the globe, so it’s not tied to Canada. About 17,600 stores operate in 90 countries, and the U.S. (with 6,355 locations) accounted for more than half of global sales in 2020 at US$8.3 billion compared to US$7.8 billion outside those borders. (There are 541 Domino’s in Canada.) Domino’s relies on e-commerce to thrive. In fact, last year, over 65% of sales came from digital ordering in the U.S., according to the company’s Q2 2020 conference call. More than 90% of its international locations offer online ordering. DPZ stock’s trades at 30.23x earnings and pays a 1% dividend yield, based on a 25.18% payout ratio, far lower and safer than’s PZA stock’s. Read Wine and Pizza: 3 Uplifting Food Stocks for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks In terms of performance, ATS stock has beaten its last four quarter handily. Automation stocks are on the rise. It reported its Q3 in early February: EBITDA almost doubled from $26.8 million to $49.7 million as orders leapt 19% year-over-year. Year-to-date, ATS has soared over 21% while the TSX has risen 8%. Year-over-year, ATS stock still beats the benchmark at 68.5% to 59%. Read 3 Underestimated Automation Stocks for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks I recommended this last August. As we face the reopening and eventual recovery, elective surgeries will bounce back and there will be a huge backlog to process. This backlog spells a boom for any company directly tied to surgeries. That’s short term. A longer-term tailwind for ISRG stock is the continued adoption of robotic surgery and this is where the automation stock shines bright. Robotic surgeries increased from 1.8% of all operations in 2012 to 15.1% in 2018. Read 3 Underestimated Automation Stocks for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks Ford stock is no slam dunk. Its earnings, cash flow, margins and ROE lags the wider sector, and Tesla stock outperforms it year-to-date and certainly YOY. Ford stock is a bet on EV’s, but avoids the insane price swings that plague Tesla. Ford is also a bet on the future rather than the near-term. Consider this a speculative buy on dips, and don’t back up the truck. Read 3 Underestimated Automation Stocks for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks FNV has tumbled 37% (all figures from March 8) since its late-July peak of $222.15, which represents its third-deepest pullback in stock history. Earnings and cash flow score well above industry averages, though its PE of 79x is more than twice that industry average. That said, FNV’s ROE and ROI, both around 5%, fly well above its peers. Its 1% dividend yield is based on a 73% payout ratio, which is high for this sector. Read 3 Overdone and Oversold Stocks for our full analysis.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks This powerful brand thrived during 2020’s lockdowns driven by strong e-commerce sales and ongoing support from loyal Chinese consumers. In its last-reported quarter,revenues from China soared 24% compared to only 1% in the U.S . In that period, online sales rocketed 84%. In fact, last fall Nike reached its e-commerce goals three years ahead of schedule. Read 3 Overdone and Oversold Stocks for our full analysis.