BUY

This is the biggest winner of all the stocks out there. This is the first question he has ever had on this stock in 17 years. Don’t hold your breath on stock splits. The CEO does not believe in them.

WEAK BUY

His model price is $71.65, a 17% downside. It is cheap in its balance sheet. The fundamentals are coming up to meet the stock price. He thinks the action will be elsewhere in 2017. There is potential upside as the earnings come in.

BUY

You have not been able to buy this stock at its model price since 2012. It has come back to that price. He is positive on this stock. $60.16 is the model price. We will see how drugs work in 2017.

BUY

ORCL-Q Vs. IBM-N. IBM-N works hard on their balance sheet. ORCL-Q is old tech. He bought ORCL-Q at $12 a share. He likes it and it probably has the most upside. His model price is $46.11, or 0% upside, but IBM is $165.03, trading right on its model price also. He likes the diversification of both.

BUY

ORCL-Q Vs. IBM-N. IBM-N works hard on their balance sheet. ORCL-Q is old tech. He bought ORCL-Q at $12 a share. He likes it and it probably has the most upside. His model price is $46.11, or 0% upside, but IBM is $165.03, trading right on its model price also. He likes the diversification of both.

DON'T BUY

His model price is $68.16. If it went down in price he would be a buyer but it trades right on its model price usually.

BUY

He loves it. It is coming out of the blue. The regional banks trade at higher valuations. He is looking for BAC-N to benefit from less regulation and more dividend increases. He is looking for an increase in the first quarter.

DON'T BUY

He is bearish on gold. Bit Coin shot up last night. Chinese investors are going after Bit Coin instead of gold. ABX-T had a positive transit last week. His model price is $17.91. The fundamentals aren’t quite there.

WATCH

His model price is $158.71, a 3% downside. He would wait for a pullback to buy it.

BUY

When are we going to stop buying cars? It is a cyclical stock. His model price is $101.47, or a 68% upside. But if we got into a soft patch on auto sales, it would go back to $47 very quickly. If it went down to $56.77 he would be out of the stock.

TOP PICK

US banks have not done anything for three years or more. 2009 was a low, but long term they have been trading sideways. Since election night a lot of these stocks have literally come alive. His model price is $66.61, or an 8.5% upside, but he would ignore that. The dividend has been severely repressed. He sees them substantially increasing them. (Analysts’ Target: $63.07).

TOP PICK

It has come out of the blue. His model price is $76.31, or a 16% upside. A lot of insurance models don’t work with negative interest rates. Financial repression is being done away with. (Analysts’ Target: $70.19%).

TOP PICK

Trades a little above the model price, but he looks at the price relative to its balance sheet. You have to go back to 1995 to get it at the same valuation as today. This one is one of the best companies in America. (Analysts Target: $89.38).

N/A

Market. His clients are a lot happier now than they were a year ago. Going into 2017, he is cautioning his clients. 2016 was a great year but expects returns are probably going to be in the single digit area. His long-term strategy is to get returns of 6%-8% for clients, and this is a year that he thinks he can do it. The market right now is at about 17X forward earnings. The top of the range is 18X and the bottom is 15X. If there is a scare of inflation in 2017, the multiples are probably going to come down. Earnings may still go up, but what they are going to pay for it, they is going to go down. His portfolios have likely reached a maximum in economic sensitivity. That is the more cyclical parts of the market such as energy, commodity materials and industrial stocks. They are about as high as he would go now. This market started its uptick in 2009, so it is getting a bit aged, and he thinks we are somewhere in the 8th inning.

COMMENT

Pays a small dividend, but not attractive enough for him. A value play if you believe the consolidation of the companies they bought are successful and they are able to spin out their real estate.