PAST TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Aug 22/18, Down 11%) A nice dividend is coming. It pays a 5% dividend yield. Generates over 1 billion Euros a quarter in profit that easily covers the dividend and could benefit with rising interest rates. not giving up on this name.
HOLD
If you believe that interest rate won't go up you can do well with this name. It has higher leverage but it was always like that. Stable business.
BUY
Dominant in payments. Produces a lot of cash. He thought that tt some point there might be some risk on what they charge to retailers in light of blockchain technology. It hasn't pan out that way. That doesn't seem to be in the investable horizon. A safe place to put your capital.
BUY
Question on international telcos - he thinks that the international telcos are into the heavy dividend style investment. Vodafone is in Europe. The US is lower risk. Dividends are going to stable or up with this one and Verizon Communications (VZ-N) as well.
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The pharmaceuticals and the health technology are not his skill set. The balance sheet is OK for a pharmaceutical. The analyst community seems to like it. (Analysts’ price target is $80.70)
DON'T BUY
A market darling for a few years. When things went difficult in the oil patch they didn't react fast enough. They are still a big oil producer. There is a lot of uncertainty in that regard. A $100 oil seems to be a far away dream now. Stable but what is the catalyst for this to go higher? He doesn't know.
HOLD
Q3 last year they made $7.2 billion. Q4 last year they made $7.3 billion. EPS is $2 and the dividend is $0.60. There is a lot of room there. He is holding as he thinks that it is more likely to see higher interest rates from here than lower interest rates. (Analysts’ price target is $33.09)
BUY
They have been one of the best growth by acquisition company in Canada. It is leveraged but they have been buying $500 million every quarter. At this pace they will have lots of cash to play around with in 2-3 years. Convenience store purchases are uninterruptible. One of the better managed companies in Canada.
COMMENT
There is a good amount of leverage in this company. Run by 3G Capital. Lately there have been some questions with the cost cut business model that was implemented in Kraft Foods (same team). (Analysts’ price target is $69.43)
DON'T BUY
Could this be a good strategy to hedge with out selling and triggering capital gains? These are more like day trading instruments. They are built based off a future strategy. they lose value the longer you hold them. The safest move is to own cash as a hedge.
TOP PICK
Could be one that interrupt as opposed to be interrupted. Cloud content management. Legacy business with servers and such are their clients. They have been growing at 20% for a few years. They announced $100 million growth inn 2019. (Analysts’ price target is $23.82)
TOP PICK
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)
TOP PICK
Yielding close to 4%. Exposure to US and Canada. Safe place to park capital. Growth of close to 10% every year plus 4% dividend. (Analysts’ price target is $82.29)