Today, Jim Cramer - Mad Money and Paul MacDonald commented about whether UNH-N, ABBV-N, MRK-N, ISRG-Q, PFE-N, CVS-N, HHL-T, AMGN-Q, ELV-N, ABT-N, SYK-N, HETL, LLY-N, MCK-N, GEHC-Q, NVO-N, VG-N, DLR-N, BLK-N, GRAL-Q, CTRA-N, DHR-N, NEE-N, PG-N, ABT-N, CMG-N, F-N, VRT-N, AVGO-Q, VST-N, NVDA-Q are stocks to buy or sell.
A natural gas company that IPO'd Thursday at an initial price much smaller than expected. Last week, they aimed to raise 50 million shares at $40-60 each, but then raised that to 70 million at $23-27 per. They got a $60 billion valuation out of the gate. Not bad, but below expectations. Then shares slipped Friday today. What went wrong? The company is mired in arbitration. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, VG started selling its LNG at suddenly-higher LNG prices, instead of at lower prices as previously agreed to existing customers. VG may have to honour those lower contracts. That said, VG has been profitable for at least the last three years, but for the first 9 months of 2024, revenue was -45%, operating income -72% and net income -79%. Their second production facility just started last December, which should help but how much? Their numbers are too noisy. But overall this is a great story. They are building new facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.
The health care sector has under performed over the past two years. There has been a re-acceleration of growth across the breadth of the market. The health care sector started to participate in June through early fall. However headlines caused it to lag but the drivers are long term dynamics such as tech innovation. With the new U.S. government the biggest risk over the next 4 years is policy risk. Trade policy risk is elevated.
Many policies in health care under the previous administration have already been implemented because of bi-partisan support. Perhaps the vaccine businesses could be affected by RFK but the market has already worked this in as a risk
There is a lot going on with the class of drug involving diabetes and weight loss. The potential of PLP1 drugs is huge and could become a $100 billion market so there is lots of competition.The efficacy of the new class is superior and they are very excited over some positive results. He doesn't own NVO but loves the space and instead of adding to NVO as the caller was wondering about, he would buy Eli Lilly as a complement to it in that space. Their new drug is much the same as Ozempic but is in an oral form rather than injection. This could be a game changer with 60 different ongoing trials. Eli Lilly is the first to get it approved for obesity and phase three results will be coming out of Japan. Diversity is essential.
The question was on buying the stock, LLY, or buying the single stock ETF for Eli Lilly which is LLYH. High income and single stock ETF's are somewhat new to the Canadian marketplace. This type of ETF is a way for Canadians to own a U.S. stock listed on the TSX. With LLYH you get exposure to LLY on a Canadian exchange as well as monthly cash flow from options they write on it. So basically it is an individual stock with an option strategy. Also the ETF is a lower priced Canadian product with tax implications. LLAT is the same thing but with more leverage. You give up some upside on the stock but get a big cash flow.
It's been parabolic, so wait till it gives back a lot of its gains. It just started rolling over.