BUY

Compounded its way to extremely high valuation. Well run. Great serial acquirer. Trying to get into renovation and disaster restoration. Lumpy segments. Thinks roofing will be a home run.

HOLD

Still growing topline and bottom line at double digits. Spewing lots of free cash, buying back stock, great balance sheet. Worry is about how will AI affect its business? No evidence yet that it's impacting any of the company's results. Market's not respecting the fundamentals at the moment, maybe rightly so.

DON'T BUY

Demand is off the charts. Bump in the road right now is about tariffs on parts, steel, aluminum. Much different business than before. Generating lots of free cash, balance sheet improving rapidly. Manufacturing is a tough business, and he'd rather a segment with more certainty with a stock like TDG.

COMMENT
Criteria to sell.

If you need a large amount of money from your portfolio within a year, get it out of the stock market. Anything can happen like a pandemic or an April 2025.

Various reasons to sell. He sells if he finds a better investment idea. Management team does something that doesn't create value. Or the fundamentals don't prove themselves anymore. Buying back stock with debt. Balance sheet getting worse. Revenues aren't growing as fast as before or are going negative.

One reason not to sell: market volatility. He's a long-term investor who focuses on the fundamentals.

TOP PICK

Sentiment is so poor on the stock right now. But he's looking forward. Excited by unleashing AI into its products, when we'll have agents like Siri doing a lot of things for us. Closed system with 1.1B users, and it'll sell them more products and services over time. One of the best businesses in the world, generates lots of FCF. Valuation is as attractive as it's been in a long time. Yield is 0.51%.

(Analysts’ price target is $227.74)
TOP PICK

More or less fair value on valuation. Ran up with market volatility, as it's always a safe haven. Buffett's retiring, end of an era. Greg Abel has the chops, an excellent operator. Excited to see how he'll use the cash balance and improve operations. Insurance stocks have pulled back, making this an attractive entry. 

Great proxy for growth of the US economy. Will really benefit from trends of AI and electricity demand. No dividend.

(Analysts’ price target is $523.40)
TOP PICK

Owns 1,000 software businesses through acquisition. Lots of growth going forward as it buys more. Sees more spinoffs to come. Mark Leonard is best capital allocator in the world, and partnering with them is how long-term investors make a lot of money. See his firm's deep-dive podcast on this name at baskinwealth.com. Yield is 0.11%.

(Analysts’ price target is $5394.92)