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Today, Stephanie Link, Chief investment strategist, Hightower and Kevin Simpson commented about whether CAT, PANW, META, QCOM, NFLX, TGT are stocks to buy or sell.
She added more Netflix and is slowly adding to it. She only recently started buying it for the first time, because it was always too expensive in PE. They're not buying Warners, so their story is much simpler. There's 20% earnings growth, 12-14% revenue group as operating margins expand and resume buybacks. Trades at a not-cheap 29x forward vs. 35x historic. Is still well below highs.
After talking to tech CEOs, she doesn't believe AI will take over their business like PANW's but rather will get even more business as companies use more AI to code. Doesn't see the catalyst with PANW, but fundamentals are strong and product revenues and margins are growing. They will buy back $1 billion in shares. Trades at 10x price to sales (CRWD is at 25x). She will stick with it and will eventually buy more, though present weakness is frustrating.
He got stopped out of Meta. In late 2024, he bought at $560, $610 and $620, added more in April 2025 at $510, and most of his position was called away last August at $730 (before it rose higher), then trimmed late December at $656, in January at $616 and was stopped yesterday at $550. He made money instead of holding and losing 5%.
100% agree. The tone in the markets shifted in a way that's increasingly hard to ignore. The Iran conflict started as a backdrop, but is now feeding into how investors think about inflation, policy, and risk. Deadline for a peace deal with Iran is also weighing on markets.
Initially felt more like a recalibration. In the US you could see the adjustment unfold as oil prices moved higher, yields followed, and then equities (particularly the most-crowded growth areas).
The path forward has inflation a bit stickier, and central banks have less room to ease.
Trades at only 15x PE and the turnaround is happening faster than expected.