Booking Holdings Inc. (BKNG)

(A Top Pick September 19, 2017. Up 2%). This is one of the most successful companies on the exchange. There are some issues for the company, coming out of its advertising. They are trying to remedy that to get higher margin growth. He thinks the company has a good future.

Booking.com has become the core of the growth of this company. Their main target area is Europe. They have 1.5 million signed up lodgings and book a million bookings a day. (Analysts’ target: $2504.70).

He's long owned this and enjoyed phenomenal success. Booking has 475,000 relationships with hotels worldwide and continues to grow. A strong company.

Owns this name. If it gets above 2,000 it would “vanquish the enemy”. Pattern indicates that it should move higher. Interesting business model. Good name.

Trades at a decent valuation. Only about 35% of travel bookings are done online. People still use travel agents. This is a great emerging market story, because as per capital income rises in emerging markets, you are going to see travel spending increasing significantly.

(A Top Pick Dec 20/16. Up 18%.) Thinks this company can still grow 15% a year for the next few years. It continues to dominate online travel, especially in Europe where it has the most hotel properties of any of its competitors.

Took a pretty severe haircut. This is a high beta stock, which reacts pretty meaningfully both up and down. They said that although they had outperformed and beaten the current quarter’s earning and revenue estimates, the 4^th quarter will not be as strong as what the street was anticipating. They are changing their advertising model slightly. They’ll make $73-$74 per share in 2017, so we are talking $.50 on $74. Next year they will make in the mid-$80 range in EPS. They are growing gross bookings in the mid-20% year-over-year. A very, very well-run company. Online searches travel is still a nascent business. There is a long runway for them.

He really likes Internet retail. This stock pulled back twice to the 150-day moving average this summer. A great business and a good way to participate.

Thinks online travel booking, which is only 25% of the market in Asia right now, is going to be huge, and this company is only one of 2 huge players in the industry right now. It is going to make a lot of money going forward. The stock is down about 10% from where it was and has a wonderful growth profile ahead of it. (Analysts’ price target is $2,100.)