Recent Top Picks

Date	Signal	Company	Expert	Opinion	Price
2003-06-13	TOP PICK	Berkshire-Hathaway-Inc---B- BRK.B-N	Brian Milner	Incredibly well run company. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $2450.000 Subject: NOT APPLICABLE Bias: UNKNOWN Owned: Unknown
2001-03-29	TOP PICK	Berkshire-Hathaway-Inc---B- BRK.B-N	Jonathen Wellum, B. Comm, B. Sc	A disciplined management. A lot of cash so will be able to buy low. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $2115.000 Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE Bias: BULL on FINANCIALS Owned: Unknown
2013-02-05	TOP PICK	Google GOOG-Q	Gordon Reid	Reasonably priced trading at around 15-16 times earnings. Monetized all the areas that people were worried about. Mobility is really the key for them. Activating somewhere around 1.2 million phones a day. Unbelievable what they are doing with Android. Mobile margins have started to stabilize. Ad revenues are still strong. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $765.740 Subject: US EQUITIES Bias: BULLISH Owned: Yes
2013-02-04	TOP PICK	Google GOOG-Q	Ian Ainsworth	Trading at 15X earnings and feels earnings are going to grow at 30% over the next few years. Thinks it is breaking out here and suspects it will continue to do so. Dominant in franchise and Internet searches and is moving into mobile and has the rapid video platform. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $759.020 Subject: GROWTH & TECHNOLOGY Bias: UNKNOWN Owned: Yes
2013-04-11	TOP PICK	Priceline-com-Inc- PCLN-Q	Gordon Reid	Expects earnings to grow in excess of 20% for foreseeable future. Trading at 23X historical earnings and 18X 2013 estimates, which he thinks will be $38. Fantastic growth story. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $733.990 Subject: US EQUITIES Bias: OPTIMISTIC Owned: Yes
2007-11-08	TOP PICK	Google GOOG-Q	Don Lato	High priced, but not a high value stock. Trading at 35X next year’s earnings, but growing at 35% - 40%. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $693.840 Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE Bias: BULLISH Owned: Yes
2012-08-29	TOP PICK	Google GOOG-Q	Ian Ainsworth	Has been an underperformer for awhile. Facebook (FB-Q) has shown that this stock is actually the King. European business was actually up. Have the better business model. Have the ability to tweak the search algorithm and as they do this, they improve the efficiency of the advertising. As this goes up, the $’s that people will pay will go up. This stock is cheap. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $688.010 Subject: LARGE CAP GROWTH & TECHNOLOGY Bias: OPTIMISTIC Owned: Yes
2012-04-03	TOP PICK	Apple AAPL-Q	Derek Webb, CFA	It is still at the same PE as it was a year ago. Earnings have gone up that much. Still 13x. Highest revisions in the market. Last summer AAPL did not correct much. AAPL is a large portion of indexes and a lot of money is going into indexes. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $629.320 Subject: OPTIONS & TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Bias: CAUTIOUS Owned: Yes
2012-08-07	TOP PICK	Apple AAPL-Q	David Baskin	Continues to be an innovative product leader. You are buying this ex-cash at about 9X earnings. Tremendous growth potential. Potential to pay a tremendous dividend if it decides it wants to. New iPhone is probably coming out this quarter. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $620.914 Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE Bias: OPTIMISTIC Owned: Yes
2011-12-14	TOP PICK	Google GOOG-Q	Gordon Reid	Getting a great deal of traction and growing at a very fast rate. Trades at about 13X earnings. The exciting thing is that they have changed the way we think about advertising with a big piece being mobility. Number of people looking at their ads and clicking through is increasing. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $618.070 Subject: US EQUITIES Bias: UNKNOWN Owned: Yes
2012-10-23	TOP PICK	Apple AAPL-Q	Barry Schwartz	As an investor he likes companies that have strong profit margins and are able to raise prices, which they have done. Dirt cheap for the top branded company in the world. Thinks they will earn $50 a share next year. Have a huge pile of cash that will continue to grow. Hopefully there will be more dividend increases and a share buyback next year. 1 / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $613.355 Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE Bias: BEARISH on ENERGY Owned: Yes
2012-02-07	TOP PICK	Google GOOG-Q	Colin Stewart	Facebook IPO is a catalyst. Will highlight how cheap Google is. Growing social media business. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $606.770 Subject: LONG-SHORT STRATEGIES Bias: UNKNOWN Owned: Yes
2012-07-18	TOP PICK	Apple AAPL-Q	Don Lato	Analysts are calling for a 30% earnings growth year over year, which he feels could be conservative. China has become a more and more important market for them and even though there is a slowdown, the demand for their products seems to be accelerating. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $606.260 Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE Bias: SELECTIVE Owned: Yes
2012-07-06	TOP PICK	Apple AAPL-Q	Chyanne Fickes	(A Top Pick Aug 22/11. Up 69.53%.) There is a lot of speculation about a smaller iPad coming out for the lower end of the market. Feels this is a very good strategy. It seems like there is no area of the market they don't want to go after. There is a new iPhone coming in September. Stock trades at 11X earnings and estimates have high teen growth rate in earnings for the next couple of years. Apple always seems to lowball and estimates and they like to beat them by wide margins. / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $605.880 Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE Bias: OPTIMISTIC Owned: Yes
2012-10-29	TOP PICK	Apple AAPL-Q	Richard Croft	Bull Put Spread. Sell Feb 600 Puts @ $44 and Buy Feb 550 Puts @ $22.20 / Be the first to comment Tweet finance	Price: $604.000 Subject: OPTION STRATEGIES & E.T.F.S Bias: UNKNOWN Owned: No