Thursday, September 5, 2013

Stocks Of The Month: QIHU, SSYS

This month's stocks are a couple of repeats from June and July, which I thought of as deserving a larger portion of my portfolio...

Qihoo 360 (QIHU)

Positives:
China. Mobile. Search. A competitor/complimentary-investment of Baidu.
Explosive revenue (108%) and earnings (372%!) growth.
$378M cash, $0 debt.

Negatives:
Ridiculous 165 P/E, though forward P/E of 40 is reasonable.
Modest operating (15%) and profit (14%) margins.


Stratasys (SSYS)

Positives:
116% revenue growth.
$148M cash, $0 debt.
42% of shares owned by insiders.

Negatives:
No earnings as of yet; forward P/E of 42.
Negative cash flows.
Negative profit margin (-5%) and ROE (-2%).


Here's my current portfolio (growth, dividend, and speculative). As always, I believe in all of these stocks - until I sell them.

Tesla Motors (TSLA) 10.65%
Apple (AAPL) 10.38%
Google (GOOG) 7.42%
Baidu (BIDU) 6.36%
Amazon (AMZN) 4.17%
Southern Copper (SCCO) 3.81%
Ace Limited (ACE) 3.59%
Qihoo 360 (QIHU) 3.48%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 2.93%
3D Systems (DDD) 2.83%
Stratasys (SSYS) 2.64%
Blackstone (BX) 2.41%
American Software (AMSWA) 2.16%
Under Armour (UA) 1.98%
Vodafone (VOD) 1.81%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) 1.79%
Apache (APA) 1.78%
Prospect Capital (PSEC) 1.71%
McDonald's (MCD) 1.71%
DuPont (DD) 1.68%
Intel (INTC) 1.54%
Nike (NKE) 1.36%
Ansys (ANSS) 1.35%
Wynn Resorts (WYNN) 1.34%
Las Vegas Sands (LVS) 1.33%
Starbucks (SBUX) 1.30%
ConocoPhillips (COP) 1.28%
American Express (AXP) 1.25%
Cisco (CSCO) 1.21%
Hershey (HSY) 1.21%
Computer Programs and Systems (CPSI) 1.16%
Wells Fargo (WFC) 1.14%
ExOne (XONE) 1.11%
Coca-Cola (KO) 1.09%
China Mobile (CHL) 1.09%
International Business Machines (IBM) 1.04%
BlackRock (BLK) 1.01%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 1.00%
Microsoft (MSFT) 0.97%
F5 Networks (FFIV) 0.97%
The Distressed (BEBE, GSOL, LZB, MSI, TMUS) 0.78%