TopPicks from Kim Bolton, president and portfolio manager, Black Swan Dexteritas
Kim Bolton, president and portfolio manager at Black Swan Dexteritas, discusses his top picks: Akamai Technologies, IBM, and Texas Instruments.Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides cloud services for securing, delivering, and computing content, applications, as well as software over the Internet in the U.S. and internationally.
Its cloud computing services include computer storage, networking, database, and container management services to build, deploy, and secure applications and workloads. The internet is expanding rapidly around the world, and Akamai is well-positioned to benefit from this growth. Akamai has a global network of servers, which allows it to deliver content and services to users around the world.
The question is if IBM is going to be the next Microsoft or the next General Electric. Ginni Rometty was viewed as a Ballmer-like traditional business mind whereas Krishna, like Nadella at the time, is a relatively little-known technology specialist . I should also note that James Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, was elected as president of IBM, effective April 6 as well. The combo of Krishna and Whitehurst at the top certainly gives IBM a bit more tech/growth-oriented mindset.
It has a strong dividend that has been consistently paid for 100+ years of about 5.3 per cent currently.Texas Instruments designs, manufactures and sells semiconductors to electronics designers and manufacturers worldwide. It operates in two segments, Analog and Embedded Processing. The embedded processing segment offers connected microcontrollers, such as microcontrollers, microcontrollers with integrated wireless capabilities, and stand-alone wireless connectivity solutions that are used in electronic equipment. This includes digital signal processors for mathematical computations and applications processors for specific computing activity.
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