December 17, 2015 - 9:55 AM EST
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Top Portfolio Manager Shares His Top 3 Picks; Sees Alpha in Canadian Trucking

Citigroup, Mondelez and Titanium Cited for Growth

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 17, 2015 / Andrew Hamlin, VP and Portfolio Manager, Aston Hill Asset Management, highlighted his top 3 picks on BNN on Friday Citi, Mondelez, and Titanium Transportation Group. Here is a brief summary of each pick:

According to Hamlin, Citigroup (NYSE:C) with a $150B market cap will do well regardless of what interest rates do and the company will be raising its dividend significantly over the next few years. Citi should also benefit from lower legal costs given the number of high-profile legal settlements in the last couple of years. Net interest margins should also begin to expand if the Fed begins a rate-hiking cycle (the initial rate increases are unlikely to be passed on to depositors).

Mondelez (NASD: MDLZ) is "in all the right products with high growth associated with them (candy, gum, and biscuits) ..." and it is also a margin improvement story. EBIT margins are expected to accelerate to 15%-16% in 2016 and Mondelez has managed to achieve double-digit EPS growth which is roughly double its peer group (12% vs. 6%). Near term growth opportunities for the company include: 1) new packaging opportunities (e.g. hand-to-mouth mini-size packages), 2) biscuit sales in India, 3) gum sales in China, 4) the global roll-out of Oreo Thins, and 5) broader roll out of "bubbly" or fruit-infused chocolate.

Hamlin, mentions $100M market cap company Titanium Transportation Group (TTR.V) as a little known growth story that is largely unaffected by some of the turmoil in other market sectors (high yield, crude oil, etc.). TTR has a very smart strategy of acquiring smaller 'mom & pop' trucking firms and integrating them into its network, thereby achieving greater efficiency and economies of scale. TTR isn't dependent on capital markets to execute its smaller acquisitions and the company continues to achieve impressive rates of organic growth (~15%). TTR expects to increase revenue to $500M over the next five years.

"12 months, 16 months from now I think we will sit down and this will be a much larger company."

Image: https://www.accesswire.com/images/988/TTR%20financial%20overview.png

Hamlin sees C$4-C$5 as a realistic 12-18 month price target for TTR. Street analyst targets on TTR range from C$4.20-C$4.60.

Click over to watch the full clip; Titanium Transportation segment begins around the 2:50 mark:
http://www.bnn.ca/Video/player.aspx?vid=768136

SOURCE: Energy and Gold Ltd.


Source: ACCESSWIRE Investor Awareness (December 17, 2015 - 9:55 AM EST)

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