Buy Hold Sell: 6 ‘value’ big caps

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Amcor (ASX:AMC)

Vince: Sell. I think the best of its years are in it's past. I think they're very acquisition driven and the balance sheet I'm too sure about.

John: Hold, Matt. Good management team, solid defensive type business. It's a hold.

Bluescope Steel (ASX:BSL)

John: Very well run. Share price has run a long, long way. I think it's a sell at these levels.

Vince: I'm a hold on Blue Scope. I still own it. I think there's still a lot more I can get out of that business, particularly in Australia, out of that Port Kembla asset and they're very leveraged to a US infrastructure cycle in North America.

James Hardie (ASX:JHX)

Vince: I'm a sell. I find it's ... I struggle with what you're paying to get a dollar of earnings out of James Hardie.

John: I think it's a sell as well. It's just too expensive. Well run and very good exposure to the US housing cycle, which I think can continue to run over the next few years, but it's very expensive and also part of the cash flow, still goes to pay out the asbestos claims, which is something that's often forgotten. I think it's a sell.

Boral (ASX:BLD)

John: Well, tricky one. Compared to a couple of weeks ago, they've just bought Headwaters out. We're trying to get our heads around that. Look, I think what's happening here is they're switching from predominantly Australia to predominantly US. If you believe in the US housing cycle kicking up, if that even half happens, it's a buy.

Vince: Buy. Now that it's derated about 15%, I think it's in the price the acquisition and really what it looks like to us is he's playing in the US housing cycle, so it's a asset-light business, so it’s a lot lower fixed cost leverage. It allows him to manage his cycle a bit better. We're a buy.

Alumina (ASX:AWC)

Vince: Buy. If you look at the spot Alumina price where it is right now, it's gapped up quite significantly to over $310. It's a high quality business with no debt, has good yield, and it's one of the last resource stocks that hasn't run, really, at this point.

BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP)

John: Buy. The free cash flow generation coming out of the big mining companies of which BHP is the largest is massive. So spot prices in the key commodities have picked up significantly compared to earlier this calendar year, so if spot prices stay anywhere near where they now, then the free cash flow generation will be huge over the next couple of years. Kind of ironic that you can make money out of resource cycle stocks at the bottom of the cycle as opposed to the top of the cycle, but that's the way it is with resource stocks sometimes. The free cash flow generation big pickup there, Matt, and therefore, big pickup in dividends as well, which is good. And the share price with follow as well. It's BHP for me.

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Episode Recorded on 7/12/2016

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