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Evercore ISI managing director and head of internet research Mark Mahaney joins Catalysts to discuss his top picks in the tech sector ahead of this week's major earnings.

"We've had a big rally in a lot of these stocks. I refer to six stocks as the Super Six.' It's Google (GOOG, GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), Meta [Platforms] (META), Netflix (NFLX), Spotify (SPOT), Trade Desk (TTD). They're all up 30 to 60% year to date. Having said that, it's hard to materially outperform if you're up that much year to date, off of reasonable valuations to begin the year, not off of beaten-down lows, which was the case last year. So I want to be highly selective here," Mahaney explains.

He is bullish on Alphabet because of its product cycle and growth in its YouTube platform, also pointing to Uber (UBER) as his number two pick, "I think we just had some dislocation in the stock recently over fears of robotaxis and how that could disrupt ridesharing. I don't think it will. I think robotaxis will be part of the ridesharing solution."

On the other hand, Mahaney does not have Amazon in his top three list of tech stocks despite maintaining its Buy rating. He explains, "I was a little concerned about some of the iffy retail sales data points that we've seen. April and May were weak. However, June came back gangbusters, so there may not be. There probably isn't a problem with Amazon retail..."

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This post was written by Melanie Riehl