 Okay so in this video we're going to go through the top five UK stocks that you could buy now. These are stocks that I personally have bought myself. I bought some shares into these, some more than others but these are top UK stocks that I think are going to do well in the next few months. These are more sort of long-term plays rather than you know you kind of swing trading. It's a long term plays these but these are some of the top five ones that I'm going to go through. Okay obviously I'm not a financial advisor you know do your own research don't just take my word for it etc. So as we go through this I will just go through the first one. So first of all we've got Greggs. So Greggs I think with it being an established brand I think Greggs is actually going to increase in stock value. It's an established brand I think as we progress with the pandemic and the vaccines come out I think that this is only just going to get better. So just to read this out. So Greggs is a united Kingdom bakery food on the go retailer. The company's products and services consist of a range of fresh bakery goods, sandwiches and drinks in its shop. The company also provides frozen bakery products to its wholesale customers. The company earns approximately 1,698 shops, 12 regional bakeries, one distribution centre and one manufacturing centre. The company has approximately 105 franchise shops operating in travel and other convenience locations and that's an important point. The company offers pastries and bakes, sandwiches, breakfast, sweets, pastas. Okay so we have a great look into that and it's got a great prospects in the sense that it does sell into actual supermarkets as well as it has its own stores there that you can go in. So it's a very very established brand in the UK with many stores and I think as the shops reopen as you get vaccines and develop from out of this pandemic, I think actually the stop price is going to increase. Now I bought this and I'm already at 2-3% again so far so I've already bought some of this and you know pre-pandemic levels it was at 2,363. It's now at around 1,700 you know I think it's going to increase probably 20-30-40% within the next few months very easily so I think that this is a good play because it's an established brand it's a kind of a market leader in the UK when it comes to kind of the sector within bakery and the sorts of products. They've also been quite progressive in the sense that they've brought out vegan products as well so they're reaching that particular market they've got vegan sausage rolls that was in the news for quite a lot so that gave some positive news to Greg's that was just recently well few months ago even yeah not recently but they have got a positive brand image very established I think that this stock is just going to increase as it goes forward. The second stock is Marston's which is interesting one to look at because I think as pubs reopen again I think that this stop price is only just going to look even more attractive to investors okay oh yeah just to mention from Greg's I've just have a look at this so the revenue year on year tends to it tends to improve year on year the very profitable business they've got a lot of assets available to to ride through the pandemic and I think yeah so the financials of Greg's are pretty good okay and then as I say we've got Marston's so if I just bring this up now so Marston's PLC is engaged in running pubs and beer brewing companies the company earns a range of assets from pubs to pubs and brands the company segments include destination and premium which consists of food and drink sales accommodation and gaming machines income at Tabens which includes food and rent from licensed properties accommodation and gaming machine income brewing which compromises drink sales and third-party brewing packaging and distribution its portfolio includes 1,537 pubs and it's got beer brands its brewery supply district beer to its estate supermarkets and other pub businesses across the nation so again it's involved in certain areas it's got a multiple strategies there in terms of you know brewing its beer area it's got loads of pubs and working with with other stakeholders as well so that there's a multitude of strategies there and I think that the moment Marston's pubs in terms of the the stock price it's still really cheap so looking at this even a month ago it's at 45 and then we had the news of the recent you know two or three vaccines and it's shot right up to 64 and pre-pandemic it was at about 124 so I think that this is again it's going to be one of these players which is going to go up 20 30 40% very very easily over the next few months and very established pub brand and I think obviously as people start going to the pubs more then that's going to increase the sales in Marston's and I think that'll have an impact on the share the share price and investor sentiment as well so Marston is another one to look into now the next one we've got is is the gym group okay so just to read this out to you for the gym group and I'll explain why I've gone with this one okay and I'm up quite a bit on the gym group at the minute I'm up 10% since I bought it so at the minute it's at 211 pre-pandemic it was at 300 ish so potential to grow there so so just a bit information so a gym group PLC is a united based holding United Kingdom based holding company company provides health and fitness facilities the company operates approximately 90 gyms across the United Kingdom that are open around the clock the company offers gym memberships its subsidiaries include the gym group midco one limited the gym group mid to midco to limited the gym group operations so it's a very established gym brand in the UK and again this is another kind of long-term strategy in terms as as the recovery happens gym memberships will increase I think it's a lot of an impact on revenue I think in terms of the next quarter the the kind of financials are not gonna look great for the gym group but I think in the long term this is only going to increase as people start getting back to the gym now the revenue is is quite promising the debt to assets is quite high with seventy point seven four percent at the minute but they do have a lot of assets okay so they have a lot of assets anyways and I think this is this is one that's going to increase established gym brand okay and after the pandemic people are gonna go start going back to the gym it's going to prove financials monthly membership they've got they've already got a loads of gyms and they've got expansion plans in the works for the future as well so they've got good strategic planning and core fundamentals so the gym group is one that I would certainly look into the next one is WH Smith's okay so this is a retail store okay and a lot of their stores and all of them but a lot of them are actually located in train stations bus stations and you know airports and travel facilities basically so near there so I think as we start to travel more after the pandemic I think there's gonna be a lot more footfall and there's gonna be a lot more people going into these retail stores now you may think actually there's more people shopping online retail terms of the high street brick and mortar is not going to be effective in the long term yep so I'd agree with that more people are shopping online and so that's maybe affecting high street sales but I think at least for the mid to mid term I would say is I've got this in my portfolio because I think that it's going to go up after the after the vaccines get rolled out and and WH Smith starts to make those sales make that revenue again it's gonna look more attractive to investors so I think this one has potential and again you're running the theme here very established brand that I'm going with that okay the next ones weather spoons you know so this is another pub pub company owns many many pubs I work okay I'll quickly read out the the description of this but I think everybody knows what weather spoons is but this is the official description so JD weather spoons earns and operates pubs throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland the company aims to provide customers with food and drink the company operates a trade in a state of approximately 879 pubs and also operates 58 hotels the interest you want and I think the stock price out of all of them is going to increase quite a lot the reason for that is because they offer a service which is kind of economically beneficial that they offer drinks that are much cheaper than and save the pubs weather spoons do so and I think with the economy in the next two three four years a year even and now the economy isn't looking fantastic shall we say so I think these kind of budget pubs which are offering drinks at a good you know really low price I think they're going to get a lot of demand and a lot of trade especially in times where you know people have been hit hard in the wallet in terms of the economic spending power so I think these particular pubs are going to do quite good because of the source of economic factor and also combined with factors we come out of the pandemic and you know vaccines are available we're going to see more people back in the pubs established brand a loyal customer base as well where the spoons tend to have a lot of loyal customers and I think just in the mid-term I think that even in the long term this is a good play in terms of getting some investment into this I can let you know what I'm up on so far with this it's not much I'm only up 2% so far but I expect that to increase in future months and as I said very attractive with the fact that they've got loads of pubs established brand they sell drinks at a much more affordable price and I think that that's going to have an impact on the amount of customers they get the financials are well basically we're able to hang in there till the till you know we get the vaccine so they've got enough funds to hang in there you got a market cap of 1.29 billion the revenue tends to go year-on-year obviously in 2020 it's gone down quite a lot naturally to be expected but you know the prospects for you know 2021 are much better as we get more people back in the pubs and that's going to increase investor sentiment in this company so that sets the top five UK stocks that you should buy now again I'm not a financial investor make your own judgments do your own research some of these are speculative yet I'm you know I'm basing these on certain factors but I think that in the long term these are good companies to go with the fairly safe companies the fairly established companies and the ones that are going to thrive going into next year and beyond so I'm quite happy with these let me know some of the UK companies you've invested in I would be interested to know just in case I want to look into those oh by the way a kind of honorable mention and I would have put this on the list but I wanted to go with them all kind of speculative players on this top five but you've also got CIIG which is a SPAC a merger with Arrival Arrival does electric vehicle companies now this one I'm not holding long term I don't think I'm already up 40% on that stock this Arrival electric vehicle company I kind of want to wait till after the the merger and see where the dust settles with it and then kind of go back in based upon you know the history and information that I can find so I'm considering taking profits on CIIG Arrival soon but that is a as far as I'm aware I think that is a UK based electric vehicle manufacturer electric vehicle and they do vans and more towards the B2B business to business space but like I say I might take profit on that and reinvest but then also look at you know get going back into that stock at a later date I'm not sure yet on that but that these are the top five ones that we've got here and top five that you could consider yourselves please leave the video like if you can comment below with your UK stocks are you in any of these stocks how much are you up by and let me know and and that'll be interesting to see but please leave the video like subscribe this is my third stock video I've done so bear with me here trying to improve trying to get better trying to put out more content but you know I don't have a Patreon I don't have anything like that all I ask is is a like on the video and to subscribe and share the video with with any discord groups or stock groups that you're in if possible be much appreciated and I'll see everybody in the next broadcast