Baytex Energy Corp (BTE.TO)

Baytex (BTE-T) or Crescent Point (CPG-T). Given his belief that oil is going to be in the "middling range", you can probably put off your decision to Buy energy stocks for a few months. There is no urgency. If you are looking at a short-term horizon, 6 months or so, this one is probably the better one, because it is the heavy oil story. If looking at the balance sheet, debt to cash flow metrics, Crescent Point does stand up better. If he had to make a call, he would say this one because it has been less disappointing.

Likes it and thinks the dividend is sustainable. Likes the management team. They get a Canadian dollar western Canadian price. The reduced differential should benefit them.

This is a good one. At this lower oil price, he still sees cash flow growth at around 18%. Dividend is still okay. Payout ratio would rise to 120%, but still pretty sustainable relative to its peers. Valuation would still be attractive at 6.8 versus the group at around 9. Cash flow would still be pretty good.

Baytex Energy (BTE-T) or Suncor (SU-T)? Certainly 2 very different names. This one gives you an 8% yield while you don’t get that at Suncor. For yield hunters, this is one that he would look at. He actually likes and owns both names, and they are both fine. You are probably getting a little bit more leverage in terms of the movement in oil price relative to the stock price with this, where Suncor might be a little bit steadier being in the oil Sands space.

For longer-term, patient people, energy stocks are interesting here. You are going to have very near-term volatility as they are all about to report. This is a good name. It is a disciplined player and not expensive.

A heavy oil producer. They have been leaders in oil by rail. Management has shown themselves to be heads up in terms of marketing in the US and he thinks they will continue to do that. Yield of 7.88%.

This is being hit along with all the other energy stocks and he would recommend continuing to Hold.

There is going to be an economic cold war with Russia involving sanctions. Once LNG gets going that will stable is the world oil supply. He does not feel Russia would flood the world with oil.

Jan to May is seasonal strength period. This year it was strong, but now it is in a downward trend, underperforming market and is below its 20 day moving average. Wait until January.

It was bearish for some time (2012-2014) then broke out, but now it is breaking down again. However, there are two previous lows that are lower than we are now and you want to see that. So long as it holds, that would be healthy.

Market indicators are somewhat neutral. He thinks the market is in a buy right here. He does not know where oil is going to go. They have good property here in Canada. We have some resistance at about the point we are here. It could now be support. You have good yield. He is a believer in this one.

This has been a very strong story over the last 10 years. More of a heavy oil story, which is looking pretty good. The differential between Western Canadian Select and WTI has narrowed and is likely to stay now because the infrastructure bottlenecks that were creating the spread have really narrowed. Very well managed and will continue to grow.

They just increased the dividend 9%. The stock has not done as well as the fundamentals suggest it should have done.

Very well-run company. They will want to keep growing by buying more assets. Pretty high dividend of around 6%, which is enough to hold investors’ interest. A great story to own. Not cheap, but these stocks are never cheap.

Both Brent and West Texas crude have come back and are testing very important technical support. What matters more to a lot of Canadian companies generally is the spread between what we get for our oil, especially heavy crude and West Texas. It is always attractive to buy when the spread is wide and think about selling when the spread is narrow. They made a great acquisition in the Eagleford in Texas. It gives them great exposure to a great US play in light oil. Production profile looks really interesting. Pays an attractive yield that they can back up with production growth.