Corus Entertainment (B)CJR.B.TOTOP PICKMar 17, 2014Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 04, 2026. Market Open.
Since last summer there has been a recession in advertising for television and this has been a problem for Chorus. There are longer term headwinds since subscribers are moving more to streaming services. Chorus has STACK TV but it is an uphill battle against some of the big companies. It sold its animation studio to help reduce debt load but debt is still pretty high. The stock is too risky.
A specialty the media company, part of the Shaw Empire, and it’s primarily children programming and Oprah. Advertising has not been great, but they bought the other half of Teletoon, 2 specialty French language TV stations and a couple of English language radio stations in Ottawa from Astral, as a condition of Astral being allowed to merge with BCE. Down about 5% over the last year. 4.2% yield. There will be some growth from the efficiencies coming.