Capital Power (CPX.TO)

It's the top-performing Canadian utility yet little known. Has momentum. You're paid a safe, big dividend pl;us modest price growth. It plays into the carbon tax. CPS's assets are gas, wind and solar which are higher-cost commodities to produce, so the carbon tax will hit traditional forms of energy and benefit CPX. He sees a 2-3% upside plus dividend. Pays over a 6% dividend.

He holds this in his dividend portfolio. Its yield is over 6% and it has room to grow with the Alberta recovery. He described this as the kind of stock that he prefers to Algonquin Power and Utility (AQN-T).

The risk-off environment has benefited the utilities. He sees a sluggish growth environment for 2018/19. Their balance sheet is very good. It has a 7% dividend which is safe. It is a 46% stable payout ratio. He forecasts 6% earnings per share growth. Sell a put and get a premium. Then own it and get the dividend.

When interest rates are rising, you want a company with a growing dividend and this one has it – although it is not growing rapidly. The dividend has been growing at about 6% per year. The share price has been falling and he does not see the power sector improving. If you own it for the dividend, it is safe. You could be passing up on better opportunities.

He likes this. The Alberta power market is coming back. Had a lot of dislocation in Alberta over the past several years, because it built too much capacity. They went down and then moved to a lot of renewables. Shut down the big Sundance power plant. Thinks power prices in Alberta will come back, so this should come back. The short-term weakness is probably just market rotation. Should be a great investment long-term. Dividend yield of 7%+.

Just won a 20 year project n Alberta for a wind project. Some of their assets are being transitioned from coal. He is studying this company because the electricity market in this province will become more robust as coal is taken off line. He is doing more work in it. Electricity prices in the province may recover as they shut down coal.

Has a nice fat dividend of 6.9%. Within the Alberta market there is a major shut down. The big Sundance coal power plants have been shut down. Coal pricing in Alberta has been depressed. He is optimistic that higher price will come back in Alberta, and this company is well positioned to benefit from that.