Stock price when the opinion was issued
He bought more when it fell because it was massively discounted. Also, management gave very poor guidance about what was happening to a lot of their businesses. Feels their core businesses really has good opportunities on the FinTech side, in the US specifically, and the stock can slowly go up. Pays a decent yield.
He looked at this about 18 months ago. They were moving from writing cheques in Canada and into more interesting stuff in the US. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out, in the short term anyway. They took a hit and they cut their dividend. The bloom is kind of off this for now. He is not interested. Dividend yield of 5.8%.