Stock price when the opinion was issued
Some upside potential as measured by FMV, perhaps 28%. Has set back to technical support. Overall chart for 10 years shows a company whose balance sheet is slowly, slowly eroding. Balance sheet quality is OK, but doesn't make his socks roll up and down. Nice dividend, but not covered for the next 12 months.
Likes the stock and the whole energy infrastructure space. It's a place you can hang out along with gold and yield plays. Doesn't get a lot of respect from the market. Q4 saw a market loss, but that's only 11% of NAV.
Raised dividend by 5%. Baytex deal is accretive by ~1% to stable, long-term cashflows. Likes the infrastructure growth shown in Q4. Strong balance sheet, decent payout ratio, very high dividend. Cheap at 11.7x PE for 2027, and modelling ~14% EPS growth.
(All the past picks today were from October, when he thought we were late cycle. His view is that we've started a new cycle, so tech and consumer discretionary risk-on names should do better.) Thought we were heading into a market peak, which is when a lot of inflation plays do well. The 4-year cycle reset typically lasts ~34 weeks (8 months), and that's what we saw in 2022 from January to October. This year, we went through that in roughly 8 weeks.
Pushing to new highs. Fundamental analyst on the team likes this name a lot. Hold, but don't buy more here.