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The theme for today is "What wins Stanley Cups is defense." Very defensive name. Rare combination of dividend that grows every year by ~7%, value, resilience. Trades at discount of 23% to NAV; he expects this to narrow to 10-15% as the company scales more into alternative assets.
Tepid sentiment on GWO has provided an opportunity to buy; now has upwards earnings momentum. Trades at 9x PE, growing at 14.6%. May be able to get it slightly cheaper. Yield is 4.80%.
With rates going down, you could consider a fixed-rate preferred. He's been buying POW.PR.D, yielding about 6.1%. Beauty of it is that it doesn't reset, it's perpetual. So if the BOC moves rates lower, these preferred shares won't reset to a lower level. Gets more valuable as the BOC lowers interest rates.
One of Canada's great success stories. But on risk/return, analysts think it's worth less a year from now than what it's trading at today. Fundamental analysts aren't always right, but if they are then it's overvalued. Markets are going up and everything's at an all-time high, so it's hard to find assets priced cheaply right now.
Cash, Power Financial (PWF-T) or Power Corp. (POW-T)? These are very different propositions. It depends on what else you own in your portfolio. Power would not be his pick of where to go in the financial space. Having cash at this point makes sense. Given how much markets have run up, you have to have a mechanism of being able to play some defence, so Cash would be his first pick at of these choices.