26 Stock Top Picks and 3 ETF (Dec 7-13)

Loblaw (L-T), Empire (EMP.A-T) or Metro (MRU-T)? Loblaw has proven to be the best run grocer in Canada. Empire has had its challenges but is starting to come back. This company would be somewhere in between the two.

They recently completed their IPO. It struggle a bit out of the gate and has treaded water ever since. It is a fashion brand that has been out for long time. He does not see the growth here. There are a lot of better places to be in retail. Where is the expansion going to…

These are pawnshops in Mexico and the US. They are more correlated to the price of gold then the GLD ETF has been. They just merged with Cash America and are expanding throughout Mexico, Latin and south America. A lot of upside in terms of geographic growth. Because of the free cash flow, they have…

LB hasn't followed the big Canadian banks. It's been sideways for many years. It's been a definite downtrend since late 2017. Recently, it looks like it's breaking the downtrend, which is positive. Now, the chart looks good. He's okay with it.

RY is his favourite bank, but there's nothing wrong in investing in Canadian banks. The banks pay a 4% dividend and raise them by 6% a year. That's why the Canadian banks beat the TSX.

Why does volume trade spike in the last minutes of trading? The bulk of trading volume for most stocks actually focuses on the early start of the day, so this is unusual. As this in the index, there may be some index balancing that is going on. He is uncertain overall.

He likes the US banks in general. However, he has pared back on some of his US bank holdings. His concern is that interest rates are staying low. He might tend toward some of the Canadian insurance companies, because later stage in the economic cycle with the banks.

Well-run with earnings in the last report very good. Fine revenue growth as was investment banking. Fixed income fine. The Indonesian lawsuit is a concern, though. Trades at 10x earnings and slightly above book value. He loves it.

A little British company that does protection services. It does CO2 emissions testing, fire alarms, smoke detectors, etc. Their future is really protection and safety, which is a big theme moving forward, because of government regulations, and the need to offset litigation. This is mostly with new builds, non-discretionary income. From a free cash flow…

All the planes before 9/11 were built on $30 oil. They buy planes and lease them around the world.

Less prone to cyclical fluctuations in summer. Resisting around the 20-day average. Long term is pretty much on trend. Good summer hold.

A global provider of tools and security systems. Every acquisition they’ve integrated has been flawless. It has been a great, great long-term investment. Great earnings growth and great dividend growth. They always under promise and over deliver. A great way to play the growing economy. Dividend yield of 1.8%. (Analysts’ price target is $140.)

His concern is that the COO (Chief Operating Officer) left at the same time there was a news release that they had reduced the capital. His worry is that the COO left because he didn’t want to own the capital estimate.

A bond proxy? A steady stock with a good dividend. The price war in wireless is canalizing some margins. He thinks the fundamentals of the company will likely deteriorate over the next couple of years. A 5.3% yield. He will continue to hold for now.

Holds a rate-reset stock that's gone down. Sell now, wait for a rate rise or buy the common shares? It's double-whammy now, because rate-reset are going lower and you get less of a value with the spread. Every 5 years they reset to a spread above Canadian government bonds. Also, ENG is an oil stock…

He likes both SU-T and CNQ-T and has made it a Top Pick in the past. Both these stocks continue to be good to hold. SU-T will continue to be a core holding for him as he likes both their upstream and downstream assets.

They received an unsolicited bid for the company, maybe around $30. A new plastics plants is suppoed to add to NAV, but this is cyclical. A speculative stock right now.

They are doing very well. They are not running into the pipeline expansion problems that others are having. This is a utility grade, and dividends are well covered. This name will continue to do well. A solid investment.

Just tested the 50- and 100-week moving averages--and hasn't broken them. It's still cheap after selling off, building a base and is now moving up.

This is combined entity of Patient Home Monitoring and Biomed. They develop monitor services for the home. They have cleaned up their accounts receivables and it trades at less than 6 times earnings compared to competitors at 13 times. Yield 0% (Analysts’ price target is $0.50)

These guys are focused on extraction in the cannibas space. Over 50% of the US business in this space is focused on extraction and the thinks Canada is headed in this direction. They have signed a number of supply agreements and thinks the stock trades cheap. They have a partnership that produces water-soluable technology which…

Starting moving away from US markets, where all the margin compression on price is coming from. Demand for insulin is going to come out of India and China for the next 25 years. They should be able to continue to grow the business. Margins are so high that they can always generate free cash flow,…

It benefits from Huawei's woes. He likes CSCO. It pays a small dividend.

Could it fail to meet earnings expectations? The software license for a new computer almost equals the cost for the hardware. The stock began to run when they introduced a dividend and then went higher as they moved into the cloud space. If you can buy it at a decent price, it would be a…

It had a weird chart pattern, with a big jump up followed by a big jump down. That’s not a good sign. He sees support at $128 but the stock is contributing to drop with a lot of volume to the downside and declining volume on the upside. This is negative. There might be support…

Fine company. They buy companies to grow, paid by excess free cash flow. Low valuation, too. There's good growth; they just struck a partnership with Google.

It's the first ETF that tracks the UN's sustainable development goals. Companies here align with one or more of those goals. You get broad international, including EM, exposure. The holdings aren't perfect (i.e. P&G), but it's the first attempt at an impact investing ETF.

Tracks the broad U.S. market, basically swapping out the S&P, but it's the first ETF to be socially responsible, fossil fuel- and gun-free. Caveat: It haas few assets and limited volume. Use a limit order when buying. Maybe give this a little more time to add more assets. This is good for couch potatoes who…

1-3 year bonds. Bond prices tend to go higher from Mid-May until end of Sept. The economy tends to be stable and interest rates tend to go lower during the summer.