Air Canada, Couche-Tard & More at 52-week Highs and Lows (Feb 6-12)

Airlines are a difficult business. Capital intensive, lots of regulation. He avoids investing. Strong balance sheet. Profitability trails the market. Wait for profitability to return and revisit.

Which Brookfield to own? You have to evaluate each company separately. He owns BEP.UN and BIP.UN, as he finds those the most attractive long term. With those two, you tap into the Brookfield global, private equity expertise, with a focus on renewables and infrastructure. You have to analyze the risk/reward and see what's right for…

Great, strong company, strong brand. Made transition to digital. Tremendous business model on paper. Profitability is tepid at best, below TSX. Eye-popping PE of 78x.

(A Top Pick Mar 03/22, Up 8%) It is in the waste collection business - a very defensive place to be. A lot of contracts are tied to the CPI so revenues are bumped up and it can raise prices. Has owned for a long time and will buy more.

Customized, prefabricated environmental office interior solutions. High net cash position. Significant upside because of their flexible business model. Surge in office reconfiguration taking place across North America. Top management. No dividend. (Analysts’ price target is $3.46)

Way off from highs. Covid has changed how and where we work. What is your conviction level that office occupancy will revert to the pre-Covid mean? What's the timeline for that? He doesn't have the answers. It's in the "too hard" pile. If looking for a similar yield, try BCE.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks BPY.UN is anchored by diverse holdings across sectors, including industrial, retail and commercial properties, and across countries. Of course, we all know what happened next to the world, which wiped out the retail and office property markets. BYP.UN shares have slid around 7.5% since that call, but the 7% dividend has…

They control Loblaw, which anchors a strong portfolio. Is stable. Hold many industrial warehouses. Solid managers running a solid balance sheet. Pays over a 5% dividend. Shares now are not a bargain, but a solid investment.

It owns the assets of Canadian Tire. Has a net lease structure where the tenants are responsible for operations and asset improvements, Stable earnings at 5% plus. Good management and low growth.

Not a good company in terms of financial performance. Valuation not great given current share price. Balance sheet ok, but not a good investment going forward.

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Highest immigration to maritime provinces in Canada ever(own lots of properties in maritimes). Excellent dividend yield with discount to net asset value. Superior return to buying a GIC. Would recommend buying.

It is a subject of a takeover and you might consider holding it until the close of the take out transaction. You could also move to another apartment REIT. Your upside is capped from here with NVU.UN-T.

Takeout offer of $23.50. Merger arbitrage, with stock trading at just below the takeout price. You have to decide if you want to take your money off the table right now, or hold out for another $1 a share. Likelihood of deal going through is quite high, already had a big boost in the share…

This would be a hold for him, if not a sell. It has US grocery stores in small centres. It has an external management contract, which he feels is not in alignment with share holders.

(A Top Pick Jun 14/18, Up 59%) It is another example of an undervalued tech company in Canada. It was taken out by MS-N just over a month ago.

(A Top Pick Mar 16/22, Up 8%) Low capex. Down market provides really good opportunities to purchase assets. Still lots of opportunity to grow. Stock fell, good time to buy.

It is a very good company with 85% of its business in the warehouse space. It is looking to get out of the office space part and extend the industrial component. Has facilities in B.C. too. It is actively issuing shares to become larger. Consider it a safe hold with a good distribution yield and…

(A Top Pick Feb 01/22, Up 12%) Well-run and positioned to offer e-charging stations given all their stations and locations. Well-financed. Still has a little more upside.

Low profitability, balance sheet stretched. A more expensive multiple than the market, so avoid. Instead, try NWC at 13x and a bigger yield at 4.5%.

Does not own shares. New CEO will be interesting to watch. Very strong franchises in Tim Hortons/Burger King etc. Pandemic tough on business. Strong balance sheet.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks Average daily volumes are only 90,000 shares, but NWC pays a hefty dividend yield of 4.22% (huge among the grocers) and safe based on a 21.88% payout ratio. NWC also offers a super-low beta of 0.62. It is safe and defensive. Performance is also consistent. The company has beaten or met…

Defensive investment idea with ~4% dividend yield. Grown dividend 49 years in a row. $22 billion capital expansion plan approved. Largest utility in Canada.

A good dividend play. The yield is at 4.6%. People tend to focus on the tech side of green stocks, but this has utilities that have consistent income. They are a potential takeover target for Brookfield so the price has recently shot up. Could get decent returns.

A lot of success is tied to Gaz Metro in Québec, but they also have some wind farms that have recently come online in the last year or 2, and giving good returns to the company. Recent earnings were solid and they raised the dividend by 3.7%, and plan to raise it 4% next year.…

(A Top Pick Dec 02/21, Up 7%) Boring is beautiful. Slowdown emerging in Europe. Lots of it is mission-critical, flexibility of proximity servicing. Undemanding multiple. Continues to tuck in smaller peers. Stock chart confirms its successful strategy.

Allan Tong’s Discover Picks SHOP (still on the U.S. version) was trading a month ago at $33.71 (Dec. 23), so the stock has already been rallying hard. The upgrade and fresh signal will inject even more momentum in the short term, and SHOP stock will get another boost if the U.S. Fed’s Jay Powell slows…

A sizable company of $800 million. He follows it and is waiting for a pullback. Pays a 2.4% dividend yield, attractive. They provide enterprise cloud and flourished during Covd and remote wwork, but has retreated post-Covid. Is up in the past month. Would buy at $12-13. But cloud computing is a crowded space, unlike just…

(A Top Pick Feb 25/21, Up 15.3%)Stockchase Research Editor: Michael O’Reilly With the recent completed acquisition by AEM now official, we now consider this position closed. When combined with the previous recommendation to cover half the position, this results in a net investment gain of 22%.

One of the most senior producers of silver. Silver is better than gold, as the bulk of silver production comes from copper mines. Silver just crossed $24, and there's lots of upside. SSRM has a $28 price target. He wants something that will benefit once inflation is realized.

An interesting one. Brazil. They have some high-grade veins that they have done some work on. They are drilling and it will prove it one way or the other. There will be lots of entry points coming up.

It is backed by bank accounts or deposit accounts at chartered banks, in other words a quasi money market fund.It is pretty stable with only the credit risk of individual banks. It has similar yield to a previous caller's suggestion - HSAV.

XRE vs. IYR Totally different products because of the country, given XRE is Canada and IYR is the US. XRE top 31% investments are in retail. IYR has only 9% retail. For residential, it's 25% XRE and only 15% IYR. Largest holding in IYR is AMT. IYR is more diversified, less exposed to retail which…

In a rising rate environment, you might want to stick to a shorter term. XSH is a short-term, corporate, investment-grade ETF. Had drawdowns, but not as bad as a typical aggregate bond or high-yield ETF.

XUT is market cap, ZUT is equal weighted. ZUT gives you more exposure to smaller players. HOG gives you more pipeline and energy services business, which acts similarly to utilities. It also hedges you on the downside. Could be a compliment to the other utility ETFs.

Basically it's an ETF version of a mutual fund. All fixed-income and pays a yield over 3%. You can park money here until you figure what to invest in next.

ZJK-T vs. ZHY-T. High yield is a sexy name for junk bonds. They are the worst quality bonds. In a downturn these companies will not be able to pay back their bond holders first. If equities fall 20%, high yield bonds fall 13%. There is more risk for a portfolio.

Defensive telecom and cable. Regional. Dominant cable operator. New cell phone competitor with 21% market share, but the fastest growing. Small sports/entertainment division. No commodity exposure and minimal wage inflation, as it's capital- and tech-intensive. Strong balance sheet. Interesting reinvestment catalysts out of Rogers-Shaw deal. Yield is 4.11%. (Analysts’ price target is $35.31)

Rogers will probably win the court battle, though there will be concessions. You better like Rogers.

Shale gas in the US. A spin out from Bankers Petroleum (BNK-T). There is a lot of potential excitement but it just doesn't have the same management quality team. Just too risky in the market at this point.

(A Top Pick Dec 21/21, Up 69%) Energy performed very well this year. High energy prices will continue to hold. New discipline paying off for shareholders (returning capital to shareholders). Increasing dividends, paying down debt and share buybacks will reward shareholders. Thinks excess cash flow should be invested in renewables or, other growth areas.

He stayed away because they went to the states to make acquisitions. He did not know why the Americans would not already take these assets. He stays away from it.

Well-run and is more into transportation logistics in the last 5 years. Lacks the geographic footprint of TFII, and more regional. You can consider this, but prefers TFII.

Recent market selloff due to quality of acreage. Current share price presenting good buying opportunity (1x cash flow). Expecting stock buybacks next year. Low conviction on the name.

Sees no change to the dividend theory. The 3 Irish business millionaires actually control the company and are holding it long-term for the dividends. The company has some costs going on disadvantaging it. The diamond sector itself has not produced really stellar performance. This is a “wait and see”.

They have a done a deal with a private equity company, effectively taking the company private. Their hard rock lithium project is challenged due to the infrastructure constraints -- including rail and power. They needed more money, creating an opportunity for the private equity company.

It looks interesting, but is too small for his funds. It has under-performed for the past few years. They are in the right place at the right time, but we need to see some good drill results soon.

Billy Kawasaki’s Insights - Billy’s most-liked answers from 5i Research. They have been growing their top-line quickly over the last quarters. Net profit margins are improving. Although debt is quite elevated, they have cash balances and equity positions that are decent. Valuation is cheap and future growth estimates are good.A smaller size so could see…

He covers the stock and owns it. The business is doing well. They are a leader in their space. There was a big investor out of China that fell on hard times and has had to sell shares. It may be poised for a turnaround.

Has an old mine outside of Los Angeles that was run in the 1930s. Closed down during the Second World War and they are doing open pit mining in the area. Has some issues, but at these gold prices, it will probably start to work again. Under followed. Highly speculative.

They made wood pellets which are used in biomass generation facilities. He has owned this, but it's volatile due to management and operational issues. Wood pellets are vulnerable to fire, which is what happened last year. Their backlog in Japan and Korea is robust is good, but he doesn't like their concentration risk in a…

All asset managers are being decimated. This trades at a premium. It no longer trades with the gold price. But he likes this sector, though prefers Sprott's peers like AGF. Now is not a bad time to enter this space.

Supports health and safety. Problem is they continue to lose money. Hit by rising interest rates. (Analysts’ price target is $0.25)

A play that could be triple / quadruple. Optical chips for next, next generation. 100 Gig data rates. High risk.

Where you talk about a bear or bull ETF that is levered, they have no future. You are supposed to trade them on a day to day basis or possible a weekly basis. They are guaranteed to lose over the long term because of the way the gains are translated over night. These are a…

More of a short-term trading instrument. Definitely don't just park money in it, money gets lost in it every time there's a move. Instead, play via a TOU or even some of the US pure-play nat gas producers.