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Stock should go up from here. Target might now be $50, instead of the $65 pre-pandemic.

If you've made money, take some off the table. He's not 100% sure there's huge upside from here. Quite acquisitive, so they could buy some growth. Big, stable businesses that will perform well over time. Valuation is extreme. Not attractive at these levels.

Dividend growth? Hoping for growth in the dividend, but it hasn't grown the way he'd like. Fuel and labour costs are increasing. Stable, well run. High multiple and low yield, which is a caution signal, but money keeps flowing in. A basic need, but price is too high for the return. Yield is 0.6%.

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)

Rather bad couple of days. Was down substantially, outside of a range. Consolidated. It broke down and is more likely to go down. $1.50 on the downside.

SIA vs. CSH.UN Likes the industry because of the demographics. CSH.UN is her preference, as 90% revenue is from retirement homes and only 10% from LTC. This mix is better than SIA's. CSH.UN's occupancy rate declined during Covid to 78%. Returning to pre-pandemic levels will take time and be lumpy. Both companies have high vaccination…

Shorted it on poor price momentum and valuation. It is expensive. When interest rates move higher, they are hurt as a bond proxy. Still not cheap enough. 1.8x book value. Has good yield approaching 5%. Balance sheet is okay compared to other utilities but it is expensive.

Alberta power market fundamentals have improved and benefited CPX. Transitioning aggressively to sustainability. Wind at its back. Cashflow increasing. Valuation consistent with peers. Trying to be carbon-free by 2040. You can't own them all, so he owns AQN, EMA, and BEP.UN instead.

Holds some for their income portfolio. Was the biggest contributor for their performance last year. A secular growth potential story. A consistent performer and the pullback is buyable. The pullback is due to exposure and earnings disappointments due to storms in Texas. Likes the geographic exposure with roots in Canada. Clean natural gas, long tenure…

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Still a solid long-term hold? One of those stocks in his portfolio he doesn't look at too often. 48 straight years of dividend increases. Pretty good line of sight to mid-single dividend growth out to 5, 10, 15, 20 years. As long as dividend keeps up with inflation, stock should also keep up. Cross-currents with…

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Very solid. Decent hold here. Low growth sector, about 5%. Good franchise. On weakness below $37, look at buying. If you're negative on the market, safe place to be. If you're positive on the market, there are better places for your money. Yield of 1.5% that will slowly increase over time.

A grocery meal delivery company in Canada. He has held it for two years and then sold it last week. They are pivoting more to a grocery delivery service. It is very competitive against established grocers.

(A Top Pick Sep 15/20, Up 31%) The gains are surprising. They've invested in long term areas, namely e-commerce. Costs to protect employees from Covid will roll off. Shoppers during Covid flocked to the top supermarkets, though are now returning to the discount chains, which Loblaw also owns. She's waiting for a pullback to add…

He hasn't looked at it recently. It's a safe, Canadian dividend stock, but not the kind of business he's looking at now. It's in a heavily regulated industry, a commodity, so if there's too much sugar produced in a given year, the stock will get hit.

Shortage of consumption vs. production, but there are massive inventories on the sidelines, which is holding back gains. Japan turning reactors back on in the next 2-3 years will bump the price. Good long-term story. Wait for it to drift into the $20s before you buy.

ENB vs. PPL ENB is one of her two core holdings in the pipeline space for the yield at just over 6.5%. She also holds PPL as an income stock; its yield is attractive at just over 6%, and it's safe. PPL should raise the dividend by single digits over the foreseeable future, grow organically,…

PPL vs. CP CP from a growth perspective. The KSU acquisition will be fantastic. Next couple of quarters might be difficult, but the acquisition will be accretive. But hang on to PPL for decent valuation, some growth, great yield. Yield around 6%.

Stable income provider you can add to any portfolio. Likes it. Great real estate nationally. Biggest tenant is Loblaw, so it has a secure cashflow. An element of growth, which is unique, from the industrial sector. Nice combination of safety and growth. Hold, sleep well at night with the distribution yield.

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He'd hold long-term. Industrial properties in Europe are a bit behind in pricing. Rents and valuation should go up. Stable, tremendous balance sheet. Conservative debt levels. Diversified beyond Magna. Lots of upside. Discount to NAV.

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He had avoided the retail space but is now bullish on necessity-based shopping and that is what they address. The stock has been depressed because cash flows came off during the pandemic and they cut the distribution temporarily for probably two years. It is trading at a big discount to net asset value. He likes…

Spinning out mall business as Primaris. Existing H&R will refocus on multi-family in the US, plus industrial. Office portfolio will be sold down. In time, have to see if markets reward H&R and the spinoff.

Multi-family apartment REITs in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa. Set up for low double-digit growth next year. Trades at discount to NAV. Yield is 2.02%.

Positive on it. Discount to NAV. Now seeing a turn in prospects of the leasing environment. Good job on collection rates, now around 98%. Disciplined capital allocation.

Likes it and its sector. Trade at a healthy premium. In the right markets. Growth has traditionally been there. Fairly valued today. Look for pullbacks to buy.

Great operator. Dominant lease to WMT, so distribution is safe. Long-term hold for income. As a total return investor, he looks for more. Tougher leasing environment, below 98% occupancy level.

(A Top Pick Feb 26/20, Up 13%) He likes their business, though wouldn't add to it now. His buy price is $105. It has a global platform. They can buy back shares or companies. Organic growth had lagged, but in the last quarter picked up, given the backlog of work.

(A Top Pick Oct 15/20, Up 33%) Reported this morning. Completed a 7:1 role back. Pulled off an acquisition that was transformational and allowed them to compete with their US peers which trades at higher multiples. Still in a good place. Been impressed with them so far.

Falls into the middle of valuation and valuation among comparables. Long way down from growth to value. If they cannot show growth in line with valuations, then it can go down quite a lot. Fallen too far.

Taken over at 2x book value, same as AEM. Virtually a merger of equals made in heaven. AEM has lots of deposits to develop, and KL has lots of money. Gold prices will move higher, so this should move higher. Likes KL and the merger.

LIF vs. CIA Iron ore prices are pretty high, and it's not in short supply. If you're more aggressive, buy CIA. If you want to sit back and collect the cashflow, buy LIF. Be cautious on buying them in the short term, due to price weakness.

Another contender is Sandstorm Gold, which has soared over 41% this year so far. SSL should do even better when a Turkish mine goes online, notes Rick Rule. Joe Mazumdar likes its for the production out of its mines in Turkey and, more recently, Brazil. Good cash flow, sound management and share buybacks. At $8.89,…

Great value. A buy, with a $26 target. Will perform well. Great company. Buy right, sit tight, and wait for the storm to hit. Meets all his criteria for something he'd buy.

Company prospects for land, stakes it and then gets other companies to do the major work at their expense. Because they have so many properties, long-term they should get a discovery.

$2.25 price target. Growing pains starting up a mine. He'd be averaging down. Issues always signal a really good entry point at cheap valuations. Have to be patient. This wouldn't be his only holding; he'd own it amongst at least 5-10 companies.

The 3rd largest holding in his portfolio. They have seen the mines in Turkey and were impressed. The area is a danger zone with recent fighting and the stock has taken a hit. The mine is far enough away from the fighting so he thinks it will not be impacted. He paid just over $2…

They have three gold mines around the world. A huge 13.7% free cash flow yield; FCF grew over 200% YOY to $244 million. Sales were up 63% in the recent quarter. Cash flow is expected to grow in 2021 26%, and the ROE to be 26% in the coming year. Gold has momentum, says the…

Another contender is Sandstorm Gold, which has soared over 41% this year so far. SSL should do even better when a Turkish mine goes online, notes Rick Rule. Joe Mazumdar likes its for the production out of its mines in Turkey and, more recently, Brazil. Good cash flow, sound management and share buybacks. At $8.89,…

(A Top Pick Jul 31/19, Up 0.4%) This is a way to lower volatility. A return of 2.15% per year, paid monthly. Hold it during volatility, sell it, and use the return to pick up your cyclicals during periods of seasonal strength.

(A Top Pick Dec 04/18, Up 2%) Safety play. A place to park cash. Never touches a GIC, because they're not liquid.

He'd move on. There's a 48% spread between the top and bottom quartile performers. Can't capture the upside with an ETF. Better to focus on the winners, and avoid the losers. CAR, HOM-U, WIR-U, and Granite are great choices. Look for growth, and at a discount is even better.

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.

Won't see much tech in ETFs like this. It is not guaranteed to go up when the markets go down, but generally, should do better in volatility. Not a bad idea to increase exposure to low volatility here.

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.

Stock vs. Stock. FIE-T vs. CMR-T. CMR-T is a money market fund. FIE-T is a multi holding income strategy holding all kinds of assets, so there will be more volatility. When markets are up go into CMR-T and FIE-T when they are down.

It holds ultra-short term investment-grade bonds. MER is 40 basic points. The chart was smooth pre-COVID, then plunged 20% during the sell-off, then recovered. When times are calm, they act like bonds. When risk spikes in a crisis, there's volatility. This falls in line with your equities. He's surprised this had this much of a…

He doesn’t know this, but assumes it is an actively managed bond fund. If so, the question you are going to have is the duration of the bond fund at any given time. You can usually get that information from the people who market this ETF. If you have a duration of 10, then you…

ZFH-T is exposure to short-term high yield credit using a swap strategy to mitigate the interest rate risk. You still get credit risk. ZHY trade more like equities than bonds. People are seeking the higher yields. A floating rate note mitigates the interest rate risk only.

HCRE is a tax efficient way to have an equal weight exposure to REITs in Canada. BMO has ZRE.

ZWU vs. ZWE Includes telecoms, pipelines, and electric companies as well as utilities. Good for conservative investor, who wants a nice yield of tax-efficient income. Very good yield about 7.5%. Longer term, you might have more growth in ZWE if you can look beyond the next 6-12 months.

Very cheap compared to peers. Challenge now is national expansion clarity. A cosy little monopoly in Quebec, but how will they compete against the big boys? Company wants to return capital to shareholders, which means share buybacks and dividend increases. You can buy a bit if it gets to $29-30, but don't expect it to…

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Allan Tong’s Discover Picks Shaw doesn’t suffer the same corporate soap opera, but it’s still part of the drama because of this deal. I know, I know, I wrote about Shaw and Rogers recently, but things keep changing fast. If I want drama, I’ll watch The Squid Game or Maid on Netflix.

Oil stocks are still cheap. Trades at 3 and a bit operating cashflow. Free cashflow generation is incredible right now. A good hold for the next year or two. More upside. Yield is 2.18%. (Analysts’ price target is $9.03)

A mini Nuvista. Doing infrastructure and delineation right now. Owns a small amount. The sellers have been non-commital and now there is an overhang. Trading at 27% free cashflow yield in 2023. Less liquidity than Nuvista.

Involved in the UK North Sea. In the process of drilling a well with the Lundins that is very important. In about 1 month will start working with Husky (HSE-T) in the North West Territories. Between the winters of 2008 and 2009, you will have a good shot if they have any kind of drilling…

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.

They have cut back and preserved capital. They do not have a debt issue. They are a gas play. If gas prices stay strong, they should do well. She anticipates their 4th quarter production being lower. She is not buying it today, but the future looks good.

We've reached the tipping point where we're sick of really dirty oil. But don't get greedy with this now. Can't recommend buying it at current levels after such a big run.

He would like to see a couple of good quarters out from them. It is thinly traded. You have to be prepared to watch it quarter by quarter.

Zinc in Utah. This could go into production by itself. We could see this thing scale bigger in terms of tonnage. There is a lot more to be found. It is in an area where there are reduced environmental objection, just south of the Military testing grounds over the Salt Flats.

Intelligently run diamond exploration company. Has yet to see that they have economic pipes. Also into nickel but he has not been following this.

The best of the small cobalt companies in North America. It has an asset that is alive and well. It will be raising money for it while next door a mine is being decommissioned.

Located in Venezuela, which is a problem. If they have a major discovery there is a chance they could be expropriated.

Leverage play for natural gas. Clearly getting a breakout in the short term. Thinks oil is capped out and natural gas should trade relative to oil. Can see front month natural gas contracts going for $5. Forward pricing looks like there is room into next year to move further up. An okay way to do…

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…

(A Top Pick Nov 13/20, Up 54%) Pleased with the return on it. Scores middle of the pack. No longer as cheap as when they bought it.