This week’s new 52-week lows… (Jan 2-8)

$300 million in cash and less than 9 times earnings. They just can’t get any love. It had a bit better execution in terms of earnings and they could get recognized. They buy back stocks. Leverage on their operations is quite high and it has not performed yet. (Analysts’ target: $14.87).

Too speculative and carries huge debt. It had a good run, but launching satellites is really expensive with credit spreads wider now. This is in the penalty box, though they could fix the business.

Their unique cameras will be transported up on the Soyuz spaceship.

A land developer primarily in Alberta. They accumulate land and turn it into residential properties. A different way of playing the oil space in Alberta. Warning! One fund is about to be wound up so there will be a big block of this coming out one of these days.

(Real estate lending) Getting equity like returns with a debt like structure. Have positive earnings per share now and just recently did a financing to build up their loan book. Down the road it is going to be a great little company. The people behind it are very well-heeled and probably are looking at this…

(Market Call Minute) There was an overreaction when oil got below $40. It will be a challenge to figure out if they will stabilize occupancy by lowering rents.

Hasn't dealt with this, but has used the BMO product, ZMT-T. He doesn't see demand for base metals being very strong. Usually, he uses this for a sector trade, go in and pick up 20%, and then move on. As a long-termer, he basically doesn't look at the sector.

Double leveraged fund. You only use it for short term holds. The seasonal period starts right now until the end of June, getting a return of 12% typically. We are starting to see some flatness in the chart now. HUN-T is not leveraged. There is less volatility.

Hasn't dealt with this, but has used the BMO product, ZMT-T. He doesn't see demand for base metals being very strong. Usually, he uses this for a sector trade, go in and pick up 20%, and then move on. As a long-termer, he basically doesn't look at the sector.

Has just recently been released so he doesn't own yet. Has senior loans that are fairly high in order of ranking. They have the ability to reset, which is really important. Because of the reset feature and being diversified and having a number of names, it will probably work well. Reset allows it to do…

For a 2-3 year hold in an RRSP? This was launched 4-6 months ago and has been fairly well received, but the performance, as you might imagine, has been middling. All income investing in Canada is a reverse beauty contest. You are just trying to be the least ugly. In this environment where rates are…

ZPH-T or ZPW-T? He likes them both. When he thinks the CDN$ is going to get weaker, $.02, $.03, $.04, he wants ZPW. When he thinks the Cdn$ may get stronger, then he wants this one and wants to hedge the currency risk.

When the rare earth bubble took off, they deployed the drills into the area and found substantial rare earth deposits. It has a meaningful heavy component to it, but the commodity price is back down again. Once China shuts down illegal mining, you will see the price of rare earths coming back up.

Steel manufacturing. Play on infrastructure in Western Canada. Has done a great job over the past 18 months amassing capacity. Has about 420,000 ft.² in Western Canada. An area where he sees growth leading up to the Olympics in 2010. Have some large projects that the market doesn't know about. First 9 months did $80…

A lot of people are down on this name including Rio Tinto who is the driver of this story with 50%. The Mongolian government is threatening higher royalties and taxes. These are some of the risks of foreign jurisdictions. But he thinks all of the bad news is in the name. Don’t sell. Wait for…

It has risen to the forefront to be a go to. They are global. Their primary exposure is to copper and is a leveraged way to play a recovery in copper. Keep in mind it is leveraged so it will go the other way just as far if copper drops.

It is 67% cash. We saw a crack on the price of gold – we cracked the line of resistance. Seasonal strength is end of July to end of October. We see early signs of producers outperforming the commodity. It is a play on volatility, which is seasonal this time of year. The Indian tax…

Agricultural company focused in Brazil. Has a phosphate deposit, which is expected to come Into production over the next few years. Also looking at other opportunities. Brazil is going to have to import fertilizer, so there is a cost advantage of producing in Brazil.

It is 67% cash. We saw a crack on the price of gold – we cracked the line of resistance. Seasonal strength is end of July to end of October. We see early signs of producers outperforming the commodity. It is a play on volatility, which is seasonal this time of year. The Indian tax…

He is a geological advisor to them. Consulted on a project in Italy, but it was not what he thought it would be.

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.

The only other publicly traded company other than ADW.A-T in wine. Legislation in Ontario allows wine to be sold in grocery stores. This is going to grow significantly. But DWS-X also sells most of their production to a Chinese exporter. It has higher growth potential than Brick Brewing (BRB-T). (Analysts’ target: $0.40).

He thinks the market is telling you the car market cycle is coming to an end. The move to electric vehicles and car production not likely ever making new highs worries him. It has about 100% upside in value, but he cautious of the cycle nature. He would be careful.

You probably shown own anything with a Brookfield name. The team at Brookfield are such shrewd operators. This one is an interesting collection of assets. Construction, private equity, etc. Very hard to analyse. There is an incentive play on this stock. If the stock stays above $25 a share, the Brookfield asset management team collects…

There should be some news. They have some drug developments coming through the pipeline, and some of their partners are going to have some news. You might get more activity and more interest in the stock over the balance of the year. They’ve done a couple of non-diluted financings and loaded up the balance sheets…