This week’s new 52-week lows… (Nov 28-Dec 04)

They are paying too much in a dividend – twice what they are earning. It is trading at 40% of book value, which is cheap. If the earnings forecast of $1.09 per share comes through next year, it is really cheap today and could bounce back to $21. (Ross Healy)

Sold it 18 months ago, because there weren't enough pipelines to take away natural gas in western Canada, just like the oil problem. Also, nat. gas production in U.S. can be shipped closer to U.S. destinations instead of shipping it from western Canada. There's no easy solution to this. We won't get an L&G terminal…

Energy is setting up for its seasonal rally into October.  The technical chart is demonstrating a bullish channel.  He would really like to see a rally back above $4.90 for a signal it is really going to move.  In the meantime there is resistance near $4.25, so expect some choppiness.   (Hap (Robert) Sneddon FCSI)

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. (Peter Hodson)

Debt is too high for them with the lower light oil prices. She has them on the watch list and likes them but too soon to purchase. Yield = 12% (Joanne A. Hruska, CFA)

He's been short this. The balance sheet is very impaired. It needs to reorganize. The assets themselves are fine, but they went on a buying spree and now carry a lot of debt. This has lagged its peers in recent years. A bankruptcy is possible. (James Hodgins)

It does better in the springtime before summer driving season. This year's it's seen lower-lows and -highs. It's below its 200-day moving average. Oil price has plunged. Can CFW benefit from current $53 oil? (Jon Vialoux)

Their Q3 beat the street and they're buying back shares. Bad news is they're lowering production--flat growth in coming years. Debt-to-cash flow is 2.3x which is fine. Dividend safe. But if WTI keeps falling, it'll hurt CNQ. Oil prices are manipulated by OPEC, Russia and Trump. CNQ is great at $60-70 WTI. (Greg Newman)

Dividend safe? The black cloud over the industry affects this company, everybody loves to hate it. Last quarter was OK. This quarter we'll see if they've hedged some of their sales. Doesn't believe oil will stay this low for long, we'll be back to $50-60, even $70. Dividend is OK, though he can't guarantee it,…

BIR-T vs. CR-T. BIR-T has much larger production than CR-T. BIR-T is a large cap vs. CR-T being a small cap. He likes both companies and owns them. He does not have a preferred one. (Josef Schachter)

They track the oil price a lot more today than they did in the past. People think their recent acquisition was buying an asset in distress. It may take a while for the new acquisition to prove itself. (Teal Linde)

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. (Robert Lauzon)

It has only $19 million of debt and has a book value of $1.15.  He thinks the stock is a buy here.  It is one of the country’s largest coiled tubing company.  He has a 12 month price target of $1.20.  He will like be strongly recommending it during the tax season loss selling period…

(A Top Pick Jan 10/18, Down 31%) These should be safer than the producers. But as soon as a producer turns off the tap, the royalty does not have to be paid. This is really good value here. This is a play on oil returning to better times. (Robert Lauzon)

A mico-cap that had some major issues.  He would not look at this at all.   (Eric Nuttall)

Bottoming phase in early ’09 then a rally. Profit taking at end of summer. $0.40 is support level; If it breaks through $0.67 level he would see a dollar. (Jeff Parent B. Eng. FCSI CIM)

(A Top Pick Feb 14/18, Down 33%) No good news on Canadian energy since the summer. On the flipside, they’re good fundamentally, more disciplined, paying down debt, balance sheets in good shape. Kelt is doing all the right things for the long term. (Zachary Curry )

An energy opportunity. It's more volatile because of its smaller market cap. It's been punished along with low oil prices. It's in the trucking business related to energy and is well-positioned. Take profits at $16-18. (Analysts’ price target is $16.90) (Andrew Pyle)

This one depends on your view on gas. He would put this up there with the half-dozen Montney focused names. Has been very impressed with the ongoing improvement of well results. Definitely top tier. (Mason Granger)

The company has 19% debt and not a bad balance sheet, in his opinion. Book value is $3.90. It is not on his coverage list because they dropped production in their third quarter. They are spending money and not producing the assets they had before. However, this one is cheap. (Josef Schachter)

(A Top Pick September 15/17 Down 38%) This is the third version of this company, he suggests.  Now a 90,000 boed producer it has stagnated with a large natural gas position.  There is inconsistency in delivering economic results.  He likes their assets, but he has gone to the sidelines to wait for that consistency to…

This is a controversial name because it is a long term asset being valued on near term momentum and missed numbers last quarter.  They don’t give projections on production numbers.  They have no debt.  It is a buy and hold kind of stock.  (Analysts’ target: $32.07). (Lyle Stein)

Dividend is almost 6%. They made a recent acquisition and if the price of energy goes back up they can think about a dividend increase. It could be a double or a triple. (Analysts’ price target is $3.35) (Josef Schachter)

They are a condensate producer. Condensate differentials have ballooned out as well, but should shortly go back to historic levels in the next 2 months. They have beaten 2 quarters in a row. However, he sees better opportunities in other names. (Eric Nuttall)

He owns a lot less of all oil companies than a couple of years ago. It is a tough business because you can't support your revenue line. They are good stewards of capital. Under the right circumstances, this would be a stock to buy. You have to be patient with it. The discount in crude…

They are merging with Pipestone Oil. They are bringing on production at the beginning of 2019. He likes the company. He may upgrade to a buy today. (Josef Schachter)

Natural gas. Have announced some major deals with Crew Energy (CR-T) and West Energy (WTL-T) in the Montney region of British Columbia. Expects there will be production within the next year. (Mark Lackey)

(A Top Pick Mar 26/18, Down 25%) All small-cap energy names have taken a huge hit. But if you're a patient and believe Canadian oil will come back, then LXE is a tremendous buy. LXE has a pristine balance sheet with $20 million cash and zero debt. This is a good junior energy to play.…

It is an under-appreciated name that fell out of favour with a previous large Canadian acquisition that the market felt they over paid for.  He likes the geographic mix between Canada and Mexico.  He is watching for further developments. (Dennis da Silva)

(Market Call Minute.) Have done a good job in optimizing the plant and there is better news to come. (Alice Tsang)

He likes the people, but he never owns small mines.  He prefers larger deposits.  It has to be at least a million oz and production at least 100k oz.  A mine life of 10 years allows you to overcome problems in two years and come back. (Rick Rule)

(Past Top Pick, April 3, 2017, Up 29%) Best leveraged stock to the price of silver. It's a low-cost producer with high reserves in the ground. Great management in Mexico. Silver will do better than gold. This should do extremely well. (Jaime Carrasco)

He is not familiar enough with its recent activities to be able to tell you to Sell. It is not a name that has attracted him in the past. (Rick Rule)

They are not getting ahead.  It should be okay, but you have to manage the balance sheet and the capital structure and so far they are not doing a good job of that. (Fabrice Taylor)

Gold as a sector he likes. He likes this stock’s recent action where it is heading back up over $5. The chart shows no weakness for it to get up to $9. He would be a buyer of this. (Elliott Fishman)

The dividend is safe. The question is getting in at the right price. This one is more commodity than CCL.B-T or WPK-T. Management has been doing a really good job of diversifying into other sectors of packaging. They are benefiting from the whole home delivery momentum. The question is what the company is worth going…

“Jumps and Steps” – quite common in junior companies. Each jump is a news item. As it gets closer to production, it will keep on doing this. Pullbacks are due to profit taking. Must stay above the $0.30 level, otherwise it may be bad news. (Jeff Parent B. Eng. FCSI CIM)

Once owned it. The new CEO (a successful woman with a good track record) replaced the former CEO who was burned out. An essential stock to own in the diamond space. He may rebuy it. (Rick Rule)

They have gold development projects in Armenia.  It will be an ultra low cost gold producer.  It is a development-only company, so he does not own it. (Jon Case)

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”. (Michael Smedley)

He looked at this project. It has good investors in it. They have a good CEO running it. It is a big project. The big thing is not only drilling out the resource which they are doing, but the metallurgy is very important in any one of these deposits, in terms of base metals or…

It is an interesting science project.  It is hard to tell if they will make money or not.  It is hard enough mining this, but at these depths even harder.  It is hard to get a handle on their reserves.  Prefers techniques that he knows work. (Brent Cook)

Bought this at around $.30 a share. About 2 years ago, he was buying into a lot of gold companies. The company hasn't done well, but have really improved operations. Has 2 major mines, one in Bolivia and one in Spain. They've done a lot of CLR work to improve what they are getting out…

(Past top pick March 6, 2018, Down 39%) Diversified North American portfolio with good geopolitical risk. They have a joint venture with Barrick which he just saw himself. Likes management. They have development as wel as exploration assets. He really likes their exposure to Nevada. (Joe Mazumdar)

It still depends highly depend on nickel. They also deal in oil/gas (in Cuba). Cobalt has seen a lift, because it's used in technology. They're certainly not flourishing, though surviving. He wants to see signs of global stabilization especially in China because that will help the nickel, copper and zinc prices and lead to Sherritt…

(A Top Pick Nov 15/17, Down 85%) He sold it at about $6.50. The call was on frac sand at the time. As pricing for sand has deteriorated, it has an effect on their margins. The outlook is not awesome on this name. (Eric Nuttall)

Still likes and recommends it, but disappointed it hasn't done better lately and has been more volatile and less stable. He expects there'll be more railroad maintence, because of increased rail traffic, which means SJ will be in greater demand. (David Baskin)

Ranks in the middle of the pack for him. Technically it hasn’t been super strong. Part of that is probably due to some concern over whether or not it will sell off because of the Canada Post strike. He wouldn’t be surprised if they had weaker earnings when they report. Overall the business continues to…

You have seen the price of gold starting to stabilize and then a number of gold companies have started to outperform, on a technical basis, the price of gold. (Bruce Campbell (2))

The question is, how do you see the price of precious metals from here. We saw the bounce back from around $1050 touching $1300 recently. Thinks this is a reversion to the mean in that gold and silver, not to mention oil and other metals, were greatly oversold. To get back to some equilibrium positions…

It's a big resource, a leveraged play on the copper market. Based in the Yukon, it's a volume play, but not playing the copper market now. It's a big upfront capital requirement now that'll cost $1 billion. (Joe Mazumdar)

The Barkerville district has a lot of prospectivity. Their individual drill results are excellent but under the control of the Osisko company. He doesn't own it, because has a hard time getting the drill holes to tie together. That said, the district has a lot of promise and the exploration team is strong. The stock…

He likes their exploration results and suspects the whole sector will consolidate. Their exploration results look promising and good. It's a great place to be a goldminer, surrounded by good deposits. Problem is that managers are serial diluters, but you need money to drill/explore. (Rick Rule)

This is a material that is basically one layer of carbon. It is very difficult to produce. It is produced a little bit in labs and sells for a very high price, but hasn’t really been mass produced as yet. It could be the material of the future. It is revolutionary. Very light and very…

(A Top Pick Sept 9/16. Down 2.7%.) Has a world-class property in Argentina and a world-class CEO who has done this before. They’ve raised money from various sophisticated institutions at about the current price. At some point, given lithium prices and electrification of cars it is going to get taken out. Highly speculative, but if…

The guys behind this have had great success in Mexico. They've had not bad results to date. Anything in the silver area is probably going to do well. (John Embry)

(A Top Pick March 11/11. Down 10.36%.) You have to be patient with this stock. It may take a couple of years before they are in production. (Jeff Parent B. Eng. FCSI CIM)

Peru is a great place to mine, but make sure you know the environmental and social situation. (Brent Cook)

It’s a tough deposit. Erratic mineralization with the Uranium. He doesn’t think a lot of the deposit. Prefers others. (Brent Cook)

Uses their GPS system to figure out where trains are, and to more accurately schedule trains and service vehicles for people working on the rails. Reported on Aug 14 and earnings were down 10%. That was against a 32% increase in sales. In the coming quarter, earnings are expected to be down 75% year-over-year. Great…

Doesn't know this super well, but obviously with what is going on in the blockchain/Bitcoin space, this is a bit of a hybrid. They are doing a similar type of business in gold. You are seeing a big trend and big interest in that sector, but at the same time, you are also seeing gold…

He has worked as a consultant for this company for over a year. They continue to work on their CapitalCube service, which is doing well, and on improving their AI-based offerings. They can provide automated analysis of small companies that are underfollowed, which makes them attractive to Thomson Reuters. They have fintech opportunities with some…

A social media platform. A difficult one to analyse. It has a cast of big shots in management operating mainly out of California he thinks. This is into video streaming. The difficulty with this is that you need a gazillion hits, and the giants such as Google and Facebook are the ones that take the…

(A Top Pick May 20/15. Down 93.21%.) The company had some technology that allowed for compliance and payment processing technology. They started in the Bitcoin area, which didn’t work out very well. They then moved on to high risk areas, which would be considered gaming. Recently announced a strategic review of the company, so are…

Beacons can track Bluetooth or on low powered cellular networks.  Eventually people will track asset with these.  They last a year.  This is one to watch.  They will see big orders start to ramp up in the next year. (Bruce Campbell (2))

HPB Energy Bull+ ETF. Immediate leverage to oil price moves. If you have a very good near-term bet that you want to make on oil this would be the way to go but if you are looking for an investment in the oil patch that has a long-term investment implications, then you should go to…

Double bull oil ETF.  It seems you are at the bottom end of the range in oil prices.  This ETF has the usual problem with leveraged ETFs if you hold them a long time.  HOU-T may not go up if oil is too volatile. (Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTA)

It is trading about 5 times earnings. It is down because of strict testing requirements in Europe. There is a feeling that auto sales have peaked in North America. However, LNR-T's business model is to build more and more of the car. (Teal Linde)

It is a sector people hate.  They are making money and have no debt.  They closed a lot of stores - the worst ones.  Some buy this stock just for the dividend. (Benj Gallander)

Great Canadian company. He likes it. Paw Patrol sales are probably going to slide off but still the top brand for now. The bankruptcy of Toys 'r  Us has really disrupted the space. He thinks that all the fear has been priced in. High quality company. It is going to do OK in the next…

This has been a very difficult stock. Recently reported a very bad quarter. He would stay away from this one. Inventory has gone up a lot and their margins have fallen. Cut the dividend totally. Thinks they are in a bit of trouble. (Peter Imhof)

Owns a small position. Low margins. They've done a very good job with distribution and getting their revenues up, but he needs to see their margins rise. They're too low. He won't add to his position until then. They have some good products.  (Peter Imhof)

(A Past Top Pick on January 12, 2017, Up 29%) Last year was a great harvest and they've had good last few quarters, but the recent winter is a headwind--could be a slow start this year. It's still a cheap stock. Managment may acquire in the States; they have the cash. This could happen in the…

(A Top Pick Feb 17/17. Up 8%.) Sold this a while ago to reduce his holdings in the infrastructure space. He still likes the sector immensely. Chart shows a reverse head and shoulders. If this can get above $25.70, he would like to buy it again. (Hap (Robert) Sneddon FCSI)

They've been beaten up after a big U.S. acquisition where they took over $1 billion in debt which the market did not like. TCL, though, has done successful acquisitions over the years. They were a printing business, but then sold those assets and smartly reinvested in labels. It takes time for the market to digest…

(A Top Pick Nov 6/14. Down 75%.) One of their key assets is an oil/gas services business, so it has come under a lot of pressure. This is a high risk/high reward situation. Still very much a binary outcome. It is either going to come under a lot of pressure with bankruptcy risks, or the…

REITs aren't doing bad now. We're getting close to the end of the cycle rate-tightening as bond yields have risen alot. on This REIT comes down to your view on interest rates--he thinks we'll come to the end of this in 6-12 months when the cycle turns. REITs like this have decent valuations. However, the…

Good company. In some interesting spaces in terms of hormonal stuff. They are on the search for a Viagra for women. The numbers into 2016 are looking pretty good. He wants to see one or 2 more quarters, but if they keep doing things the way they are, it is a name he would be…