Cut their distributions resulting in a drop of the share price. Has benefited from the government's turnaround on trusts. Company is focused on office retail/industrial, in Canada and the US and are now divesting their US assets.
Tremendous free cash flow business. There is a litigation risk and also, their focus is on private labels which is a lower margin business because of competition. As people get used to the cheaper generic cigarettes, they will have to cannibalise their high premium cigarettes.
Telecommunication industry is competitive. Out of all of them, this is the best. Have done a really great job on their wireless. Have run their debt to EBITDA down to 1.7%. They have increased dividends and buy back shares. They have about $1 billion in free cash flow.
Telecommunication industry is competitive. This company has done a really great job in growing their wireless and getting into VOIP voice over Internet. Now giving competition to rivals on landlines through their Sprint acquisition. Because of competition, all of them will struggle to raise prices on their products.
Basically nursing and retirement homes. They have an occupancy rate of about 82% in Ontario. Their debt to asset ratio is around 75% which is getting problematic.
The telecom sector in Canada has a lot of competition. Didn't like their acquisition of Allstream last year and there are some real problems with Allstream. Long-distance and business rates are coming down.
Has grown very well. With the market up over the last several years, it creates a good flow into mutual funds. Specialty funds are doing well. The advent of companies turning into income trusts is giving a bid to the companies and markets. Fully priced.
Great company. Good brand recognition. They own about 65% of the coffee market in Canada. This is a story that has to move to the US. If they are not accepted, the stock is worth about $35 a year from now, but they do adopt it there will be some benefits. There will be a dividend later this year.
Excellent management. The largest REIT and well seasoned. The only issue is their size. Can they be accretive with acquisitions? They are doing more speculative, green development products where they have some expertise. There has been a rally in the REIT market and not sure it can be sustained.
Their last quarter beat the streets estimates. However, looking into the numbers, they were weak numbers because most of a bump came from trading revenue. You never own a bank because of their trading revenue because it is volatile. Their commercial lending business has suffered with lower margins. Expected to under perform relative to the other banks.