Today, Brian Huen and Adam Thomas commented about whether PJC.A-T, CGG-T, EMP.A-T, LVS-N, IBR-T, LULU-Q, TPR-N, BBD.B-T, DDC-T, AGU-T, FM-T, FRU-T, ABX-T, RET.A-T, IGM-T, GDXJ-N, BXE-T, BCE-T, TSGI-T, CZN-T, KXI-N, XRT-N, XLY-N, PD-T, MRG.UN-T, AR-T, S-T, MFC-T are stocks to buy or sell.
Potential take out candidate. It would be Metro, most likely. A very well run company. With shippers taken out it will be the only guy left. The take out premium has already been priced in. He would wait. Doesn’t like the risk / reward ratio. It would make a lot of sense if PJC took out someone else.
Markets. We are in the latter innings of this bull market in all likelihood. The S&P 500, rather than the TSX, is up over 20% over the last year, but this is more related to monetary policy, rather than growth in profits or growth in the economy. Markets should realign with fundamentals over the next year. The odds favour the Fed tapering by cutting back to 75 billion a month. That seems to be the majority of economists’ forecasts. He is concentrated in the dividend paying/growing areas which has been very choppy over the last few months. Feels that investors should be into some of the stocks that have been underperforming in the last while. For example, telcos have had very significant cutbacks.
There is going to be a change in leadership and they are currently undertaking a review. A lot of uncertainty about the future direction. Until they tell the street exactly where they are going to be going, they will be concentrating more on liquids rich areas. However, the company has not been covering its dividend out of cash flow for a significant period of time. There is no likelihood of a dividend increase and a definite risk of a dividend cut.
(Market Call Minute) Lots of talks about potash monopoly. Beaten up.