COMMENT

This has been consistently earning a 40% return on invested capital for 8 years or longer. The valuation looks very reasonable. It has had a great run over the last couple of years, so you should be a little careful.

COMMENT

Gold is very difficult in that the underlying commodity goes up and down, and is very difficult to predict the direction. However, it looks like gold has found a comfortable level, and doesn’t feel like it is going to go down from here. If anything, he feels it will go higher. This company is at an all-time low on ROC. Because of the nature of the cycle they are going to start to turn that around. Due to their leverage on their balance sheet, it is going to actually work in their favour. He could see this, optimistically, in the high $30.

PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick Nov 22/16. Up 15.23%.) Thinks the markets are just trying to figure this one out. A lot of the auto parts got hurt on speculation that there was a peak auto, so he just took advantage of that.

PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick Nov 22/16. Up 0.16%.) This is for the long-term, and it has only been a few weeks since his recommendation. A lot more Canadians should take a look at this. When you walk through a food court, almost half of the brands are part of this company. They generate a tremendous return on capital very consistently, and are expanding worldwide. It is still a small-cap company.

PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick Nov 22/16. Up 4.17%.) A really solid oil/gas, and he thinks the oil/gas area is a good place to be.

COMMENT

Fundamentally this is pretty good. ROC for 3 years is 13%, then 11%, and in the trailing 3 quarters was 9%, which is pretty good for a materials company. They’ve put a lot of capital to work. This looks undervalued. Looking at Q3 numbers, he would say this is worth about $18.

COMMENT

The kind of stock you own for the long-term. He wouldn’t get shaken out because of anything to do with interest rates. This has a 4.6% dividend yield, and he can see the stock still having some upside.

COMMENT

The kind of stock you own for the long-term. He wouldn’t get shaken out because of anything to do with interest rates.

COMMENT

Bell (BCE-T) is offering $40, but this is currently trading on the market for about $38. This is a good company at a good price, and he hopes that they hold out to get a little bit higher.

BUY ON WEAKNESS

One of these really good companies that you would love to own, but it is kind of getting a little expensive. He is having trouble justifying the price, even with an aggressive forecast. ROC has been improving. It was about 8% for 10 years in a row, and has climbed steadily, and is now up to 14%. He would prefer to get this one on a pullback.

COMMENT

His data is telling him that this is a tremendous company. ROC for years and years has been 12% or higher. In the last few years, it has been in the 20% range. However, it has not done so great in the last year or so. He would say that this is an opportunity. There are probably some issues in the pipeline that you would want to work through and understand a little better, and that is not his forte.

COMMENT

He doesn’t do his shopping online and he still sees people going to the malls. His data also tells him that. Many of the companies he checks can be brick and mortar, and many of them are still doing very well. This company’s acquisition of Saks Fifth Avenue blew his mind. It hasn’t quite paid off yet. ROC is kind of low, but thinks the management team is pretty aggressive, and can turn it around.

BUY

ROC on this is tremendous. He has it as 104%, which is almost unheard of. Also, it looks undervalued.

COMMENT

A good company and pays a nice dividend. Also, it is in the right space. He just finds it a little too rich for what they do. There are other alternatives. Dividend yield of 5.48%.

COMMENT

He has liked this company for a while. It had a really long period of building up the company with no cash flow, no cash flow, no cash flow. Then, a couple of years ago, all of a sudden it started accumulating a decent ROC. It is just starting to go cash flow positive, in general that is a great time to be an investor, because a lot of the risk has been taken out.