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Market. The market is almost flat year to date. We had a big move at the end of the year after the US election. He has seen a lot of good earnings come through that has just reported, so there is good visibility on a lot of companies. You have to be more of a stock picker in this environment. Good correlations have broken down, but that is the type of manager he is and where he has historically been able to perform.

The stock did extremely well, and then they did a financing and the stock came off. Oil prices had come off and most of their dealerships were in Alberta. They’ve been consolidating quite a bit. Has traded sideways for about 1.5 years. When things start to come back, these guys will garner a higher multiple. Also, they are the only way to play the auto dealership sector in Canada.

This does circuit boards for aerospace. Market cap is only around $80 million or so. They’ve put up some very good numbers in terms of earnings. Made an acquisition about a year ago, and you are going to start to see the costs and synergies with that acquisition as they get the capital and utilization up. He still likes the story.

Manufactures lifts, etc. for homes for people with disabilities. Has traded sideways for a while, but earnings have been very strong, and the demographics are great. Thinks they are looking to make acquisitions and put them together with what they already have, creating synergies to increase margins. Feels the margin profile is going to go up over the next couple of years. Not extremely cheap, but this is because they have been able to grow earnings rapidly over the last couple of years.

Involved with gastrointestinal, and they work with anesthesia to provide for colonoscopies, etc. They’ve been trying to consolidate the market. Just reported a blowout quarter and the stock moved up quite a bit. Management has done a great job of under promising and over delivering.

They extract beta gluten from oats. Have had some very good earnings growth over the last year. Thinks the stock will continue to do well. They are going to expand their plant which should be coming on soon. He still likes this.

Stocks that will do well in US defence spending? He doesn’t follow the US market closely, but for Canada there is CAE (CAE-T) that will benefit from larger defence spending. Also, Top Picks will include a stock that has a portion of their business in US defence spending. Sometimes these stocks move ahead of the news, so sometimes it is good to sell into the news and wait for a pullback. The spending doesn’t happen for a while, so it will take a while for you to see it in earnings.

This has been a great story. They have done nothing, but under promise and over deliver. Fairly expensive, but they continue to deliver on the bottom line. They’ve gained a lot of new contracts in terms of the larger companies. At some point, this might get taken out because they are taking a lot of business from competition.

Has a diamond project in South Africa. They are starting to ramp up production. This stock is very underfollowed. Market cap is only about $50 million. There is no analyst that follows this right now, but there is a possibility they could earn between $.20 and $.40 in earnings this year, and the stock is only a little over $1. Thinks this will be a good stock over the next few years.

Just put up a massive quarter that beat everybody’s expectation, and the stock moved up quite a bit. When you look at it on any metric, it looks super cheap. Trading at $2.35 and they have $1 a share in cash. Will probably do $40-$50 million in cash flow this year, but will probably be lumpy. Beat expectations by quite a bit this quarter, but three quarters ago they missed expectations. It depends on when deals get signed. He feels comfortable with this. Has a great balance sheet. He wouldn’t hesitate to buy this here, especially on a quarter where they miss.

(A Top Pick Jan 8/16. Up 42%.) A great company. They’ve done a great job in terms of same store sales growth. Management is A+ and he has the utmost confidence in them. Stock is not trading at a low multiple, but over the last 5 years their EPS growth has grown by 25% compounded annually. They’ve done a very good job and there is still a lot of consolidation going on in the US. They are still talking about a lot of growth over the next couple of years.

(A Top Pick Jan 8/16. Up 52%.) There has been a proxy contest with this and he thinks a lot of the large shareholders are against this being taken out from Starwood.

(A Top Pick Jan 8/16. Down 3%.) Had thought this was a real GARP story, and the stock looked very cheap at the time. They had very good earnings growth, however, they stumbled on a couple of quarters and the stock really took a hit. This last quarter was better than expected. He exited this.

This and the other service names within the oil/gas sector have been quite volatile. It is really hard to dissect, in terms of earnings and giving them a multiple. He would be looking to buy this if it got down to around $6.40. He is bullish on the energy sector overall and thinks that in the next couple of quarters, the companies will come out with much better results versus last year.

Pretty steady right now because they sold one of their assets and have a lot of cash on the balance sheet. They are looking for other things to deploy their capital. They own Mr. Lube which has been consistently growing through the years, as well as Sutton Real Estate. Feels comfortable with this, and it is just a matter of what they are going to deploy their capital in. Has a nice yield of 8.7%.