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Has owned some of this for a long time, and the only reason he hasn’t sold it is that he doesn’t want to pay the tax. The company has been treading water and is down about 7% year to date. It has been pursuing a growth by acquisition strategy, and doing it by raising its dividend to attract investors, and selling stock to pay for the dividend. They have been selling stock endlessly for 10 years now. They’ve exhausted the investment community. Very, very complex balance sheet.
This has done an exceptionally good job of moving up the food chain and increasing prices to $5. The strengthening Cdn$ is going to help a little, because they source a lot of their product internationally. A very, very well-run company. The one company that is not susceptible to the Amazon (AMZN-Q) potential problems. Trading at a pretty rich valuation.
Trading at an incredibly good valuation. It is now 3X the size it was 3 years ago. Management has done an outstanding job. They did a large acquisition early this year which he thinks kind of exhausted and sapped up a lot of demand. There have been all kinds of rumours that they are having problems with wells not working, but that is absolutely not true. One of the best balance sheets in the country. They are under spending on their capital and overproducing on their production.
This has held in pretty well as all good dividends paying stocks did. The big issue with big telcos in general is that half their earnings, interest, tax and appreciation comes from their wire line business. That business is dying slowly. Their offset to that has been acquisitions, boosting their dividend greater than their earnings through tax strategies, their mobile strategy and their forays into advertising and sports content. This is just above investment grade and he would not call it a safe dividend stock.
An exceptionally volatile stock. It produces copper in dangerous parts of the world. Lots of companies are having problems these days with governments, not getting good enough deals. You have to be really careful. This is going to track the Chinese stock market pretty carefully. The company is well-run. Has a lot of debt. If you are going to invest in stocks like this, make sure it is the appropriate amount in your portfolio and don’t own too much.
Why would you want to be lending money to a society that is already one of the most indebted societies of the world, Canada, to the most disadvantaged people that are the least capable of paying their loans? The company makes its money selling couches and TVs, and lending them money to do so. Lending money to generate sales is never a good idea.
An amazing company, and have accomplished so much, and have sold so little. Has a huge market cap of $55 billion and about $5 billion in debt. The issue for him is that Tesla does not have a monopoly on batteries, battery power or electric engines. All they do is design 3 cars that look cool.
The largest consulting company globally. It has morphed very nicely over the last 5 years, and has become the leading consultant towards the Internet and Cloud computing. Cloud computing is really just getting going. Companies need a lot of help in terms of analysis, and how to go about doing it and how to implement it. This is a huge free cash flow generating machine. Dividend yield of 1.9%. (Analysts’ price target is $133.50.)
Just reported record earnings and profits. They have a strong capital management team. We have gone through 8 years of a financial mania, conglomeration and low interest rates. At some point that is going to reverse itself and this leading investment bank is going to help the companies get themselves out of trouble that they have put themselves in. Dividend yield of 1.4%. (Analysts’ price target is $241.50.)
(A Top Pick July 6/16. Up 11.12%.) A quality name, a quality franchise and well diversified. They create incredibly valuable content that has very, very long shelf life. Their parks, hotels and movie businesses are booming. He believes ESPN will eventually sort itself out. This is still a Buy.