Today, Benj Gallander and John Hood commented about whether VV-N, KBWD-Q, CDZ-T, HFR-T, XMD-T, FIE-T, ZWB-T, XIT-T, ZWB-T, ZWU-T, HMMJ-T, XIT-T, VCN-T, ZUB-T, HHL-T, ROBO-Q, AAXJ-Q, VGRO-T, SYPR-O, FRED-O, BBOX-O, V-N, GOOS-T, TRZ-T, AC-T, USA-T, PAAS-T, S-T, OBE-T, FUSB-Q, AEG-N, EXE-T, GVP-A, CCO-T, CET-T, SMTX-Q, GE-N, YRI-T, GMP-T, ATS-T, BAC-N are stocks to buy or sell.
This has been a phenomenal success story. The stock has moved up by a huge amount. He doesn’t understand its price and does not follow the company closely. It has a lot of cachet. People will pay a lot of money for cachet until they don’t. He knows it is expanding in to new markets but he thinks this company will sell for less, two years from now, than it sells for today.
The company has much lower sales and violated its financial covenants last year. It might violate them again this year. This is a highly speculative investment. It could go up 10x or go to 0. The CEO, Joel Trammell, is the CEO who teaches other CEOs. Gallander has a lot of confidence in him. (Analysts’ price target is not provided)
This is an incredibly risky stock. Its price has declined so much that has become a very small cap ($60 million). It could go up 10x or go to 0. Fred’s is in the drug store business, was looking to take over some of the Rite Aid chain but did not. They’ve been losing bags of money. The new interim CEO wants to eliminate the company’s debt. They sold off their specialty pharma business to CVS and will sell more of the company. The company is cutting expenses. It could be taken over. Its book value is $6. (Analysts’ price target is $4.50)
This company does drive trains for the truck industry. They do business in the US and in Mexico and have closed some operations in Mexico. They’re involved in oil pipelines. Their revenue has dropped over the past few years from $326 million to $82 million. They lost a major ($200 million) contract and have cut expenses a lot. He thinks cost-cutting is done. Management expects to show a profit this year but they have been wrong in the past. His sell target is $5.49. (Analysts’ price target is not provided)
It's odd that we're not seeing good Q1 earnings reflected in stock prices both in Canada and the U.S. Doesn't know why. Facebook and FANG stocks have recovered from the winter dip/scandal. The U.S. has a healthy economy with low unemployment, and so it can handle faster interest rate increases to 50 basis points. The U.S. 10-year yield has cracked 3%, but it's still historically low like interest rates. In Canada, he's sold half his stocks, because he sees no resolution of any issues. NAFTA and TransMountain are up in the air. He doesn't see a lot of money coming into Canada. Canadian bank earnings this week: he likes Canadian banks because they have exposure outside Canada, though he doesn't see big growth in them.
He has followed this stock for years. On the good side, it has reduced its debt load. He doesn’t have a lot of belief in the management. They are working on a product that will make it possible to move more oil in a pipeline, but he is not confident that the management will exploit this successfully.