DON'T BUY

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.

COMMENT

Silver. The silver sector has not done as well as the other commodities. It was more interesting a few years ago.

COMMENT

The silver sector has not done as well as the other commodities. It was more interesting a few years ago. Pan American Silver was on his watchlist a few years ago but he is not following it now.

COMMENT

A colleague likes Americas silver a lot as a good representative of the silver sector. For him, this stock has run up too high and so he cannot buy it now.

DON'T BUY

It has done very well and will benefit from WestJet’s current labour dispute. However, its price has risen too far for his investing style. Instead, he owns Air Transat but it has also moved up a lot

BUY

This is his top play in the airline sector. He prefers this to Air Canada because AC has moved up so much. Air Transat has also moved up a lot but still has upside.

DON'T BUY

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.

DON'T BUY

This was the perfect kind of company to buy in the last recession but it has had a terrific gain and, for a contrarian, it might be time to sell.

TOP PICK

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)

TOP PICK

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)

TOP PICK

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)

COMMENT

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.

BUY

He likes the Vanguard asset allocation ETFs, including this one. They're cheap, with a 0.23% MER. They're great for smaller accounts and they automatically rebalance, so they are good competition for robo-advisors.

BUY

A fine ETF. It's got a lot of China in it, like Tencent Holdings and Alibaba. A well-diversified ETF.

COMMENT

BOTZ or ROBO? He's fine with ROBO, but doesn't know BOTZ. ROBO contains A.I. companies, both great and small, so keep that in mind.