DON'T BUY

Papua New Guinea is not the safest place. Numbers seem pretty good, but the sentiment is that nobody cares anymore.

DON'T BUY

Likes turnarounds, but it’s not ready. Want to see two things: 1) the stock hitting a 52-week high, and 2) the numbers moving in the right direction. Don’t do anything until then. Odds are this is going to zero.

TOP PICK

A simple business, relatively cheap at 14x earnings. Likes the chart. If you buy stocks that are hitting new 52-week highs, they tend to keep doing it. Grow by acquisition, and they’re good at it. Can get a decent double-digit return without losing sleep. Yield is 1%. (Analysts’ price target is $60.33.)

TOP PICK

Likes the dividend. One acquisition brought their international exposure down, which hurt. Pretty good management. Still have high net backs and low cap requirements. Dividend is safe, and will keep going up. Eventually, people will start loving oil stocks again, so the risk/reward is good. Yield is 6.7%. (Analysts’ price target is $56.77.)

TOP PICK

He buys on weakness. They have a record high backlog, and if they price it right, they’ll make good money. The Feds have allocated a lot of money to infrastructure, and Aecon should benefit. Valuation is temporarily cheap. He’ll be looking to sell in the high $20s. Yield is 3%. (Analysts’ price target is $19.81.)