Today, Bill Harris, CFA and David Cockfield commented about whether XEC-T, XUU-T, BNS-T, L-T, VET-T, CPG-T, PKI-T, BCE-T, BNS-T, ATRL-T, SHOP-T, CNYA-N, BBD.B-T, CTC.A-T, MFC-T, MG-T, ROXG-T, CNQ-T, ALA-T, ARX-T, KEY-T, ALA-T, PPL-T, BTE-T, FNV-T, BCE-T, MG-T, AQN-T, TECK.B-T, IPL-T, SLF-T, CJ-T, ENB-T, TRP-T are stocks to buy or sell.
(A Top Pick June 14/17 Down 23%) He sold this and bought it back recently. The WPL acquisition made sense to him, but he was not impressed with their financing strategy. As interest rates were looking to go up, he saw better companies who had lower debt levels. He thinks they are most of the way through their financial re-structuring.
(A Top Pick June 14/17 Up 17%) He thinks this will easily get back to $55 per share. The company is pushing out $5 billion in cash flow per year now. It is now over 1 million barrels per day in production and is already targeting 1.3 million per day. They could be one of only 2 or 3 companies who might dominate the space.
Market and yields. Once short-term rate hit 3%, saw some selling. With USMCA settled, he thought Canadian market would do better. Still not much below where we were a week ago. Right now, we’re in a psychologically negative market, though fundamentals remain solid, especially in Canada. The Mexican side is more stable, and this is positive for us. TSX has been underperforming the S&P 500, so we have some ground that we could catch up.
Rising interest rates and jobs. Canadian jobs data showed too many part-time jobs. Can’t translate short-term results into long-term trends. US employment level at 3% is excellent. Still at historically low rates, wouldn’t get too excited yet. Next month or so, tariff impact from Chinese goods could see a rise in inflation.
He just bought this back as he believes the re-structuring is well along. He is trading it with a tight stop in the “high-teens”. He thinks market analysts are having a hard time categorizing the newly structured company. Yield 10.5%. (Analysts’ price target is $27.41)