Today, Christine Poole commented about whether BAM.A-T, KKR-N, JPM-N, L-T, JNJ-N, AQN-T, EMA-T, BCE-T, BX-N, ENB-T, EMP.A-T, AC-T, C-N, MDLZ-Q, PPL-T, UL-N, ABT-N, PYPL-Q, PFE-N, BEP.UN-T, UNH-N, CVS-N, OTIS-N, TD-T, MSI-T, CAS-T are stocks to buy or sell.
Canadian bank outlook The Canadian banks offer decent value though have lagged the overall market. The banks have provisioned in Q2 and Q3, and this level has likely peaked, so these levels should decline ahead. Look out for the next quarterly report, because the banks heavily warned about mortgages and commercial loans and many of these will start to roll off. The banks offer good dividend yields that she expects to hold. The banks entered the pandemic with strong capital and continued to strengthen it. She also own RY. Like this and TD. She'd buy both presently.
Regulations in the U.S. may affect distribution They recently bought health insurer Aetna. A cheap stock trading at 9x forward earnings. Not sure why the price has come off in the past month, maybe a rotation into momentum. The PBM business (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management) always has an overhang with the US government wanting to lower prices. These worries are absorbed into the CVS stock price. Also, CVS has had to pay more for PPE and labour wages, but these costs should abate in time. The current price reflects all these overhangs.