Today, The Panic-Proof Portfolio (Stockchase Research) and Andrey Omelchak commented about whether GUD-T, TSU-T, LMN-X, CSU-T, ATD-T, PKI-T, TFII-T, SPB-T, RY-T, PBL-T, LNR-T, MRE-T, DCBO-T, TCS-T, TVK-T, HPS.A-T, STC-T, CWB-T, DRX-T, STN-T, AC-T, TD-T, NA-T, QBR.B-T, NVA-T, PARR-N, FSLR-Q, DOO-T, APTV-N, IGM-T, PMZ.UN-T, HPS.A-T are stocks to buy or sell.
A lot of capital has fled Canada to invest in U.S. AI, because there are few Canadian places to. Rates are falling and risk appetite is rising. Stock mispricings are rare and don't last long, but he looks for mispriced compounders but offer long-term growth. Often, they are take-out targets, because they are mispriced. He avoids resource stocks because they don't create value in the cycle and they misallocate capital; resources are a trade, not investment. Has no idea where oil prices are going.
For the past 10-15 years, it's been one of the best banks, outperforming. Their purchase of Canadian Western Bank is transformative, but is a little skeptical about how synergistic the deal will be, but CWB is a good franchise and there will be some synergy. NA will do well overall. For the next decade, NA has a smaller base to grow than TD, but their earning power will outstrip TD. That said, he would suggest only selling TD marginally to buy NA.
We reiterate this producer of electric transformers as a TOP PICK. Management announced an acceleration of capital deployment, supporting the trend for growing demand for its products. We like that cash reserves are growing, while debt is reduced. It trades at 20x earnings and supports a 28% ROE. We recommend trailing up the stop (from $75) to $95, looking to achieve $146 -- upside potential of 28%. Yield 0.6%
(Analysts’ price target is $165.00)