| BUY | 20.350 | John O'Connell, CFA | (Market Call Minute.) Likes the dividend yield. | 2008-07-31 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 20.350 | David Burrows | (A Top Pick May 16/07. Down 2%.) Exited this last summer. | 2008-05-22 | |
| BUY | 20.350 | David Baskin | Now hitting on all cylinders. Still a cheap stock. | 2008-04-22 | |
| BUY | 20.350 | Laura Wallace | Wireless sector. Has a contract with Apple (AAPL-Q), which has turned out to be a little disappointing as clients have been able to unlock the phone and not sign with AT&T. Likes Verizon (VZ-N) better, which has a better strategy in terms of being able to deliver other products to the consumer. Both Verizon and AT&T are very strong. | 2008-01-30 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.350 | Pat Naccarato B.Math, MBA,CFA | This is 2 businesses, local phone company and wireless. Local phone is a terrible business but wireless is fantastic. Rather than owning a good and bad business, he prefers Sprint (S-N), which is all good. | 2007-07-17 | |
| BUY | 20.350 | David Burrows | This is an industry that is seeing better returns on capital deployed. This company held off on taking fibre to the home, which has been more profitable for them. | 2007-06-22 | |
| TOP PICK | 65.630 | David Burrows | Have made a number of acquisitions, and has done a good job of integrating their acquisitions. Has some yield and persistent growth. | 2007-05-16 | |
| HOLD | 20.350 | Gavin Graham | Has done really well. Most of the good news is already in the price. Has a decent yield. | 2007-03-26 | |
| BUY | 20.350 | Brad Willock | Nice dividend yield. There is room for the stock to go higher. Getting some price increases in their enterprise business. Starting to push out a TV service that is having some traction. Looking for a dividend increase this year. | 2007-03-22 | |
| BUY | 20.350 | David Burrows | Really likes some of the US telephone service providers. There is a rebuilding going on at the network level that will allow the telecom service providers to charge more for the services and sell different types of services. There is also new content being pushed through the pipes. | 2007-01-08 | |
| TOP PICK | 20.350 | David Burrows | One of the worst performers in the last 5 years but is now showing some pretty good performance. Has gone through major restructuring. Cut a lot of costs and reduced capital expenditures. Through consolidation, he is seeing some pricing power. 4% yield. Low economic sensitivity. | 2006-10-19 | |
| TOP PICK | 20.350 | Peter Brieger | This is one of his long time favourites. He owns it, his clients own it and he is buying it for new accounts. It is the cheapest of the 5 banks. It is a safe place to be in a slow down. Evaluations are fair. | 2006-09-26 | |
| BUY | 20.350 | David Burrows | The wire line phone companies in general have not performed very well over the last 2/3 years, but they are not terribly economically sensitive, they’re cash flow generating machines and the environment is starting to improve for them. They are also getting price increases on their wholesale business. | 2006-07-12 | |
| TOP PICK | 20.350 | Robert McWhirter | (A Top Pick Oct 27/05. Up 14%.) Trades on both earnings and backlog. Aircraft orders in 2005 were at an all-time record. Earnings are expected to lift by 74% from Mar/05 to Mar/06 and then another 30% by '07. | 2006-01-12 | |
| DON'T BUY | 19.320 | Michael Smedley | A difficult one to call. Has done fabulously. This is #3 after Dofasco (DFS-T) and Gerdau (GNA-T). Might consider taking profits. Wouldn't buy at this time. | 2005-02-23 | |
| WEAK BUY | 18.510 | Paul Harris, CFA | Has a lot of issues to deal with, but does have a good yield. A big issue with telecoms is the large amount they have to spend to move in the direction of Voice Over IP. Telecoms have a lot of competition, from cable, etc. Generates a lot of cash, but they are not growing. Basically they are a utility. If they can maintain market share they'll be fine. | 2005-01-24 | |
| DON'T BUY | 13.700 | Brad Willock | Good dividend, what wonders if it is sustainable. Long-distance is a bad business because of all the competition. | 2004-08-13 | |
| DON'T BUY | 14.810 | Paul O'Neil | The warning issued by the Company is the nail in the coffin. Long-distance calling will cease to exist. Competition in long-distance is brutal and will continue to be so. | 2004-06-24 | |
| VAGUE | 22.150 | Michael Smedley | Great leader in the West | 2004-06-16 | |
| BUY | 19.500 | Paul Harris, CFA | Like the company. Restructuring very well. Will have lots of cash flow. Would buy at this level. | 2004-02-09 | |
| BUY | 21.260 | David Baskin | 3 good reasons to buy are strong dividends, coming off the bottom, and US currency devaluation. Had been oversold. Very steady revenues. Limited growth. | 2004-01-07 | |
| DON'T BUY | 19.690 | Brian Acker, CA | Trying to convert from land line business to wireless. Has a model price of around $20. | 2003-12-24 | |
| DON'T BUY | 12.950 | Laura Wallace | Doing a reverse split which is not a good sign. | 2002-05-22 | |
| DON'T BUY | 12.870 | David Burrows | Has been hitting a lot of lows. | 2002-05-17 | |
| DON'T BUY | 16.500 | Paul O'Neil | Has some good assets, but a lot of debt and a lot of events are going on now. | 2001-12-12 | |
| DON'T BUY | 18.080 | Brian Acker, CA | Poor management. Can't see any value. | 2001-12-06 | |
| DON'T BUY | 19.300 | David Burrows | Expects telcos have been shaken out and things are now turning positive. Was oversold. Prefers Verizon and/or Sprint Wireless. | 2001-10-05 | |
| DON'T BUY | 19.580 | David Driscoll | Spin-off of Liberty will not be good for stock price. | 2001-08-10 | |
| DON'T BUY | 19.580 | Steven Wippersteg | Trying to divest some of their businesses. Need better organization. | 2001-08-10 | |
| TOP PICK | 20.540 | Brendan Caldwell | A lot of hidden assets. Moving up on its 200 day average. | 2001-08-03 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.830 | Jeff Morrison | On asset perspective, but has other problems | 2001-07-19 | |
| BUY | 20.500 | Ray Steele | Good long term outcome. Has a 25% upside. | 2001-07-11 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.770 | Michelle Calpin | Poor/out of date technology and expensive to upgrade. | 2001-06-27 | |
| DON'T BUY | 21.710 | David Driscoll | Not a fan. Too many problems. Prefers Vodafone | 2001-04-11 | |
| BUY | 22.900 | Gavin Graham | Some good assets ($30). Spin-off will give an increase. | 2001-03-16 | |
| DON'T BUY | 23.850 | David McLean | Too much competition. Not a fan of telecoms | 2001-03-07 | |
| BUY | 23.560 | Scott Morrison | A lot of competition in long distance telephony. Also took on cable assets and overpaid. Getting their act together now. | 2001-03-05 | |
| BUY | 21.840 | Gavin Graham | Break up should create a plus $12 upside. However, long distance calls are down | 2001-02-26 | |
| BUY | 12.320 | John Sinkins, CFA | Hit with other techs, bit its a blue chip tech. They spun out there wireless division. Pretty good price now. | 2001-02-22 | |
| BUY | 23.300 | Rob Callander | Struggling. If you expect a market recovery in 3rd/4th quarter, then accumulate | 2001-02-07 | |
| BUY | 23.313 | Brian Dawson | A break up. Expect some decent upside over the next year | 2001-01-26 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.063 | Noah Blackstein, B.A., CFA | Wait for breakup and then buy the individual pieces | 2001-01-08 | |
| BUY on WEAKNESS | 19.000 | Brian Acker, CA | Plan to get into it @ 18/20 but with tight stops | 2000-11-28 | |
| DON'T BUY | 23.000 | Noah Blackstein, B.A., CFA | Don't like | 2000-10-30 | |
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