STOCKCHASE

Likes the drip program, especially with a stock like BCE. Will probably move sideways. They will probably raise the dividend.

2012-01-20

BUY

42.360

Telecoms. Owns most of them and sees descent dividends. BCE increased dividend 6 times since the teachers attempted buy out. This would be his recommendation. Core holding.

2012-01-12

PAST TOP PICK

41.950

(A Top Pick Feb 15/11. Up 24.51%.) Looking at little bit rich but still yields 5% and management continues to execute very, very well. Had considered having this as a Top Pick.

2012-01-09

Comment

42.450

Christine Poole

Telecom stocks have all performed quite well this last year. Thinks this is investors seeking yield and stability of earnings. Current price is over her current target price.

2012-01-05

HOLD

42.280

Brian Acker, CA

If you own, he would hang on to this only because this is where the money flow is going. To him it is big-time overpriced. His model price is $30.09 almost a negative 30% differential. If there was any kind of threat, it would pull back to $37. Feels that money flows are so strong that a 5% yield people are willing to buy it no matter what. He would be a seller at $46.51.

2012-01-04

Comment

42.190

Bruce Campbell

It's not too late to buy to own and collect the dividend but probably too late to be able to repeat his performance. Will probably move sideways. If we are going to have decent growth and Europe gets fixed, this stock will underperform as it is viewed as a safety stock.

2012-01-03

BUY

42.470

Don Vialoux

This is a stock you want to own and continue to own. Consistent upward trend. Has yet to show signs of technical weakness. Wait to buy until it falls to the bottom of it’s channel ($39 level).

2011-12-30

BUY on WEAKNESS

40.630

Michael Sprung

Had a lot of good things going for them lately. Over the last couple of years, management has really demonstrated some solid improvements. In the last quarter there have been some good cost controls in effect. Losses in the wire line side were not as bad as expected. Expansion into fibre optic TV is offering a competitive alternative to some of the cable areas. Have consistently increased their dividend over the years. Good core holding for anyone with a long-term perspective. Currently the valuation is a little bit rich. Would prefer it at $36.

2011-12-19

TOP PICK

40.530

Has a nice long trend from early 2009 with some resistance at $41.70 where we could run into some problems but he doesn't think that is going to be the case. Lower volatility.

2011-12-15

Comment

40.410

Norman Levine

Just announced a dividend increase and a share buyback. Likes this company.

2011-12-14

HOLD

41.200

Jason Donville

It is a Merry Christmas for BCE shareholders. Just raised dividend. Not all the good news is in the price right now. Just keep watching it.

2011-12-12

TOP PICK

40.740

7th time they have raised their dividend in the last 3 years. Good yield. Strong management. Has good growth prospects.

2011-12-09

PAST TOP PICK

40.600

(A Top Pick Feb 15/11. Up 19.28%.) Just raised their dividend again today. Still considers it as outstanding value.

2011-12-08

TOP PICK

39.450

Veronika Hirsch

(A Top Pick Oct 28/10 Up 22.91%.) 5.25% yield. Doing a great job of cutting costs. Doing all the right moves.

2011-11-25

BUY

39.340

Mohsin Bashir

Has done a great job of insulating itself and being able to push forward focusing more on the data side of the business, which has higher margins. More competition coming but they will still be able to pay their dividend.

2011-11-21

Comment

39.340

Caller bought at $25 and wanted to know if he should take some profit? Trading at a low valuation. Good balance sheet. He wouldn't sell.

2011-11-21

TOP PICK

39.690

In the right space. Nice up-trend. Nice dividend. Makes geniuses out of all of us. Recent earnings were descent. Ranked number 2 in his huge list. If rates go up it will affect defensive stocks but he does not expect higher rates. He would add to this today. Good support around $39 and then at $37.50. A nice up trend. He would like to see it break out. There is no evidence to say that the dividend trade will not go on.

2011-11-15

BUY

39.700

Richard Fogler

Doing really well and will continue to do so. High dividend. Stock is worth $50.

2011-11-14

Comment

39.750

Andy Nasr

As a long-term hold, there are probably better stocks you could own. Has some concerns about the company's ability to grow longer term. He is a little bearish on the sector because wireless competition is intensifying, which has had an adverse effect on revenues. Would like it a little cheaper. Feels the dividend is safe.

2011-11-11

PAST TOP PICK

39.600

Paul Harris, CFA

(A Top Pick Nov 25/11. Up 19.06%.) Still likes.

2011-11-07

Comment

39.600

Good solid company. Raise their dividends twice this year. Good management.

2011-11-07

PAST TOP PICK

39.660

(A Top Pick June 15/11. Up 7.9%.) 5.25% yield. Well run. Represents excellent value.

2011-11-02

DON'T BUY

39.210

Strong management team. Share price is up. Not worth more than what it trades for today. Single digit growth. Doesn't fit his criteria.

2011-11-01

DON'T BUY

39.230

Prakash Hariharan

Expensive right now. Dividend is safe. Are positioning themselves for the 4G network. ARPO is about $60, which is high among their piers. Prefers T-T

2011-10-28

DON'T BUY

39.330

Brooke Thackray

Telecom’s seasonality isn’t right now. Strong trend line and a few tops right here. A rising wedge, which is a bullish pattern. A good stock, but not something he would favour this time of year.

2011-10-27

BUY

39.210

David Burrows

Bell and Telus are good. He owns both. Wire line service is deteriorating more slowly than those in the US. Fiber TV is growing. Dividend will probably increase.

2011-10-25

BUY

39.460

Hit a new high recently and is running against the grain of the market. Still has an excellent yield.

2011-10-21

Comment

39.020

Randy LeClair

6.8% strip bonds expiring May 2042. Strips have definite purposes. You can match them up to retirement, education, that sort of thing. As long as you are comfortable that the company was last that long, they make a lot of sense.

2011-10-17

BUY

38.820

Andrew Hamlin

Has held in nicely during the market selloff. Feels it is a flight to quality and safety. Strong dividend. One of the better telcos in Canada.

2011-10-07

TOP PICK

38.590

Veronika Hirsch

(Top Pick Oct 28/10, Up 19.35%) People prefer dividends to bond yields. You need stocks that pay dividends in this volatile market.

2011-09-23

Comment

38.040

Don Lato

This is an “okay” buy. Looking at the Canadian 3 telcos, this one has the highest yield but also has the highest multiple. Prefers Rogers (RCI.B-T) because of better long-term growth. Sacrificing yield now but with the potential of bigger yields down the road.

2011-09-21

BUY

38.150

Increasing smart phones, which is the driver of all wireless business. It is relatively fully valued but he sees earnings growth and dividend growth, so if you want a good solid dividend payer, you will also get some dividend growth. They are doing a good job.

2011-09-20

BUY

38.710

An attractive opportunity here. A de facto utility. Much better balance sheet, free cash flow, better dividend increases compared to utilities but are trading at 12-13 times earnings. Could get into the $40 range if people continue to be nervous and are looking for defensive stocks. (See Top Picks.)

2011-09-14

DON'T BUY

38.800

6.46% strip bonds expiring May 2042? Normally he does not give money longer than 7 years because the business cycle is 3-4 years. You not getting paid enough to extend that far out. He owns 2016 bonds.

2011-09-08

TOP PICK

38.650

(A Top Pick Feb 15/11. Up 12.72%.) Yielding 5.5%. Have done a great job of cutting costs. Well run with a well rounded management team.

2011-09-07

PAST TOP PICK

38.240

(A Top Pick Aug 6/10. Up 25.3%.) Fits his pattern of a good large-cap company that pays a good dividend and willing to increase dividends.

2011-08-19

BUY

38.110

David Burrows

Great dividend. Very steady cash flow. Have done a great job in restructuring. Telecom is a sector where he would be buying stocks right now.

2011-08-18

TOP PICK

37.790

Raised its dividend 6 times over the last 2.5 years. Very strong free cash flow. Smart phones are very positive for all telcos. Trade at 12X earnings, which is very reasonable.

2011-08-11

PAST TOP PICK

37.160

(Top Pick Apr 11/11, Up 4.54% total return) Still likes the story. Management done a good job of managing its costs. Recent acquisitions are working out quite well. Investors should have a lot of these high yielding stocks.

2011-08-09

Comment

36.130

Randy LeClair

Floating Rate Preferreds series A.I. Just got a notice they can be converted to a new series AJ. Should I convert? Every 5 years, is give the option of going to fixed or floating. These rates will be bumped down to 4.5% or you can convert to the J series, which is a floating rate at 100% prime. He doesn't see rates rising anytime soon.

2011-08-04

Comment

36.060

Michael Decter

Thinks this is down generally because of the market malaise. Doing an excellent job of becoming more efficient and competitive. Expects there will be no dividend cut, but gradual dividend increases.

2011-08-02

Comment

37.560

Peter Brieger

Good for preservation of capital and income? Consensus target on the telcos is not very positive but this one, plus the dividend, as the best total return, excluding perhaps Shaw (SHR.B-T). Dividend will be safe. Growth will be limited but will probably be 5% a year.

2011-07-20

BUY

38.120

Laura Wallace

Comfortable with this one here, partly because of its 5.5% dividend. Has increased the dividend at quite a clip over the last 3 years. Will continue to struggle with wire line negative growth but well-positioned in the growing smart phone market.

2011-07-15

DON'T BUY

38.050

Has had a great run and is around because of the dividend. Management did a great job wringing out costs. Getting growth in wireless, but landlines is a pretty dead business. Fully valued.

2011-07-14

PAST TOP PICK

38.130

Randy LeClair

4.35% Series AG Preferred (Top Pick Jun 16/10, Up 25.60) Expected it to do well but not this well. It is a unique preferred. It is in a fixed floater, which is not understood well. It came up for a reset in April. You choose between fixed and floating. He stayed with the fixed. Got a bump up in dividend to 4.5%, so people were quote happy.

2011-07-05

STRONG BUY

37.990

David Burrows

For years he said ‘stay away’. It is one of his core holdings now. Have high yields with predictability. BCE went through a great re-structuring. Stock is behaving remarkably well. Likes the telecom sector.

2011-06-28

Comment

38.120

Christine Poole

Nice solid defensive name in a market like this. Capital of side is somewhat muted because it has recovered to the point where the teachers had made their bid. She doesn't see much upside, maybe 5%. Nice yield of 5.5%. Very strong cash flow.

2011-06-20

BUY

36.950

Mohsin Bashir

The big 3, BCE (BCE-T), Rogers (RCI.B-T) and Telus (T-T) are all facing threat of new entrants. This company’s strategy has been consistent and has been picking up and leading in market share in wireless. Extraordinarily strong company for the long term. Good dividend.

2011-06-16

TOP PICK

37.200

(A Top Pick Feb 15/11. Up 8.52%.) Yielding 5.5%. Good management. Defensive and well run. More than capable of being wily competitors in a competitive market.

2011-06-15

TOP PICK

37.200

Hank Cunningham

3.65% due May 9/16. Attractive yield. Starting yield higher than Government of Canada means it is likely to have a positive rate of return in the next 12 months.

2011-06-15

Comment

37.760

John Zechner

Earnings aren’t growing very quickly but have a decent dividend. Has new competition in wireless, which will dilute the industry a little. Core businesses are clearly not growing as fast as they used to. You can maybe make a 10% return annually including the dividend. Big money has already been made on this one.

2011-06-13

DON'T BUY

38.380

Brian Acker, CA

They did a large write-off in converting to IFRS. Thinks it’s expensive. Model price $31.28, -18% differential. He thinks it is too expensive. They do have 5.5% dividend. If it comes back to the $37 level he would be interested.

2011-06-09

BUY

38.470

Chart shows a long upward move from late 2008. Expect it to have a little resistance at the $40 level and then you are looking at the $50-$52 level. Telecom sector is the right space to be in at this time. (See Top Picks.)

2011-06-02

HOLD

38.680

Likes the sector. Increased dividends twice a year in 2010 and 2011 but probably won’t continue doing that. This year the increase was more than expected. Did a joint venture with Telus (T-T) on the wireless side so are in better competition with Rogers (RCI.B-T).

2011-05-25

DON'T BUY

38.610

It’s not such a great buy any more for capital appreciation. Thinks they will raise dividend. He thinks other telecoms, such as RCI.B are a better buy. Thinks at some point BCE and Telus will merge if the government permits.

2011-05-24

Comment

39.000

Hank Cunningham

9.25% Strip bond May 15/30? Strip bonds are the most volatile of all fixed income maturities and long term ones are the most volatile because they have no interest payments to shorten the duration. Your entire market value depends on long term interest rates. When rates go up, the value of the strip bonds go down. Consider selling and going into shorter term bonds, depending on your portfolio.

2011-05-19

PAST TOP PICK

37.980

Recommended on May 28,2010 at $30.67, now at $37.85, total return 30.33% increase. Has done a great job of cost cutting,they have grown their internals,stable, 2 billion in cash flow, dividends have increased 3 or 4 times over the last few years, more room to grow and able to bundle their products which should play out well for them.

2011-05-17

TOP PICK

37.980

This was a past top pick(May 28 2010) and a top pick today. They have been cost cutting and this has been dripping into the dividends. Opportunity to go up further.

2011-05-17

Comment

37.900

Michael Decter

Did a good job of moving into television area. Had a great run. Could go either way on this one. Doesn’t see huge downside risks but at around $40, it’s a little thin for moving higher. Yield is perfectly safe. When the market recovers, as he expects, there may be some rotation out of this type of stock and into things with more upside.

2011-05-16

TOP PICK

37.890

Laura Wallace

Reported great earnings relative to expectations. CTV acquisition should turn out to be very good. Increased the dividend 5%. (6th one since the 4th quarter of 2008.) 5.5% dividend yield. Good growth.

2011-05-12

Comment

37.890

Stan Wong

Just reported earnings above estimates and raised their dividends. Trading at about 12X earnings. Solid grower but not a tremendously fast grower. Fits in a portfolio where you want some decent income and require income in a portfolio.

2011-05-12

Comment

36.940

Steve Carlin

Whole Telecom space looks decent but not a ton of upside. Has had a big pop in the last month or so. With their dividends, it makes a great defensive stock. Good hold for the longer term.

2011-05-11

Comment

35.750

Christine Poole

5%+ dividend is safe and has no doubt they will continue to increase it. Have gone through an upgrade of their network, so that’s behind them. Feels the capital upside on a lot of the telecom names in then near term is limited given the new entrants coming in.

2011-05-02

BUY

35.470

Largest telecommunication business in Canada. He bought for income. Increased their dividend and thinks they will do so again. Good management.

2011-04-15

TOP PICK

35.500

(A Top Pick Feb 15/11. No change.) 5.5% dividend yield and he expects another one soon. Management has done an outstanding job of executing on its plan. CTV acquisition is going to work out very well. They are the best positioned, in this space, to deal with all the changes that are unfolding.

2011-04-11

WEAK BUY

35.530

Bruce Campbell

You get higher growth than BA but a little less yield, so they are about the same. He prefers this to BA

2011-04-05

BUY

35.530

A cash flow machine. Have done a fantastic job of cutting costs. They basically wiped out middle management. It keeps dropping to the bottom line, either through purchases of content, buy back of shares or increase of dividend. Telco space is either reasonably priced or reasonably cheap.

2011-04-05

DON'T BUY

35.010

A very low growth situation. They have done a great job managing costs. Dividend is safe, but there won’t be any growth.

2011-03-25

PAST TOP PICK

35.180

Paul Harris, CFA

(Top Pick Jan 18/10, Up 35.42%) Still likes it. Are doing a lot of the right things. A great stock to be buying at these levels. Lots of free cash flow, reasonable debt levels.

2011-03-24

BUY

35.450

He likes all of the telecoms. BCE did a great job of upgrading their whole wireless system. The whole market is expanding. Well-managed company. Will continue to trim out fat management. Increased dividend twice last year and once this year, but he expects increases to be more moderate this year.

2011-03-21

BUY

34.500

Brendan Caldwell

In the process of buying CTV. He has been buying this recently. Dividend is strong and stock has been going up since the bottom in 2009. The services they provide are growing more than people would imagine.

2011-03-14

BUY

35.470

Laura Wallace

Excellent dividend yield of over 5%. Also had a great record over the last 3 years of increasing dividends. If she had to own only one thing in the telecom space it would probably be Rogers (RCI.B-T) but she does like this one. Has downward drag on earnings from losing the wire line but are active in the wireless, which will be a big growth area.

2011-03-03

PAST TOP PICK

35.410

Veronika Hirsch

(A Top Pick Oct 28/10. Up 6.43%.) Still likes.

2011-03-02

Comment

36.020

Brooke Thackray

Technically it is very strong and chart shows a very positive trend. Will probably outperform the market for the next little while. You have to watch to see if it breaks down at about the $35 level.

2011-02-28

PAST TOP PICK

35.670

(A Top Pick Feb 26/10. Up 29.01%.) Company increased dividends. Still likes. This is a stock you can Buy and just tuck away.

2011-02-25

HOLD

35.400

Jim Huang

Not seeing a lot of organic growth. Doing better in their wireless and taking market share from Rogers (RCI.B-T). Trying to push the IPTV, which is having some growing pains. The big thing for them in the next couple of years is cost cutting. Good management. Should be good dividend growth.

2011-02-24

BUY

35.490

Gushing free cash flow. Keeps on increasing dividends. Putting a lot of fibre into homes. Telcos are in such fantastic shape because they have become utility like instead of tech companies like they were 10 years ago.

2011-02-23

TOP PICK

35.460

Defensive. 5.5% yield. Increased dividend consistently over the years. The big 3 offer the same services so why not go with the highest dividend. Management exercising its business plan very, very well.

2011-02-15

Comment

35.460

Martin Hubbes, CFA

Makes a lot of sense for a long-term conservative investor. In the short term, the yield is now approaching 10-year bonds so that will cap the stock for the time being. Feels that Rogers (RCI.B-T) and Telus (T-T) offer better upside opportunity.

2011-02-15

PAST TOP PICK

36.660

David Baskin

(A Top Pick Feb 8/10. Up 36.77%.)

2011-02-08

BUY

36.450

Colin Stewart

Could be range bound but has had quite a nice move up. Telecom sector has been very strong. Very attractive dividend yield.

2011-02-04

Comment

36.440

Michael Decter

Sees more upside in it. Hard to balance how much competitive risk there is in the wireless space as new technologies come in. There could be price competition form a more aggressive Telus (T-T), Rogers (RCI.B-T0, Shaw (SJR.B-T), etc.

2011-02-03

HOLD

36.370

Mike S. Newton, CIM FCSI

Has been a terrific investment since 08. Excellent yields.

2011-01-31

DON'T BUY

36.140

Valuation is a little stretched. Very good management. Shareholder friendly and boosted dividends 6 times in the last 2 years. Rogers (RCI.B-T) represents a much better opportunity.

2011-01-26

HOLD

35.330

Stan Wong

Great dividend of over 5% that is projected to grow by 7% per year over the next 3 years. Acquisition of CTV was good.

2011-01-13

HOLD

35.580

Don Lato

Has had a good run in the last half of the year. Attractive dividend yield. Prefers Rogers (RCI.B-T).

2011-01-12

BUY

35.750

Jeff Black

A core holding. Nice increase recently. Not without its challenges industry wise. Nice dividend.

2011-01-11

HOLD

35.600

Strong Upward trend. Support at around $26 and $31. Great dividend. Based on what he expects form the market in the next 3 or 4 years, this is probably a good core holding.

2011-01-05

PAST TOP PICK

35.680

Paul Harris, CFA

(A Top Pick Jan 18/10. Up 35.31%. ) Still likes and at a good level to Buy. Should get a decent return.

2010-12-23

BUY

35.170

In his lower and higher yield portfolios. Likes the business. Preferred over T-T

2010-12-21

PAST TOP PICK

35.720