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| Expert | Implied Signal | Company | Symbol | Price | Opinion | Date Entered |
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| John Hood | TOP PICK | Claymore China ETF | CHI-T | 19.140 | China ETF. Amongst China ETF's, you have the ones that are trading off ADRs with a little more emphasis on domestic consumption rather than the export trade. This one is not an ADR, but trades in Hong Kong rather than New York. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | TOP PICK | BMO S&P/TSX Base Metals ETF | ZMT-T | 17.570 | S&P/TSX Base Metals ETF. With the recovering economy, he feels this will do quite well. Basically based on futures contracts. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | TOP PICK | iShares S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF | XSP-T | 15.300 | S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. Always has this one in his portfolio. You want to be in the S&P which is a broad market index. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | Comment | Claymore Broad Commodity ETF | CBR-T | 22.750 | Broad Commodity ETF. He includes this in some of his more aggressive portfolios. Likes the product and the fact that it is global and commodity-based. Tends to be bullish on commodities right now. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | BUY | iShares DEX Short Term Bond | XSB-T | 29.170 | DEX Short Term Bond ETF. If interest rates go up over time, will payment per month go up as new issues come in? He always has these in his clients and personal portfolios. About2/3rds government and 1/3 corporate. If rates go up in the longer ones, you will get hurt. Duration is around 2.6-2.7 years. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | How do Puts work? A Put is similar to shorting a stock. You are buying the right to Put the stock to someone. The difference from shorting is that your losses are restricted to the cost of the Put. In other words, if you buy a $50 Put and the stock goes down to $45, you have the right to Put it to them at $50 so you make $5 minus the cost of the Put. If you had shorted you got a problem. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | BUY | Claymore Global Agriculture ETF | COW-T | 21.590 | Basically feeds and seeds and he likes this sector. There will be increased demand for that kind of product. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | BUY | BMO Covered Call Utilities ETF | ZWU-T | 15.390 | Covered Call Utilities ETF. Likes this one. What they do is right Calls against individual stocks, not against the index. He uses it for some of his smaller accounts where he can't adequately diversify among 3 or 4 different covered individual bank stocks. You have to realize that if the yield is 8%, that is not what you are going to get. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | Comment | HBP NYMEX Nat'l Gas Bull+ | HNU-T | 4.570 | NYMEX Nat'l Gas Bull+. These are for short-term trading. Maximum hold would be one week. You have to be on top of it all the time. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Buying Puts on a stock in a downtrend has been running up before reporting orderly numbers? This would obviously be for a short term hold. Not sure how successful this strategy would be on an ongoing basis for a whole bunch of different companies. This is into the gambling area. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | BUY | Vanguard MSCI Emerg. Mkt. ETF | VEE-T | 26.420 | MSCI Emerging Mkt. ETF. Certainly likes emerging markets. Pretty interesting one to have. Lower costs. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | Comment | iShares Nasdaq BioTech ETF | IBB-Q | 120.640 | Nasdaq BioTech ETF. Certainly looks like it is breaking out. About 60% Biotech and 40% Pharma. Would have no problem going into this sector. Ilways a little concerned about going into something like this with US’s but with the Cdn$ doing so well, it might not be a problem. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | PAST TOP PICK | iUnits S&P/TSX Energy ETF | XEG-T | 18.000 | (A Top Pick Jan 28/11. Down 11.74%.) S&P/TSX Energy ETF. Underlying shares have not been following the commodity. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | PAST TOP PICK | iUnits S&P/TSX 60 ETF | XIU-T | 18.010 | (A Top Pick Jan 28/11. Down 4.66%.) S&P/TSX 60 ETF. Still very comfortable with this one. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | PAST TOP PICK | BMO NASDAQ 100 Equity Hedged-Cdn$ | ZQQ-T | 19.450 | (A Top Pick Jan 28/11. Up 11.28%.) NASDAQ 100 Equity Hedged-Cdn$. Still likes. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | BUY | iUnits S&P/TSX Energy ETF | XEG-T | 18.000 | S&P/TSX Energy ETF. Has been positive on this one for some time. Wouldn't have any problem buying this one. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | BUY | BMO Dow Jones Indus. Avg. Hedge ETF | ZWA-T | 16.470 | Dow Jones Indus. Avg. Hedge ETF. Likes this one. They sell the Calls on individual Dow stocks and hedged into Canadian dollars. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | For every stock the caller owns, he always sells a Covered Call at something like 15%-20% for a period of 6 months. For every stock you would like to own, he sounds a Put. What Puts selling today and how many months out do you typically try to strategize and what percentage do you try to strategize? Not quite sure where he is getting 15%. He normally like to sell the Calls out 6 months which gives him more downside protection. On the naked Puts, it depends on what your objectives are. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | What happens if an ETF company goes bankrupt? These are trusts, which means that the money is kept separate from the corporation that is issuing it. In this case, somebody will probably just take over the assets. You are okay. | 2012-02-03 |
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| John Hood | Comment | iShares S&P/TSX Capped REIT | XRE-T | 15.800 | S&P/TSX Capped REIT. Long-term hold writing covered calls or a short-term trade? He doesn't look at it as short-term. Also not sure you can do covered calls on it. Yield is about 5%. About 25% RioCan (REI.UN-T) whereas the Equal Weight REITs Index (ZRE-T) is equal weighted. | 2012-02-03 |
| John Hood | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets. Not expecting any great plunges. If there is any weakness, he sees it as a buying opportunity. Europe has been doing the right things and it takes a great deal of time to finally resolve all these things. There are strong directional indicators that things are getting sorted out. Currently he is about 65% equities and 35% cash and fixed. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | PAST TOP PICK | Yamana Gold Inc. | YRI-T | 17.050 | (A Top Pick March 15/11. Up 50.36%.) | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | PAST TOP PICK | Paladin Labs Inc | PLB-T | 45.880 | (A Top Pick March 15/11. Up 37.07%.) | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | PAST TOP PICK | Research In Motion | RIM-T | 16.780 | (A Top Pick March 15/11. Down 71.41%.) Got stopped out. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | TOP PICK | Miranda Technologies Inc. | MT-T | 10.640 | Big benefit with the Olympics and the US election. Very strong 13% free cash flow yield. Potential acquisition. Dirt cheap. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | TOP PICK | Great Western Minerals Group | GWG-X | 0.680 | More speculative. 3 pieces to creating value in rare earth. 1) 20% comes from digging it out of the ground. Reactivating a mine in South Africa and to have it into production in the 2nd half of 2013. 2) 40% is created by being able to separate rare earth minerals they have signed a deal with GCD, the only Chinese separation company. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | TOP PICK | Descartes | DSG-T | 8.100 | 85% of their income is recurring revenue. Focused on the electronic transportation space. Continue to have very strong free cash flow. Good cash on the balance sheet so are continuing to do acquisitions. Recently acquired Telargo. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | HOLD | BCE Inc. | BCE-T | 40.330 | Had a huge outperformance last year. With a decent yield, the stock moved up a great deal in price. In the last couple of months people have seen an improvement in economic growth and are moving out of the defensive plays. Continues to rank well in his Income Model. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | HOLD | Ithaca Energy Inc. | IAE-T | 2.890 | Company is expected to have decent earnings growth in future. Bringing on new fields in the North Sea and the UK. This would be of interest to about 5 potential buyers so he would continue to hold. Trading at about 8X PE. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | BUY | Western Wind Energy | WND-X | 1.950 | US wind company. Have been able to get a 30% tax credit from the US government which dramatically improves the economics. Expecting the systems to fully generate and produce visible earnings and cash flow in the 1st and 2nd quarters this year. Could be a takeover candidate. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | BUY | First Majestic Silver | FR-T | 19.890 | Pure silver mined in Mexico. Ranks well in his models. Expected to end up having decent earnings. Sales were up 59% year-over-year. ROE is about 30%. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | DON'T BUY | Eastern Platinum Ltd. | ELR-T | 0.550 | Gold, as a metal, has turned back up and this should drag along platinum. Overall earnings are declining about 20% year-over-year. Actual earnings growth is pretty modest at 8% for 2012. Prefers others. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | WATCH | Route 1 Inc. | ROI-X | 0.095 | Selective asset management technology is very good. They have a USB stick ($25 monthly) which allows you totally secure access via Internet anywhere globally. Used by the US military. Wait to see if they get increased sales. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | Comment | Fortress Paper | FTP-T | 37.300 | New plant they are buying and converting looks quite interesting. PE on a trailing basis is about 10X. ROE is interesting at about 20%. His Quant system does not rate it well because near-term earnings are declining dramatically. Was $.38 last year and the most recent quarter in November was minus $.51. If they can get it together, growth rate in earnings should be pretty good. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | Comment | Poynt Corp | PYN-X | 0.145 | Holds patents on location-based mobile advertising. Expanding but unfortunately they are losing money. Expected breakeven in about 18 months but there are some new IPOs coming. Valuations are heating up in their space. Very speculative. | 2012-02-03 |
| Robert McWhirter | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets. The S&P 500 for the last 10 years shows the last 5 a little more encouraging but the market seems to be overbought in the near-term. PE multiples are reasonable and he is optimistic the economy globally is improving. Feels that economic growth is going to be pretty good for the coming 1.5 years. | 2012-02-03 |
| Charles Lannon | TOP PICK | Royal Dutch Shell PLC (A) | RDS.A-N | 71.740 | Too many Canadian oil/gas royalty trusts have too much debt. Also too many with bases that are long in the tooth and dividends that are going to be unsustainable in the low gas price environment. This company just reported with so-so results. Production was good. Refining was weak. Very modest increase in the dividends but he feels the 4.7% dividend will continue to grow. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | TOP PICK | CML Healthcare | CLC-T | 10.600 | Laboratory testing and medical imaging. Took a lot of risk out of their business by getting rid of their US assets. Attractive yield. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | TOP PICK | Giant Manufacturing | 9921-TW | 0.000 | (Taiwan exchange.) Huge insider ownership. Largest bicycle manufacturer globally with a 12% market share. Attractive top line growth, largely as they expand into mainland China and sell a very large number of e- bikes (electric). Should be able to grow at a low double-digit growth for many years. Pristine balance sheet. | 2012-02-02 |
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| Charles Lannon | BUY | Diageo PLC | DEO-N | 90.590 | (Market Call Minute.) Likes at these levels. Organic growth has really accelerated. Good core holding. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | BP PLC | BP-N | 45.530 | (Market Call Minute.) Broadly speaking, he does like the super majors. Great resource bases and stocks are not that expensive. Attractive dividend yields. This one seems to go from one operational issue to another so this would not be his preferred name. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | BUY | Oracle | ORCL-Q | 28.810 | (Market Call Minute.) Great company. Solid position in databases. Not as much growth as you would see in an Apple (AAPL-Q) or Qualcom (QCOM-Q) a good solid holding. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | Telecom Italia SPA | TI-N | 10.270 | (Market Call Minute.) Really tough regulatory climate. Feels the dividend is really at risk. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | Tata Motors Ltd. | TTM-N | 24.980 | (Market Call Minute.) Still too early for Indian equities. Wants to see more evidence that inflation there is under control and that short-term interest rates will cease going up. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | Vodafone Group PLC | VOD-Q | 27.230 | An interesting telco. European in origin but has some emerging market exposure but is usually the 2nd, 3rd or 4th in emerging markets. Payout ratio is very high at roughly 90%. Given the regulatory environment in Europe, he would think the dividend is at risk. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | Kinross Gold | K-T | 11.330 | One of the more controversial gold stocks. Bulls point to the potential of the asset base and Bears point to the checkered track record of bringing assets into production. He likes diversity of operations, low-cost structure, low geopolitical risks and a really sound operating track record. This company has the first 2 but not the last 2. Would prefer Goldcorp (G-T), Barrick (ABX-T) and Yamana (YRI-T) in that order. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | BUY | Luxottica | LUX-N | 33.250 | Integrated eyeglass company. Manufacture for a whole host of brands, some of which they wholly own. They also retail. Well-run company. Gets far more of its revenue from the US than it does from Europe. Should be able to grow its earnings at high single-digit/low double-digit for many years to come. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | Cemex SA | CX-N | 7.860 | Sold his holdings in 2008. Cement industry is very fragmented. Debt level is enormous. When US housing recovers, this stock will do very, very well. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | Boeing | BA-N | 75.220 | Gets about half its revenue from commercial and about half from defence. Thinks outlook for defence spending is potentially at risk as governments try to get some of their spending under control. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | HOLD | Starbucks | SBUX-Q | 47.660 | One of the great things about them is the way they expand internationally. In non-American markets, they get the franchisees to do the slog of building the company out but retain the right to buy them out at 5-6 times cash flow, which is a very low price. Doesn't own because the barriers to entry in his industry are almost nonexistent. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | BUY | Taiwan Semiconductor MFG. | TSM-N | 13.910 | They are a foundry so do very little design of integrated semiconductors but do a lot of manufacturing. A big client of theirs is Qualcom (QCOM-Q). They are a direct beneficiary of the rise of mobile computer devices, smart phones and tablets. Very well-positioned. Huge technological leader. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | Cameco Corporation | CCO-T | 23.570 | Doesn't own any uranium stocks. Doesn't see huge capacity for nuclear energy coming on anytime soon. Commodities are the most cyclical and volatile of stocks. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | PAST TOP PICK | 3M Co. | MMM-N | 87.430 | (A Top Pick Feb 23/11. Down 1.23%.) Still one of the preeminent American industrial companies. Still likes. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | PAST TOP PICK | Thomson Reuters Corp | TRI-T | 27.260 | (A Top Pick Feb 23/11. Down 26.5%.) Huge management changes in this company in the last year. Dividend is secure and he would like to give management 2-3 quarters for some kind of evidence of a turnaround. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | PAST TOP PICK | Smith & Nephew PLC | SNN-N | 50.600 | (A Top Pick Feb 23/11. Down 10.95%.) Medical devices. Just reported strong numbers. Volumes in replacement knees has suffered because of the economy but still likes this long-term because of demographic tailwinds. Strong possibility it will get taken out in 3-4 years by one of its competitors. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | Veolia Environnement | VE-N | 12.120 | Really suffers by virtue of being a European large-cap. Because of the debt level and high dividend payout ratio, there is some concern as to whether or not the dividend is sustainable. Too early to get into this name. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | Comment | Lloyds TSB Group PLC | LYG-N | 2.020 | Shifting to a US bank? This bank is a huge favourite of deep value investors because the balance sheet is not that bad a shape. Opportunity for volume growth is very poor. With US banks, there will be a fair number of headlines where stress tests are going to come due in March. You might consider US Bancorp (USB-N). | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | Comment | Barclays Bank PLC | BCS-N | 14.420 | (Doesn't own equity but owns a number of their fixed instruments.) With its geographic exposure, it doesn't have a huge opportunity to organically grow its deposit base. Prefers Standard Chartered Bank (STAN-LSE). You might use this as a trade, but not a long-term hold. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | BUY | ABB Ltd. | ABB-N | 21.670 | Super high quality company. Prefers Schneider of France because they have a slightly better presence in emerging markets but nothing wrong with this company. | 2012-02-02 |
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| Charles Lannon | DON'T BUY | British American Tobacco | BTI-A | 94.160 | Very large tobacco company. Very popular because it has a growing business in emerging markets. He has never been comfortable with litigation risks that tobacco companies face. Also many governments will be putting through austerity programs and excise taxes on this industry will be going up. Starting to see price competition. 3.84% dividend. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | BUY | ArcelorMittal | MT-N | 21.310 | Steel stocks were amongst the very worst performing last year. Probably a good opportunity here where good quality steel companies are trading as low as 4X cash flow. Because of high fixed costs, they will never command huge multiples. If you own, there will probably be a holding period of about 2 years with a fair amount of volatility. | 2012-02-02 |
| Charles Lannon | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Comment Investing. European Central Bank is providing extended long-term financing to a whole host of European private sector banks has taken the Armageddon off the table for a little bit. A whole host of data points, such as data from the US and China, are generally positive. Propensity for headline risks will continue to come out of Europe. Greece, Italy, Spain, etc. have huge bond refinancing that will be occurring on almost a weekly or biweekly basis. Investors can take advantage of this if they have a very good sense of what they deem to be quality in the market and work hard to put a price tag on it. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | PAST TOP PICK | Research In Motion | RIM-T | 17.170 | (Top Pick Feb 22/11, Down 74.94%) sticking with it. Likes changes they made. It is a bet on QNX. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | PAST TOP PICK | 99 Cents Only | NDN-N (Dead) | 22.010 | (Top Pick Feb 22/11, Up 30.78%) Got taken out by a private equity firm. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | TOP PICK | Paccar Inc | PCAR-Q | 43.240 | Largest manufacturer of transport trucks – the Peterbuilt name. 197,000 trucks last year and 225,000 this year. 12-13sx earnings. $7 of cash. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | TOP PICK | Apple | AAPL-Q | 455.120 | Blockbuster earnings. Appreciated after earnings but not to the extent that the earnings were a surprise. Their domination is not being threatened and they have lots of room for growth. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | TOP PICK | Tourmaline Oil Corp | TOU-T | 25.020 | (Top pick Feb 22/11, Up 1.17%) Went public in 2009 and did everything right. Costs of production are about $0.50. Tremendous ability to stay in the game and weather the storm. We are going to see gas prices rebound somewhere down the road. Doubled production over last year and looks to be doubling over next 3 to 4 years and yet price is up only 15-20% from IPO. Someone might take a run at them and take advantage of the low prices. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | BUY | Visa Inc. | V-N | 106.060 | Owned Mastercard and then sold a year and a half ago to buy Visa but would buy both that these levels. Still looking at 20%+ growth. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | DON'T BUY | Sirius Satellite Radio | SIRI-Q | 2.120 | Not going to be a barn burner. People have their play lists on their iPod and so on. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | WEAK BUY | Cisco | CSCO-Q | 19.800 | Short term still going to be plagued with fact that lots of customers are government. Europe earnings slowdown expected. Doesn’t know if there is that much growth to justify a big commitment. Multiple is very attractive here. Would prefer other stocks with a higher multiple but lots more growth ahead of them. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | BUY | Suncor Energy Inc | SU-T | 34.250 | Trades with price of oil but is off high’s. Still well off its highs of a couple of years ago. Owns for some of the portfolios. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | BUY | Tim Hortons | THI-T | 48.820 | Little bit of pullback off highs. Good solid company. Not a table-pounding buy. Growth should continue over next couple of years. He would be interested at these levels or lower. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | BUY | Shoppers Drug Mart Corp | SC-T | 40.200 | Ended year well, one of the better performing stocks on the TSX. Pulled back on news of target’s announcement of expanding into Canada with pharmacies in their stores. Looking at 13-14% earnings growth. Take advantage of dip. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | BUY | Toronto Dominion | TD-T | 77.750 | Canadian Banks: Outlook is mildly positive. Scotia did an equity issue slightly below the market. All about 10x earnings yields between 3.75 and 5%. He always comes back to TD. They don’t get themselves involved in any issues. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | DON'T BUY | Pfizer Inc | PFE-N | 21.110 | Dividend is safe, growth prospects of many of the large Parma are very muted. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | BUY | New Flyer Industries Inc. | NFI.UN-T | 65.700 | Actually a better performer on the TSX this year. Distribution is very secure. There is going to be a change to the dividend but will go down in August when they convert to a corporate structure (dividend and div tax credit). Strong backlog, although shrinking a little bit. Steady production until the end of the year. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | BUY | Inter Pipeline Fund | IPL.UN-T | 18.430 | A solid holding. He has held it for years. Distribution has grown steadily but price has kept up so yield is down to about 5%. Wouldn’t expect a lot of appreciation but you will see dividend increases as the pipeline comes on stream. Always a hope of merger or acquisition. It is widely held. | 2012-02-02 |
| Don Lato | N/A | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets: Helicopter Ben is up to his tricks; saying inflation is not a threat. All this money going into the system is bound to come out into the economy. Need more confidence in the global expansion. For now we can look for low rates through the end of ’13. If US doesn’t fix debt, investors will lose confidence. You are looking to the end of the election year and if there is a change they will give him at least a year more. Market will be okay for the next few months. He thinks any surprise will be on the upside. A pullback here would not be a surprise, though. | 2012-02-02 |
| Mike Newton | TOP PICK | Canadian Natural Rsrcs | CNQ-T | 40.160 | A big heavyweight in the Canadian market. This can generate huge cash flows. He is bullish on oil and believes it will stay where it is and move slightly higher. Emerging market is still strong. | 2012-02-01 |
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| Mike Newton | TOP PICK | Starbucks | SBUX-Q | 48.240 | Stores are packed. They are efficient. Service is crisp. The new K cups (?) are coming out, which is a joint partnership with Green Mountain coffee. Growing at about a 30% pace in foreign markets and a 20% pace in North America. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | TOP PICK | Ancestry.com | ACOM-Q | 30.210 | All their metrics are good. Coming up in April, the US 1940 census will be coming out. About 135 million lives will be available for individuals to research. Also, it is featured quite heavily on show on NBC. The one downside is that they have made some changes to their subscription rates and he's not sure this is sustainable. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | iShares MSCI Brazil ETF | EWZ-N | 67.340 | (Market Call Minute.) MSCI Brazil ETF. They are very reliant on China, just like Canada. Feels it has the wind at its back. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | DON'T BUY | Talisman Energy | TLM-T | 11.910 | (Market Call Minute.) Continues to be very disappointing. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | DON'T BUY | Sunlife Financial | SLF-T | 20.650 | (Market Call Minute.) Would rather own something else such as Canadian banks. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | HOLD | Amazon.com | AMZN-Q | 179.460 | (Market Call Minute.) Disappointed with them. Earnings were good but revenues were bad. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | Sherritt International Corp. | S-T | 6.370 | (Market Call Minute.) Have made quite a few management changes. Good resources and likes the property in Madagascar. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | Annaly Capital Management Inc. | NLY-N | 16.890 | They basically own mortgages that have bought off Fannie Mae (FNMA-Q2) and Freddie Mac (FMCC-Q2) and have very good yields. They borrow money at very low costs and then leveraging up and buying mortgages. You have to watch this like a hawk. One thing that is very supportive of this is that interest rates are not going up for 2 years. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Canadian junior miners? Very exciting sector right now. His preferred way to play it is through the BMO Junior Gold Index ETF (ZJG-T) and B2Gold (BTO-T). | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | Comment | BCE Inc. | BCE-T | 40.680 | Seem to be making some really good inroads with some of their products. If you own, consider owning Telus (T-T) as a complement to this one. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | DON'T BUY | Manulife Financial | MFC-T | 11.940 | The entire life insurance space is been a very difficult one in the last couple of years. It wreaks havoc on their bond portfolio when the US Fed says rates are going to be kept low. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | Coca-Cola Company | KO-N | 67.850 | Really attractive. You will be in good shape with this one. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | Canadian Oil Sands | COS-T | 24.230 | Just reported and was in line with expectations. Starting to move up quite nicely. Feels it has some good potential upside right here once the Syncrude story gets going and starts running properly. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | PAST TOP PICK | Halliburton Co | HAL-N | 36.640 | (A Top Pick Jan 31/11. Down 17.03%.) Got stopped out at $46.50 for a gain of 17%. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | PAST TOP PICK | Pengrowth Energy | PGF-T | 9.980 | (A Top Pick Jan 31/11. Down 14.81%.) Got stopped out in Aug/11. Have a pretty good suite of assets right now. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | Comment | BMO Covered Call Cdn Banks ETF | ZWB-T | 14.170 | Covered Call Cdn Banks ETF. (Caller is 28 and is looking to hold for a long term.) This is a very safe vehicle, but won't have fast growth. Current yield is about 8%. For a 28-year-old he would prefer the Equal Weight Bank ETF (ZEB-T) and average down over time. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | Boeing | BA-N | 75.370 | Not a big fan of airline stocks but does like part manufacturers. This company is in a very good position right now with their new aircraft being out. Although he doesn't own it, he would be looking at this right now. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | Suncor Energy Inc | SU-T | 34.510 | Hasn't been with this company for a very long time but he would absolutely enter this one. Looks like a pretty good space. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | US ETF’s? Into RRSP’s? From an investment viewpoint, there is really no issue with what kind of ETF’s you buy. Whether it goes into your RRSP or not, is not that important. But you do have to be careful how their holdings are taxed. MLPs are very popular and you can buy an MLP ETF with a yield of about 7% but there is a disadvantage on the way this is taxed. Suggests you should talk to an accountant on this. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | Teck Resources Ltd. (B) | TCK.B-T | 42.370 | If what is going on in China is just a soft landing, and if we are expecting good things from copper and coal, he thinks his company is very well positioned. | 2012-02-01 |
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| Mike Newton | HOLD | First Capital Realty | FCR-T | 18.310 | Not afraid to buy a great piece of property in a very urban center. Able to have large turnarounds with supercenter anchors. Fairly tightly held and is also getting up in price. Their most recent acquisition was Hazelton Lanes in Toronto. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | WATCH | Oracle | ORCL-Q | 28.880 | It's a pretty fierce market in the business services database work. The issue for this company is what has been going on in the global slowdown and the competitive nature of their business. Margins are shrinking a little. But feels this is a pretty attractive entry here but watch for another quarter. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Strategy for Facebook. There is a company GSV Capital (GSVC-Q) that has a weighting of about 8% on Facebook, but more interesting is that they have quite a big weighting in Twitter. This might be back way door to play Facebook. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | China. They are going to throw anything they can act any decline in the market. The Shanghai market still needs to go up 10% to get back to its moving averages. Has a lot of work cut out for it. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets. Seeing great leadership in the names that you want to see leadership in. Technology had a lot of earnings tonight after the bell that are quite good so tech is definitely breaking out. Has now been 10-11 years since the NASDAQ peaked and if you follow the peak to where it is now, it is very similar in financials, especially US, and yet we are only 6 years in. He is bullish, but only until about the middle of the year. We would suggest raising your Stops and letting the stocks run a little bit. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | PAST TOP PICK | Barrick Gold | ABX-T | 49.290 | (Top Pick Jan 31/11, Up 5.61% Total return) Expected gold equities to finally catch up to bullion but he still expects that to happen. If they raise their dividends up then it would be an interesting stock across the border. A lot of room to run for people with an aggressive growth profile. Thinks gold will go to $2000. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | No issue with what kind of ETF you buy, but you have to be careful about how they are taxed. There is a popular sector (MLPs) that are like an income trust. It can be disadvantageous to own it because of how it is taxed. CIBC buys them in notes and they are taxed differently. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | High Yield Bond ETFs. Fed will hold interest rates low for another 2 years. There is still a huge fascination with sovereign debt and it is concentrated in the US. He would prefer to own the debt of the top 100 global corporations. He is not sure there is a lot of capital appreciation, but the yield is there. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | STRONG BUY | BMO Junior Gold Index ETF | ZJG-T | 20.020 | Preferred way to play gold in the past. It is on fire this year. The sector is probably up about 20%. For more aggressive clients. Everyone wanted to know what cash junior golds had on their balance sheet, so maybe buying them as a basket is better. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | Merck & Company | MRK-N | 38.630 | Pharma: The trend is really looking quite good. Hasn’t looked at Merck in a while. There was a time when it was 0% return for 10 years. Now, it is in the right sector and it is moving. | 2012-02-01 |
| Mike Newton | BUY | Pfizer Inc | PFE-N | 21.310 | Pharma: The trend is really looking quite good. Hasn’t looked at Pfizer in a while. There was a time when it was 0% return for 10 years. Now, it is in the right sector and it is moving. | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | PAST TOP PICK | Hitachi Metals Ltd. | 5486-JP | 0.010 | (A Top Pick Jan 10/11. Down 12.08%.) | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | PAST TOP PICK | Ritchie Bros Auctioneers Inc. (US) | RBA-N | 23.590 | (A Top Pick Jan 10/11. Up 0.27%.) | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | PAST TOP PICK | Nvidia Corp | NVDA-Q | 14.930 | (A Top Pick Jan 10/11. Down 28.4%.) Stock is rebounding now and still looks interesting from the perspective of the next stage in the development of tablets. | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | TOP PICK | Potash Corp of Saskatchewan | POT-T | 47.390 | This has the world's lowest cost resources and a lot of “brown field” potential. They are bringing that “brown field” potential forward very quickly and spending tons of money. Just doubled their dividend. The stock will flow tons of cash once they’re finished the development of this “brown field” capacity. | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | TOP PICK | Shire PLC | SHPGY-Q | 99.640 | Irish pharmaceutical company and its major franchise is Adderall for attention deficit disorder. The opportunity here is that they can move it into adults. The other part of their business is orphan drugs, drugs that are not targets for large pharmaceuticals. | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | TOP PICK | F5 Networks | FFIV-Q | 122.420 | Probably has 60%-70% of the market for delivering applications and content over the Internet. With the world moving towards cloud-based delivery of content and applications, this company is well-positioned. | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | DON'T BUY | Microsoft | MSFT-Q | 29.890 | Will Windows 8 for PC’s and Mobile push the stock higher? That is the big question. They have to be in the mobile world. He hears good things about Windows 8. We won't know until we see it on handsets and what they're going to do on the tablets. | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | Comment | Research In Motion | RIM-T | 16.690 | This is a tough call. Not a growth stock but more of a good value stock trading at very deep discount to normal valuations. The problem is that growth is decelerating very quickly. Have a couple of very tough quarters coming forward. Product line-up is weak right now. | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | BUY | Taiwan Semiconductor MFG. | TSM-N | 14.190 | Very few companies that can keep up in the race to reduce the dimensions of semiconductors to the point that we can see the cost of things like the iPad's continue to decline. The race is on between this company and Intel (INTC-Q) to allow companies like Qualcomm (QCOM-Q), Broadcom (BRCM-Q) and Intel to compete to provide the cheapest circuits for cell phones etc. This is one of the few companies that can compete. Still has a lot of room to move, especially over the longer term. | 2012-02-01 |
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| Ian Ainsworth | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Cloud storage companies? Different ways of playing this. There are companies that have the service model such as Google (GOOG-Q) that offers backup cloud storage. There are companies that provide the hardware. Analytics that understand this are getting more and more sophisticated and there are companies that are about to go public that are very interesting such as Splunk and Horton. All this data has to be stored on hardware, which is EMC (EMC-N), Netapp (NTAP-Q) and has to be analyzed by companies like Microstrategy (MSTR-Q), Teradata (TDC-N) and others. | 2012-02-01 |
| Ian Ainsworth | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Currencies. A lower US$ would be great for tech companies. A lot of tech companies have noticed a slowdown in the European market and a slowdown in government sales. | 2012-02-01 |
| David Baskin | TOP PICK | Bank of Nova Scotia | BNS-T | 51.530 | Canadian banks in general offer tremendous value at current prices. Good dividends. This bank as good growth prospects. Good geography including Latin America and Southeast Asia. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | TOP PICK | Cineplex Inc | CGX-T | 25.180 | Not economically sensitive. Cruised right through the recession, raising ticket and popcorn prices on the way. Also makes money on advertising. Modernized a lot of their theatres for 3-D and are putting in digital projection equipment that in the long run will enhance viewing experience as well as making their costs lower. Good yield. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | TOP PICK | CSX Corp | CSX-N | 22.550 | Primarily an Eastern US rail company. Moved out of Canadian Pacific (CP-T) and into this. Looked at all the rails in North America and this one offered the best combination of value and growth. Offers a good alternative to trucking. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY | Tim Hortons | THI-T | 48.860 | (Market Call Minute.) Loves this company. They do everything right. Dividend is going up. Same-store sales are going up. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | Visa Inc. | V-N | 100.640 | (Market Call Minute.) Consumer spending in the US was flat in December, which was bad for the credit card companies. People are still reducing their debt and you are not going to see rate increases in consumer spending. Not a lot of growth in the card companies. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | Talisman Energy | TLM-T | 11.980 | (Market Call Minute.) Their move to gas is not going to move in their favour. A lot of people are out of patience with this company. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | BP PLC | BP-N | 45.910 | (Market Call Minute.) Recovered from a near-death experience. High oil prices is what is going to keep them going but they have a lot of infrastructure problems. What happened in the Gulf might be just the tip of the iceberg. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY | DuPont | DD-N | 50.890 | (Market Call Minute.) Good play on increasing industrial manufacturing in the US. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | Transalta Corp | TA-T | 20.360 | (Market Call Minute.) Not a bad yield play. The spread of the cost of manufacturing electricity and what you sell it at is moving in their favour. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | Halliburton Co | HAL-N | 36.780 | The oil service companies that are in the gas sector (fracking) are very busy but the question is, for how long. Producers are already shutting in wells. The ability of this company to continue to grow at double-digits is questionable. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY | Cisco | CSCO-Q | 19.645 | The amount of bandwidth that everyone is using requires all the companies in this space to make their networks more robust. This is great for this company. Expect the stock will be in the mid-$20 or even $30 in the next year. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY | Methanex Corp | MX-T | 27.300 | Likes this company. Natural gas is a major input for the manufacture of methanol. Huge multinational company with plants around the world. As industrial demand for chemicals picks up, this company will be able to fill that demand. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY on WEAKNESS | Nike Inc | NKE-N | 103.990 | Good, strong brand. Have had some concerns raised about labour practices in less developed countries but have pretty much surmounted that. Very strong marketer over the long-term. Strong US$ makes profits coming in from the rest of the world somewhat less valuable for companies like this. Expensive right now. Would prefer to see it at $90. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | DON'T BUY | Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (B) | BRK.B-N | 78.370 | With this company, you always have to take the net value of the shares (NAV) and compare it to the stock price. Also, what happens when Warren Buffett can't do his magic tricks anymore? | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | Kinder Morgan Inc. (has gone private) | KMI-N | 32.470 | Basically in the energy transportation/infrastructure business. He would prefer an Enbridge (ENB-T) or Transcanada (TRP-T) because of the dividend tax credit. If you are going to own one of these stocks primarily for income, unless it is in an RSP or TFSA (a sheltered vehicle), the tax credit makes a lot of difference. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | Market Vectors Agribusinesses E.T.F. | MOO-N | 51.320 | Not a fan of ETFs. He feels that with these you get the good, the bad and the ugly. Prefers Potash (POT-T) has not participated in the rally. Also likes Agrium (AGU-T). A good buy in the US would be Archer Daniels Midland (ADM-N). | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | Magna Int'l. (A) | MG-T | 41.420 | This has always been a company with thin margins. What happens if demand goes down in Europe (they are in that market). Also, new leadership has some people concerned. A weak euro will mean fewer profits. However, he is looking at this company now because of the change in leadership. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY | Fluor Corp. | FLR-N | 56.240 | Giant multinational engineering company. $40 billion in backlog and $2 billion in cash. Very good company. In the infrastructure/engineering space, this is not a bad name to look at. | 2012-01-31 |
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| David Baskin | PAST TOP PICK | Suncor Energy Inc | SU-T | 34.540 | (A Top Pick Feb 8/11. Down 13.67%.) Disappointed in this during 2011. It was a question of the politics of what was going on in the US. Oil did much better than oil stocks in general. Feels that this is a tremendous buying opportunity right now. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | PAST TOP PICK | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | (A Top Pick Feb 8/11. Up 14.3%.) 4.25% Canada Real Return Bonds due 12/01/21. Inflation protected. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | PAST TOP PICK | Canadian Apartment Properties | CAR.UN-T | 22.850 | (A Top Pick Feb 8/11. Up 34.91%.) Yield is very attractive. With condo prices, particularly in the big markets like Calgary Vancouver and Toronto, going up so much, rental properties are going to be in higher demand. Stock is pretty expensive right now so only buy on dips. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY | Saputo Inc. | SAP-T | 40.840 | Likes the company for its size, geographic diversification and that it is growing nicely. Good time to buy. Great company. Good prospects. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | Power Corp | POW-T | 24.380 | When he became convinced that interest rates are going to stay low for an extended period of time, so he switched his holdings to banks. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY | Cameco Corporation | CCO-T | 23.260 | Got creamed after the tsunami in Japan. A lot of people thought that nobody was ever going to build another nuclear reactor or buy uranium. Existing nuclear plants have to be fuelled and he believes a lot of nuclear reactors will be built in the next 10-20 years. He is long-term bullish on this company. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY | Ford Motor | F-N | 12.420 | The one positive thing for automobiles in North America is the age of the fleet. It is older today than it has been any time in 40 years. A lot of people and companies deferred replacing their vehicles. Personal incomes are rising in the US, which leads him to believe those cars will be replaced. Not a bad idea. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | BUY | Teck Resources Ltd. (B) | TCK.B-T | 42.520 | Likes both the coal and zinc part of the story. The coal is primarily an Asian story and he thinks this will continue strong in spite of dips. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | DON'T BUY | Ivanhoe Mines | IVN-T | 16.170 | Rio Tinto (RIO-N) just acquired enough to give it 51% of the company. This means there will be no fight and no takeover premium. He has always been wary because of their geography. Mongolia is a long ways away and not much is known about the government. He'd rather have something with a mine in Chile or something with more familiarity and comfort. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | Sherritt International Corp. | S-T | 6.330 | Problematic because of its Cuban connection and its resource base which is volatile. If Obama gets re-elected, he feels there will be an awakening of Cuban and US relations. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | DON'T BUY | Encana Corp | ECA-T | 19.210 | Too much natural gas in North America. Supplies and inventory are so great that producers are capping wells. Particularly with a warm winter we are having in eastern North America, the heating season has been a bust. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Sectors. He likes the banks, agriculture and oil sands. Oilsands particularly are very deeply undervalued. People are concerned about the political machinations in the US, environmental concerns in Canada as to whether pipelines will get built to the West or South. He believes the oil will come out of the ground and get refined somewhere. Fertilizer stocks are suffering from an oversupply in the good crops last year. This is a cyclical commodity but it will come back and in the meantime this is an opportunity to get them at good prices. Banks have got good dividend yields and are trading at a low multiple of earnings and it is underestimated how well they're going to do in this low interest rate environment. | 2012-01-31 |
| David Baskin | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets. Very strong start, particularly in the US but not bad for Canada either. People are feeling a little bit, about Europe. Data coming out of US is not rosy but not bad. Big winners last year were the telcos, pipelines and utilities, the utility stocks and their now trading at multiples of earnings, which are very much at the high-end of their historic range. However, interest rates are going to stay low for 1.5-2 years so you can't leave too early but he is looking for other opportunities. With the Cdn$ near par he is looking south of the border also. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | PAST TOP PICK | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Spartan Multi Strategy Fund: (Top Pick June 11/10, Up 3.0%) | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | PAST TOP PICK | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Picton Mahoney Income Opportunities fund: (Top Pick June 11/10, Up 9.20%) Great long/short strategy working in global bond markets. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | PAST TOP PICK | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Fiera Market Neutral Fund: (Top Pick June 11/10, Down 6.5%) | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | TOP PICK | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Blackheath Futures Fund LP: Makes money in the back of emotions in the market. Agriculture and metals, bonds and energy. It follows trends as they form. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | TOP PICK | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | SG Capital Cedar Street Fund LP: The proposition is that you have an agile, nimble strategy in poorly analyzed companies. Will turn over positions each quarter depending on announcements. Fund made 9%. No complications for Canadians investing in this US fund. Exempt of US$ risk. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | TOP PICK | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | ROI High Income Placement Fund: Invests in loans and mortgages in the private space. High quality loans to high quality borrowers. Never had a negative day. Banks aren’t interested in the actual projects, but the borrowers are fine. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | BUY | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Man GLG Emerging Markets Income Fund: Seeing opportunity in the bond market in this strategy. The developing world is paying a nice yield on their sovereign debt. Don’t go whole-heartedly into it. | 2012-01-31 |
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| Craig Machel | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Ratings of Who Had the Best Returns: Canada Hedge Watch periodical. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Alternative Investment Information: There are more and more resources available in Canada. Canada Hedge Watch periodical. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Performance Expectation of Hedge Funds: 2011 was a difficult stretch of time. The hedge fund world is a broad world. Some strategies don’t put capital protection foremost. Look at 2008 and 2011 and that gives you an idea what to expect in the future. In both cases you are either at 0 or close to it, while stocks dropped. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Hedge Funds: Are they riskier than mutual funds? No. Not if you use conservative strategies. You have to understand what you are getting into. You need to put up $25,000 per strategy. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Portfolio allocation for alternative investments: Get comfortable with them and then increase. 10-20% to start and then after 5-6 years, 100%. That is a means to really reduce volatility and increase consistency. | 2012-01-31 |
| Craig Machel | N/A | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets: Bonds give you negative real returns. Traditional stocks will be quite volatile for some time to come. | 2012-01-31 |
| Hank Cunningham | TOP PICK | iShares US High Yield Bond Index ETF | XHY-T | 20.650 | US High Yield Bond Index ETF that is hedged back to the Cdn$. This has 62 different bond issues in its portfolio. Covers the whole spectrum of the US economy. Not very risky and the default rate has fallen to less than 5%. You are going to get close to 8% even 9 9% depending on the price. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | TOP PICK | H&R Real Estate Inv Trust | HR.UN-T | 23.100 | 5.9% convertible bond during June 30/20. Underrated so carries a little bit more risk but still gets paid ahead of the common. Yields about 75 more basis points than the underlying dividend on the common. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | TOP PICK | Brookfield Asset Management Inc. | BAM-N | 30.200 | 5.29% bond maturing April 25/17. This is an undervalued credit so bond yield is more that the underlying government of Canada bond yield. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | $20,000 bond coming due on an 8-year ladder. Should he renew at 4% or go shorter? He thinks you should keep the ladder intact. 4% is a reasonable rate in 82% inflation world. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Italian 10 year bonds? He has a very good outlook on Italy because he doesn't buy a lot of the criticism that they are coming under. 7th largest economy globally. 4th largest gold reserves globally. It runs a primary surplus. High risk transaction because you have the value of the bond plus the value of the euro versus the Cdn $. If you have a speculative inclination, this is a good value. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | SELL | Bell Aliant | BA-T | 27.940 | 6.4% strip bond maturing 2031? If you own, he would recommend you sell. It's a long time for a Corporation never mind a bond. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | DON'T BUY | Fairfax Financial | FFH-T | 416.500 | .25% bond due June 22/20 yielding 5.9%. Is this safe? Thinks it is too far out for this particular corporate. He would avoid it. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | PAST TOP SHORT | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | (A Top Short May 19/11. Down 8.3%.) Short the US 10 Yr bonds @ 3.12%. Didn't foresee the calamity in Europe. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | PAST TOP PICK | H&R Real Estate Inv Trust | HR.UN-T | 23.100 | (A Top Pick May 19/11. Up 7.22%.) 5.196% bond maturing Feb 3/15. Likes the company overall. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | PAST TOP PICK | Brookfield Asset Management (A) | BAM.A-T | 30.270 | (A Top Pick May 19/11. Up 3.5%.) 5.20% bond maturing Sept 8/16. Thinks this is undervalued. Likes the company. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | DON'T BUY | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Floating Rate Bond ETF such as HFR-T or XFR-T in anticipation of rising interest rates? Not a good place to put your money. Also it does not appear as though short term interest rates will be rising anytime soon. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | 10-year bond ladder with a minimum bond rating of BBB. Maximum percentage allotted to each credit and/or sector? Would put no more than 10% in any one credit or 10% in any one particular sector of the economy. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Investment for a fixed income portion of an RRSP in today's low interest environment? With be allocation and duration of investments? #1 He would build a portfolio using conventional interest paying instruments. He likes 1-10 year maturities. GIC's for 1-5 (yielding more than almost all bonds). Investment grade corporates for the 6-10 year term. #2 He would look for short-term (under 5 years) corporate strip bonds and for longer-term would look for provincial strips, 6-10 years. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | SELL | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Coupon, province of Ontario bond due March 8/23? This is an interest payment that has been detached from a regular bond. Very volatile instrument and has had a tremendous run in the last 2 years. He would be tempted to sell. For them to continue as well, interest rates would have to go down another full percent. | 2012-01-30 |
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| Hank Cunningham | BUY | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | How risky are BBB rated bonds such as Calloway Real Estate (CWT.UN-T) or First Capital Realty (FCR-T)? Likes these 2 credits particularly. REIT sector has had a really good run and is still a comfortable sector to be in on the equity side. Dividends are well protected and interest payments are even better protected as they get paid out before the dividends. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | BUY | Claymore Advantage High Yield Bond ETF | CHB-T | 20.440 | Advantage High Yield Bond ETF. Likes this quite a lot. Default rates on junk bonds have fallen substantially. This gives you a big, diversified portfolio. There are over 400 bonds in this one and reaching across the entire spectrum of this economy. Yield is going to be close to 8% and you might get as much as 10% this year. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | SELL | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Real Return Bond ETFs? Yield on real return bonds is almost 0. You should get a return of 2% over inflation. If you own them, he would sell. Returns have been fantastic. If nominal yields rise and inflation expectations stay the same, these will sell off in price substantially. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | DON'T BUY | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Shorting US 2 and 10 bonds after European crisis winds down? The risk is that yields continue to go down. For an individual to short the bond market is very difficult. To do that you might have to use an ETF, which can be really leveraged. Very risky and complicated for an individual. | 2012-01-30 |
| Hank Cunningham | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Interest rates. Expect things will gradually creep up because the economy is getting better and inflation expectations are fairly subdued at just around 2%. Flight to quality has been in the US market will gradually erode or just disappear. This will cause a natural rise in yields. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | TOP PICK | CARLSBERG -B- | CARL-OMX | 0.000 | Carlsberg Beer. (Trades on the OMX Exchange). Became a value stock last year when it fell on the back of some weak earnings from Russia. Russia accounts for about 40% of the company's earnings. Expect that beer production will increase going forward. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | TOP PICK | Royal Boskalis Westminster | BOKA-EUR | 0.001 | (Euronext Exchange) Dig out harbours and de-sand them so it is a return revenue business for high volume ports like Hong Kong, Long Beach, etc. Recently made 2 acquisitions allowing them to do more initial infrastructure of building ports. Very inexpensive. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | TOP PICK | ABB Ltd. | ABB-N | 20.550 | Leveraged to the Chinese/Indian (?) grid modernization effort. Pays a good dividend. Very strong balance sheet. Has the balance sheet to make acquisitions. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | Comment | A T & T US | T-N | 29.340 | This is a dividend aristocrat type company that has paid a dividend increasing for 15 years. 6% dividend and a good balance sheet. Currently it has problems with its pension and has to pay for its smart phones being added to its network. There won't be a lot of growth here. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | DON'T BUY | Petroleo Bras Sa Petro | PBR-N | 30.730 | Generally what he doesn't like about Brazil is its inflation. The biggest problem is that there is starting to be Brazilian government influence for these companies. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | Comment | Telefonica S.A. | TEF-N | 17.460 | Headquartered in Spain and has 10 European operations along with 175 million subscribers in Latin America. However, in the last couple of years Spain's economy has imploded giving a ton of headline risks for the company. Recently took steps to cut the dividend so the stock has fallen to about $17. If Spain can recover there should be continued growth. There is value, but you might have to wait a little while. Prefers China Mobile (CHL-N). | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | DON'T BUY | Archer Daniels Midland Company | ADM-N | 29.710 | One of the underlying catalysts for this has been the grand peripheral (?) trade. That whole valley chain has caused land prices for farmers to reach inflated levels. As, at the same time as a Chinese big demand for these food commodities. Longer-term, you have a backdrop of sovereign risk at the banking levels for the US governments. Wonders if longer-term, the trade is going to unwind. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | DON'T BUY | Microsoft | MSFT-Q | 29.610 | Has had a good run over the last 20 years. From a longer-term value perspective, is going through a transition. It needs to transition into a either a slow mature growing stock or has to find a catalyst for higher growth. Won’t be a big growth story in the next 2 to 3 years. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | HOLD | Vodafone Group PLC | VOD-Q | 27.200 | As a value investor, he likes the story. Paid a special dividend in Jan/12, which came through Verizon (VZ-N) which took annualized yield up to 8%. Also has growth aspects, as it is exposed to India and parts of Africa. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Facebook IPO? Personally, he would not own this at this time. It is going to run very quickly. Historically these are trading stocks. If you want to trade, the duration will probably be 30 days.Facebook IPO? Personally, he would not own this at this time. It is going to run very quickly. Historically these are trading stocks. If you want to trade, the duration will probably be 30 days. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | HOLD | Visa Inc. | V-N | 99.880 | Likes the payment processing area. Tons of recurring revenue, 60% operating margin, dividend increases, buybacks. Stock has run up 40% over the last 12 months. Will be a good, long-term hold. All they really good value has been taken last year. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | DON'T BUY | iShares MSCI Brazil ETF | EWZ-N | 65.410 | MSCI Brazil ETF. Wouldn't go to Brazil right now as they have a big issue with inflation and commodity trades are starting to unwind. Commodity companies are going to be what drives Brazil. | 2012-01-30 |
| Darren Sissons | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Europe. He is currently buying in Europe. Moving forward, he suspects there might be better opportunities in Europe. Perhaps towards the end of the year might be a bit better to pick up new positions. | 2012-01-30 |
| Bill Carrigan | TOP PICK | Encana Corp | ECA-T | 19.580 | He is looking at a 9-month 5 wave bear. Chart for 2011 shows one of the worst extreme bears he has seen in a large cap energy stock. Too much deviation from the 50 and 200 days, so is clearly oversold. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | TOP PICK | Shawcor Ltd. (A) | SCL.A-T | 29.670 | Chart shows an inverse head and shoulders and it is just breaking above the neckline. Thin trader so you have to be patient. | 2012-01-27 |
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| Bill Carrigan | TOP PICK | Linamar Corp | LNR-T | 16.660 | Auto industry is doing well and rather than buying auto companies, let’s Buy companies that sell into that. Chart shows a small symmetrical triangle and it is breaking out. Just above the 50 and is trying to run through the 200. RSI is just turning up. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | Comment | SPDR Gold ETF | GLD-N | 168.970 | Gold ETF. Tracks physical gold. Chart shows a nasty A, B, C down which is now over. This is above the 200 day and is rising. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | Comment | Agnico-Eagle Mines | AEM-T | 39.240 | Got hit with a torpedo mid 2011 when their mine closed. Stock had been weak on a relative basis before this. A serial underperformer. However it is now too far below the 200 day so risk/reward is possibly good. Will probably rally. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | DON'T BUY | Wi-Lan Inc. | WIN-T | 5.400 | Not fussy about companies that make their living by litigation. The short term on this is not too exciting. It has traded below the 200. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | HOLD | Keyera Corp | KEY-T | 45.730 | 200 day is still rising so it is still in an uptrend. If you are a long term investor, it’s fine. If a short term investor, you’ve already been in a bit of a correction. It’s back down to the 50, which is trying to roll over. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | WATCH | Inter Pipeline Fund | IPL.UN-T | 17.320 | Chart shows an uptrend from 2009 and it is still advancing but might be suffering a little from the trend away from safety. The 50 day is rolling over and is trying to trade back down to the 200. Watch the 50 day and see what happens. Relative strength is rolling over also. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | Comment | Coca-Cola Company | KO-N | 67.440 | Doesn’t think you will get hurt in this. Doesn’t see any upside or downside in this. 2.8% yield. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | Comment | Fortress Paper | FTP-T | 32.950 | Chart shows it had a down trend and it is breaking out. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | Comment | Telus Corp | T-T | 56.130 | US Telcos are getting tired and this will sp[read to the whole sector. If you own, consider reducing your holdings unless you are in it for the yield. Feels the capital return is over. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | HOLD | Bombardier Inc (B) | BBD.B-T | 4.480 | Chart shows a low in 05 followed by a higher low in 09 and another one in 2011. This is an upward trending channel. Trying to break out. If you believe the recovery is real, you can Buy. Has to reach $5 to really get it going. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | PAST TOP PICK | BMO Equal Weight US Banks Hedged to CAD Index ETF | ZUB-T | 12.020 | (A Top Pick Sept 30/11. Up 22.17%.) Equal Weight US Banks Hedged to CAD Index ETF. US banks had been oversold. Chart shows a double bottom and the stock has broken above the pivot point. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | PAST TOP PICK | BMO NASDAQ 100 Equity Hedged-Cdn$ | ZQQ-T | 18.970 | (A Top Pick Sept 30/11. Up 14.51%.) NASDAQ 100 Equity Hedged-Cdn$ ETF. If you look at a point and figure, it’s a pure blue sky. There might be a couple weeks of congestion and then should start to move higher again. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | PAST TOP PICK | iUnits S&P/TSX Energy ETF | XEG-T | 17.700 | (A Top Pick Sept 30/11. Up 17.84%.) S&P/TSX Energy ETF. Chart shows the stock violated the down trend and there is a higher low. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | HOLD | Trinidad Drilling Ltd | TDG-T | 6.630 | Sector got frightened by the massive drop in natural gas and then there was the announcement by companies that they were going to reduce production. Chart is now showing a higher low. You should be okay with this. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | HOLD | Trican Well Service Ltd. | TCW-T | 16.350 | Sector got frightened by the massive drop in natural gas and then there was the announcement by companies that they were going to reduce production. Chart is now showing a higher low. You should be okay with this. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | HOLD | Viterra Inc | VT-T | 10.250 | There was some noise over the Cdn Wheat Board’s recent decision, which probably hurt it a bit. Thinks the worst is over. He is currently getting interested in the agriculture space. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | Comment | Canfor Pulp Products | CFX-T | 13.880 | Chart is showing a trend change. Yielding 11% so this makes him nervous. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | BUY | PetroBakken Energy | PBN-T | 15.250 | Had a down trend until Oct/11. Had a first advance in October followed by a Wave Elliot. These 3rd waves can go on for quite a while. Could go to about $18 followed by another correction. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | DON'T BUY | Cameco Corporation | CCO-T | 23.730 | Reached its old 2009 low last year but has now violated the downward trend. The big question is, how far will it go. The whole uranium sector was upgraded by a few institutions and a lot of money ran into it. Daily charts would indicate it has been very much overbought. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | Comment | Quadra FNX Mining Ltd | QUX-T | 15.020 | Being acquired by KGHM out of Warsaw at $15 a share. His experience has been that if you are fortunate enough to be in the stock is being taken over is to take your money and run. | 2012-01-27 |
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| Bill Carrigan | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Semiconductor industry. Rose about its pivot point this week. It will probably sell down a bit for a few weeks and then start moving again. After that, the upward trend should start again. | 2012-01-27 |
| Bill Carrigan | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets. Believes we are in a bull market. NYSE advance/decline line has broken out. Dow is now at its old peak of 2011. Chart shows a pivot point occurring at the end of October. Ance we clear the pivot point, it is an indication that the bull is assured. Expects there will be a little bit of selling but it should not be very aggressive. It could meander sideways for a couple of weeks. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | PAST TOP PICK | Hemisphere GPS Inc. | HEM-T | 0.900 | (A Top Pick March 17/11. Down 35.25%.) Provides GPS to the agriculture sector. As this sector fell off, the sentiment declined. Stock is now starting to rebound. Would be a buyer here. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | PAST TOP SHORT | Hastings Entertainment | HAST-Q | 1.780 | (A Top Short March 17/11. Up 114.1%.) | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | TOP SHORT | 5N Plus | VNP-T | 5.260 | Solar business has just been a disaster in the last year. This company provides components and some of the raw materials into this sector. Collapsing prices and subsidies disappearing. Cheap natural gas is a clean alternative to solar. Have a lot of debt. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | TOP PICK | VersaPay Corp | VPY-X | 1.140 | (A Top Pick March 17/11. Up 9.78%.) Provide e-wallet for online transactions. They service businesses, not consumers. Put up their 1st profitable quarter last summer/fall. They'll continue to grow in the 20%-25% range. Target of $2-$3. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | TOP PICK | Innovative Composites | IC-X | 0.750 | Hydro forming plastics technology patent was bought from Magna (MG-T) and is being used to manufacture low-cost modular shelters, which solves all the issues of deterioration, flame retardant, pest controlled and water leakage. Won a $60 million contract for shelters in Haiti and are in the process of bidding with the Clinton Global Initiative on a $4 billion contract. Recently won a contract in Brazil for low-cost housing. Target of $2-$3. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | DON'T BUY | Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp. | CXX-T | 0.540 | Has some interesting assets both in Labrador and Wyoming. The problem is that the uranium sector is still under a lot of pressure. They will need to raise a lot of capital in order to put these projects into production by themselves. Very speculative. He owns some warrants. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | Comment | CORRE | CVR-X | 0.450 | Put a bid in on the Iraqi oil spill cleanup in April, from the 1st Iraq war. Expect that by the end of March that will know what their share will be. There has been some insider buying. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | DON'T BUY | Orbite Aluminae | ORT-T | 2.820 | Producing alumina out of clay. Has a small Short position in this company. He is still not convinced that the process is economic at this point. Some analysts have pointed out that it may not be as positive as originally thought. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | BUY | Carfinco Financial Group | CFN-T | 7.200 | Likes this one a lot. Feels the dividend is sustainable. Auto sector seems to be going gangbusters. Demand is starting to pick up. Disciplined management team. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | BUY | Sandstorm Resources Ltd. | SSL-X | 1.420 | Feels this still has a lot of upside. Have a lot of new mines, royalty streams that are coming into production this year and even more next year. It should be lots of growth in revenues and cash flows. Great management. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | BUY | Computer Modeling Group Ltd | CMG-T | 14.500 | Solid stock with a good dividend? He likes Computer Modeling Group (CMG-T) which does modeling for oil/gas exploration. Ways about 3% dividend but also has some growth. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | BUY | Amaya Gaming Group Inc. | AYA-X | 2.580 | Key catalyst is the reopening of the US marketplace to online gambling. This is now happening and states sponsored online gaming has now been approved outside of sports betting. This company has an end to end solution that manages the compliance and regulatory process. Have a number of contracts including Lotto Québec. Believe they will report their 1st EBITDA profits in the 4th quarter. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | BUY | Western Potash | WPX-T | 1.300 | Really likes this one. Now that there is a little more liquidity in the marketplace, he thinks agriculture names have bottomed. Getting into a better seasonal position as they tend to do well in the spring. This is a junior player and not into production yet. He could easily see it as a takeout at $2-$3. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | BUY | Wi-Lan Inc. | WIN-T | 5.400 | Had an unsuccessful bid for Mosaid last year. Feels it has been in the penalty box since then. There has recently been some insider buying. Quite inexpensive. Looks like it is breaking its more recent downtrend. | 2012-01-27 |
| James Hodgins | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets. Has become marginally more positive on risk assets over the last couple of months. European sovereign debt spreads have come in a lot, which is a positive change underlying the markets. There is now more noise out of the US Fed about low interest rates continuing for 2 1/2 more years. | 2012-01-27 |
| Stan Wong | TOP PICK | iShares MSCI Emerging Market ETF | EEM-N | 42.140 | MSCI Emerging Market ETF. Brazil is up 11%, India is up 10% and (?) is up 5% so far this year. There are a couple of catalysts in emerging markets. Monetary policy is easing in certain areas. Inflation is coming down. China looks like it is going for a soft landing. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | TOP PICK | Mastercard Inc. | MA-N | 347.830 | Very strong global brand. Expecting earnings momentum to continue. Has international expansion. Consumer continues to be very resilient. There is growth in debit and prepaid cards. Trading at about 18X forward earnings. Long-term growth is probably 17%-18%. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | TOP PICK | Cisco | CSCO-Q | 19.830 | Regaining market share. Broken above the 200 day moving average at couple of months ago and the 50 day is now above the 200 day, which is a very solid signal. Trading at around 11X forward earnings with a 9%-10% long term growth rate. There will continue to be growth in net work traffic and band width usage. | 2012-01-26 |
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| Stan Wong | Comment | JP Morgan Chase & Co | JPM-N | 37.490 | Shorter-term, he expects it to move up. Fears from Europe had dissipated a little bit. He would prefer a smaller bank such as Keycorp (KEY-N). | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | Comment | Bank of Nova Scotia | BNS-T | 52.730 | The Fed announcement of interest rates remaining low until 2014 is a couple of things with the banks. First of all, it is going to have a drag on net interest margins going forward. However, it will allow consumers to continue to borrow money. Expecting to see a deleveraging in the consumer space. This one is probably more diversified than its peers. Don't look for a tremendous amount of growth from the banks. Really a dividend play. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | HOLD | Home Depot | HD-N | 44.950 | In the very near term, this stock is overbought. 68 RSI but he continues to like it. Earnings are coming in strong and expectations are still moving up. Looking at 14%-15% for the long-term growth rate. Trading at about 18X earnings. He would like it at $41-$42. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | HOLD | Agrium | AGU-T | 80.390 | Longer term, agriculture is a great space to be in but over the last 12 months or so, you are seeing lower highs and lower lows. It has kind of broken above the 200 day moving average so it is tricky to see where it is going to go going forward. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | Comment | Silver Wheaton | SLW-T | 34.720 | Likes silver longer-term, but has been disappointing over the last 6-7 months but this has now broken out above the 200 day and 50 day moving averages. A high beta stock so you have to be careful. He prefers trading at this point. $36 might be the next resistance level before it gets to $40. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Healthcare? A more defensive space so from a relative performance, it may not be the best place to be this coming 12 months. Names that he continues to like are Pfizer (PFE-N), Bristol Myers (BMY-N), Glaxosmithkline (GSK-N), Merck (MRK-N) and Abbott Labs (ABT-N). | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | Comment | Aecon Group Inc | ARE-T | 11.170 | Industrial space should do well where things are getting a bit healthier. Technically, it had the golden cross back in December where the 50 day moving average crossed the 200 day moving average. Also, stock price moved above the 200 day long-term trend in October. Very choppy company. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | Comment | Las Vegas Sands Corp. | LVS-N | 48.970 | Has meandered between $40 and $50 for a good part of last year. You can use this as a trading stock. Stocks like this and Wynn Resorts (WYNN-Q) should do well given that the macro environment is getting better. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | DON'T BUY | Starbucks | SBUX-Q | 48.340 | This stock is astounding. Continues to move up. Trading at around 26X earnings so may be getting a little bit rich. Long-term growth is high at 17 but 26X forward earnings makes it a bit tough for him. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | DON'T BUY | Microsoft | MSFT-Q | 29.500 | A very mature company in the tech space with a decent yield. Growth rate is probably at the high single digit and trading at about 11X earnings. There are probably other places to be in the tech space. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | HOLD | Teck Resources Ltd. (B) | TCK.B-T | 42.880 | Copper and coal. Assuming that the clouds are starting to clear a little on the global picture, this is the kind of stock you want to own. Higher beta stock so is a lot more volatile than your normal TSX stock. Above the 200 day moving average. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | BUY | Tim Hortons | THI-T | 48.860 | Has competition from many different spaces, primarily McDonald's (MCD-N) at this point. However, we are still looking at a nice low teens long-term growth. Trading at around 13X earnings. Has stayed above the 200 day moving average. Likes the stock. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | BUY | BCE Inc. | BCE-T | 40.270 | Feels people are moving out of the defensives into the cyclicals. Height of fears regarding Europe are behind us at this point. Because of this, these stocks will come off a little bit. However, this is a great cash flow company with over 5% yield. Not a tremendous growing company, probably high single digit. Earnings are moving up. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | PAST TOP PICK | Sprott Physical Silver Trust | PSLV-N | 14.100 | (A Top Pick Jan 13/11. Up 9.32%.) Sold his holdings at about $17. Feels silver will be okay longer-term. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | PAST TOP PICK | Mosaic Company (The) | MOS-N | 55.370 | (A Top Pick Jan 13/11. Down 30.7%.) Stopped out at $56. Still continues to like the agricultural space longer-term. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | PAST TOP PICK | Manulife Financial | MFC-T | 11.910 | (A Top Pick Jan 13/11. Down 28.49%.) Got stopped out at $14. The announcement that interest rates will continue to 2014 is a negative for life insurers. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | BUY | Apple | AAPL-Q | 444.630 | Trading at 11X earnings. $97 billion in cash. Long-term growth rate is still in the very high teens. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | BUY | A T & T US | T-N | 29.450 | This is a defensive name. Payout ratio is probably about in the 60% area so relatively secure from a dividend perspective. It will have tremendous growth but will pay you a very nice dividend. 6% at this point. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | DON'T BUY | Carnival Corp. | CCL-N | 30.480 | Not handling the PR very well. Even before the accident, the stock had been moving down and earnings had been looking at little bit murky. It's in the discretionary space so could do well going forward for the time being it is below both the 200 day and 50 day averages. $30 might be its support level. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | Comment | Ford Motor | F-N | 12.790 | Discretionary stock so it could do well. Has broken above the 200 day moving average, which is very positive. The 50 day moving average is not white above the 200 day yet. Consider looking at some of the emerging market companies such as Tata Motors (TTM-N). | 2012-01-26 |
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| Stan Wong | Comment | Suncor Energy Inc | SU-T | 34.390 | There is probably a $10 premium on oil prices due to the Middle East situation. This is a cyclical name that should do well where the economy is starting to calm down with the macro picture getting a bit better. It has just broken above the 200 day moving average. On his radar screen. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | BUY | iShares S&P/TSX Capped REIT | XRE-T | 15.570 | S&P/TSX Capped REIT. REIT space should continue to do well. It has the characteristics of being defensive and the yield is at about 4.8%. Also offensive because of the commercial space it is in. If the economy picks up, occupancy rates will continue to rise. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | DON'T BUY | Transalta Corp | TA-T | 20.060 | Stock has meandered sideways for the last couple of years. Very good dividend so if you're looking for a dividend play it’s a great play. If things are getting better in the world, as he expects, it probably won't perform as well on a relative basis. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | Comment | Pfizer Inc | PFE-N | 21.630 | One of the defensive stocks that did very, very well last year. Starting to see it roll over a little bit. Technically speaking it still looks pretty sound with the 200 day moving upwards and the 50 day moving across the 200 day very recently. Dividend is about 4%. Doesn't look at this as a tremendous growing company but is in the mid to high single digit range. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | DON'T BUY | Amazon.com | AMZN-Q | 193.316 | Leader in the online retail space. Has a great growth outlook of probably 25% plus of estimated earnings. Forward PE is at about 80X earnings, which is quite high. Also has fallen below the 200 day moving average. You've also got the ominous death cross were the 50 day has moved below the 200 day. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | DON'T BUY | Encana Corp | ECA-T | 19.740 | Short-term possibility for profits? Down over 35% over the last 12 months but year-to-date is up almost 12%. This goes in hand with natural gas prices moving up slightly due to some production being taken off-line. Still a tremendous oversupply, inventory is quite high and we are having some pretty warm weather. Outlook for natural gas is still pretty negative. | 2012-01-26 |
| Stan Wong | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets. Feels that stocks and indices are overbought right now. We’ve had a 5 week advance and RSI’s are getting close to 70, if not above so is expecting a pause or consolidation but nothing to worry about at this point but over the course of the year, is pretty optimistic and constructive. Dow Jones is near a May 2008 high and NASDAQ 100 is near a 2001 high. US stocks have outperformed Canadian stocks this last year by quite a big degree and this could continue for some time. It also tells him that the US economy is muddling along, not too strong, but still moving forward. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | PAST TOP PICK | Suncor Energy Inc | SU-T | 34.390 | (Top Pick Oct 14/11, Up 12.59%) Bought a coupe of positions. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | PAST TOP PICK | Manulife Financial | MFC-T | 11.910 | (Top Pick Oct 14/11, Down 1.9%) Don’t buy right now. Largest shorted stock in Toronto. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | PAST TOP PICK | Suncor Energy Inc | SU-T | 34.390 | (Top Pick Oct 14/11, Up 12.59%) Bought a coupe of positions. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | PAST TOP PICK | Newalta Corp | NAL-T | 13.570 | (Top Pick Oct 14/11, Up 18.23%) Should have both and didn’t. Should have bought but didn’t. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | TOP PICK | Softchoice Corp. | SO-T | 11.320 | Came out with good earnings. Very long time trading at a very steady price ($8). Now we are at $11. It based for a long time and will break out for a long time. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | TOP PICK | Madalena Ventures | MVN-X | 1.130 | Had a fade back to below the $1 level. Huge rally and then a new high. This is the sort of thing you want to see. H would take profits around a $1.50 or get our below $1. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | TOP PICK | General Electric | GE-N | 19.070 | Has been dead money for years and looks like it is starting to move up again. Goes the way of the US markets. He likes it a lot. Moving above all the moving averages. Nice and liquid and you should hold it. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | SELL | AEterna Zentaris Inc. | AEZ-T | 1.640 | Rather bad couple of days. Was down substantially, outside of a range. Consolidated. It broke down and is more likely to go down. $1.50 on the downside. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | Comment | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Options: are tricky because you can loose 50% and still be ok. If you are long, probably 50% stop and an expectation of a double. Manage the risk very, very carefully. Stocks: 5% stop lose or if it is volatile, you may have to go more. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | BUY | Hudbay Minerals Inc. | HBM-T | 11.820 | Doesn’t like it fundamentally, but it looks good technically. It has shown a buy signal recently. It will pause at the $13 level. It has many days of large daily moves so you will see a little tailing off of the buying, but $11.50 might be a buying point. If it goes down to $11 you want to exit and that might be a stop loss. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | HOLD | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Silver: Some correlation between this and gold. It is in a downward trend in a trough. Don’t expect too much out of it and expect it to consolidate about the $30 level. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | HOLD | Trican Well Service Ltd. | TCW-T | 16.010 | Hold off on this one right now. A consolidation at about $16.50 level. If you hold there you will o well, but if it drops to $15 there is not a lot of support and you have to exit. Probably a dollar rally in the next few months, so you probably have to exit these stocks. | 2012-01-26 |
| Jeff Parent | SELL | Cogeco Cable | CCA-T | 47.750 | Broke down about the $50 mark. Several days in series going down. You have to sell this right now. Could easily go down to $1.93. Entry point may be at $45.00 | 2012-01-26 |
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| Jeff Parent | N/A | A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert | A Commentary | 0.020 | Markets: Looks more on the short term to see a direction. Primarily on the down days there is recovery and then follow-on. It looks like we are in a bull market. Getting close to 200 day moving average on S&P. That will give another group of people the interest to buy some more. He is getting rid of stocks that don’t do well when there are inflation worries. You are seeing negative returns for bonds this month. Reducing income oriented investments and getting more into momentum investments. | 2012-01-26 |
| Peter Brieger | BUY | Arc Resources Ltd | ARX-T | 24.060 | Would nibble away at this stock at these levels. Dividend is safe. If gas went to $1.50, they would cut capital spending. They would take money from DRIP programs and they would sell extraneous land, so the dividend is safe. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | BUY | Canadian Natural Rsrcs | CNQ-T | 40.300 | Because of what they are doing at Horizon they are throwing off huge amounts of cash and will pay down debt or acquire other companies. He may double his holdings. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | HOLD | Agnico-Eagle Mines | AEM-T | 37.760 | Loves gold and thinks it is going higher. Used to own this and still owns G-T. AEM is cheap and he would continue to hold it. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | DON'T BUY | General Electric | GE-N | 19.130 | Not a bad holding, dividend is safe, but he would rather be elsewhere. GE has so many businesses. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | DON'T BUY | Cenovus Energy | CVE-T | 36.470 | Doesn’t like it because it is expensive. Prefers CNQ, SU. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | DON'T BUY | Cameco Corporation | CCO-T | 23.850 | Sold after tsunami on Japan. One has to have a good view on uranium, which he does not have yet. He would not play Uranium right now and would play Uranium participation units if he did. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | WAIT | Research In Motion | RIM-T | 16.400 | He would hold it but not buy it. He wants to see how the new team works, what they will focus on going forward. They have a great franchise, new operating system so he is not despairing about the company. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | BUY on WEAKNESS | Teck Resources Ltd. (B) | TCK.B-T | 42.470 | Seen 20% in S&P and 10% in Toronto since October lows. Likes it because of the demand from China. Would buy except for worries for a short-term pullback in the markets. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | BUY | Inter Pipeline Fund | IPL.UN-T | 17.500 | Never thought the third party contract for management was the main driver behind stock price. Conservatively run company. Management’s objective is to make sure there is enough cash flow to cover the distribution. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | TOP PICK | Central Fund of Canada Ltd (A) | CEF.A-T | 22.490 | Gold/Silver play. Believes in diversifying between the two metals. No futures contracts so you are getting the pure goods. Believes gold will become part of the new world financial system. It is a currency and there is no liability. Highly attractive. Feels gold will go higher. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | TOP PICK | Scorpio Gold Corp. | SGN-X | 0.910 | Chairman has bumped production rate for this year and it could produce 50-60 cents per share. Before buying it, realize only two people covering it. He is very bullish on it. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | TOP PICK | Bonavista Energy Corp | BNP-T | 22.800 | Bought yesterday. Likes the nat. gas story long-term. If gas heads for $1.50, the shut-ins will kick in. 6% dividend. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | BUY | BCE Inc. | BCE-T | 40.950 | Doesn’t know why it went down this morning. Dividend is safe. They know their holders are long term and want income. There is increasing competition in that whole space and something may have happened that put BCE down. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | HOLD | Trans Canada Corp | TRP-T | 41.790 | Sold it because of negative keystone outcome. Thinks that in fact you will see the keystone pipeline built. There is too much pressure from American politicians for the jobs and oil. Thinks it will get built but it is dead money for 6 months except for the dividend. Doesn’t see any tragedies for them. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | DON'T BUY | Apple | AAPL-Q | 446.660 | Remarkable story. Attributes the boost in sales to Steve Jobs death. He thinks there was a collective moment worldwide where everyone said that they had to go buy an Apple. It was such a huge global story. He won’t chance it here unless it pulls back. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | DON'T BUY | Kinross Gold | K-T | 11.300 | Could be taken over down here. There wont be production growth for a couple of years and could be faced with higher mining costs in the mean time. Doesn’t buy on speculation of takeovers. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | BUY | Agrium | AGU-T | 81.020 | It is two businesses – retail + wholesale. Likes the long-term outlook for corn even though ethanol subsidies have gone. Prefers this to POT | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | WEAK BUY | Potash Corp of Saskatchewan | POT-T | 45.480 | AGU is cheaper. The problem they have both been having is that there is excess inventory of potash and hurting the price. India and China are resisting the higher price but longer term he would recommend it. | 2012-01-25 |
| Peter Brieger | BUY | Scorpio Mining Corp. | SPM-T | 1.990 | Next week they will probably announce plans to complete expansion of existing mill. It will be in operation in the first quarter of next year and help cash flow in 2013. There are a lot of very interesting geological prospects on the property. They hired a geologist. | 2012-01-25 |
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| Peter Brieger | DON'T BUY | Manulife Financial | MFC-T | 12.550 | It’s cheap for a good reason. Interest rates over the next couple of years could stall its recovery. Dividend is stable. If you had a 5-year view you would be ok. | 2012-01-25 |
