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Date Signal Company Expert Opinion Price
2013-05-23 N/A A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert
A Commentary
Genevieve Roch-Decter

Markets.    Just launched an energy infrastructure fund.  There will be a 100 billion spent over the next 5 years in energy infrastructure.  Pipelines, mid-streams, oil services, and rail.  Differential will narrow with the infrastructure build.  Rail stocks are hitting new highs.  Oil by rail story does not evaporate if Keystone is approved and built.  Producers are looking for alternative transportation because pipelines are a monopoly.  CPG built rail terminals themselves.


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: _N/A
2013-05-23 TOP PICK Altagas Ltd
ALA-T
Genevieve Roch-Decter

Loves it.  Phenomenal run in last little while.  New production in BC will increase cash flow next year.  Cash flow will be 80% utility-like next year.  It will get a multiple expansion next year.  3.7% dividend paid monthly.


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Yes
2013-05-23 TOP PICK Badger Daylighting
BAD-T
Genevieve Roch-Decter

Really, really boring.  When pipelines are broken they do pressurized water to fix them. At all time high but they keep growing their dividend.  Lots of market share for them to gain.  600 trucks, making 3 more every week.  They don’t need to raise money.  Pick away to build your position.


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Yes
2013-05-23 BUY Black Diamond Group
BDI-T
Genevieve Roch-Decter

Temporary housing accommodations.  It is essentially a 5 star hotel that keeps moving around.  Expanding into Australia.  About to break out.


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Yes
2013-05-23 STRONG BUY CSX Corp
CSX-N
Genevieve Roch-Decter

Prefers over Canadian railroads.  A bit of a laggard because coal industry in US has been in decline.  11 times earnings vs. 18 times for Canadian.  They have 3 years of backlogs awaiting them.


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-23 TOP PICK Canexus Corp
CUS-T
Genevieve Roch-Decter

7% yield.  Just getting into energy infrastructure.  Truck to rail and pipe to rail.  Will probably increase dividend over next two years.


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Yes
2013-05-23 BUY ENTREC Corporation
ENT-X
Genevieve Roch-Decter

Has been under a little pressure.  Thinks that it is a pause, not a stop.  Heavy hauling and crane services.  They increased their margins last quarter.  Rolling up all these acquisitions well.  Wait because there might be a seller out there.  But it is a buy.


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-23 BUY Canyon Services Group
FRC-T
Genevieve Roch-Decter

3.6% dividend.  A fracker as opposed to a driller.  Thinks it will improve.  There will be a lot of increase in activity. 


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Yes
2013-05-23 BUY Inter Pipeline Fund
IPL.UN-T
Genevieve Roch-Decter

A favourite stock of theirs.  Biggest holding across their client accounts.  A smaller pipeline that they really like.  About 40% of the oil production in Canada.  Expansion plans in the oil sands.  4.6% dividend and have increased over the last 9 years. 


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Yes
2013-05-23 BUY Pembina Pipeline Corp
PPL-T
Genevieve Roch-Decter

Smaller pipeline.  A lot of NGL infrastructure.  A plan to built out a billion in infrastructure.  Really steady eddie.  Get paid regardless. 5% dividend but she owns for growth too.  Dividend is safe.  Their cost of capital keeps going down.


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-23 BUY Shawcor Ltd. (A)
SCL-T
N/A

Global piping coating company but it is in their universe.  Just reported a record quarter.  Just collapsed their share structure. She is waiting for an active shareholder to be bought out, perhaps at a discount and she might want to participate.  It is a buy today for the retail investor. She is a Bull on Energy Infrastructure.


Price: $0.000
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BULL on ENERGY
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 N/A A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert
A Commentary
John Wilson

Markets. You have to be careful when the market has been up 80% of the last number of days.  There is no weakness to buy on.  You have to chase the market higher.  He has not been selling either.  It is harder and harder to know what the risk is.  A lot of Canada is determined by global growth.  He is not seeing a lot of growth in the short term.  He finds good things to buy in Canada.  There is even some things to buy today.  We may not get a correction for 4 or 5 months.


Price: $0.020
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: _N/A
2013-05-22 BUY A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert
A Commentary
John Wilson

Banks.  Looks at tech analysis but it is not a key platform.  Based on fundamentals.  Does not own any Canadian banks.  US regional banks have more leverage to US economy improving.  He believes Canadian housing has peaked.  Prefers West coast US Banks.  He is buying some today.


Price: $0.020
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 N/A A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert
A Commentary
John Stephenson

Markets. 23% of junior mining companies on the TSX would run out of cash in 3 months or less.  Private equity is starting to move into this however.  Private equity has a 5 year time horizon.  It is an interesting development.  It is interesting that so many are looking at the resource space. 


Price: $0.020
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: _N/A
2013-05-22 N/A A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert
A Commentary
John Stephenson

23% of mining companies on venture exchange of 3 months or less of cash.  There are 8-9 hundred companies in platinum, silver and gold on TSX Venture.  Not all of those companies all scrambling for the same investor dollar are going to make it.  With juniors you have financing risk, commodity risk, and management risk.  Thinks in the next few years 50% of them will be gone.


Price: $0.020
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: _N/A
2013-05-22 SELL Barrick Gold
ABX-T
John Wilson

(Market Call Minute) He is short.  A lot of compression in cash flows.


Price: $20.210
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 PARTIAL SELL Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp
AQN-T
John Stephenson

He thinks it has had its run.  He is selling down because it is now just purely a dividend story.


Price: $8.080
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 BUY Alimentation Couche-Tard (A)
ATD.A-T
John Wilson

(Market Call Minute) Likes it a lot.  Great integration in Europe.


Price: $61.400
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 BUY Bank of America
BAC-N
John Wilson

(Market Call Minute) Doubled in last year.  Cheap, but litigation risk.  But it could do well.


Price: $13.310
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: No
2013-05-22 BUY Bank of America
BAC-N
John Stephenson

(Market Call Minute) It’s cheap.  Harder to analyze so not his top pick.


Price: $13.310
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 DON'T BUY BlackBerry
BB-T
John Wilson

Uncertainty level is far too high.  You have to be prepared to trade it fairly actively.  Thinks they will never return to the old form of relevance. 


Price: $15.010
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: No
2013-05-22 BUY Blackstone Group LP
BX-N
John Stephenson

(Market Call Minute) Thinks it will do really well.  You want to be in a name like this.


Price: $22.380
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 TOP PICK CitiGroup
C-N
John Stephenson

This is the industry that lead us into the 07/08 crisis.  Now the company is transitioned into a retail machine and 65% of earnings come from outside US.  Deferred tax asset.  It is low risk.


Price: $51.000
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 BUY Celestica Inc
CLS-T
John Wilson

(Market Call Minute) Great cash flow and a catalyst in the next 3 to 4 months.


Price: $9.350
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: No
2013-05-22 TOP PICK Cisco
CSCO-Q
John Wilson

Got into it last summer. Story has played out as he had hoped.  70% market share in core business.  Really well managed company.


Price: $23.340
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 PAST TOP PICK Cenovus Energy
CVE-T
John Stephenson

(Top Pick Apr 10/12, Down 14.03%) Over time is one of the better quality energy companies out there, but energy is weak right now because global growth is weak.  There is no reason to be there right now.  Wait until industrial economy is picking up in the US and China.


Price: $31.040
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: No
2013-05-22 PAST TOP PICK Dundee Corp. (A)
DC.A-T
John Wilson

(Top Pick Apr 29/13, Down 1.25%)


Price: $36.840
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 DON'T BUY Enerplus Corp
ERF-T
John Stephenson

(Market Call Minute) No reason to buy this name.


Price: $16.540
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 DON'T BUY Essential Energy Services Ltd.
ESN-T
John Stephenson

Services business is a derivative of the energy business.  He is skeptical of any services name right now.  Avoid it.  They are just too volatile.  They only bring them in when times are good.


Price: $2.450
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: No
2013-05-22 TOP PICK Facebook
FB-Q
John Wilson

SHORT – Valuation is rich.  More and more data is coming out about young people moving off of Facebook. 


Price: $25.159
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 PAST TOP PICK First Quantum Minerals
FM-T
John Stephenson

(Top Pick Apr 10/12, Down 6.69%)  It is a good company overall.  Did a phenomenal job of developing mines.  With the big Inmet project they will be dealing with it for some time.  It’s been a great name but the catalyst didn’t happen.  In the future it will be a buying opportunity.


Price: $19.220
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: No
2013-05-22 TOP PICK CGI Group (A)
GIB.A-T
John Wilson

Liked for a while.  Integrating UK acquisitions much better than expected.  They will get a higher multiple.


Price: $32.160
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 DON'T BUY Husky Energy
HSE-T
John Wilson

Prefers Methonex.  Would rather see resolution into how this stuff gets out of the oil patch before going in too deep.


Price: $30.830
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 BUY on WEAKNESS Ithaca Energy Inc.
IAE-T
John Stephenson

North sea operator, so a lot of abandonment liability.  In terms of overall, he thinks it looks fairly attractive.  Wait until the summer weakness he is predicting subsides to get your position.


Price: $1.880
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 HOLD Just Energy Group
JE-T
John Stephenson

Energy retailer business has struggled because people don’t want to answer to the door to them.  Not a bad business but it is hard to see where dramatic growth is coming from. There is also a new American competitor.


Price: $7.580
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 TOP PICK JP Morgan Chase & Co
JPM-N
John Stephenson

This is the best of breed, large cap financial institution in the world today.  Solid, diversified stream of earnings.


Price: $53.630
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 TOP PICK KKR & Co. LP
KKR-N
John Stephenson

If you believe equity markets are going higher, you could see mid 20% return for S&P so you need to be in private equity.  5.3% yield.  Impeccable balance sheet.  Best of breed.


Price: $20.510
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 SELL Loblaw Companies Ltd
L-T
John Wilson

You can see the release of value in the chart.  There is a turnaround story but it is about probabilities and odds.  Take your money and go.


Price: $49.350
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 HOLD McDonalds
MCD-N
John Wilson

(Market Call Minute) Decent yield but difficult environment.


Price: $101.740
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: No
2013-05-22 BUY Manulife Financial
MFC-T
John Wilson

Down last two years but up on the current one.  They lost some of the leverage to improving equity markets through hedging.  But benefit from emerging markets.  Good long term hold and you could own it here.


Price: $16.230
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: No
2013-05-22 HOLD PetroBakken Energy
PBN-T
John Stephenson

Thinks it will go straight sideways. Little growth. Balance sheet is improving, however.  We are having demand destruction in North America, though.


Price: $8.300
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 HOLD Pengrowth Energy
PGF-T
John Stephenson

(Market Call Minute) dependant on asset divestitures so it is a hold to a sell.


Price: $5.210
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 PAST TOP PICK Potash Corp of Saskatchewan
POT-T
John Stephenson

(Top Pick Apr 10/12, Up 2.80%) It traded up and AGU weakened over time.  There is a lot of production coming on in potash in the next couple of years.  The reality is that farmers will skip potash in favour of nitrogen some years.  Doesn’t see why you need to be here.


Price: $43.920
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: No
2013-05-22 DON'T BUY Rogers Communcations (B)
RCI.B-T
John Wilson

(Market Call Minute) Fully valued and losing momentum.


Price: $48.950
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 HOLD Royal Bank
RY-T
John Stephenson

Likes Canadian financials.  RY is a wonderfully well-run company.  They are the Canadian global capital markets story.  They are the number 10 asset manager globally and #10 advisory service.  Prefers US financials right now, however.  He still has TD and Commerce as well.


Price: $63.460
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 BUY Shawcor Ltd. (A)
SCL-T
John Wilson

Done well for him.  Where others find oil is not where the pipelines are.  This one has the possibility to participate in pipeline construction.  Thinks the peak earnings can last for much longer than the past.


Price: $42.390
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 BUY Shawcor Ltd. (A)
SCL-T
John Stephenson

(Market Call Minute) A decent name to hold.


Price: $42.390
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 DON'T BUY Staples
SPLS-Q
John Wilson

Just under 10% yield.  Fundamentals are challenging.  It is a very competitive market.  Expects them to shrink over the net several years. 


Price: $15.170
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 BUY Suncor Energy Inc
SU-T
John Wilson

Tremendously long lifed.  Going out 3 years you could own this stock if you don’t worry month to month.  Returns a lot of cash to shareholders.  Ultimately he thinks Keystone will get approved but it will take longer than people think.  2.4% yield.  Should increase dividend every year and maybe throw in a big buyback.  If oil goes up you get good leverage to that.


Price: $32.500
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 BUY Telus Corp
T-T
John Stephenson

He is a Telus fan.  It has pretty demonstrable growth ahead of it.  Dominant provider in the West on the wireless side, 8-9% growth going forward.  BCE probably has 5%.  It could do a lot with content.  As far as defensive categories that have worked well, this has done well. 


Price: $37.690
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 HOLD Twin Butte Energy
TBE-T
John Stephenson

Not bad on fundamentals side.  But it is not a big enough producer and the cycle is working against them.


Price: $2.260
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 HOLD Teck Resources Ltd. (B)
TCK.B-T
John Stephenson

(Market Call Minute) Too copper and coal linked and both are under pressure.


Price: $29.460
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 HOLD Tim Hortons
THI-T
John Stephenson

For many years was a great stock.  Built out their business but problem is where is growth going to come from?  The US market was a struggle for them.  It is hard to see where you could put another one.  Dunkin Donuts has a much lower multiple.


Price: $57.340
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - RESOURCE
Bias: BULLISH on RESOURCES
Owned: Unknown
2013-05-22 PAST TOP PICK Vodafone Group PLC
VOD-Q
John Wilson

(Top Pick Apr 29/13, Down 2.94%)


Price: $29.330
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-22 PAST TOP PICK Yum! Brands
YUM-N
John Wilson

(Top Pick Apr 29/13, Down 4.45%)  SHORT.  It was not a month long thesis.  There were missteps in China.  There are some growth problems in China.


Price: $69.830
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN - LARGE
Bias: SELECTIVE
Owned: Yes
2013-05-21 N/A A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert
A Commentary
Mason Granger

Markets. Thinks the timing and sentiment is starting to change.  Some major pipeline projects will tend to alleviate some of the bottlenecks.  If/when keystone happens it will be a big positive.  Keystone should get resolved in late August.  Has heard rumours that it could leak over into 2014, though.  Differentials in oil prices have narrowed quite nicely.  It is now about $8 and he thinks it will narrow to $5 by year-end. 

Gas inventories are tracking a little below their 5-year levels and that has been quite positive.   We need an exceptionally hot summer from here.  We are seeing some switching back from Nat Gas back into coal.  The magnitude is not immaterial in the grand scheme of things.  His fund is 2/3rds focused on dividend paying stocks and the rest is small cap (with significant cash flow growth) companies that should eventually get taken over by dividend payers.


Price: $0.020
Subject: OIL & GAS
Bias: BULLISH on OIL & GAS
Owned: _N/A
2013-05-21 N/A A Comment -- General Comments From an Expert
A Commentary
Joseph Schachter

Markets.  Fundamentals in the oil sector are quite negative.  New oil production growth in North America is more than global demand growth.  Thinks normal seasonal patterns will occur this year.  We are now seeing gas inventories build and if they get more than historical then prices could drop $1 for Nat Gas.  You may want to take profits in Nat Gas if you are overweight and wait for a buying opportunity.


Price: $0.020
Subject: ENERGY
Bias: BEARISH on OIL
Owned: _N/A
2013-05-21 BUY Altagas Ltd
ALA-T
Mason Granger

A core holding.  Likes where they are positioned.  They have been acquisitive in buying stable rate of return businesses.  Are well positioned going forward in terms of LNG exports.  He owns it for growth and for dividend. 


Price: $40.210
Subject: OIL & GAS
Bias: BULLISH on OIL & GAS
Owned: Yes
2013-05-21 PAST TOP PICK Arc Resources Ltd
ARX-T
Mason Granger

(Top Pick Jun 25/12, Up 48.13%) Has been a core holding for years.  Tremendously well run company with a discipline for hedging gas prices and paying a sustainable dividend.  Exciting resource behind this company and an inventory to last years.  He will be scaling out of it as it has risen and will now be buying it back on a dip.  He trades it.  60% gas / 40% oil.


Price: $27.590
Subject: OIL & GAS
Bias: BULLISH on OIL & GAS
Owned: Yes
2013-05-21 DON'T BUY Athabaska Oil Sands Corp
ATH-T
Mason Granger

It has struggled this year, dropping through $10 support.  Perfect storm of things going wrong.  COO left the company and other issues added to take the stock down.


Price: $6.610
Subject: OIL & GAS
Bias: BULLISH on OIL & GAS
Owned: No
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