The report for ReoCan REIT is updated and rated Buy at $24.24.
When I first added RioCan to the site on July 9, 2011 rated Weak Buy (essentially a Hold) it was trading at 1.53 times book value. Now it is trading at a much more attractive 0.98 time...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 2.3% while Toronto fell 0.5%.
Toronto's decline was caused in part by Valeant's decline of 11.1% which was due to news that its CEO is in hospital with pneumonia. Valeant is down 60% in U.S. dollars (which it reports i...
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On Monday, the S&P 500 fell 0.2% while Toronto was closed in lieu of Boxing Day.
Our next update will likely be for RioCan Reit as well as the RioCan preferred share series A. The preferred shares are set to reset to a materially lower dividen...
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Onex Corporation is updated and rated Speculative (lower) Buy at $85.68. This entity is not a normal operating corporation but is a combination of a conglomerate holding company that invests mostly in private companies (the value of which is difficul...
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On Christmas Eve, the S&P 500 fell 0.2% while Toronto rose 0.2%.
Boston Pizza Royalties was up 2.4% to $17.70. Last week, co-founder Jim Treliving bought 5000 units at $16.97. Combined with other recent insider buying, it seems clear that mana...
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The Wells Fargo preferred shares (series O) report is updated and rated Weak Buy / Hold at $25.04. These shares had been added to the list in 2014 because I had bought some at what seemed to be a bargain price of under $20 in late 2013. At $25 they a...
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Wells Fargo is updated and rated (higher) Buy at $54.82. Despite being the world's most valuable bank Wells Fargo's operations are mostly concerned with the traditional lending out of depositor money. It does not engage in the large-scale investment ...
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The S&P 500 was up 0.9% on Tuesday and Toronto was up 0.4%.
The five-year government of Canada bond yield was down to 0.72% on Monday and edged up to 0.75% on Tuesday. This very low yield continues to keep rate reset preferred shares trading a...
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On Monday, the S&P 500 was up 0.8% and Toronto was up 0.1%.
Canadian Western Bank was up 1.6% after announcing an acquisition of an commercial and equipment finance company that it believes will be quite accretive although not for several year...
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On Friday, the S&P 500 fell 1.8% while Toronto was up 0.1%.
Bombardier was up 16% after announcing that it received the expected certification for the smaller version of its new C-Series plane and also announcing a significant rail car contrac...
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On Thursday, the S&P 500 was down 1.5% and Toronto was down 1.2%.
The Canadian dollar is down under 72 U.S. cents. This seems bizarrely low. It certainly seems to be driven by low oil prices. I don't know why low oil prices have quite so much ...
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Constellation Software is updated and rated Speculative (lower) Buy at CAN $581 and U.S. $423 (this was based on yesterday's closing price and it is at CAN $585.43 as I post this as stocks rose on the FED news).
Constellation is one of Canada's ve...
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On Friday, the S&P 500 declined a hefty 1.9% and Toronto was down 1.7%.
Overall, 2015 has not been a good year for stock investors, especially for investors in Canadian stocks. The Toronto index is down 12.6%. The average Buy (or higher) rated...
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On Thursday the S&P 500 was up 0.2% and Toronto was up 0.6%
Dollarama was down 5.3% to $77.37. That is down from a high of almost $94. I read that latest quarterly press release and the company continues to grow very strongly. But it was a ver...
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Toll Brothers is updated and rated (higher) Buy at $33.84. Sales for a homebuilder are hard to predict. However, in this case the revenue is relatively predictable because it is driven by signed home sale contracts about one year earlier. Based on th...
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Tuesday was another down day for the markets. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% and Toronto fell 0.9%.
Among the more notable decliners were certainly some that I have rated as Strong Buys or Buys and which I have a heavy allocation to in my own portfolio...
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Canadian Western Bank is updated and rated Strong Buy at $23.66. This bank's earnings remain strong despite lower oil prices. Q4 profit did decline about 8% versus the previous year. But the bank is not expecting any unmanageable level of loan losses...
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On Friday, the S&P 500 was up a hefty 2.0% and Toronto was up 0.3%.
Notable gainers included Berkshire Hathaway, up 2.9%; Bank of America up 2.9%; Visa, up 2.7%; Toll Brothers up 2.3% and Valeant up 2.3%. Also, the Canadian Western Bank rate r...
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Visa Inc. is updated and rated Weak Buy at $79.04 (it closed today at $78.29 but my analysis was done earlier at $79.04). Visa is clearly an excellent company and is exceptionally profitable. And it sits at the center of the conversion of monetary tr...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 1.1% and Toronto rose 1.2%.
Notable gainers included Valeant Pharmaceuticals up 9.6%; Stantec, up 2.0%; Couche-Tard up 2.7%, Toll Brothers up 2.4%; Bank of America up 2.2%, Constellation Software up 2.2%; Liquor ...
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The report on Amazon.com Inc. is updated and rated Sell at $680. I had added this company to the site only five months ago and rated it a Sell. It's up an amazing 55% since then. I added it to the site because I was curious how its financials looked....
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Bank of America is updated and rated (higher) Buy at $17.48. This bank has finally put (hopefully) virtually all of the large financial crisis related litigation settlements behind it. If earnings in these next two quarters can match the performance ...
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On Friday, the S&P 500 rose 0.1% while Toronto fell 0.4%.
I am now planning to make use of my margin account to buy some additional Boston Pizza shares. The distributions will easily pay the monthly interest on the margin borrowing leaving abo...
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On Thursday, the S&P 500 was closed and Toronto rose 0.2%.
One thing that investors can give thanks for is that while stock prices can rise or fall on any given day the majority of companies on the stock exchange make an additional profit each...
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Element Financial is updated and rated Speculative Buy at $17.50. This company has grown by acquisition at a huge pace. Barring higher loan losses or other problems it should report significantly higher earnings in the next year based on its current ...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 was up 0.1% and Toronto was up 0.2%.
Oil bounced back to $42.85.
Bombardier wasted some money to host an investor day in New York City (the stock does not even trade in New York) and their attempts to reassure invest...
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On Monday, the S&P 500 was down 0.1% and Toronto was down 0.4%.
As expected TransAlta got a bounce due to the Alberta climate change report and rose 9.4%. I don't have TransAlta on the list but have mentioned it a few times lately.
I also m...
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Alberta has released a climate change report. It includes higher carbon taxes and a phase out of coal fired generation by 2030. And there will be a cap on oil sands emissions.
Clearly, we have arrived at the point where there will be financial inc...
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Walmart is updated and rated (lower) Buy at $60.07. Walmart is currently experiencing declining earnings per share due to the high U.S. dollar and particularly due to the substantial wage increases that it announced early in 2015. The company project...
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On Thursday, the S&P 500 was down 0.1% and Toronto was up 0.5%.
The Canadian Western Bank preferred share bounced up 3.2% on a small trading volume. Melcor was up 2.2% but that was also on light volume. Boston Pizza Royalties was up 1.5%.
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The report for AutoCanada is updated and rated Speculative Buy at $28.64. This company was added to the site on July 14 rated Buy at $40.36. It had at that time fallen by 55% from highs around $90 in May of 2014. Since being added to the site the sto...
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On Friday, the S&P 500 fell 1.1% and Toronto fell 0.4%.
Bombardier was down another 7.3% as its conditional sale of C-Series planes to Porter Airlines will not be happening since the Federal liberal Transport Minister indicated the runways the...
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The report for Liquor Stores N.A. is updated and rated Sell at $8.55. The dividend appears to be running at double the earnings level which seems highly unsustainable. In addition, I have lost faith in management.
The report for their convertible ...
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On Thursday, the S&P 500 fell 1.4% and Toronto was down 1.6%.
Valeant was down 6.2%. Based on my view of adjusted earnings as of Q2 (which was a lower number than the company provided as I did not agree with all of their add backs) Valeant is ...
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Melcor is updated and rated a Strong Buy at $15.25. It has a long history of earning good returns on equity and it is on sale for close to half price due to fears related to lower oil prices and the Alberta economy. In addition it is thinly traded an...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 0.1% and Toronto was down 0.5%.
Canadian Tire was down another 2.1% to $108.93. It's probably a Buy at that price but it would probably be best to wait for it to report earnings on Thursday morning. The earnings ma...
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The Q3 report for BP Royalties is out and same store sales were stronger than I would have expected given the thinking that Alberta would be a drag. Franchise sales upon which the royalty is collected were up 2.6% on a same store basis. Distributable...
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Thursday's action saw the S&P 500 down 0.1% and Toronto down 0.8%.
Valeant was down about 15% after big investor Bill Ackman sent a letter expressing frustration to the company. Last week he tried to explain why the company was still solid in ...
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Monday was a strong day in the markets with the S&P 500 up 1.2% and Toronto up 0.7%.
The Canadian Western Bank preferred shares that I updated yesterday were up 2.6%. I notice the volume is very light in these shares. It was up about 2.6% earl...
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The report for the Canadian Western Bank rate reset preferred shares is updated. These preferred shares now yield 5.7%. The reset date is not until April 2019. At that point if the five year Canada bond rate remains at about 0.86% then the distributi...
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On Friday, the S&P 500 was down 0.5% and Toronto was down 1.9%.
Valeant's decision to "sever ties" with Philidor (a company that it had an option to buy and which it consolidated and which therefore in a sense was part of Valeant) would seem t...
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The S&P 500 was about even and Toronto was down 0.5%.
Constellation Software was up 4.8% after releasing a strong earnings report. Like I mentioned yesterday, some companies just seem to always be on their game.
Bombardier made the news wit...
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Wednesday was a strong day in the markets with the S&P 500 and Toronto each up 1.2%.
The FED once again did not raise rates but appeared to hint that it probably would in December. Maybe. The market ultimately decided that this was good news a...
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I have updated the American Express report for Q3 earnings. It's rated (lower) Buy at $75.25. It's had some "headwinds" lately due to loss of the Costco affiliated card in Canada and the pending less of same in The U.S. in march and also due to the h...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 was down 0.3% and Toronto was down 0.7%.
TransForce was down 7.0% for probably no good reason. I initiated a small position in this stock today (I bought when it was down more like 4%) and have an order in that will fil...
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Friday was another positive day in the markets. The S&P 500 was up 1.1% and has clawed its way back to a small positive gain for the year to date. Toronto was up 0.5% but remains down 4.6% year to date.
Melcor was up a hefty 9.0% but we should...
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TransForce is the largest trucking company in Canada and gets about one third of its revenues from the U.S. It has a very successful track record of both growth by acquisition and of generating strong earnings and cashflow from its operations. It app...
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On Thursday, the S&P 500 rose 1.7% and Toronto was up 1.3%. These are hefty gains.
Individual winning stocks today included CN Rail up 2.5%, Canadian Western Bank up 2.0%, Berkshire Hathaway up 3.1%, Constellation Software up 3.4%, and AutoCan...
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America Express was down about 6% to about $72 after posting Q3 earnings that were down 11% per share. Analysts had apparently expected a smaller decline.
I am not exactly shocked by the 11% decline given that one third of its revenues come from o...
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On Wednesday, the S&P 500 was down 0.6% and Toronto was down a full percentage point.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which was added to this site rated Sell on July 30 at $331 is down to $154. I had concerns about both the valuation and the trustwo...
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On Wednesday, the S&P 500 fell 0.5% while Toronto rose 0.2%
Walmart announced that its earnings per share would fall 6 to 12% in the fiscal year that begins in February due to previously announced wage increases. On that news the stock fell 10...
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Walmart is down almost 10% after forecasting an earnings decline for its fiscal year that begins in February. The company indicates that sales would continue to increase and that earnings per share would grow 5 to 10% in fiscal 2019 which ends in Feb...
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American Express is updated and rated (lower) Buy at $76.78. It is facing a loss of its Costco card business in the United States in 2016 and has already lost the Canadian Costco card. Also the higher U.S. dollar is a negative. Nevertheless it has th...
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This Initial Public Offering of shares in the Ontario electricity transmission and distribution is open as I post this. I have not done any analysis but regulated utilities tend to provide returns over the years that are at least acceptable. I put i...
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The S&P 500 rose 0.1% and Toronto was closed for the holiday.
Oil was down 4.4% to $47.44.
The Baker Hughes report of active drilling rigs shows that the number of active drilling rigs in North America is down 59% compared to the year ago f...
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The report for Costco is updated. This is a wonderful business but the price (currently $154) usually seems to high. I was able to grab some at $125 on August 24 when the market had a very bad day. I may sell that and take my quick gain and then hope...
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Fortis Inc. has been added to our list of stocks and is rated Buy at $39.14. This is "pure play" regulated utility which results in earnings that are relatively low risk. It should report strong earnings growth in the next few quarters due to increas...
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Stocks of note: Melcor up 6.2% (but on thin volume as usual), AutoCanada up 2.8%, Toll Brothers up 2.8%, Boston Pizza up 2.6%, Canadian National Railway up 2.5%. Bombardier down 13%.
Car Prices and curre...
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I am currently working to add Fortis Inc. to our list. It's a "pure-play" regulated electric and gas utility which owns a number of utilities in Canada and the U.S. (and a small amount further south). It looks like the rating will end up being Buy of...
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On each daily post I mention the percentage gain or loss in the S&P 500 and the Toronto stock index for the day. Everyone tends to focus on the closing numbers. But sometimes the closing number has little to do with how the markets traded for mos...
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Today, the S&P 500 rose 0.2% (although it was down for most of the day) and Toronto fell 0.5%.
TransAlta managed to gain 2.6% after agreeing to pay a penalty to one of its regulators. I have not added TransAlta to the list but I have mentioned...
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Notable gainers included Valiant up 12.3% (in a partial rebound from recent large losses). Dollarama, up 2.3%, Liquor Stores N.A. up 3.6%. Couche-Tard up 2.2%, AutoCanada up 4.0%.
I had noticed today t...
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Bombardier was up 7.0% on comments from the Quebec government that Bombardier's contribution to the economy is highly valued by the government and the company would be supported (though there were no specif...
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On Thursday, the big news (or at least confirmation of what was expected by most) was that the FED did not raise interest rates as it continues to await and expect further improvement in the U.S. economy and as it awaits and expects inflation to move...
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Liquor Stores NA is updated and remains rated Strong Sell, now at $11.25. It appears to have a highly attractive dividend yield at 9.6%. However this dividend appears to exceed its earnings by close to double. It would appear to be at a high risk for...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 1.3% and Toronto was up 0.8%.
Oil is at $45.08 U.S. which is about $60.00 Canadian. At that level it may be that the western Canadian economy will remain stronger than the market expects. Calgary home prices rose m...
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The report on Canadian National Railway Company is updated and remains rated Buy now at CAN $74.43 or U.S. $ 56.18. The lower Canadian dollar will continue to benefit its results in Q3 and Q4 due to its U.S. operations and will offset what will likel...
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On Monday, the S&P 500 was down 0.4% and Toronto was down 0.8%.
Canadian Tire was down 2.6% to $118.10. Possibly the decline has something to do with the impact that it will face from the lower Canadian dollar, which is a concern that I have b...
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Toll Brothers is updated and remains rated Buy now at $37.23. Its latest quarter reported revenues and earnings were weak with a small decline. However that was related to a decrease in its signed home sales contracts from one year prior. This compan...
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The report for Alimentation Couche-Tard is updated and rated Weak Buy / Hold at $60.12.
As mentioned previously, this is one of Canada's very best managed companies. Since it was added to our list on March 31, 2005 rated (lower) Strong Buy at a sp...
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Thursday saw the S&P 500 up 0.5% and Toronto up 0.3%.
Bombardier was up 29% as it showed off its new plane in Toronto. This stock is on something of a knife edge. It's been like a plane in nosedive. It could crash or it could truly pull out o...
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On Wednesday, the S&P 500 finished the day down 1.4% and Toronto was down 0.7%.
Bombardier was a notable gainer, up 23% on rumors that there was some offer for its rail transportation business which offer was rebuffed but might indicate they c...
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Canadian Western Bank is updated and rated Strong Buy at $22.78. I have studied the latest earnings report and read the earnings call transcript. Given the low oil prices I could not have hoped for a better report or outlook. The market however remai...
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The software that controls the logins and passwords has been mostly restored and the need to login with a password should be restored very soon. I apologise for the confusion that this has created. For now, you are able to access the material here wi...
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Canadian Western Bank's earnings are out. Very positive in my opinion. Stock set to open about $1.00 higher or say 4% (and this 4% will change by the time the market actually opens in about 90 minutes) and remains a clear bargain in my opinion. But y...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 fell 3.0% and Toronto fell 2.7%.
I'd rather see rising markets but declines are undeniably a fact of life for investors. As I have said many times, I don't particularly try to predict declines or step aside. I try to bu...
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On Wednesday, the S&P 500 was up 1.8% and Toronto was up 0.5%.
Canadian Western Bank will report earnings either tonight or tomorrow morning. I expect certainly some increase in the allowance for bad debt and in delinquent loans. And I expect ...
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Happy birthday to Warren Buffett who turns 85 today and who remains extraordinarily sharp. In fact part of his success that is seldom recognised is that he has a sort of photographic memory for figures and all things business. And he combines that wi...
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August 21, 2015 (12:40 pm eastern time)
Market declines continuing. I have added to B...
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On Thursday, the price of owning a share of Corporate America or of Corporate Canada fell 2.1%.
It will be said that investors pulled money out of stocks. Not really. For every share sold there was a buyer. Investors as a population trade shares w...
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My server problem continues but should be resolved soon. I use a local small business to host the login page. Over the years the up-time has been very good and I am confident that they can correct this soon. The main site is hosted by Telus and very ...
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Canadian Tire is updated and rated (lower) Buy at $127. This is a very well-managed company. For the reasons indicated in the report it will likely struggle to show profit growth in the next couple of quarters and could certainly report lower profits...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 was down 0.3% and Toronto down 0.4%.
Individual stocks of note from our list included Walmart down 3.4% and Bombardier continuing its nose dive. However, AutoCanada managed a 2.1% gain and Toll Brothers rose another 2.8...
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On Monday, the S&P 500 was up 0.5% while Toronto was down 0.2%.
Boston Pizza fell 2,4% to $17.96. I added modestly to my position at $18.03. In the past two trading days six insiders have bought shares mostly at about $18.50. They would have b...
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My login server is still down and so I have opened access to the subscriber page without logging in. I had thought that this was also giving you access to all the reports but that was not the case. I have now opened up access to the recent updates su...
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Melcor is updated and continues to be rated Strong Buy now at $16.37. And the report continues to indicate that the stock is not without risk. This company is trading at 59% of book value and I believe that buyers will be rewarded as the company has ...
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Thursday was a down day for markets as the S&P 500 fell 0.8% and Toronto fell 0.7%.
Most of the stocks on our list declined. Notable decliners included Valeant Pharmaceuticals down 6.0% and Stantec down 11.0% on its earnings report (see my pre...
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In Wednesday's markets the S&P 500 was up 0.3% anf Toronto was up 0.1%.
Walmart was up 2.4%. RioCan REIT was down 3.7% even as it announced authorization for some share buy-backs (though that does not necessarily mean it will buy any, at least...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 fell 0.2% while Toronto rose 0.15%
TransAlta (which I have mentioned before but do not have on the list) was spanked down another 5% to $7.88. Even though it seems to have suffered from exceedingly poor management these...
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RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust is updated and rated Buy at $26.79.
The report here contains a great deal of information about the company and the factors that went into the rating of Buy. But the main factors are a yield of 5.3%, a price to b...
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On Friday, the S&P 500 fell 0.2% while Toronto rose 0.6%
The Canadian Western Bank preferred shares fell 3.4% to $20.76. At that price I would definitely be a buyer. These shares were close to $25 as recently as early May and have fallen with ...
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On Wednesday, the S&P 500 gained 0.7% and Toronto gained 1.6%.
Canadian Western bank was up 5.3%. Constellation Software was up 3.1% to $598 dollars. Constellation released a good earnings report after the close although the revenue growth may...
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Monday was another day that was good for picking up stocks at lower prices but not so good for those already fully invested. The S&P 500 was down 0.6% and Toronto was down 1.3%.
Showing the courage of my convictions I added to my Canadian West...
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On Monday, the S&P 500 rose 0.1% but Toronto fell 1.5%.
Canadian Western Bank fell 4.2% to $24.41. In part, this was likely due to a decline in oil prices which briefly dipped below U.S. $50. Also it may have been due to the overall decline in...
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On Friday, the S&P 500 rose 0.1% and Toronto fell 0.6%.
Stocks on the rise included the Canadian Western Bank rate reset preferred share up 4.8% to $23.36. Similarly, the RioCan rate rest preferred share on our list was up 4.9%. Both of these ...
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An Enbridge Inc. rate reset preferred share has been added to our list rated (higher) Buy at $19.27. At that price it yields 5.7% but only until December 1, 2019. At that point the dividend will be reset to yield 266 basis points plus the 5 year gove...
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On Wednesday the S&P 500 0.1% while Toronto rose 0.4% The Canadian dollar fell to a value of U.S. 77.3 cents after the Bank of Canada cut its benchmark overnight interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.50 in order to attempt to stimulate the Canadi...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 0.4% and Toronto was up 0.5%
Oil was up modestly to $53.25 as I write this. Oil rose despite fears that Iran will soon have the green light to pump more oil now that U.S. sanctions are to be lifted.
Tomorrow's b...
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Markets rose on Monday after a conditional debt deal was worked out for Greece apparently in the middle of the night. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% an Toronto was up 0.8%.
On Tuesday the market was set to open down about 0.2% on the S&P 500.
I ...
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On Friday, the S&P 500 rose 1.2% and Toronto rose 0.9%. This was due to optimism over a Greek debt deal. Almost all the stocks on our list rose. The Bombardier preferred shares were down 4.6% to $15.10. This would seem to suggest that "the market...
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Bombardier shares have fallen under $2.00. This is appears to be a terribly managed company although possibly the new CEO will ultimately be an improvement. Our report for this company has almost nothing good to say but I did conclude it might be a o...
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Amazon is added to our list but is rated Sell at $437.71.
As a customer I am a big fan of Amazon. (Especially because I recently saved over 80% by buying a generic printer toner cartridge through Amazon when other sources only had the over-priced ...
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It's an usual company in that it is mostly an investment fund but also an investment manager. For a number of reasons its GAAP earnings and balance sheet are not helpful. Our speculative Buy rating is ...
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Markets are down (1.3% U.S. and 2.0% in Canada) due to the Greece situation. If I had ample cash I would likely add to positions including Canadian Western Bank, CNR and Berkshire. But with limited cash I am trying to be patient and see how the week ...
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The FedEx report is updated and the rating is (lower) Buy at $172.85. This is a strong company. The valuation is not compelling but it may be worth taking a small position in at this time. I marvel that the company charges an average of only $12 for ...
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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 0.1% and Toronto rose 0.8% (as oil rose about 25).
I continue to view certain stocks that have been driven down by oil prices as buying opportunities. These include Stantec, Melcor and Canadian Western Bank and to ...
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Walmart is updated and rated Buy at $72.98. Its earnings per share have declined in the past two quarters due to the higher U.S. dollar (which reduces earnings from Canada and other international locations) and also due to increased wages and benefit...
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On Wednesday the S&P 500 was up 0.2% while Toronto was down 0.1%
Janet Yellen, chair of the FED, said she expects the FED to start to increase interest rates before the end of this year. Also the indication is that the rise in interest will b...
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On Tuesday the S&P 500 was up about 0.6% and Toronto was relatively unchanged.
Dollarama which I judged on Monday as too expensive for my tastes rose another 2.9%. Today it indicates that some of its share buybacks will be by private placement...
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Markets this morning are mixed with New York up slightly and Toronto down slight.
It sounds like Hudson's Bay Company made another good deal yesterday buying the a big German retailer and then doing a partial sale of the real estate by putting the...
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Dollarama is updated and rated Weak Buy at $72.01. I first added Dollarama to the list in early 2012 rated Weak Buy at $21.75 (all stock prices mentioned here are split adjusted). I considered it then to be very well managed but it seemed too expensi...
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On Thursday, the S&P 500 rose 0.2% and Toronto was down 0.4%.
Canadian Western Bank at $28.02 is trading at 10.5 times trailing earnings according to Yahoo. The dividend yield is 3.1%, I calculate the P/E ratio as 10.2. The book value per shar...
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On Wednesday, the S&P 500 was up 1.2% and Toronto was up 0.5%.
Most of the stocks on our list were up. Some notable gainers were Dollarama up 2.7% after releasing an earnings report. Visa up 2.5%. Canadian Western Bank up 2.0%.
Oil was up b...
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On Monday, the S&P 500 was down 0.7% and Toronto was down 1.4%.
Lower prices provide the opportunity to buy shares at better prices. For example, CN railway, Boston Pizza, Melcor, Canadian Western Bank and Berkshire Hathaway....
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