Wednesday, February 14, 2024

My Stock Picks for 2024

Hey there!

After a long hiatus, we are back with our stock picks for 2024.   My current criteria is at least 1 Billion market cap with a P/E ratio of not more than 55.  I specifically looked at stocks that fared well during and even after the covid-19 period.

Looking back at my past posts in 2018, CSU.TO and WCN.TO were two of my picks back then.

I'll check back in at the beginning of 2025 to see how the stocks performed.

Stock performance metrics from: https://portfolioslab.com/screener/stock

Disclaimer: Please do your own due diligence, as I'm not a financial expert.


Disclosure: I have the following stocks, either in my own or my family's portfolios:

ATD.TO, CP.TO, CSU.TO, TRI.TO, WCN.TO, WSP.TO

Here are the five year charts for the stock suggestions ...


ATD.TO

Sector - Consumer






CLS.TO

Sector - Tech






CP.TO

Sector - Industrial






CSU.TO

Sector - Tech






L.TO

Sector - Consumer






MEQ.TO

Sector - Real Estate






TFII.TO

Sector - Industrial






TRI.TO

Sector - Industrial






TVK.TO

Sector - Energy






WCN.TO

Sector - Industrial







WSP.TO

Sector - Industrial






Have an awesome day!




Saturday, January 11, 2020

My January Stock Picks for 2020

Time to look at stock picks for the upcoming year. 



So nowhere is it more evident than in China, that skiing and snowboarding look to be taking off.    There are no less than 30 indoor ski parks in China.
However natural outdoor skiparks in China aren't thriving at the moment.

With the growing Chinese middle class, they are really looking into leisure activities and I think skiing and snowboarding will become their focus.  

I think the indoor skiparks will give the Chinese a real taste for winter sports, but they will start to hunger for the real thing.  They have no problem going abroad to spend their money.

With that said, I started to look into publicly traded ski resort stocks but with the exception of Vail Resorts (MTN), there aren't any.  

The next best thing is to look into ski and snowboard equipment and apparel providers.  Burton is the number one snowboard company but it is privately held. Another big provider of winter sports equipment is Saloman.

I wanted to at least pick one stock from the Canadian stock market, but I couldn't find any, so all my stock picks this month will be traded on the US markets.

So for my first 2020 stock picks, I'm going with 
MTN - Vail Resorts, $251.40 USD
ADDYY - Adidas (which owns Saloman), $171.47 USD
VF - VF Corporation which owns NorthFace, $95.06 USD

In April 2020, I will check the stock valuations and see how they fared coming out of the winter season.




Wednesday, May 16, 2018

May 2018 Stock Picks

Have these on my radar, although some of them are quite expensive.

Attributes:  Demonstrated Performance over past 5 years.


1. CSU Constellation Software.  Tech sector. Software.

http://www.csisoftware.com/overview/



2. DSG Descartes Group.  Tech Sector.  Supply Chain Logistics.

https://www.descartes.com/knowledge-center




3. CTC.A Canadian Tire.  Consumer Cyclical.  Retail.

https://corp.canadiantire.ca/English/home/default.aspx


4. QBR.B Quebecor. Telecom.  Media. Sports Entertainment.

https://www.quebecor.com/en/home



5.  BYD.UN Boyd Income Fund.  Consumer Cyclical - Automotive Repair.

https://www.boydgroup.com/



6. TCL.A Transcontinental Inc.   Consumer Cyclical - Packaging and Printing.

https://tctranscontinental.com/about-us



7. KXS Kinaxis.  Tech.  Application Software.  Supply Chain.

https://www.kinaxis.com/


8. CAR-UN.  Canadian Apartment Real Estate Trust.  Real Estate.

https://www.caprent.com/about-capreit/



9. WCN.  Waste Connections. Industrials Waste Management,

https://www.wasteconnections.com/about-us

Monday, December 4, 2017

Model Portfolio Review at Dec 01, 2017

 Preface

Google Finance announced the retirement of it's portfolio tracker in the summer of 2017.  This blog gathers it's data and graphs exclusively from Google Finance and with the deprecation of the portfolio management, updates to this blog will also come to an end.  

I still haven't found another free portfolio tracker on the web, but I will continue to look and maybe one day I can continue my portfolio updates.

I have managed to capture the portfolio data this one last time before it all vanishes, so here is the final post for this blog.   


Portfolios

May 2014


All stocks are showing positive returns, majority with double digit gains.  Best Stocks:  GC 101% and GIB.A 85%.   

YTD returns of the portfolio are 33%.  On the initial investment of $35,262, the portfolio is now worth $47,975, an increase of $11,643.  Dividends accrued is $1070.

Annualized ROI is approx 9% year over year for the past 3.5 years, inclusive of dividends.


Performance graph May 2014 thru November 2017 and shows a total YTD return of 36.3%, giving us a dividend yield of 3.6%.  M2014 portfolio is now at an all time high.



M2014 portfolio returns of 36.3% as compared to TSX 10.7% over the same period.  Pretty much outperformed the Toronto Stock Exchange over the entire period.


M2014 transaction data captured for future reference.

May 2015


The M2015 portfolio is also showing positive returns on all it's stocks.  Every stock return is in the double digits.  Best stocks of this portfolio are ATD.B 35% and NA 31%. 

Total investment of $13,233 now has a value of $18,621 for a gain of $3009.  Portfolio return is 23.19% excluding DH and 15% adjusted for DH losses.  DH residual value and dividends totalled $2319.


M2015 annualized return is 14.5% over 2.5 years.


The performance graph for the M2015 portfolio shows a total 21.9% return inclusive of dividends (includes DH loss).  This portfolio is also at an all time high.


During the past 2.5 years, the M2015 portfolio 21.9% outperformed the 7% returns of the TSX.


M2015 transaction data above.

May 2016



With the exception of CRT.UN, all stocks are in positive territory.  Best performing stocks in this portfolio are ECI 24% and AQN also 24%.  

Total investment of $35,045 is now worth $41,217 that includes dividends of $2578 and gains of $3593.  Portfolio gain is 10.25%.


Total portfolio gains amount to $6172 for a year over year annualized return of 11.15% over the past 1.5 years.



The M2016 portfolio peaked in June 2017, but is now back near it's high.  The total return is 17.85% inclusive of dividends.


The TSX was much stronger over the past 1.5 years with a solid 15.42% return.  The M2016 portfolio managed to just better it at 17.8% as you can see from the graph.


 Here are the M2016 transactions.

 May 2017



The M2017 portfolio is definitely not performing as desired, losing about 2.5% year to date.  Initial cost of this portfolio was $17,327 but it is only worth $16,983 giving a loss of $429.

Best performers of this portfolio are TSGI at 21.4% and RCH at 11%.  The big drags on this portfolio are UNS down 29.47% and CAS down 22%.

We are about two thirds into this portfolio's lifespan and it is showing -3.3% ROI.



With the small amount of dividends this portfolio has generated, it reduces it's overall loss to -1.6%.  It has never shown a profit to date.



The M2017 couldn't even beat the lacklustre performance of the TSX's 3.37% and the performance deficit appears to be widening.



The transaction data for M2017.