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We continually scour the Canadian and U.S. markets for stocks to recommend as buys to our Inner Circle. We generally get excited about only a handful—that is, excited enough to recommend them as buys in our publications. Most stocks we look at have one or more serious flaws, in our view. If you ask about stocks like these, we’ll tell you to sell. However, a large number of stocks fall into a gray area. We wouldn’t advise buying them, but they are “okay to hold,” in our view. (Suppose an Inner Circle member says, “Forget ‘okay to hold,’ Just tell me if it’s a buy or a sell.” In that case, we are always going to translate “okay to hold” as sell. We just don’t feel strongly enough about these stocks to advise buying.)...
Andrew Peller Ltd., $28.12, symbol ADW.A on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 14.3 million; Market cap: $418.1 million, www.andrewpeller.com), is Canada’s second-largest wine producer, after Constellation Brands (symbol STZ on New York). It accounts for 14.2% of the country’s wine sales, and 37.1% of wines produced in Canada. The company is also a recommendation of our Successful Investor newsletter. On March 18, 2016, Dr. Joseph A. Peller—the founder and former CEO of the winemaker—died on his 90th birthday. With his death, the Peller family now controls 66.6% of Andrew Peller shares, so any takeover bid would need its approval. Even so, it’s possible that the heirs could seek to sell the company to a competitor such as Constellation Brands. That adds to the already-strong appeal of Andrew Peller stock....
McGill University recently came out with a report that looked at the possibility that powdered metal fuels—made of iron or aluminum particles—could be an effective replacement for fossil fuels. That would simultaneously cut carbon emissions and environmental costs. McGill’s goal was to come up with an alternative fuel considering the limitations of solar and wind power. Neither provides enough electricity to directly drive a car. While battery technology can fill this gap to some extent, improvements aren’t growing fast enough to fully replace gasoline as a fuel. The major announcement from McGill was that its research team has demonstrated that a stable flame can be sustained in a flow of metal particles suspended in the air....
Enercare Inc., $15.82, symbol ECI on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 88.0 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion, www.enercare.ca), owns a portfolio of about 1.1 million installed gas-fired water heaters. These are mainly rented to residential customers in Ontario. The company also owns Enercare Connections Inc., a leading sub-metering business, with metering contracts for condominium and apartment suites in Ontario, Alberta and elsewhere in Canada. In the three months ended December 31, 2015, Enercare’s revenue rose 12.4%, to $141.6 million from $126.0 million a year earlier. Cash flow per share jumped, to $0.34 from $0.20. The increase is the result of stronger revenue and lower costs for the disposal of used equipment....