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JANUARY 30, 2017 INVEST LIKE A PRO, WITH THE PROS Ryan Irvine’s approach to stock research starts with a quote he heard from Warren Buffett when the legendary investor was asked in an interview to give advice to someone just starting out in the business. Mr. Buffett advised that the key was to learn about every company in the U.S. that has publicly traded securities because that bank of knowledge would serve anyone well over time. The in- credulous interviewer said that wasn’t possible because, at the time, there were more than 20,000 public companies in the U.S. Mr. Buffet said, “Start at the A’s.” 1 COVER STORY WARREN BUFFETT DISCIPLE RYAN IRVINE ON BOYD GROUP, ENGHOUSE AND…A KARAOKE COMPANY? CAPITAL IDEAS DIGEST Ryan Irvine explains his style and gives you three picks by Mark Bunting, Publisher, Capital Ideas Research “We need revenues, we need to see cash flow, earnings. We have our strategy and we stick to it. But we find new companies every year or compa- nies that have changed” Ryan Irvine, president KeyStone Financial Investing Rules of a Buffett Disciple WHY BRIO GOLD & INTEGRA GOLD BOTH HAVE MORE THAN 50% UPSIDE POTENTIAL “DEEP VALUE” PLAY NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY PARTNERS COULD SURGE 80% VECIMA NETWORKS WELL-POSITIONED TO CAPITALIZE ON MAJOR SHIFT IN U.S. CABLE Mark Bunting Publisher

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JANUARY 30, 2017 INVEST LIKE A PRO, WITH THE PROS

Ryan Irvine’s approach to stock research starts with a quote he heard from Warren Buffett when

the legendary investor was asked in an interview to give advice to someone just starting out in

the business.

Mr. Buffett advised that the key was to learn about every company in the U.S. that has publicly

traded securities because that bank of knowledge would serve anyone well over time. The in-

credulous interviewer said that wasn’t possible because, at the time, there were more than

20,000 public companies in the U.S. Mr. Buffet said, “Start at the A’s.”

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COVER STORY

WARREN BUFFETT DISCIPLE RYAN IRVINE

ON BOYD GROUP,ENGHOUSE AND…A

KARAOKE COMPANY?

CAPITAL IDEAS DIGEST

Ryan Irvine explains his style and gives you three picks by Mark Bunting, Publisher, Capital Ideas Research

“We need revenues, we need to see cash flow, earnings. We

have our strategy and we stick to it. But we find new companies

every year or compa-nies that have

changed”

Ryan Irvine, president KeyStone

Financial

Investing Rules of a Buffett Disciple

WHY BRIO GOLD & INTEGRA GOLD BOTH HAVE MORE THAN 50%

UPSIDE POTENTIAL

“DEEP VALUE” PLAY NORTH AMERICAN

ENERGY PARTNERS COULD SURGE 80%

VECIMA NETWORKS WELL-POSITIONED TO CAPITALIZE ON MAJOR

SHIFT IN U.S. CABLE

Mark Bunting Publisher

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Researching the entire market

To that end, every year Mr. Irvine, the of president KeyStone Financial, a boutique investment research firm specializing in small caps, and Aaron Dunn, senior analyst at Keystone, start at the A’s and analyze all the roughly 3,000 companies on the TSX and TSX Venture.

The painstaking work pays off. KeyStone’s website says the 17-year average return for the firm’s small cap stock research service is 38.5%.

“We dismiss quite quickly almost 95% of the companies because they don’t match our initial criteria,” Mr. Irvine says. “We need revenues, we need to see cash flow, earnings. We have our strategy and we stick to it. But we find new companies every year or companies that have changed.”

Perseverance and casting a wide net for stocks are a few reasons for KeyStone’s investing success. The company also looks for stocks in portions of the U.S. market.

“We try to outwork anybody to beat them, and look where they won’t look,” Mr. Irvine says. “We’ve extended our coverage into the U.S. We cover mostly the Nas-daq small cap market and there are some smaller New York Stock Exchange com-panies we cover, and we look at the AMEX, as well.”

A concentrated portfolio

To subscribers of KeyStone’s service, Mr. Irvine recommends a concentrated portfo-lio of no more than a dozen stocks. He believes owning too many can water down a portfolio.

“That’s our strategy, 8-to-12 stocks. Some of those are not going to work out. The small cap sector is volatile; you have customer concentration issues at times. You don’t want to have 25 stocks because you might as well mirror the market.”

At the same time, Mr. Irvine does not recommend investors have too narrow a fo-cus.

“If you get our service and you buy one or two stocks, you’re crazy. It’s too much individual stock risk. We find that sweet spot is about 8-to-12. Don’t buy them all at once, buy them over a year period so you don’t buy at a market top, so you’re spreading out your capital over that period. That’s how we try to educate our clients on how to use that service.”

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“If you get our service

and you buy one or two

stocks, you’re crazy. It’s too

much indi-vidual stock risk. We find

that sweet spot is about

8-to-12.”

“This is the perfect scenario

of a stock to have bought

(Boyd Group). A boring business.

The stock has now paid us $3

in dividends. What they’re saying now is

they’re going to double

operations over the next five

years.”

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A distinctively good idea

Mr. Irvine is familiar to Capital Ideas Digest readers as a contributor. A recent recommendation was Distinct Infrastructure (DUG-T), a self-described purveyor of “holes, poles, and trenches” for telecoms, utilities and governments. The stock is up a cool 47% since his mention in the October 17th issue.

“One of things that we struggle to find right now is organic growth, and if you look at DUG's organic growth in their last quarter it was quite strong,” Mr. Irvine says. “Revenues were up 85% in the last period; earnings were up 112%. I think they’ve got a good deal of tailwinds coming from a major infrastructure spend from telco’s. Bell and Telus are really spending quite well. They’ve moved into the U.S. market too, where they’re servicing some providers like Comcast.”

Mr. Irvine also says Distinct has a big customer it’s not allowed to name, but says is “the largest company in the world in search”. We’re guessing it rhymes with Smoogle.

Meeting management

Investment managers often talk about the importance of meeting management before they commit to buy-ing a stock. KeyStone is no different. It’s not always possible but Mr. Irvine says he has met executives at about half the companies in which he’s invested and has recommended to subscribers.

“If we’re looking for our GARP — or growth at a reasonable price — long-term growers, it’s really great for us to meet management. It really does help. The people behind the business are important to us. The numbers have to be there, too. We really focus on the bottom line because we’ve seen some companies grow the top line and never really produce a bottom line.”

Is that a red flag?

“Management teams that overpromise and underdeliver. We’ve seen that play out so many times over the last 20 years,” Mr. Irvine says.

He cites Patient Home Monitoring (PHM-V) as an example of that, which he says was “continually paper-ing the market with new shares.”

“You can grow the top line (revenue) but if you’re not growing the bottom line, it’s like a house of cards, and it eventually falls over,” Mr. Irvine says.

Patient Home, you may recall, was an acquisitive market darling in 2013 increasing its share price by about 20 times in a nearly two-year span before a series of events sent the stock back down to penny stock status.

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Ryan Irvine’s three ideas

Mr. Irvine says a good example of a company growing its top and bottom lines is Boyd Group Income Fund (BYD-T), the owner of mostly U.S.-based auto collision repair shops.

“We bought them in 2009. They were trading at $2.30 (currently around $84),” Mr. Irvine explains. “It was a deep value situation for us. But we watched them for two years before that underpromise and overdeliver, so they either hit their numbers or exceeded them every quarter for almost two years. We’ve recommended them about 25 times since then. This is the perfect scenario of a stock to have bought. A boring business. The stock has now paid us $3 in dividends. What they’re saying now is they’re going to double operations over the next five years.”

Mr. Irvine also cites software company Enghouse Systems (ENGH-T) as one of his favourites.

“We just love the way they’ve grown their business,” he says. “They grow by acquisition but they pay for it through internally generated cash flow. They haven’t really issued any shares in almost 10 years.”

Around 2007, Mr. Irvine says Enghouse was sitting on about $100 million in cash and was getting pressure from Bay Street to do something with it. The company said it couldn’t find any companies that were cheap so it was patient with its money. That strategy paid off in the wake of the financial crisis, according to Mr. Irvine, when Enghouse was able to snap up a number of companies in the ensuing years.

“They were so profitable that every year they’d deploy $50, $60 million and by the end of the year they’d still have $100 million in the bank because they made 50 million in cash flow,” he says. “They’re buying out of cash flow so you continually have per share cash flow growth. Enghouse has been a growth story ten years in the making.”

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Boyd Group Income Fund (BYD-T) | 5 Year Chart

Enghouse Systems (ENGH-T) | 5 Year Chart

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Now for a bit of a flyer of an idea. A company that makes karaoke machines called Singing Machine Co. Inc. (SMDM-OTCQB), which trades on the Over-The-Counter (OTC) market in the U.S. The company has a market cap of less than $25 million (U.S.). Mr Irvine likes Singing Machine’s market posi-tion and growth profile.

“I walked into my local Costco the other day and they had one karaoke machine in there and it was from Singing Machine,” he says. “If you look on Amazon, if you look on Wal-Mart, they’re the top seller. They’re selling at BJ’s Wholesale, Sam’s Club, Target, Toys ‘R Us.”

Singing Machine growth soaring

“If you look at their last quarter, there’s a thirty-three per cent increase in revenue,” Mr. Irvine says. “It was a 66-per-cent increase in net income. We think fair value on them is 72 cents. We expect them to earn 6 cents per share this year, so 12 times that multiple.” (Singing Machine quadrupled its share price in the last year to nearly 80 cents before pulling back to the current 55 cents)

“The target market for these machines is 8-to-15 year-olds,” he says. “There’s a bunch of companies making karaoke machines, but where they’ve really

hit the mark is their machines have disco balls and flashing lights, it moves to the music. The kids love these types of machines.”

One of the growth drivers for Singing Machine, ac-cording to Mr. Irvine, is a machine that can down-load songs.

“They’ve partnered with Stingray Digital (RAY.A-T),” he says. “They have a store to sell karaoke songs now on Stingray Digital if you look on your cable package. 33-per-cent cent goes to the artist, 33-per-cent goes to Stingray and 33-per-cent goes to the Singing Machine.”

Mr. Irvine says Singing Machine quarterly earnings results are expected at the end of February.

“That’s when we’ll really know if this is a success. It would be a far higher margin than the business they’re in now,” he says.

Mr. Irvine says Singing Machine is a special situation and not a long-term holding.

“We just found an individual situation that we thought was undervalued, unique, and had the po-tential to do well. They think they can continue to grow at 25%. We’d like to see that.”

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Singing Machine Co. Inc | 1 Year Chart

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average finally hit 20,000 last week, an all-time high. It’s a big deal, a psycho-logical barrier that has been broken and like it or not, President Donald Trump gets at least some of the credit.

"People are seeing that the administration is carrying through with some of the things they promised," said John Stadtler, head of the U.S. Financial Services Industry Practice at PwC told CNBC last week. "It looks like long-term capital gains are here to stay."

While investors are cautioned to not get too excit-ed, many are calling for a further run in the market in the months ahead.

“The good news is that earnings growth has been picking up in recent quarters, and that will likely continue, now that oil’s price is off its summer 2016 lows, and energy sector profits, which collapsed last year, will soon reach easier year-over-year comparisons,” Jack Hough, a se-

nior editor at Barron’s, said in a recent article.

While Wall Street predicts 12% earnings growth in 2017, Mr. Hough cautions: “Don’t count on quite that much growth.”

He says annual estimates often start too high and then slide “to the point where reported results top expectations.”

Instead, he’s forecasting high single-digit earnings growth as a more likely scenario.

“ With stock valuations higher than usual, earn-ings growth of, say, 7% could result in only a 5% gain for the market, thanks to mean reversion, which is as mean as they say. Add dividends and the total return is perhaps 7%,” Mr. Hough said.

He said the so-called “Trump economic miracle”

is partly priced in — and has yet to occur.

“And if it’s as spectacular as billed, it could re-

sult in higher interest rates,” he notes. “With the

10-year Treasury yield at 2.5%, bonds aren’t

competing too fiercely with stocks for investor

affection. Once the 10-year pushes above 3%

that could change.”

Still, Mr. Hough believes there’s “little reason to bet on the market tanking,” pointing to a strong U.S. economy and promises of cuts in the corporate tax rate.

His last piece of advice “Don’t fear Dow 20,000, but don’t party until dawn. Tomorrow’s a work day, and ho-hum returns from here warrant ex-tra saving more than celebration.”

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What the smart MONEYIS DOING

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Canaccord Genuity analyst

Tony Lesiak initiated coverage of Brio Gold Inc. (BRIO-T) with a

"buy" and $5 target, which is more than 60% above where it currently trades around $3.10.

Consensus is $5.05

Mr. Lesiak said the Yamana Gold spinout company trades at a “significant” valuation discount

to its peers.

“Brio is now a stand-alone com-pany with a fully independent management team and a solid

operating base of three mid-sized Brazilian mines," he said in

a note. "The Brio assets may have had a mixed history under previous operators, but the fu-

ture appears much brighter. The current market valuation reflects

the past, not the potential fu-ture, hence the value proposi-tion."

Among three analysts that cover the stock, two have a "buy" and

one a "hold."

Raymond James analyst Tara

Hassan initiated coverage of In-tegra Gold Corp. (ICG-X) with

an “outperform” rating and a price target of $1.15, which is 53% above its current price

around 75 cents. Consensus is $1.17. 

“Although Integra has adopted an aggressive approach to ex-

ploration over the last 36 months, the bulk of these efforts

have been focused on expand-ing the resource at Triangle and satellite deposits that form part

of the Lamaque South zone,” she said in a note.

“With Triangle now well defined and reaching a critical scale to support a construction decision,

Integra is now able to shift some of its exploration focus and dol-

lars to satellite targets and the deep potential at Lamaque. As a result, we expect 2017 could be

a pivotal year to demonstrate the potential of the larger prop-

erty package."

Among 14 analysts that cover

the stock, 13 have a "buy" and one a "hold."

Raymond James analyst Fred-

eric Bastien initiated coverage of NAPEC Inc. (NPC-T) with an

“outperform” rating and $1.40 target, which matches consen-sus. That's 44% above where it's

currently trading around 97 cents.

Mr. Bastien "the proverbial stars are beginning to align for this

specialized utility contractor. Our analysis shows that NAPEC

carries little downside risk at current levels and solid upside potential as the company capi-

talizes on the growing and con-solidating market for electric

and gas utility construction.”

Added Mr. Bastien: “Assuming NAPEC delivers on its well-laid out strategic plan and the mar-ket rewards the company ap-propriately, we believe investors could be staring at a $2 stock price in two years’ time.”

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This week’s initiations

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Among two analysts that cover

the stock, one has a "buy" and one has a "hold" rating.

Canaccord Genuity analyst

David Galison initiated coverage of Alterra Power Corp. (AXY-T)

with a “speculative buy” rating. He set a price target of $7 (Canadian) for the stock, which is

40% above where it's currently trading around $5. The analyst

consensus is $6.88. 

“There has been a significant growth in installed capacity for

renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal) over the

past several years,” said Mr. Gal-ison in a note.

He's forecasting a 15% com-

pound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the company’s pro-

portionate share of adjusted EBITDA over the next couple of years "as generation issues are

resolved and new power gener-ating assets enter commercial

operation,” he said. “This EBIT-DA growth should also support increases to the company’s an-

nual dividend.”

Among four analysts that cover

the stock, two have a "buy" and two have a “hold."

North American Energy Part-ners (NOA-T, NOA-N) was main-tained at Outperform by Ray-

mond James with the price tar-get raised to $9 from $5, imply-ing upside of 80%. Analyst Ben

Cherniavsky says NOA repre-sents “deep value” and trades at

a sizeable discount to peers. He also likes the company’s positive free cash flow, strengthened bal-

ance sheet, dramatically reduced cost structure, and planned pro-

duction increases.

Vecima Networks (VCM-T) M Partners does not have a rating

on the company but believes the stock could hit $16, implying

upside of nearly 60%, due to the fact that it “is positioning itself to take advantage of a major

shift occurring in the cable in-dustry to meet customer de-

mand for improved bandwidth capabilities.”

Yangarra Resources (YGR-T) was

reiterated a “buy” at Raymond James with the price target

raised to $3.00 from $2.50, rep-resenting 38% upside, after the company increased its capex

budget, and said it would add a second drilling rig for its Cardi-

um project.

RBC Dominion Securities analyst William Kirk initiated coverage

of food distributor Sysco Corp. (SYY-N) with a “sector perform” rating and $47 (U.S.)

target, which is about 13% above its current price

around $53. Consensus is $53.81. 

“Despite a softening category and an unsustainable gross

margin trajectory, Sysco trades at an all-time high and with the smallest post-recession gap to

restaurant valuations,” Mr. Kirk said in a note.

“Restaurant volumes have slowed and Sysco’s top-line re-sults have diverged from the

industry. We believe this implies a sense of acceleration that we

don’t share. Sysco, despite worse growth and less sustain-able gross margin profile, trades

at a two-turn EV/NTM EBITDA [enterprise value to next 12

month earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amorti-zation] premium to US

Foods and Performance Food Group.”

Among 17 analysts that cover the stock, 12 have a "hold," four a "buy" and one "sell."

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BMO Nesbitt Burns analyst Fadi Chamoun raised his target for Florida-based railway company CSX Corp. (CSX-Q) — and the next potential employer of Hunter Harrison — to “outperform” from “market perform.”

Mr. Chamoun raised his target price to $55 (U.S.) from $38, which is 15 per cent above its current price around $47.80. Consensus is $39.58.

“Our constructive thesis is predicated on Mantle Ridge LP being successful in its effort to install Hunter Harrison as the CEO of CSX,” said Mr. Chamoun.

“We believe that the probability of this event occurring is fairly high without going down the road of a bruising proxy battle. CSX is already at the cusp of a CEO transition, and we sense that bringing Hunter Harrison’s seasoned lead-ership and proven operating model for a three–four-year period represents an opportunity for the shareholders and also for the currently lesser experienced but very capable management team at CSX.”

If Mantle Ridge is not successful in placing Hunter Harrison as a CEO, Mr. Chamoun said the stock could trade back to around $35.

"On the other hand, in the high likelihood scenario that Mantel Ridge L.P. is success-ful and Hunter Harrison becomes the CEO at CSX, we believe the stock offers upside to $55-60 in the next 12 months and further to $80-87 over the medium term as-suming success in achieving the 60-58% O.R. [operating ratio] goal.”

Among 30 analysts that cover the stock, 14 have a “buy", 15 have a "hold" and one a "sell."

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Wnoteworthy STOCKS

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Agrium Inc. (AGU-N, AGU-T) was raised to "outperform" from "market perform" at Cowen by ana-lyst Charles Neivert. His target rose to $109 (U.S.) from $93. Consensus is $102.75.

Alcoa Corp. (AA-N) was upgraded to “buy” from “neutral" by Citi ana-lyst Alexander Hacking. His target for the stock rose to $45 from $32. Consensus is $32.44.

Altagas Ltd. (ALA-T) was upgraded to "buy" from "hold" at GMP FirstEnergy analyst Ian Gillies. He maintained his $37.50 (Canadian) target. Consen-sus is $36.08. The compa-ny announced it was buy-ing WGL Holdings for $4.5 billion (U.S.).

Amaya Inc.’s (AYA-T, AYA-Q) is a "hold" at Desjardins Securities. Analyst Maher Yaghi raised his target price to $23.50 (Canadian) from $23. Consensus is $28.17. Canaccord Genuity analyst Kevin Wright kept a “buy” rating and $28 target for the stock.

Apple Inc. (AAPL-Q) was downgraded to "equal weight" from "overweight" by Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz. He also lowered his target price for the stock to $117 (U.S.) from $119. Consensus is $134.53.

AutoCanada Inc. (ACQ-T) was cut to “hold” from “buy” by GMP analyst Stephen Harris due to val-uation. His $30 (Canadian) was unchanged. Consensus is $24.25. Mr. Harris be-lieve investors could buy ACQ in the low $20s in the next six months.

Boeing Co. (BA-N) is a “hold” at Canaccord Genu-ity. Analyst Ken Herbert raised his target to $162 (U.S.) from $150. Consen-sus is $161.70.

Bonterra Energy Corp. (BNE-T) was up-graded to “outperform” from “market perform" by Raymond James analyst Jeremy McCrea. His target price for the stock remains $31 (Canadian). Consen-sus is $32.72.

EBay Inc. (EBAY-Q) is a “sector perform” at RBC Dominion Securities. Ana-lyst Mark Mahaney raised his target price for the stock to $34 (U.S.) from $32. Consensus is $32.51.

Gluskin Sheff + As-sociates Inc. (GS-T) was downgraded to “hold” from “buy” by TD Securi-ties. Analyst Graham Ryd-ing kept his target at $19 (Canadian). Consensus is $19.43.

Husky Energy Inc. (HSE-T) was downgraded to "sector perform" from "outperform" at RBC Capi-tal by analyst Greg Pardy. His target remains $18. Consensus is $19.39.

Mattel Inc. (MAT-Q) is an “outperform” at BMO Nes-bitt Burns. Analyst Gerrick Johnson lowered his target to $36 (U.S.) from $40. Consensus is $32.30.

Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust (MST.UN-T) was downgraded to “sector

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Upgrades/ downgrades

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perform” from “outper-form” by National Bank an-alyst Matt Kornack with a target of $21.75 (Canadi-an). Desjardins analyst Michael Markidis lowered his target price for Mile-stone to $21.50 from $23. Consensus is $22.65. The company recently an-nounced it was being bought by U.S. private eq-uity firm Starwood Capital for $2.85 billion, including debt, which some share-holders say is too low.

Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TAP-N) is a "neutral" at Credit Suisse analyst Laurent Grandet. He has a $106 (U.S.) target on the stock. Consensus is $120.

Mosaic Co. (MOS-N) was upgraded to "market per-form" from "underperform" by Cowen analysts Charles Neivert. His target rose to $29, rising from $25. Con-sensus is $25.76.

Park Lawn Corp. (PLC-T) is a "buy" at Acumen Capi-tal. Analyst Brian Pow raised his target to

$19.50 from $18.50 (Cana-dian). Consensus is $19.81.

Peyto Exploration & De-velopment Corp. (PEY-T) was downgraded to "equal- weight" from "overweight" at Barclays by analyst Grant Hofer. His target fell to $34 from $46. Consen-sus is $40.86.

Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc. (POT-N, POT-T) was up-graded to "market perform" from "underperform" by Cowen analyst Charles Neivert. He raised his tar-get to $18 (U.S.) from $15. Consensus is $17.64.

Sierra Wireless Inc. (SWIR-Q, SW-T) was upgraded to “outperform” from “market perform" by Raymond James analyst Steven Li. He raised his target price to $20 (U.S.) from $16. Consensus is $16.13.

Teck Resources Ltd. (TECK.B-T) was up-graded to “outperform” from “market perform"

by FBR analyst Lucas Pipes. He raised his target price for the stock to $38 from $33. Consensus is $38.

TransCanada Corp. (TRP-T) is an "outperform" at Credit Suisse. Analyst Andrew Kuske increased his target to $74 from $70. Consensus is $67.72. TRP said last week it had submitted a presidential permit application to the U.S. State Department for the Keystone XL pipeline after president Trump signed an executive order to expedite the project.

Verizon Communica-tions Inc. (VZ-N) was downgraded to “sector per-form” from “outperform” by RBC Dominion Securities analyst Jonathan Atkin, and his target fell to $51 (U.S.) from $54. Consensus is $53.57. The WSJ and Reuters both reported that Verizon is mulling a takeover offer for Charter Communications which has a market value of about $84 billion.

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Technically SPEAKING by Dwight Galusha

setyourstop.comLeucrotta Exploration Inc. (LXE-V) is breaking out from a bullish symmetrical triangle pattern while all indicators point higher. This pattern can also be referred to as a coil and usually forms during an uptrend as a continuation pattern. The direction of the next major move is determined after the breakout (in this case higher).

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After consolidating over the last 6 months, Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (GSV-V) has just broken out above its downward sloping trend-line and above major volume by price resistance. With all indicators breaking out this move appears to be very bullish.

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Saputo Group, Inc. (SAP-T) just made a new 52-week high while trading into the apex of an ascending triangle pattern. With all indicators are showing positive momentum, a breakout from this ascending triangle pattern would be extremely bullish.

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