Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Greetings Canadian Readers!

O Canada!

I have noticed the past few days that my readership has gone up.  I looked at my traffic sources, and a large chunk is coming from the Canadian Money Forum and from Corner of Berkshire & Fairfax.

To honor these new readers, I thpught I would do a special analysis of Canadian MFI stocks.As I type this, I have no idea how it will turn out.  I am a bit too lazy to do a ton of work, so I am using my standard routines; but will try to enhance the stock list with numerous Canadian stocks that are traded in some fashion in the US.  Many of them look pretty small, so I may weed them out at the "fini" (thought you would like that).

As I peruse the list (initially about 270 stocks); as expected there are a lot of mining companies.  Also a fair number of energy related companies.  As the MFI approach extracts financial comapnies; I am pulling them out as well.

I am waiting for the worksheet to grind.  I have owned a number of Canadian stocks myself, including BNS, SLF, TCK and currently NSU.  I have also owned some that have changed names or been bought, such as FDG and KHD. As a US investor; I find Canada to be an attractive investment.  Over time, I expect the Loonie to out-perform the dollar.  In addition; Canada is not going over any fiscal cliff that I am aware of and the banking sector seems much stronger.  And I trust Canada - I would not expect shenanigans there like I have seen in Chinese stocks for instance.

Here are the top 50. 


Ticker Rank Date  Stock Price  Market Cap Earnings Yield ROIC Yahoo Yield Country
NSU 1 11/28           4.27            854 73% 88% 2.4% Canada
CALVF 2 11/28           0.10              50 106% 82% 0.0% Canada
CRMMF 3 11/28           0.29              14 15% 205% 0.0% Canada
TGA 4 11/28         10.31            780 19% 32% 0.0% Canada
AZK 5 11/28           3.70            610 22% 47% 0.0% Canada
AGU 6 11/28      100.08      15,813 13% 35% 0.7% Canada
ACKBF 7 11/28           0.14                 1 10% 126% 0.0% Canada
TGD 8 11/28           3.26            471 12% 38% 0.0% Canada
RIOAF 9 11/28           4.96            908 11% 51% 0.0% Canada
TCX 10 11/28           1.41              68 9% 451% 0.0% Canada
CLS 11 11/28           7.52        1,570 20% 22% 0.0% Canada
MITL 12 11/28           2.65            142 12% 40% 0.0% Canada
MGA 13 11/28         45.59      10,718 15% 23% 2.4% Canada
LMLP 14 11/28           3.41              99 7% 2606% 0.0% Canada
STADF 15 11/28           0.43            158 19% 22% 0.0% Canada
NDZ 16 11/28           6.65            412 11% 29% 4.5% Canada
SMTX 17 11/28           2.24              37 17% 17% 0.0% Canada
GIB 18 11/28         23.29        6,228 8% 88% 0.0% Canada
GTE 19 11/28           5.73        1,631 14% 18% 0.0% Canada
TVIPF 20 11/28           0.02              11 80% 13% 0.0% Canada
ABX 21 11/28         34.83      34,865 12% 17% 1.6% Canada
POT 22 11/28         38.57      33,788 9% 28% 1.5% Canada
IAG 23 11/28         12.03        4,534 13% 16% 2.1% Canada
MLGAF 24 11/28           0.04                 7 23% 10% 0.0% Canada
SVM 25 11/28           5.66            968 9% 20% 1.8% Canada
UFS 26 11/28         80.38        2,878 14% 11% 2.0% Canada
SJR 27 11/28         21.49        9,520 9% 41% 4.5% Canada
HBM 28 11/28           9.73        1,673 23% 12% 2.2% Canada
CESDF 29 11/28         10.62            609 10% 33% 0.0% Canada
OTEX 30 11/28         56.50        3,329 5% 222% 0.0% Canada
STN 31 11/28         37.17        1,702 8% 44% 1.2% Canada
KGC 32 11/28         10.34      11,845 10% 11% 1.6% Canada
MEOH 33 11/28         30.17        2,832 9% 12% 2.4% Canada
RCI 34 11/28         43.63      22,600 9% 32% 3.6% Canada
BDRBF 35 11/28           3.39        5,878 6% 30% 0.0% Canada
PTSRF 36 11/28           7.38            158 5% 430% 0.0% Canada
IMO 37 11/28         43.31      36,874 11% 19% 1.1% Canada
PAAS 38 11/28         18.88        2,875 11% 10% 0.9% Canada
TCK 39 11/28         32.38      18,975 18% 16% 2.4% Canada
THI 40 11/28         46.77        7,252 8% 39% 1.8% Canada
COT 41 11/28           8.60            822 8% 14% 0.0% Canada
PPP 42 11/28           6.67            623 10% 10% 0.0% Canada
DSGX 43 11/28           8.67            554 4% 78% 0.0% Canada
SWIR 44 11/28           7.81            240 6% 16% 0.0% Canada
LULU 45 11/28         73.55      10,715 3% 117% 0.0% Canada
BIN 46 11/28         19.47        2,244 7% 14% 2.8% Canada
RFP 47 11/28         11.55        1,133 15% 6% 0.0% Canada
COSWF 48 11/28         20.50        9,943 12% 17% 0.0% Canada
BCE 49 11/28         42.34      32,805 8% 22% 5.1% Canada
STKL 50 11/28           6.18            412 7% 11% 0.0% Canada

Of course the bottom stocks on this are much worse than the top 50 in MFI website; as this is top 50 from a universe of 385 stocks.  I also had to make more manual adjustments than I expected.  Not sure if this was just timing related, but a lot of companies had updated balance sheets as of 9/30/12, but income statements only through 6/30/12.  This does happen occasionally; especially near filings of 10-Qs.  Just seemed more common than usual here.

As I look at the list; I am surprised not to see MIL; which is a derivative from the KHD I used to own.  Hmm, I took a look. They haven't made much money.

Anyway, happy reading - Canadians and non-Canadians.  Maybe another day I will try another country or region.  I did not see any companies that I obviously should invest in (besides the NSU I own).  but this can serve as a starting point for further digging. Bon Chance!

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