Report by Veritas Investment Research

Analysts at Veritas provide their best ideas for taking advantage of volatile markets. This series of reports features: 1) Veritas President and CEO Anthony Scilipoti providing an overview of why he is more bullish on Canada than the US. 2) Martin Pradier (Materials Analyst) on why he favours gold with Agnico Eagle Mines his preferred play. 2) Darryl McCoubrey (Energy) discusses why he favours pipeline infrastructure with Enbridge and TC Energy his best ideas. 3) Ben Butler (Utilities) looks at valuations in the sector with Fortis his top pick. 4) Liam Gallagher (Communications & IT) on why Quebecor is the best positioned operationally and from a valuation perspective. 5) Shalabh Garg (REITs) covers long-term interest rate trends and why he believes Chartwell Retirement Residences and Granite REIT are best positioned to take advantage of market dislocations.

Energy

Report by Cmind

Cmind is rolling out 4Q22 earnings beats / misses predictions at both the sector level and company level. In the Energy sector, they have made predictions for 182 US public companies. Breaking down to cap level, there are 34 large-cap (28 predicted to beat vs. 6 predicted to miss), 37 mid-cap (20 beats vs. 17 misses) and 111 small-cap ( 52 beats vs. 59 misses) companies. Overall, the energy sector is predicted to outperform most other sectors. Stocks expected to beat: Schlumberger, Diamondback Energy, Halliburton and Plains All American Pipeline. Stocks likely to miss: Cheniere Energy, Williams Companies, Enbridge and Imperial Oil.