Daily roundup of research and analysis from The Globe and Mail’s market strategist Scott Barlow
While many Canadian investors wait for the major banks to outperform again, the life insurance stocks are very healthy according to BMO analyst Tom MacKinnon,
“Excess capital positions remain robust for the Canadian Lifecos. At $10B for MFC, an estimated $7B for SLF , $1.1B for IAG and $250mm for GWO , they provide ample financial flexibility. This is a high class problem, especially after also taking into account the group’s strong organic capital generation. In light of this, and testament to management’s increasing confidence in continued strong organic capital generation, it’s of no surprise that share buybacks have picked up.
AIG, Sun Life and Manulife are all buying back shares thanks to strong capital positions. Analysts, like Darko Mihelic at RBC, continue to favour insurance stocks over banks.RBC Capital Markets analyst Rishi Jaluria uncovers the software stocks with the biggest room for growth, “In this primer, we focus on TAM . TAM is one of the four key pillars we see for a company’s path to profitability . TAM is arguably the most important, but also the most nebulous and difficult to measure of the four … We also analyze TAMs for 68 companies in our combined coverage universe, providing our own assessments on management’s estimates and, when possible, build our own TAM estimates.
“Dynamic #1: The upcoming severe shortage of powered US Data Center capacity … our concern that a looming US Data Center shortage is evident from a few data points: the mismatch in magnitude between our 2025 base case required US Data Center new build number to absorb the volume of GenAI chips being sold and the volume of Data Centers under construction in the US … Companies that may benefit include: owners of US merchant nuclear power sites Constellation Energy , Vistra , and Public Service...
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