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Mining and ResourcesCopper

Teck Resources and Anglo Teck: Merger Upside Versus Execution Risk

Teck’s Class A and Class B shares trade on the TSX as TECK.A and TECK.B, with TECK also listed on the NYSE. Its portfolio includes Quebrada Blanca and Carmen de Andacollo in Chile, Highland Valley Copper in British Columbia, an interest in Antamina in Peru, Red Dog in Alaska, and the Trail metallurgical complex in British Columbia. Q2 2026 revenue was C$3.61 billion and adjusted EBITDA was C$2.19 billion. Teck held C$6.05 billion in cash against C$4.81 billion of debt.

By Marc Belzile2 min readTECK.B

EnergyUranium

NexGen Energy After Rook I Approval: What Comes Next?

NexGen trades as NXE on both the TSX and NYSE. It owns the Rook I property in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin, including the Arrow uranium deposit. Rook I is a development-stage project with no operating revenue. On March 5, 2026, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission approved the project’s environmental assessment and Licence to Prepare Site and Construct. Q1 cash was approximately C$655 million, while reported current liabilities included significant convertible obligations.

By Marc Belzile2 min readNXE

EnergyUranium

Cameco Stock Analysis: A Full Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle Investment

Cameco trades as CCO on the TSX and CCJ on the NYSE. It produces uranium through McArthur River/Key Lake and Cigar Lake in Saskatchewan and holds an interest in Inkai in Kazakhstan. It also operates conversion and fuel-manufacturing businesses and owns 49% of Westinghouse. Q2 2026 adjusted EBITDA was C$391 million; cash and debt were approximately C$1.1 billion and C$1.0 billion, respectively.

By Marc Belzile2 min readCCO

Mining and ResourcesGold

Kinross Gold: Cash Returns, Great Bear and the Next Growth Cycle

Kinross trades on the TSX as K and on the NYSE as KGC. Its principal producing assets include Tasiast in Mauritania, Paracatu in Brazil, Fort Knox and Manh Choh in Alaska, and Round Mountain and Bald Mountain in Nevada. Its development portfolio includes Great Bear in Ontario, Curlew in Washington and Lobo-Marte in Chile. In Q2 2026, Kinross produced approximately 492,000 gold-equivalent ounces, generated US$2.24 billion in revenue and US$726.8 million in free cash flow, and ended the quarter with US$2.7 billion of cash and US$1.9 billion of net cash.

By Daniel Okoye2 min readK

Mining and ResourcesGold

Agnico Eagle Stock Analysis: Is Canada’s Gold Leader Worth Its Premium?

Agnico Eagle Mines trades on the TSX and NYSE under AEM. It is a senior gold producer with major Canadian operations including Detour Lake, Canadian Malartic, LaRonde, Goldex, Macassa, Meliadine and Meadowbank, supplemented by mines in Finland, Australia and Mexico. Its portfolio is predominantly producing, with large expansion and underground-development opportunities at Detour Lake, Odyssey and Hope Bay. In the second quarter of 2026, Agnico reported approximately US$2.76 billion of EBITDA and US$1.6 billion of net income. Long-term debt was only US$197 million and the company reported net cash of approximately US$3.27 billion. TMX showed a market capitalization near C$103 billion and an average target of approximately C$312.51 from 11 analysts.

By Daniel Okoye2 min readAEM

OpinionEconomyExplainer

The Case Against Chasing Dividend Yield in Canada

A simple high-yield screen on the TSX tends to surface companies the market already doubts, not hidden value. This piece explains why yield alone is a poor screen, which metrics — payout ratio against free cash flow, dividend growth history, debt profile — actually matter, and where high yields are structurally legitimate.

By Élise Galarneau3 min read

BusinessIndustrials

Stella-Jones, Infrastructure Spending and the Utility Pole Cycle

Stella-Jones sits at the intersection of grid hardening, rail capital cycles and housing activity, but its three segments respond to very different drivers. This piece breaks down why utility poles are the stable core, why railway ties add the cyclicality, and why the residential segment is the wildcard investors should watch separately.

By Hannah Kuan3 min readSJ

Canadian MarketsSmall cap

Why Canadian Small Caps Trade at a Persistent Discount

Canadian small caps trade at persistently lower multiples than larger peers mostly because of market structure, not weaker businesses: index exclusion limits passive demand, shrinking sell-side economics have hollowed out analyst coverage, and concentrated ownership thins the tradable float. The gap tends to close only through discrete, event-driven catalysts rather than gradually.

By Hannah Kuan3 min read

BusinessChemicals

Methanex and the Cyclicality Investors Keep Underestimating

Methanex's earnings swing harder than most industrial companies because of high operating leverage and volatile natural gas feedstock costs. This piece explains the mechanics behind that cyclicality and why marine-fuel demand, while structural, is not yet large enough to smooth it out.

By Hannah Kuan3 min readMX

Canadian MarketsExplainer

What a Bought Deal Means for Existing Shareholders

The bought deal is Canada's dominant equity financing structure, and its mechanics predictably pressure the share price around announcement. This explainer covers how discounts and warrants are set, what they signal about issuer leverage, and how to judge whether a deal is worth the dilution.

By Hannah Kuan3 min read

EnergyMidstream

Pembina, Egress and the Case for Owning the Toll Road

Pembina's fee-based infrastructure network profits from Western Canadian egress constraints rather than commodity prices, a dynamic often compared to owning a toll road. This piece explains why the analogy holds, where it breaks down, and what contract quality actually protects against.

By Marc Belzile4 min readPPL

TechnologySoftware

Open Text and the Debt-Funded Acquisition Problem

Open Text has grown by acquiring mature enterprise software with debt, a model that works only if acquired revenue holds up and integration stays on schedule. This piece examines where that strategy strains, and why leverage and cloud migration now matter more than the operating story.

By Priya Sandhu3 min readOTEX

Mining and ResourcesGold

Agnico Eagle's Detour Lake Expansion and the Cost of Growth

Expanding Detour Lake is cheaper and lower-risk than a new mine, but underground development and rising strip ratios push sustaining capital per ounce higher. The growth headline and the capital cost behind it need to be read together.

By Daniel Okoye4 min readAEM

CryptoProducts

Bitcoin ETFs on the TSX: What Canadian Investors Actually Own

Canada listed spot bitcoin ETFs years before the United States, but custody, fee structure and hedging vary widely across issuers. This piece walks through what actually differs beneath the ticker, and why registered-account eligibility is a real but non-trivial advantage.

By Priya Sandhu3 min read

EconomyTrade

Canada's Trade Balance and the Concentration Problem

Canada's exports remain unusually concentrated in a single destination market, a structural feature that two decades of diversification efforts have barely moved. This piece explains why that concentration is a direct earnings risk for TSX-listed exporters, not just a macro footnote.

By Élise Galarneau3 min read

Mining and ResourcesExplainer

Understanding All-In Sustaining Cost and What It Leaves Out

All-in sustaining cost is the mining industry's standard cost metric, but it is guidance, not an accounting standard, and companies apply it differently. This piece explains what it captures, what it leaves out, and where by-product credits and jurisdictional differences can distort comparisons.

By Daniel Okoye3 min read

Mining and ResourcesGold

Lundin Gold's Fruta del Norte and the Single-Asset Discount

Lundin Gold trades at a discount to diversified producers despite owning one of the highest-grade gold mines built this century. This piece unpacks why single-asset concentration and Ecuadorian country risk drive that gap, and what capital allocation choices could eventually close it.

By Daniel Okoye3 min readLUG

Canadian MarketsVenture

Why the CSE Matters More Than Its Size Suggests

The Canadian Securities Exchange lists companies that senior exchanges will not, giving early-stage and regulatorily ambiguous sectors access to public capital at the cost of lighter disclosure and diligence standards. That trade-off, not fraud or illegitimacy, is the defining feature investors need to understand before sizing a position.

By Hannah Kuan3 min read

EnergyUranium

Cameco and Westinghouse: The Vertical Integration Bet

Cameco's Westinghouse stake turned a cyclical uranium miner into a fuel-cycle business with recurring services revenue. This piece unpacks what integration adds, what it costs in leverage and reporting complexity, and how to read the segments separately.

By Marc Belzile3 min readCCO

BusinessTransport

Air Canada's Capacity Discipline Is the Whole Margin Story

Air Canada's margins hinge less on its own cost control than on whether the airline industry as a whole restrains seat growth relative to demand. Fuel hedging and debt reduction shape the near-term picture, but industry capacity discipline drives the cycle.

By Hannah Kuan4 min readAC

BusinessConsumer

Alimentation Couche-Tard and the Fuel Margin Question

Couche-Tard's results blend a stable, predictable merchandise business with a volatile fuel-margin business tied to the commodity cycle. The company's real long-run growth engine is its record of acquiring and integrating retail networks.

By Hannah Kuan4 min readATD

BusinessTelecom

Telus and BCE: The Dividend Yield Is Telling You Something

Elevated dividend yields at Telus and BCE reflect a genuine question about payout sustainability, not just a value opportunity. This piece walks through free-cash-flow payout ratios, the capital-intensity cycle, and the competitive pressures that will determine whether the dividends are actually covered going forward.

By Hannah Kuan3 min readTBCE

Real EstateHouseholds

What Rising Mortgage Renewals Mean for Canadian Consumer Spending

Canada's short mortgage terms mean rate increases hit household budgets in staggered waves rather than all at once, with the largest renewal wave still ahead. The piece explains why Canada differs from the US, how the drag shows up in consumer spending, and what could offset it.

By Élise Galarneau3 min read

BusinessAgriculture

Nutrien and the Potash Price Floor Nobody Can Agree On

Potash prices are set through negotiated annual contracts rather than a continuous market, which is why analysts disagree so sharply on where the price floor actually sits. This piece looks at Nutrien's low-cost and retail-diversified position within that unusually concentrated market structure.

By Daniel Okoye3 min readNTR

EnergyUranium

Uranium Term Contracting Picks Up as Utilities Extend Coverage

Uranium term-contracting volumes are rising as utilities extend coverage further out, a shift that matters more to producer revenue than the widely quoted spot price. The piece explains the term-versus-spot dynamic, the slow supply response, and how to read a producer's contracted position.

By Marc Belzile3 min readCCO

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