He has been looking at it for the last few months. He likes it. They are a basically a start-up. They got some big orders and turned it into a business. It’s still a little on the pricy side but he likes what he sees. He thinks they are onto something. He is looking closely at it in case it drops low enough.
Stephen Takacsy, B. Eng, MBA
Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Mgr, Lester Asset Managem...
Owned No
COMMENT
Grande West Transportation Group(BUS-X)
January 2, 2018
He likes this company. It’s a higher growth company in the bus business. His favourite would be New Flyer (NFI-T). The selloff in this is because of a bit of a transition between different shareholders. Earlier on they had more growth oriented shareholders, and maybe a bit more speculative, but now they are getting older and are producing more buses. Shareholders are now probably thinking longer-term. It looks like they are doing all the right things.
Ryan Modesto
Managing Partner, 5i Research...
Price $2.030
Owned Unknown
PAST TOP PICK
Grande West Transportation Group(BUS-X)
December 21, 2017
(A Top Pick Feb 28’17, Down 13.75%) It has been coming off quite a bit and he is not sure exactly why. He still owns it. He likes it. They just signed a new deal for their first sales in Quebec. Their backlog is about 270 busses. We will continually see them ramping up. We need to see their margins increase a little. They are almost cash flow positive.
Peter Imhof
Vice President & Portfolio Manager, AGF Investments Inc...
Price $2.070
Owned Yes
COMMENT
Grande West Transportation Group(BUS-X)
December 15, 2017
Has done a great job in winning municipality bus contracts. The stock really, really ramped up, and then investors paused a little, and said now that you've got the orders, show us you can make money. They've had 2 good quarters in terms of profitability, so they've proven they can take an order and make money off of it. Now it is just a situation of replacing orders they have, growing their backlog and winning new business. A nice little company in the early stages of growth, but it also means that if anything goes wrong, the very, very high expectations will be wrong and the stock will be volatile if there are any problems.
Peter Hodson
CEO & Head of Research, 5i Research Inc....
Price $2.090
Owned Unknown