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Extendicare IncEXE.TOCOMMENTAug 19, 2015Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 19, 2026. Market Open.
How COVID will effect this industry, retirement homes? He owns Sienna instead. EXE is much more involved in government-funded LTCs. Along with Chartwell, these two companies are under government scrutiny, so they likely do a much better job than private LTCs. Good question how COVID will affect these homes: there may be increased costs to manage the LTCs, and he expects the government to do more oversight, particularly the incompetent LTCs. He prefers Sienna to EXE, because Sienna is a mix of LTCs and retirement homes, while Chartwell is mostly retirement homes, which has more upside but more competitive. Don't buy purely LTCs, like EXE.
Extendicare has a better chart than Chartwell. It has a head-and-shoulder chart movement. If you take into account the general market sell-off, investors need to be forgiving.
From a demographic perspective, this is really in the right spot providing assisted-living and nursing home facilities across Canada. They liquidated their US holdings and are focusing strictly on Canada. Has a steady dividend and there is going to be a growth profile here. At some point in time they will make an acquisition with the money they got from the US.