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Q: Someone from another stock discussion forum has stated that although SJ reported $0.74 EPS this was a result of a one-time $30M cash benefit, effectively making earnings $21.1M net income for Q4 rather than the reported $51.1M. Thus, without the cash benefit EPS came in at only $0.30 (below estimates of $0.31).

Is this accurate, and/or a fair way to assess the results? In light of this is it more reasonable to view today's results as more of a miss than a beat, as today's market action seems to suggest?
Read Answer Asked by Peter on March 14, 2018
Q: Do you take downgrades with a grain of salt. There are constantly companies being downgraded. Does that mean if I hold a downgraded stock get rid of it because it isn't going to do much or when it goes down buy more? I hold TOY a recent downgrade and it has dropped off some - buy more, sell? Thank you very much Dennis
Read Answer Asked by Dennis on March 14, 2018
Q: There was a report today on BNN about fraud in the automobile body shop business. It was admittedly a very limited 'sting' operation by Aviva but a disconcerting one nonetheless. I could not find any further detail on the Aviva website as to the body shops involved and I was wondering if you could find this information and, more specifically, whether any of them are part of the Boyd Group operation?
Read Answer Asked by richard on March 13, 2018
Q: I've been a long suffering shareholder. Stantec has done several acquisitions in the environmental and water infrastructure areas but no traction because eps never seems to grow. Is it time to move on? I like the sector exposure so would SNC or WSP be better growth options?
Read Answer Asked by David on March 13, 2018
Q: I read the news release and liked their last Quarter also. However the outlook has me considering selling this stock on valuation versus go-forward growth potential.

From the outlook: "they expect gross product sales to be in the mid to high single digits in the next year ". So they now expect growth going forward to be less than 10%? This is a company that has been growing revenues of over 30% and I expected that they still had enough new regions to grow into to keep revenue growth high.

So if they now expect growth to be less than 10% per annum, can we assume they are transitioning from a growth company to a more stable income generating company? Nothing wrong with this of course, but it does then bring into question the current valuation: at about $1/share in earnings the current PE is about 60. If growth is 10% wouldn't a PEG of 6 be considered very high, even for a high quality company?
Read Answer Asked by Kel on March 09, 2018
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