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Q: Greetings, Peter and Co.
I have been trying to evaluate the MacDonald Dettwiler-Digital Globe merger. The termination fee arrangements appear to be compelling for Digital Globe and punitive for MDA. The SEDAR filing appears to require a much larger break fee for MDA and there appear to be many events that could trigger the $150 million break fee.
Can you clarify if this agreement is as bad as I interpret it to be?
My family and I are MDA investors and were considering adding to our holdings.
With appreciation
Ed
Read Answer Asked by Ed on March 06, 2017
Q: Can you give me your thoughts on Parklands just released Q4 report. While they seem to rave about the increase in cash flow, in fact it went down by a penny on a per share basis and they gave a very small increase in the dividend this year. I am holding on hoping that the big acquisition that will close in Q2 2017 will give a big boost to cash flow. Your thoughts please on both the earnings and the acquisition...
Read Answer Asked by arnold on March 03, 2017
Q: Hi Peter and Team, In the Financial sector of our combined accounts, we hold only one stock that's down - CXI - held in my TFSA - which is down by 21%. We also hold BMO, BNS, GSY, SLF, and ZBK, which are all nicely in the black. I know you believe that CXI has long-term potential, but since it doesn't pay a dividend while 'waiting', I'm considering selling it. Which of our other holdings in this sector would you recommend adding the proceeds of a possible sale of CXI? As always, thanks in advance for your insight and advice.
Read Answer Asked by Jerry on March 03, 2017
Q: Hi,

I previously owned MDA and sold for a small loss, but am increasingly interested in getting back in. My question is about MDA's ability/experience/success integrating take overs. I understand they took over another US company a number of years ago. Could you tell me how big that was ($$ terms) and how successful, in your opinion, they've been in integrating the company?

Thanks,

Cam
Read Answer Asked by Cameron on March 03, 2017
Q: Bos has moved up nicely from its 52 week low and is coming close to a golden cross.

I got burned previously on BOS but am not averse to taking another run at.

Would this be a good move or am I better off deploying spare "higher risk" cash into one of your other favourites? I have just added to SHOP, KXS and SIS. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Donald on March 02, 2017
Q: I currently hold about 13% of my portfolio in financials. FFH, IFC, GSY and FSZ in Canada and the XLF and BLX in the US. I am planning on topping up to 15% financials. FSZ is my smallest holding. Would you add to it at this time? The stock has been performing very poorly in the last two weeks while the others have done much better. It would be added because of its high dividend.
Read Answer Asked by Paul on March 02, 2017
Q: Your report on Altus Group stated “One of the noteworthy risks at AIF is that 42% of the Canadian cost practice is from rental and condominiums in the multi-residential segment. Impairment in this sector could hurt the Canadian revenues as could a general decline in the Canadian housing markets.”
I would have thought that their revenues in this segment would depend more on sales volume as opposed to actual housing prices. Can you please comment on this. Essentially, if an investor believes that housing prices (condos in particular) will decline but turnover will remain strong, would this negate any of the declining revenue risk outlined in your report?
Read Answer Asked by Steven on March 02, 2017
Q: Gentlemen, in your latest Company Report regarding CSU you state that the Debt/Equity "Value" is 0.86. I am assuming this is based on CSU's Third Quarter ended September 30, 2016 report. My understanding is that Debt/Equity "Ratio" at that point in time was 3.36.
Are you using Value to mean Ratio or are these two different factors. In either case (yes or no) how did you arrive at your value of .086. My understanding is that a ratio of 3.36 is a very red flag.

I used this for my math: Total Liabilities = 1,425,952 Shareholder's Equity = 457,509

Thank you very much,
David Brandon
Read Answer Asked by David on March 02, 2017
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