Investment Q&A

Q: BDI is taking a big hit today, along with HNL. Is the threat that Petronas will not go ahead with its BC investment being blown out of proportion here as to its affect on BDI (HNL was the actual subject of an analyst's comments re: Petronas) or is it a case of a similar company falling due to "sympathetic sentiment"?

Thanks so much for your invaluable advice.

Paul F.

Q: Hi, On September 24, insiders (CEO and others) sold over 400k shares @$11 of Sylogist. Jim Wilson, if I remember, also sold a large number of his personal holding alongside, the previous secondary offering @$8.90. President/CEO's personal stake in the co. being very important, any info on how much share holding Jim Wilson has now? Should this be a concern? Also, Acumen Financial managed both secondary offerings and have traded almost all the large block of shares recently, both on buy and sell, what could it mean? Mawer and CI already being the largest shareholders, any guess who would have been the buyers of these large blocks? Thanks for your valuable insight as always.

Q: On April 15 I asked you about significant insider selling. More took place (at $11) on the 24th just past. Is the selling timed to avoid any drop on the announcement of closing a financing and/or issue of new shares? Should we worry that the CEO's shareholding has dropped in stages from 2.4million back in February to 370thousand now?

Q: Is this a good time for a purchase for a 1 year hold? thanks

Q: Anything changed with Sylogist? It's been down the last month and dropped like a rock this morning on an up-market day.

Q: Amaya went to 37$ recently, and seems rather volatile. In a TFSA, would you advise 'timing' the market ? Now it is at 32.70$, 11% less. It seems to make sense to do some market timing for 10% or over with no tax consequence. Same principle for a RRSP. Do you agree ? If not, exactly why ? It seems to work with volatile stocks (with no tax consequence).
One might argue that AYA being quite volatile, it might jump much higher in no time, and timing the market is always a risky game. Would you use this argument (and again I would stress that this seems useful only when there is no tax consequence) ?

Q: I have replicated your model groth portfolio with great sucess, thank you!!! Except I have sold CSS Contrans. Can you suggest an alternative stock to fill CSS's spot?

Q: Hello 5i Team

... anything further on the "news of the regulator" as per your comments on Monday?

Thanks for all you do

Gord

Q: Hi Peter,

AVO took a beating when the CFO suddenly left immediately before earnings were released in May for "health reasons". It is now four months later and the company has yet to announce the hiring of a permanent replacement. Smells a bit fishy to me. Is this long delay a further cause for concern for AVO shareholders? How long should it take to hire a qualified and suitable CFO???

Thanks for the reply.

Q: Do you think GIL is a good buy at today's price. Thanks

Q: When are we gonna hear about the apple/win case?
And what are the chances for win to defeat apple in court?

Q: CSU had a good run and has been consolidating at the current price level. Any developments that would warrant adding on a pullback here?

Q: Hi team,
In your opinion, do you think the deal will go through? Is it a hold or sell position?
Thank you.

Q: Hi, for those of us taking either all cash or partial cash in the Tim Hortons / Burger King deal, what are your recommendations to replace THI with (consumer discretionary).

Thanks,

Q: the pipelines enb,ipl,trp,ppl have showed quite a downturn recently-is it just profit taking or is some other reasons ?

Q: I would appreciate your opinion regarding the full year earnings report issued by DHX this morning. I have been accumulating DHX shares, buying on improving quarterly results and momentum and I would like to buy more but would first like to hear your thoughts on this rather exciting company. Thank you.

Q: Can you provide the % of US sales for these 2 growth stocks. Presumably the weak CDN $ could give earnings a nice boost. Currently building positions.
Thanks

Q: RE ACQ - you still have this stock rated a "B" which suggested to me it was a buy and as long as your rating has not changed, it still should be. I am down 25% since my purchase of ACQ while the market is down far less in percentage terms. Has anything changed in your ACQ analysis that we should have known about? Thank you

Q: I haveno health care exposure and was thinking of adding Pfizer and Gilead Science to the US side of my portfolio.what are your thoughts on this? Also I bought BAD, ACQ and LNR when they were very high recently and am down about 30 percent in them. Would this be an opportunity to double down or do I just wait them out? It was bad timing on my part and am wondering if there is a way I can fix my mistake.

Q: My TFSA makes up a tiny portion of my overall portfolio and I have maxed my contributions to date. I have to sell about 1/2 of the portfolio within the next few weeks to pay for a wedding (life can get in the way of long term investing!).

However, I am stuck on what to sell. I hold AVO, AYA, BDI, CGI. DHX, CF, ESL, STN in a fairly balanced portfolio. I am trying to determine a strategy of what is best to sell. I am comfortable with all of them, long term. Do I sell 50% of each (even the couple I am down on), are there some that you expect to grow a lot sooner than the others (it will take a couple of years to probably replace the withdrawals), is CF anticipated to declare a special dividend, etc?

Any assistance as to how to orient my thinking would be appreciated.

As a caution to others, I should add that I did trim a bit earlier but I became complacent with the high valuations and didn't prepare for this September drop in the markets.

Appreciate your assistance and I hope you are transitioning well from all your riding. I did the Ride to Conquer Cancer and it took me a few days to slow myself down!

Paul F.