skip to content
  1. Home
  2. >
  3. Investment Q&A

Investment Q&A

Not investment advice or solicitation to buy/sell securities. Do your own due diligence and/or consult an advisor.

Q: Hello, thank you for the p / e article. Reading it made me reflect to p / e ratio vs p / cf and p / free cf. I thought professional money managers don t look too much at p / e but use p / free cf to really assess the merit of a company. Can you please comment on that and clarify how it is calculated. My understanding is that cf is net income plus all accounting expenses which are not really paid such as amortization and free cash flow involves reducing the cf by deducting all capex necessary to maintain your asset base. Please add some subtlety to your explanation if you have time. Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Pierre on February 12, 2016
Q: Good afternoon:

Would it be a wise more to borrow $100,000 on a line of credit and invest in the Model Balanced Equity Portfolio at this time.

We have zero debt are semi retired with indexed pensions.

Thank you

Mike
Read Answer Asked by Mike on February 11, 2016
Q: HI 5I
I would like to invest about $8000 each in 6 stocks (48000).
this would represent about a 2.5% position in each. I am currently fully invested in all banks,t,bce,ema,cgx,ipl, key,wsp,et and eci. Therefore I would hope you could identify something in addition to these.
Thank You Stan
Read Answer Asked by stan on February 11, 2016
Q: Hi All. I went to sell some MDA this morning in my Investorline account. The price quoted was 82.80 and the bid/ask quotes were 82.49/82.81. I noticed on my phone however a price of 83.71. Going to Stockwatch.com, I saw the last trade at 83.71. Had I not back-checked the information, I potentially could have sold at quite a discount based on the BMO information. What's going on here? Is this a typical situation that I just wasn't aware of?
Read Answer Asked by Rick on February 11, 2016
Q: Would you comment on articles on Bloomberg and CNBC websites, among others, indicating China's potential banking crisis could be 5 times worse than the US subprime crisis? Very daunting article! Thanks.
Steven
Read Answer Asked by Steven on February 11, 2016
Q: What is the consensus for Q2 revenue and eps?

thanks
Read Answer Asked by sandy on February 10, 2016
Q: What do you think about Exact Earth? Is it worth buying into? If so would you wait for a bit to see what the stock does?

Thanks
Paul
Read Answer Asked by Paul on February 10, 2016
Q: If Canada was to implement negative interest rates, do you think banks would pass this cost on and increase borrowing rates? I just started ZRE positions in several accounts and am wondering if this would have a material impact on the value of reits, or do you think the possible effect is already priced in. I get real nervous thinking what the effect would be on mortgage rates. What do you think? Thank you
Read Answer Asked by Richard on February 10, 2016
Q: I bought Firan a few months ago. What do y'all think of this one?
Read Answer Asked by DAVE on February 10, 2016
Q: I'm thinking about adding to the following stocks to bring them back up to full positions. Are they all safe to add to? Would you avoid any right now?

EFN , AD , OTC , CSU ,CGI , ATD.B, CCL.B, CRH, DRT, GUD

Read Answer Asked by Carla on February 10, 2016
Q: In regards to Mike's search for Canadian Dividend Aristocrats he may find this site helpful:
http://www.dividendgrowthinvestingandretirement.com/canadian-dividend-all-star-list/
Read Answer Asked by Alan on February 09, 2016
Q: As a retired investor seeking income and preservation of capital in a diversified portfolio, would you own Chemtrade or Russel Metals?
Presently own 1/2 a position in Russel and was thinking of switching to Chemtrade for the short-term. Thanking you in advance.
Read Answer Asked by Isabel on February 09, 2016
Q: I am wondering how you are viewing the US economy these days. You had been rather bullish on for several months and other than the latest jobs report, it seems to be doing ok. Is the market not in step with the economy at this time, for whatever reason, or has something fundamentally changed? I hope I am not being naive in thinking that the Fed had not idea what there were doing when they signalled a strengthening economy by raising rates.

Thaks for the insight?

Paul F.
Read Answer Asked by Paul on February 08, 2016
Q: what do you think of this company for income and growth.
Read Answer Asked by don on February 08, 2016
Q: Is there no future for this co. based on the space in which it operates ? Another Torstar ?
Read Answer Asked by John on February 08, 2016
Q: Peter and His Wonder Team
ATA dropped again today as low as $8.57...which is a new 52 week low. In relation to there balance sheet do you think this is fair value or is it still over priced? Also, when a good company has a disappointing quarter such as this what do you think is a reasonable average number of days the stock will crash before it stabilizes or hits a new floor. For example I have heard that you should wait at least 3 trading days to see if stability occurs...I know every case is different. I am just trying to get some guidelines which may help to avoid the "falling-knife"! Ha!Ha!
Thanks for your assistance!
Respectfully...
Dr.Ernest Rivait
Read Answer Asked by Ernest on February 08, 2016
Q: I am down on the following: WSP 13%, GIL 15%, MG 20%, DH 20%, TFI 32%. Would you add to any of these or simply hold. Subtract credits as required. Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Barrie on February 08, 2016
Looking for more? Sign up for a FREE 14 day trial! No credit card required

We invite you to sign up for a 14 day free trial of 5i Research!
Experience all the benefits and tools we have to offer; stock research, model portfolios, Q&A with our experts, and so much more. Join a community of like-minded investors today!