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Q: I have held Kinaxis for a few years and it has always been fairly steady with growth. For the last few months it has really moved up. From your previous comments you indicate it has been adding new contracts with existing customers to explain this. My question is how could this cycle be disrupted. I feel comfortable not trimming on a stock like this.
What are your thoughts
Thank You, Peter
Read Answer Asked by Peter on April 24, 2020
Q: I just read your report on PBH and wondering what does China have to do with supplying pork to PBH? (ref. Growth Plans section of the report). I always thought China was a net importer of pork and am shocked if Canada /PBH is buying Chinese pork. Please explain the China connection to PBH operations and its impact on PBH earnings & growth.
Read Answer Asked by EDWARD on April 24, 2020
Q: Morning:
I own equal weightings of these equities in my TFSA. I have some cash to invest, which one of these would you buy more of at their current market valuations? Looking for capital appreciation over the next 8 to 10 years. Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Greg on April 23, 2020
Q: Hi Peter and Staff

I realize P/E doesn’t seem to matter in growth tech companies - However I cant help but wonder how CSU and SHOP stock up in terms of P/E and Cash Flow from earnings per share both on a trailing 12 months basis and a future 12 months basis

I can’t help but wonder how SHOP can be same market cap as TD bank in terms of distributable cash flow per share regardless of whether they actually chose to do it

Also will your answer take into account the many stock options that employees have and must be surely to exercise

Thanks for all you do
Dennis
Read Answer Asked by Dennis on April 23, 2020
Q: Hi,
SHOP has been a great performer for my portfolio. I reduced my position by approximately 40% yesterday. (April 21), thinking that the stock looked “topped out”. To my surprise it continued its uptrend today. I like to term this stock a “monster”. It’s unbelievable they way it’s moving up. Is this move sustainable and do you think we could see $1000 in the near future ? Also what is really driving this stock.... could you share your thoughts ?

Thank you and be safe .
Read Answer Asked by ilie on April 23, 2020
Q: It is a core holding in my portfolio. It's not behaving well lately. Does it have a disproportionate representation of risk assets of today like real estate or hotels to cause such a significant downturn? What is causing the drop?
Read Answer Asked by Ford on April 23, 2020
Q: Hello Peter,
My daughter holds ECN at a 2% weight. I’m considering buying preferred share ECN.PR.A to provide additional dividend income but in this market believe I need additional company info.
From their AIF, ECN appears to manage financial assets for other entities. To what extent do they carry financial risk of losses of those assets? And if they carry little loan risk, what is the prime risk of the company not surviving a prolonged downturn in the economy?

Final question; ECN is in the growth portfolio. If it was not, would you put it in at this time?

Many Thanks!
Robert
Read Answer Asked by Robert on April 22, 2020
Q: hi folks:

understanding that byd is well run, i wonder why it has held up so well

logically it seems that they will likely be a year (possibly more) till they return to full capacity; given the volume of people that will not be driving

do they have the balance sheet to take advantage of the fire sale that surely will be coming in 'mom and pop' panel beater co's; allowing them to buy more assets at fire sale prices?

is byd just getting a bid from the safety trade as it 'appears' (ok, to me) that there is no solid reason for it to have recovered so well?

thanks
Read Answer Asked by Robert on April 21, 2020
Q: You've mentioned Boyd as one of your favorites a number of times lately, and I'd like your reasoning. This doesn't appear to be a cheap stock, by any means, with a forward PE of 96 (G&M). Moreover it's in the business of servicing cars which are mostly in their garages and parking spots these days. Is this a forward view to next year, because I am expecting its next quarterly report to be absolutely dreadful.
Read Answer Asked by John on April 20, 2020
Q: If you were on bnn market call what would be your top three picks? I have a diversified portfolio. Just looking for a sector or stock where I can invest additional funds. There are no restrictions on sector, small or medium cap
Read Answer Asked by Roy on April 20, 2020
Q: According to StockCharts, GUD has increased 32.45% in the past month. The only stock in your Balanced Equity portfolio that is down is NFI, down 27.45%. My question is, re NFI why? Should we be patient? Can we see NFI rebound when the pandemic subsides and people start moving around again?
Read Answer Asked by Fred on April 17, 2020
Q: In answer to @Cheryl, Knight released two news yesterday. The Triumvira repayment shows that Goodman's strategy of battling mostly 'singles' (except the GBT 'homerun') is working.

However, a more meaningful news is that Knight finished repurchasing 100% of their shares buyback under their NCIB. I don't recall a company actually buying "all" of the NCIB allocation. We knew they had bought 78% of it as of March 30, 20 in their Q4 2019 quarterly report. We could have expected they would buy the other 18% but still did it quickly with Stock having dropped a lot in the COVID market (even though they said COVID had not affected their business - well not yet at least).

Question: their NCIB only expires on July 8. Does it mean GUD has to wait until July 8 to request another NCIB to the TSX if they want to continue buying back their shares? Medison still owns 7.5% (10.5M shares) of the company, and I would really like to have GUD arrange a 'block' buyback of Medison's Shares via a 'special NCIB' repurchase to finish the Meir Jacobson involvement once and for all without disrupting the share price, or at least causing uncertainty/concern on that.

Is that possible? And if so, does it have to wait until current NCIB expires in July even as they have completed 100% of the current NCIB already? Thank you!
Read Answer Asked by Jennifer on April 17, 2020
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