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Q: Down a lot on TSGI and saw in your email blast and that you dropped TSGI from one of your portfolios, but I've not sold yet as I wanted to ask a couple of a questions about their recent earnings report. For the 3 months ending June/19, adjusted earnings were $0.48/share. (1) What was the expectation for earnings? (2) Is this earning miss that bad given that revenues and the number of shares outstanding has increased by over 50%? Thank you as always for your great work and responses.
Read Answer Asked by jeff on August 26, 2019
Q: What does NR stand for in the stock rating Growth Portfolio list?
Thank you,
Read Answer Asked by Sharon on August 23, 2019
Q: You commented on the good quarter but noted the only negative being lack of positive cashflow for the quarter. Would this not be expected for this type of company, with very large contracts, and high working capital requirements? The value proposition looks hard to ignore all things considered so I’m just trying to understand if this is actually something to worry about or not? Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Scott on August 22, 2019
Q: Two questions:
1) Of the two, which one would you be more optimistic about for the medium term (3-5 yrs).
2) Which would you prefer to sell for a tax loss. (and not repurchase)

And a third question...
Regarding TSGI, the last report (06/18)had upgraded the rating to an A-. It has been a while...is it safe to assume that an updated report would see a downgrade?

Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Mike on August 20, 2019
Q: When I look at the latest Q&A from Feb. of 2019 on the CSU website Mark Leonard makes reference that it is difficult to find acquisition companies like CSU that have high ROIC but when Leonard did a screen for CSUs board he was able to find 6 companies out of 4000 with ROIC comparable to CSU. Any ideas how to screen for these companies or what companies Mr. Leonard might be talking about? Thx
Read Answer Asked by blake on August 20, 2019
Q: I am new to 5i but I hold many of your A & B -rated stocks, so I am trying to figure out what's happening with NFI and to decide whether to sell it at 20% loss or not. They had decent quarter and the stock was up during Wed massacre. Yet, it was down 6% yesterday (in neutral market) and down again today when everything is up. Do you have any idea what is going on? I have well diversified taxable portfolio with NFI at 3%, would you recommend holding, selling, or adding more?
Read Answer Asked by Alex on August 19, 2019
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