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Q: Can you rank the stocks best to worst in your opinion. These are the stock s that are in my Consumer Defensive (Staples - Non Cyclical) sector which is 15% of my current portfolio. Would you add, swap or remove any of them? My portfolio holdings/thoughts are very similar to your BE Portfolio. Thank you - my portfolio is now cleaner and easier - sold the losers.
Read Answer Asked by Terry on May 16, 2017
Q: Can you rank the stocks best to worst in your opinion. These are the stock s that are in my technology sector (17% weighting). Would you add, swap or remove any of them? My portfolio holdings/thoughts are very similar to your BE Portfolio. Thank you and great job.
Read Answer Asked by Terry on May 16, 2017
Q: Can you rank the stocks best to worst in your opinion. These are the stock s that are in my Consumer Cyclical (Discretionary) sector. Would you add, swap or remove any of them? My portfolio holdings/thoughts are very similar to your BE Portfolio. Thank you and great job.
Read Answer Asked by Terry on May 15, 2017
Q: I'm looking at the latest financials for Crius. I'm seeing a big drag on cashflows from investments in working capital. It looked similar in the previous Q1, essential this working capital issue is eating up all their operating cash. Further they are "lending" out money at high rates which is draining their investing cashflows. Finally they are borrowing money to pay the distribution. This doesn't look very sustainable to me. Can you help me make sense of this cashflow statement? Where is the actual money? When I look at the adjustments they make to derive distributable cash I don't agree that normalizing out the working capital investment is a good approach, looks like this is just part of the business. What will change as they grow to make this company capable of actually paying this dividend?

Thanks,
Rob P.
Read Answer Asked by Rob on May 15, 2017
Q: Gentlemen,

As you know I have $100,000 face value of the the NFI Convertible Debenture that is now selling at approx $400.

Maturity is June 30, 2017. I am trying to figure out what price to sell them at, given that the stock is selling in Canadian funds and the bonds are price in US funds.

The stock converts at 100 shares per $000 bond, but I am confused by the currency.

To figure out the price that I offer these debentures for sale, do I simply multiply the stock price X's 100 X's the currency exchange rate of 1.37 and divide by 10 to get the price per $100 face value?

The conversion info is here:


https://www.newflyer.com/investor-relations/performance

As you know this is a large trade for me and I don't want to screw up.

Thanks

Sheldon

Read Answer Asked by Sheldon on May 15, 2017
Q: SPB has taken a big hit since the beginning of this month. Do you know why? The technical based on my charting look quite poor. Are there any good reasons that we should continue to own the shares, ie do you see the share price recovering and if so why? In a recent ranking of stocks to buy similar to SPB ( your answer to a question) you rated this company last out of 6 or 7 companies, Not sure that instills a lot of confidence in our retaining the shares as I sense that you are not overly positive on the company?
Read Answer Asked by John on May 12, 2017
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