Investment Q&A

Q: Hi, taking a licking on energy with wcp down 40% and vet down 25%, is it best to hold until after tax loss selling and hope for a turnaround?
It is hard to figure with Trump trying to keep oil low, more renewable energy, Saudi’s turning on more supply, no pipelines, feds not really helping, carbon tax, and of course a big discount we give away to the USA losing billions.
It looks really bad, maybe I should add as this may be the low? Your thoughts, buy ,hold, or sell

Q: Could you explain the large gap between Canadian oil and US oil ?
It’s having a very negative impact on my wcp holding. Is this large gap sustainable in the near to medium term or a cause for major concern ?

Q: These are my current doggies by % loss and have been for a while. Can you recommend replacement(s) or would you suggest just holding?

Carl

Q: Wcp is sitting around 52 week lows even though the price of oil is rallying. Why is this?
I'm tempted to buy wcp for a bounce off the bottom, as it has done in the past.
Thoughts?

Q: Do you view Whitecap's dividend as safe or do you think they will direct those funds toward more growth...thanks.

Q: I am a senior and hold TOG, WCP, and SGY. I am down about 75%. Should I continue to hold, buy more or switch to another growth stock? Thank you!

Q: I am Following your balanced portfolio. There are significant losses in AEM and WCP and both are a tax loss opportunity. I am considered changing these for KL and PXT? The later two have much better momentum and I think look much better on their technical charts over the last 3-5 years. Both are less than 3% positions each. What is your opinion?

Q: I need help to clean up and high grade my energy stocks. I have the following in the energy sector: ENB, IPL, PPL, SCL, SGY, TOU and WCP (all were acquired between 2011 and 2014), and I would like to reduce the number of positions. I have not added to the energy sector since Q3 2014.

Energy makes up 8% of my entire portfolio (DCPP, mutual funds, and a stock portfolio managed by me – the 7 stocks referred to above). I have been very patient, but my patience is running out with some of these stocks. Some days I feel like selling the losers and investing in another sector, other days I feel like averaging down on some of the losers (it’s been 4 years since I added to the sector).

I am up 50% on PPL, so plan to keep it. Breakeven on IPL and ENB. Down 33% on WCP, and down >50% on SCL, SGY and TOU. Not including dividends.

I am considering adding VET as it seems to be better quality (recommended by 5i and others), but I don’t want to have too much overlap with the other stocks, nor do I want to increase the number of stocks in my portfolio.

Assuming that I keep the same overall energy weighting, how would you high grade this portfolio. I am open to other energy companies, the only criteria is that it pays a dividend.

Thanks,

Paul

Q: WCP continues to be out of favor and is not keeping pace with the Energy Sector. Any comment other than it needs a momentum catalyst?

Carl

Q: I purchased WCP back in 2014 when the share price was pretty much double the current price. I was wondering if I should average down and pick up a few shares as it seems the analysts have some positive comments on the company in the future.

Q: I have been holding WCP (-35%) (4% of Corp Port. and 2% of total holdings) and SGY (-40%) (6% of Corp Port. and 3% of total holdings) since 2015.
These are in an unregistered corporate account so a capital loss can be carried forward. I am going to either sell both holdings outright and purchase VET.
Or trim each of WCP and SGY by half and use the proceeds to purchase a smaller position in VET and end up with all three holdings.
The negatives I see with the first option would be increased concentration risk (2 holdings for 1) and I would expect that WCP and SGY would outperform VET if the price of oil continues to increase long term. Your thoughts please?

Q: So Druckenmiller and Soros are putting more bets on oil. I'm not an oil expert, but I do understand the operational leverage that can be created. I also understand there are specific Canadian specific variables to profitability with the pipelines and oil sands etc. If I were to bet with these two, could you give me a list of Canadian oil Companies to bet on? Could you also comment on any possible reason they see oil as attractive?

Much Thanks,

Wayne

Q: Hello, I would like your veiw on the energy sector. Is this in your opinion a sector that is on a slow but steady decline with no real chance of a substantial comeback?
I keep watching the protests with the environmentalists and think that between technology and renewable resources it may not do as well as investors think. Are energy producers changing to renewables fast enough?
I have wcp and vet at about 7% of my portfolio, would you add reduce or just stay in the sector as is?
Thanks

Q: Hi, I like to raise some cash for new opportunities and have already trimmed some of my winners. However these companies have not done much in close to 2 years.
Wcp down 5000
XTC down 4500
Fsz down 2000
Et. down 1500
Sector not a issue, would you sell one or two of these or take a chunk out of each one?
Thanks

Q: Which OIL companies are your favorites buy?
Obliged and Greatful to 5i.

Q: Comments on recent numbers please,, deduct appropriately.

Q: I have the above securities as well as RBC Cdn Equity Inc-D shares, Sentry Cdn Income, Sentry Global REIT. I am a retired conservative dividend income investor with a company pension, CPP, annuities and Fisgard Capital for fixed income.

I currently own ECI and will sell and look for a Consumer stock to replace it (not interested in BIP...I have a full slate of Utilities). I filtered several candidates using fundamental metrics (P/E, beta, P/BV, P/CF, P/S) and technical metrics (200 dma, etc), as well as yield and price targets (for what they are worth).

I will keep my CGX and PBH. I'm looking for a long term hold (conservative, liquid stock with a good and growing dividend). My short list of candidates include CLIQ, CTC.a, PLC, TCL.A. I already flushed ADW.A, KBL, RSI and since I already have 1 food stock, I flushed L and NWC.

Please provide your insights into the appropriateness of these Consumer stocks (CLIQ, CTC.A, PLC, TCL.A) for my portfolio, given my circumstances and existing stock positions.

Are there other securities I should consider, even those that I have flushed?

Thanks for your help...Steve

Q: I sold my complete position in Whitecap sometime ago. With a good quarter reported today and the market yawning I am considering buying back in to this company. I feel it is starting to look attractive again at this level.
What is your view on the results and what would you consider as a percentage entry level.

Q: Hi team,
I hold these 4 stocks in my portfolio for my energy sector. Is this too much and if so, which one should I dump? All 4 total about 8% of my portfolio.
Thanks

Q: Hi team, I don't have much energy exposure and am looking to add this to the portfolio. I am looking for something that has some growth potential as well as income. I was thinking about VET or WCP, which of these 2 do you prefer right now, or are there others that you would recommend.
Thanks