Investment Q&A

Q: Hello Peter and Team,
Would you consider Home Depot a better and safer way to play US housing than lumber stocks such as West Fraser or Interfor? Also, would you have a preferred idea for US housing to either?
Thank You,
Barry

Q: Peter and His Wonder Team
I was following the tap on HMY right until the close...in fact several minutes after the close to make sure I got the final and accurate numbers. Then later in the day I noticed that over 65 million shares were sold several minutes at or after the close...I am puzzled.Please explain how this happened! Also with such a tremendous sell order would you consider a 10% drop in price respectable?
Thanks...always great to know that clarification is only a click away!
Dr.Ernest Rivait

Q: Hello - I'm down 40% on DDC and while I believe in the company long term, I am thinking it might be a good time to take the tax loss. Do you see it making any moves in the next couple of months before I buy it back?

Thanks!

Q: Hi peter, with the upcoming IPO of hydro-one, would you participate into the issue or just wait it out, theres already alot of utilities we can buy in Canada,EMA.TO,FTS.TO,CU.TO, , Its a big IPO, but I dont see the point of participating into this. thanks for the clarification.

Q: Hi 5I,

I recently sold ET for a tax loss and am considering buying it back. Is it still a good quality company worth repurchasing? Would it be better to wait until maybe November - closer to tax loss selling time? or should I just re-buy it now?

Thanks!

Q: What is your outlook om Cpg now? I have a small position!
Frank

Q: Hello Peter and Team,
Given the weakness in lumber prices, would you recommend Home Depot as a better way to play U.S. housing than lumber stocks such as West Fraser Timber? Do you have any companies you would prefer to either?
Thank You,
Barry

Q: Regarding iFabric….2 questions. First they were just listed on the TSX and secondly the insiders own 77% of the share structure. I understand that these are both positive conditions. However could I have your comments. Thanks

Q: For the "balanced" portfolio, the target % for transportation is 5% and the current actual is at 2.6%. The existing equal weight % positions are CNR and TFI. I would like to add to this sector in CDN and/or US dollars, say at least 2 more positions What are a few names you suggest would be a good mix with the existing ones, for me to consider within a portfolio managed 5iR approach?.....Thanks....Tom

Q: How many stocks should one own? I have a position in most of the stocks in your BE portfolio and have supplemented that with smaller positions in some of your Growth stocks. I recognize this is not the intended use of a "portfolio" but I am comfortable with my sector and risk weightings. Also a very long term investor for what it's worth. All that said, what is your opinion on per-security weightings on a whole-portfolio basis? Should an investor stick to about 20 securities (the number in the BE portfolio) with bigger positions? Any harm in owning 30-40 different securities or otherwise?

Q: Gentleman/Ladies

I see you last update on BIR was sometime in Feb. Has anything changed since then regarding BIR

Q: Good day

Your comments on XRE.UN please

Q: The security is WisdTr Europe Hedged Equity Fd

Your thoughts on this security please.

Q: Your last comments on this little company were about a year ago. Since then it has almost doubled market cap. Volume is now averaging 150-200k. Things seems to be happening. Any comments you may have on this company would be much appreciated as I am looking to add to a tiny position.
Thanks as always.

Q: Peter and His Wonder Team
Please compare First Majestic Silver and Pan American Silver in terms of balance sheet, management, reserve life and overall value. Which one do you think is the strongest going forward? Is there another Canadian silver company that you think tops these?
Thanks for your excellent insights ...they are invaluable to retail investors who are just wanting respectable returns on there investments!
Dr. Ernest Rivait

Q: Hi
What ETF’s would you suggest for an 18 year old starting out with a new TFSA, and non-registered account?
Income is desired and would be “tax free” since the TFSA and Personal Exemption Credit would shield it from tax.
I’m thinking:

35% XIU
20% XSP
15% Mawer International
30% XSB or some QUEBEC 4.5% Dec2019 I own

I’m tempted to sprinkle some beaten up sectors like XEG, XRE or XFN, but I’m leaning towards the main indexes to avoid beating myself up for picking the wrong stuff.
How does the allocation look? And the strategy?
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Q: can you explain why the volume traded for example on td bank on friday sept 18th was so high? Other stocks were the same, ie bdi, sj, wfc, atd.b etc. I looked at a 3 year chart of td bank and the volume yesterday was huge and way higher than anything over the 3 years.
thanks

Q: When assessing the prospects of a junior oil and gas company, given the current commodity price levels, how do you determine if the debt level poses a low, medium or higher risk - what metrics do you use? For example how would you compare the debt levels of Raging River (RRX), Rock Energy (RE) and Surge (SGY) Energy and the health of their overall balance sheets? You’ve mentioned previously that RRX has a rock solid balance sheet.

Q: Semiconductor companies represent about 5% of 'folio.
For some reason, the logic of which escapes even me, I am not worried about other semis I have , all of which are down. But Micron has me puzzled. Micron's continuing and rapid descent looks similar to an object trying futilely to escape the powerful gravity of a black hole.

I look at MU's financials and my lying eyes see only a beautifully valued company. I lie to myself and pretend that I do not fall in love with my stocks , but I do. I have thus hung on to Micron. And now I rationalize (illogically) that it is ridiculously cheap,so why sell now? Am I wrong ? Do you see much more downside? (I refer herein to Micron , not more downside on my reasoning or logic).
Do you advise sell?

Q: Would appreciate your analysis of BEP. Why include it in the Income Portfolio rather than BIP or BPY? For total return, would it be better to owm BAM instead?

Thanks