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Q: Hi Peter I talked to stb today and the reason the stock is down their large holder in France decided to monitize its porfoilo.
I was informed that they current payout ratio was 68 percent .
I hold a bit for us income from a canaidian domiciled company to avoid the us withholding tax.
Kind regards stan
Read Answer Asked by Stan on August 05, 2015
Q: Disney missed earning slightly. Do you think current price decline is justified? I own Disney at much lower price. Should I sell to take the profits at current price? Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Rebecca on August 05, 2015
Q: Hello 5i,
My 16y old just got a job!! so I'm helping put together an investment portfolio. Basically its the MoneySaver ETF portfolio minus the fixed income and gold ETFs, also I've added ZRE for a total of nine ETFs. The plan is when $1200 dollars is made at the new job, one of he ETFs is bought. To me this seems like a good start, maybe even a finish depending on the interest in investing. What do you think?
Thanks,
Read Answer Asked by Mark on August 05, 2015
Q: Hello Peter & Co,
There are obviously a variety of metrics to measure the valuation of the stock. I usually look at the ratio ROE/forward PE which should be above 1; you mention in your report on BIN that, due to its capital structure, EV/Sales and EV/EBITDA are better metrics. Could you please explain? How does the average retail investor parse the various ways of measuring valuations?
Thanks,
Antoine
Read Answer Asked by Antoine on August 05, 2015
Q: Hi, what's your opinion on these two companies. Would you consider these a buy at current levels. What are the pros and cons?

Thanks for the great service.
Read Answer Asked by Alberto on August 05, 2015
Q: colliers reported today. how do the numbers look ?

thx
Read Answer Asked by blake on August 05, 2015
Q: Could you comment on the latest results, payout ratio, dividend growth? Thanks for your service
Read Answer Asked by Ozzie on August 05, 2015
Q: First I want to say what a great job Peter did today on BBN.I know you are not familiar with a number of US co. but was hoping you might have something on this co.Thanks
Read Answer Asked by jim on August 05, 2015
Q: I think I know the answer to this question but I will ask anyway. I bought NGD IMG and TA as recommended by David Stanley BTSX several years ago. All have cut or reduced dividends and my capital has been seriously eroded.Time to move on and sell. Thx for selling FM. I cant believe several months ago this was promoted at over $16.50 by the brokers. What a joke.
Thx for all you do.
Read Answer Asked by blake on August 05, 2015
Q: Peter; It appears that HLF missed on all fronts- can I have your opinion please? Thanks.Rod
Read Answer Asked by Rodney on August 05, 2015
Q: Hi guys.

Lets say I initially buy a 4% position in company xyz. Over the course a few months that position gets whittled down to 3% due to either share price decline or due to the rest of of the portfolio performing well while xyz does nothing.

For portfolio rebalancing purposes, would you consider that xyz position to be either now 3% of the portfolio, because that's what it represents currently, or would you consider that xyz position to be a 4% weighting because that's what it was when you initially made the purchase.

If you like the company, is there anything wrong with buying more (with existing cash in the portfolio) to bump up the weighting closer to that initial 4%, or do you say "my initial position was 4%, I'll wait till xyz's share price performance catches up to the rest of the portfolio?

I'm using "xyz" as a theoretical example because I'd like to know what the general rule is, or does it really depend upon the stock, MacDonald Dettwiler for example.

Thanks a bunch.
Read Answer Asked by john on August 05, 2015
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