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Investment Q&A

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Q: What is your take on ATD's announced "preliminary" offer for 7-11? The market seemed to not react to this. Some time ago they contemplated a large deal to purchase Total. That was not well received and it eventually did not go forward. If the 7-11 goes ahead, what impact will there be on the share price for ATD? Would they have to take on a lot of debt or issue a large amount of shares? Many thanks
Read Answer Asked by Leonard on August 21, 2024
Q: Would be interested to hear your top picks in the following areas:
metals (gold in particular, with a low cost of production); energy, food.
Thanks

Read Answer Asked by Judith on August 21, 2024
Q: Please provide several recommendations for an elderly investor looking for preservation of capital with a solid return - prefer 5%+. I am currently significantly overweight Canadian banks and insurance companies.
Read Answer Asked by Helen on August 21, 2024
Q: I have less than 1% positions in the above companies and am trying to reduce holdings. Can you please rank them buy, sell or hold. Thanks Stew
Read Answer Asked by Stewart on August 21, 2024
Q: a while back you preferred PPL over TRP that worked out nicely; thank you.
now TRP stock has recovered and pays higher dividend (so does ENB)
would you still keep PPL or now ENB/TRP has more upside (growth + div)
PPL + ENB is only 4% of my portfolio; I read ENB is benefiting from all the electricity demand so perhaps there is growth there?
Read Answer Asked by JR on August 21, 2024
Q: My husband is 8 years away from retirement and wants to buy dividend stocks to leave mostly alone (not checking daily like me!) - he'll check in on it now and then. This is the list he's come up with - slightly higher positions in BCE, BPF.UN and slightly lower in AW.UN, CAR.UN and OLY, otherwise fairly evenly split. Do you see this a good list for his purposes, and is there anything you would leave off, or add? Any other alarm bells? Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Kim on August 21, 2024
Q: I've owned these for quite a while (KXS 5 yrs; WELL 4 yrs; CTS 3 yrs) but they haven't performed as I'd hoped (KXS +17%; WELL +4%; CTS -1%). Note that I've added to each since the initial purchase.

I understand 'wait time' and that the market sometimes takes a while to respond to fundamentals, but I feel I've given these all a fair chance and yet I continue to believe - and to hold!

Can you offer me any assurances to either continue holding or selling any of the three stocks? Interestingly, when starting a position in KXS I made a decision to purchase that and not Descartes which 5i also supported strongly at the time. Needless to say, I've watched DSG clean up and KXS tread water.
Read Answer Asked by Cameron on August 21, 2024
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