Investment Q&A

Q: The portfolio manager of the Mawer Investment Management fund, Jeff Mo, recommends these 3 stocks to withstand the trade war: IBKR, RMD and APH.

In the present context, what are your views on these stocks, would you buy them now and what would be your entry prices ?

Alternatively, which would be your preferred stocks for a trade war ?

Gratefully,

Jacques IDS

Q: Hello,

Thoughts on starting a position here? For a long term hold, or should one wait? At what price would this be a screaming buy?

Thanks

Q: Was hoping you could shed some insight to the drop in General Mills share price. Considering the P/E@12.9, are the earnings falling because of loss market or is there something else going on corporately?
Always appreciate your excellent service.
Ted.

Q: Everyone, I don’t trade very much, I am a buy and hold person. Keep the best of the best stocks. But I regularly look at charts to see were the stocks is at certain times. The 50, 100 and 200 MVA. Also RSI. I know you use financial metrics but do the charts have a benefit to individual investors? Or should they be used in combination with finial metrics? Which is more important? Clayton

Q: I hold BIPC and ABBV in a US TFSA account. I want to add GOOG. I know that there is a 15% unrecoverable witholding tax on dividends and no tax on capital gains when withdrawal occurs. Since I will not be withdrawing for 5 to 10 years Should I keep these in the TFSA account or move them to a unregstered account? 80 year old value investor with some growth stocks.

Q: Who are competitors of STRYKER MEDTRONICS Which do you prefer ? RAK

Q: Good Morning

I currently hold both VRT and NBIS. Is there too much duplication/overlap between the two? If that is the case which would you reduce to have only one position?

Thank you

Q: Would you endorse a switch from FOUR to GSHD and SYM to CTLP at this juncture for a growth oriented investor?

Q: Given CIBC downgrade of LUG today do you see this as indicator that some of the bigger names in gold will consolidate for a while? Might it be time to adjust the mix of gold holdings?

Thank you for all your help,

Mike

Q: Hi,
Maybe I'm late joining the party but would you have suggestions on how to invest in the European military spending that is forthcoming? Any specific stocks and/or ETFs?
Thanks

Q: Can you provide any peer group names for SES?

Q: I would like to narrow this list down to the best 10 to hold in a long term taxable portfolio. What would you suggest be the top 10 stocks? I currently hold all of them but would like to sell this down to 10. I like holding 10 stocks with about 10% in each as a risk/reward balance. Thank you - and thanks for some of these names which came from you! I am only down on Amazon and BN at this time.

Jason

Q: What do you think of rodgers for income.

Q: Which one is better to invest in?

Q: I realize that you are not much of a fan of DCBO these days given your preference for DTOL and that you removed it from your growth profile. But I'm wondering if this company might be looked at as a potential takeover candidate. Three points to consider:

1. There have been recent articles indicating that the next 18 months could see a real pickup in M&A activity within the Canadian software sector;

2. Following recent earnings, analysts revised their targets for DCBO downwards. Notwithstanding this, the average target is still $72.17, almost 70% higher than our current share price; and

3. Most significantly, two weeks ago, Warburg Pincus LLC anted up over $5.4M to purchase 118K shares (@$45.49) and they now own 12% of the company.

As always, would appreciate your viewpoint.

Q: Hi Peter and Team,

Across all portfolios, we are under-represented in the gold sector, having only a small holding in the CGL.C ETF,

If investing today, in what order would you put new money into the three stocks AEM, FNV, and WPM, or is there a case to be made to invest equal amounts in all three, assuming there's no significant overlap?

As always, thanks for your assistance in making an informed decision.

Q: Could you please recommend five Canadian stocks and five US stocks that are usually good to sell covered calls on?

Q: I realize that these markets have been challenging but the stock price of FORA has fallen 37% in the past month. This is despite the fact that a number of analysts increased their targets (now ranging from $14.50 to $19.00) following the release of their latest earnings.

is this stock being played? As always , would appreciate your analysis of their earnings and what you think is going on here.

Q: Would you advise accumulating Royal Bank on weakness here? What entry price would you look for to add my remaining half position.

Q: Hi,

I was surprised to learn yesterday that a T3 form was provided to me from by bank for holding Purpose High Interest Savings Fund (PSA). It says there is a minuscule return of capital. I thought PSA would only provide interest as reported on a T5.

I went to the PSA website and sure enough, there is a ROC and has been since 2013. Do you know if this is typical of these high interest savings account ETFs and if there is another fund that is similar to PSA without the ROC component?

Thank you.
Michael