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Q: In response to a question from John this morning part of the reply was "we are buying/owning it at this level (for small cap high risk investors) and seeing how growth proceeds. Risk is high, but it is expected to be profitable in 2024."

Who is "we"? Are staff members now able to buy Canadian securities or does this information come from another source?
Read Answer Asked on August 29, 2023
Q: Everyone, I will need to allocate funds to: CSU or LMN or TOI. I am already overweight in CSU ( I have held the stock since $110) and LMN. My preference is still CSU and I am not afraid of being over - overweight in the best stock in Canada).
Your thoughts.
Read Answer Asked by Clayton on August 29, 2023
Q: hi,
I am contemplating selling AQN. do you have any guess as to what sort of upside potential ( in percentage ) in the short term there may be for any actions (asset sales? restructuring? etc etc )spurred on by the "activist investor". so far, there has been nothing of significance in this regard, and the stock price reflects this, I think? if selling, I was thinking of adding to my BEPC to make close to a full position. do you still think BEPC has decent growth potential, and will weather any further rate hikes? is the balance sheet fine still?
cheers, Chris
Read Answer Asked by chris on August 29, 2023
Q: Good afternoon,

If an investor has $10K to spend today, which of these three stocks might you have more confidence in buying to (hopefully) realize a significant share price increase during the next 18 months? A brief explanation would be appreciated. Thank you. Brad
Read Answer Asked by Bradley on August 29, 2023
Q: Given the poor performance of this Brookfield subsidiary since the spinoff do you see the possibility of BN taking it private as they did with Brookfield Properties? I believe BN felt that Brookfield Properties was not valued correctly by the market and saw an opportunity to take it back in house. Could the same scenario play out with BBUC? Thanks for the great service that you provide.
Read Answer Asked by Anthony on August 29, 2023
Q: Retired, dividend-income investor. I have funds available over time to invest in / top-up some of my positions to meet long term asset allocation targets. I plan on continuing to invest these funds over a number of months...as I have been over the past 8 months.

The question is = in what order do I buy the following = XST, XIT (several BNN-ers say to avoid adding to technology at this point), BCE, BNS, LIFE, ZUT.

One method is to wait for these securities to hit my price targets (based on hitting a combination of fundamental and technical targets (a little bit is kind of bottom-feeding).

A 2nd method is looking at setting the order of buying, based on where one thinks each security is relative to their historic value.

Ignore asset allocation...these are smaller amounts and the AA is reasonably good right now.

My suggested order, subject to where each security's price is at (please shoot holes in my plan):
Sept = BNS,
Oct = XST-#1 (in 2 tranches-spread out),
Nov = ZUT-#1 (ditto),
Dec = XIT-#1 (ditto),
Jan = XST-#2,
Feb = ZUT-#2,
Mar = XIT-#2,
As each hits their price target (minor adds) = BCE, LIFE.

Please state your order and why.
Thanks...much appreciated...Steve
Read Answer Asked by Stephen on August 29, 2023
Q: In an answer to John you stated that you would expect ZWU " would likely retain its' share price better than UMAX " . Though UMAX hasn't been around long enough for a comparison I think one can speculate on what return might be expected as fifty percent of their portfolio are utility stocks with no calls written on them . So I would think the capital gain would be fifty percent of the utilities index. For example if the index returned 8% annually UMAX should return 4% which would reflect the percentage of the portfolio that is stocks { half the portfolio }. I would think that might be a good educated guess ..... ZWU on the other hand has been around for a while. So my question is has ZWU historically beaten fifty percent of the annual return of the utilities index ? And what has their historical annual percentage been compared to the utilities index ? ......
What I am shooting for here is a way to calculate whether the difference between ZWU's return and the utilities index return is enough compensate for a 5.6% lag in yield between it and UMAX ...... Thanks Garth .....
Read Answer Asked by Garth on August 29, 2023
Q: Are there ETF's that cover Canadian mining in cobalt, copper, graphite, nickel and uranium, possibly also lithium and magnesium?
Read Answer Asked by James on August 29, 2023
Q: Hello,

Ducommun came across my radar - I know it’s small but could you give an opinion on it as a possible early-days version of Heico? Similar industry with growth potential at a more reasonable valuation, possibly?

Thank you for your insights,
Read Answer Asked by Doris on August 29, 2023
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