Investment Q&A

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.

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

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

Q: When I see a headline like : Sigma Lithium Sues Ex-CEO As Messy Divorce Complicates Firm’s Buyout Outlook . Should I worry about how this will effect the business?

Q: Could you explain what rights are and the difference between them and warrants. Is it beneficial to own these and how does one buy or obtain them?
Thanks
Jeff

Q: With the owner controlling almost all of the stock will it be impacted by short sellers? Is it a good candidate for fun money purchase.

Q: Lots of insider buying Does your screens show that as well?

Thx

Q: Hi Team,

What are your current thoughts on this company? I feel like I have seen this before and the next thing is a large share offering to come...

Thanks

Q: Is it valid to compare networks as being the "roadway infrastructure" in technology? How much of a moat does ANET have?

Q: What are your thoughts on the latest earnings report and your thoughts in general concerning this company?Buy/Hold/Sell?

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.

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

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 .....

Q: Are there ETF's that cover Canadian mining in cobalt, copper, graphite, nickel and uranium, possibly also lithium and magnesium?

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,

Q: What is your opinion of Bird Construction? Do you think it is a good time to start a position, with 3-5 yr time frame? Or, is there another commercial/industrial construction company you prefer?

Q: Wow, 13.7 % is almost too good to be true ; is it ?
This would seem ideal for my RRIF ; a very high yield on solid Canadian companies. Will the covered call aspect make distributions fluctuate ?
I need clarification on the last sentence of your response to John today:

“ZWU will likely retain its share price better than UMAX. “

Are you saying ZWU will not go down as much as UMAX or go up as much ( or both ) ?

Thanks . Derek.

Q: These are my wife's holdings in her non-registered account. Held these for very long time. EMP.A I bought for her maybe 5 years ago when down a lot. Sitting on a fair bit of cash. Thinking of adding to banks at some point (recession?) or adding BCE and EIF? T is small holding at 2000 shs. Comments/suggestions please. Oh, own ETF ZUE for quite a while also. RRSP has other banks +++

Q: I am looking at yield opportunities in preferreds given where we are in the rate cycle. Could you please comment on buying high yield individual preferreds from stable companies such as Enb ridge as a strategy, and also why their spreads vary so much. In these two releases the yield for the same company goes from the 6 to 9% range, when the stock yields in the 7s.
Thanks!

Q: Hi, what is your opinion on these minimum raté reset prefs? An 8% yield seems interesting given the solidity of the issuers. Am I wrong to assume that they will one day go back to 25$ ? Even if it takes 5-10 years the total return potential and risk/return ratio seems pretty good (especially in a non registered account). Thanks!