Investment Q&A

Q: Which Telecom is your favorite, being the one that will offer the most growth and capital appreciation over the next 5 years? T, BCE, RCI.B or SJR.B?
Or will they all appreciate similarly?

Q: Hi Peter and Team,

I am interesting in building a diversified portfolio and am looking to invest using your balanced equity portfolio as a foundation. I like the idea of owning 20 to 25 good, quality names and am thinking to eventually build up to a point where I have a similar allocation breakdown as your model portfolio (balanced equity), with maybe a bit in growth eventually as well. I noticed that AYA has gone up a lot today on the news release. Is this a good time to take a position in that, or are there a handful or so of other names that you would recommend getting into at this time to start building up my portfolio?

Also, would it be best to purchase a 5% equal stake into each name - as per the portfolio section of your website - or closer to the allocated amount in your pdf report section?

Thanks for your time!
Mike

Q: Follow-up question re. yesterday's 8 cent drop on high volume. I noticed volume picked up around noon yesterday and the price started dropping. Lots of different brokers on the sell side. The really big volume trades occurred much later in the afternoon and at much lower prices. It almost looks like the traders and computer programs detected a large SELL order from say a mutual fund (for quarter-end window dressing??).
If this is true, how do the other brokers/traders "smell" this out and front-run the large sell trade?? I'm assuming that any quarterly reports reflect the mutual fund's trade date position (ie. not settlement date).
Please help me out in understanding what took place yesterday. Thxs, Ralph.

Q: amaya was trading yesterday in the afternoon below 23 and moved up to close at 24.33 on some volume. looks to me someone knew something before the gap this am.any comments

thx

Q: Are there any new developements?

Q: Hello Peter & Co.
9% of my portfolio is in Health/Pharma and the above are my main holdings; I was ready to pull the plug on both of them early this week but I held steady.
If I did not own them and wanted to buy either one; which would you suggest I buy and why and when?
I appreciate the fact that you hold the line despite the treacherous movements of the market.
Thanks,
Antoine

Q: Two fund managers on BNN have referred to VRX as "broken".
Is this another way of saying "sell", no hope?

CV

Q: do you think husky is ok to buy ?
would you recommend it?
Just wondering why this one has come down so much ,is it only the lower oil price?

Q: Constellation Software just closed a recent round of debentures (http://www.csisoftware.com/2015/09/constellation-software-inc-completes-rights-offering-of-debentures/).

Has the company said what they will put the $214 million toward acquisitions?

Q: Hi Peter & Team,

What is causing the sudden price drop in HLF? I am planning to add a half position at current price, would like to know your opinion about HLF.

Febin

Q: Hi Peter
I have read that U.S. building permits are by far the most reliable leading indicator on where the economy is headed,where would I go to find this information, and would you use monthly data over a 3 or 6 month period to form your opinion.
Thanks

Q: In your report on HLF it was stated that "there is significant value in
the dividend". What does that statement mean? Thanks Ron

Q: Hi, this ETF is near the lowest it's been since inception, approx. 5 years.how about bringing up my existing position to 5-6% of portfolio for a 5-10 year hold in my RRSP. Down 12% on it but in my understanding it wont matter in 5-10 years at 6-7 % a year in distribution and I could be making a gain by then.Same applies to CVD . Would you agree ? and/or what is your view.
Thanks.

Q: Hi Peter, are there any larger cap TSX stocks not currently in the portfolios that are really catching your eye as great buys for the next few years ? Sincere thanks to you and your team for all the sage advice !

Q: Back in July you werent too positive on TDGs short term potential for any sort of increase in price...that was back at $4.20s. Now that we are in the low $2s, do you think this is a buying opportunity, or is debt and earnings going to push this lower?

thanks,
jb

Q: Hi,

What is your assessment of the current situation with TCW and their debt issues? From $13 and change to $.85-ish, it looks similar to BTE (although that could be said of many of the oilco's I suppose). Between BTE and TCW, I think I prefer BTE, it seems to be more oversold, and have a better handle on debt. What are your thoughts on these two?

thanks,
jb

Q: I have a full position in DH and am up 35%, but it has been falling lately, down about $3.50 a share for September. What would you think of switching to Thompson Reuters for equal dividend with a better chance of some growth?

Q: Hi Peter and Team,

Would like an update on your thoughts towards the progress OPRX has made and also the recent minority stake WPP has taken in OPRX.

Q: Often mentioned as a takeover candidate. What is your estimate of a possible net-debt takeover price per share. Also the estimate obtained by applying the past Osisko takeover metrics?

Thanks.

Q: My broker is suggesting that I sell half my position in bank stocks and buy the:
TD Canadian Banks Index-Linked Autocallable Notes Series 9 due October 14, 2020 (non principal protected).

In his justification he is stating that "price decline in bank stocks has created an attractive Cdn Banks auto-callable note with a 10% payment at the anniversary date. I'm not sure if the bank stocks will rally that much over the next 12 months but, they only have to hold their value for this investment to payout 10%."

I appreciate your opinion on this switch as well as your opinion on linked notes in general. I found them so confusing and it appears to me that the issuer is making money in any situation they consider.

I echo other members who complements the excellent value of your service. Unfortunately it doesn't work for those who naively think that the market will always go up and every recommendation will make money in up and down market.

Thanks