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Q: You gave a great answer on why winpak declared a one dollar special rather than raising the dividend, my question is why you would want to have a company like that in your model portfolio, it seems like they are just self serving. Dave
Read Answer Asked by david on February 24, 2014
Q: AHF I have owned this company for a while, bought at around $1.40 and watched it drop to almost $1.00.
Should I continue to hold it and expect that it will regain it's former price or should I sell, absorb the loss and move on.
David
Read Answer Asked by David on February 24, 2014
Q: I have held a position in Winpak (WPK) for over a year and have done very well with it. I intend to continue holding, but am a bit perplexed by their recent announcement of a special $1 per share dividend. The announcement came without any explanation. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth and think it’s great when companies give back to shareholders. My understanding however is that special dividends typically occur after an asset sale, or in response to shareholder pressure when a company is flush with cash. Winpak’s current regular dividend of only 12 cents amounts to less than 0.5% yield. The $1 special dividend could have been used to finance doubling the current regular dividend for the next 8 years! Can you explain what management is doing here with the special dividend?
Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Steven on February 23, 2014
Q: Can you help to evaluate the quarterly numbers for EFH.
Revenue seems higher but net income quite a bit lower.
Just trying to understand the meaning of the underwriting loss for the past quarter and if this should be considered as significant negative result.
Read Answer Asked by Stephen on February 23, 2014
Q: GRPN is at all time low. Is it a good time to buy?
Read Answer Asked by Rae on February 23, 2014
Q: Can you comment on Enerplus's (ERF)latest earnings. Aside from Mart (MMT) it is my only other oil holding. I have held positions in both for a long time and while I have a nice gain in ERF I am underwater in MMT while I have waited patiently for their new pipeline to be constructed.( I am reluctant to dump MMT because of this) Should I stay the course with both or would you recommend selling for something else?
Read Answer Asked by Marty on February 23, 2014
Q: I'm just short of a triple for the stocks Interpipeline & Pembina Pipeline so they are each way over 20% of my portfolio.Because of my purchase price ,both give great dividends but I'm asking should I trim a bit & which bank should I buy as a replacement or would you rather another area?
Thanks in advance for your great advice.
Dave
Read Answer Asked by Dave on February 23, 2014
Q: I have three “Financials” (TD) TD Bank , (BNS) Bank of Nova Scotia and (HCG) Home Capital. Would it make sense to increase diversification buy replacing one of the banks with SLF (Sun Life Financial)?. If yes, which bank to keep? What is an appropriate waiting for the “financial” component of a portfolio? Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Paul C. on February 23, 2014
Q: What is your opinion of selling out of the money put options for income on stocks you don't own, but would not mind owning?
Read Answer Asked by ROB on February 23, 2014
Q: Based on 2 days trading it seems the market first liked recent THI results then on sober second thought hated them. What's the 5i take? I guess guidance for 2014 was light but I think Tim's is doing many things right like addressing long lineups, simplifying menus, buying back stock and increasing dividends. Dropping the gingerbread man will no doubt alienate the 6 year old demographic, however. My discount brokers show ROE as 34 to 36% which seems very high; what's not to like for the long term, even if growth is slowing? Thanks, J
Read Answer Asked by Jeff on February 22, 2014
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