Investment Q&A

Q: Looking for a dividend payer of minimum 3% with your highest conviction of a capital gain please? I need to replace some losers in my taxable account.

Q: I looked at Morningside Quant Reports Thompson Reuters Reports and other stats on the above stocks and found the following:
TSGI. 16% Discount Undervalued. PEG .47 Moderate Buy/Buy ratings from 6 analysts

NFI. 26% Discount Undervalued 9X P/E Moderate Buy/Buy Rating 6.2% Yield , 4 analysts

COV. 47% Discount Undervalued. 0 analysts

MX. Significantly Undervalued 7.5 P/E., PEG .11 Moderate Buy/ Hold Rating, 4.34% Yield, 9 Analysts.

SU. 21% Discount, Significantly Undervalued 10.5 P/E, 7.24 PEG, Moderate Buy/Buy Rating 4.44% Yield 15 Analysts

PHO. 35% Discount, Undervalued. 15.2 P/E, Strong Buy/Buy Rating, 3 analysts.

What value do you place on Quantitative Reports as compared to other analyses? How useful are they? Are the above stocks overdone on the downside primarily due to recent global markets uncertainty or because of their own performance. The above stocks seem to have been severely re-evaluated. The idea of exiting a falling position is to eventually replace it with a position with better upside and less risk which seems to be the challenging bit. Your comments and opinions please.

Clarence

Q: I read with great concern in this weekend's National Post, David Rosenberg's article entitled "10 Reasons to take risk off the table right now". He makes ten legitimate reasons to do so. I would appreciate 5I's opinion of the article and his supporting logic. My high risk equities are WEF, NFI, TSGI, MX, COV and VET.
Carl.

Q: I have a half position in MX. Given its recent weak price movement, would you recommend doubling up to full position?

Q: Hi, 5I
Thank you to add to your comments the following:
1 how much shares the company bought over the past year to date
2 how much more they can buy on the buyback program
3 what is the actual debt to cash flow
4 MX seems to be quite sensitive to the economic situation due to the extensive use of methanol in many verticals. A look at the 2007/2009 action speaks volume on the exposure.
Take as many points as seems fit
Thanks

Q: Can I get your thoughts and comparisons of these 2 companies, I’m looking at long term prospects for each company. 5-10 years, dividend and growth.

Q: Hi,

Quick thoughts on these companies. I'm doing some clean up and these positions are under 1% in my portfolio. Which ones would you continue to hold, add to or just sell? Can you please rank. I have a diversified portfolio. Thanks!

Q: With the the drop in share price as result of yesterday’s earnings report, do you think it would be a good moment to start a position in MX for a long term hold ?

Q: Can you please comment on the quarter?

Thanks!

Q: Good morning...I am a 68 year old retail investor that has all of my expenses covered with dividend paying stocks....in my rif I hold nfi and toy both down about the same...I am thinking of selling and trading the two of them for arx and mx as these sectors are down and also these two stocks have large dividends.. would you change them now or hold the original two...also I hold vet in the energy sector and although down like the dividend

Q: Hello Peter and team,
Would you agree/disagree with this analysis:

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/earnings-preview-methanex-meoh-q2-143202138.html

Thx!

Q: Further to my prior question about allocating stocks to multiple sectors, how would you assign the following? I know this is 'not a science', but I think it will give me a better idea of my sector distribution.
TCL.A Cons Disc:Industrial
CCL.B Cons Disc:Industrial
NFI Cons Disc:Industrial
MG Cons Disc:Industrial
LNR Cons Disc:Industrial
TFII Cons Disc:Industrial
EIF Industrial:Financial
AQN Utilities:Energy
EMA Utilities:Energy
MX Mining:Energy
T Telecom:Healthcare
PSK Mining:Financial
TRI Financial:Cons Disc

If you think that other sectors should be included here, please add them.
Thanks again, and please deduct questions as you see fit.

Q: Is there a reason to hold these? Performance is just unacceptable.

THX

Q: Hello, Methanex has droped by 5% today, do you continue to endorse the company? Would you buy more at this price? I also hold Applied Materials and its momentum has been positive for the last 2 months with a good increase today, should I use this momentum to sell, hold or buy? Thanks, Gervais

Q: FYI. MX was downgraded by RY to US$65 TP(from $70) & CM to US$46($53).In my humble opinion,I cannot understand management's decision to go ahead with the project in this uncertain time(slowing global growth & possibility of recession) & after the price has recently declined some 50%(1yr H $107.07 to $53.09 today)

Q: Is there any news on Methanex today?

Thanks,
Milan

Q: I am a retired, dividend-income investor with a buy-and-hold strategy that I trim-add around core positions. I am a bit light in the Materials sector.

I have been following MX and NTR. Both screen well on the metrics I use (P/E, P/BV, P/CF, P/S, ROE, dividend, dividend growth, payout ratio and consideration to analyst expectations). If I had to select one, I would give the nod to Methanex although RBC Direct Investing rates NTR better. Five questions:

#1 = For a long term hold, which would you pick?

#2 = Even though I am not a trader, for a rebound potential, which would you pick?

#3 = I use a full weighting of 5% for blue chips (examples, BCE, BNS, FTS, TRP). What weighting would you suggest...I am thinking a half position?

#4 = Both stocks are global companies. Which stock is more susceptible to the current trade wars?

#5 = Or....is there a better alternative stock which you like better than MX-NTR?

Five questions...please deduct 5 credits.
Thanks for the great service...Steve

Q: Would you be able to compare these two companies or are they too different? If I understand correctly they are both in the materials sector, are well managed and are companies which combine some growth along with a healthy dividend. Possibly MX has more of a global reach and so has some control over its destiny while LIF is a royalty company and simply reflects the current price of iron ore pellets. If I understand correctly LIF would have a risk of ore exhaustion or depletion even though the Labrador Trough has been a source of high quality pellets for years now. MX buys hydrocarbons (oil and gas) to make methanol so their input costs should be low yet methanol prices must be even lower so we have a problem. You note MX is projected to have 60% growth next year which is a high number but the stock continues to decline. Based on your years of experience do you feel this is a valid projection? Is the 60% number based on anticipated recovering demand or is the company opening a bunch of new factories next year?
Any other thoughts you have would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim

Q: Owner of MX and was going to write a question on it today before reading:
"While we like momentum a lot, we view SPB as more of an income security than growth, and in our view MX is too cheap on valuation to endorse this switch. "

I recall a lot of talk on BNN etc about the oil companies as prices started to come down. Valuations were cheap and nobody thought oil was going as low as it did. Is there not some risk here that methanol prices keep going lower in the way oil did which would throw the valuation argument into question? What would it take for 5i to throw in the towel here?

Q: I currently own MX, down a lot.
SPB is at a high, MX is at a low - for a momentum trade, would you endorse a switch from MX to SPB, or is that just selling low and buying high and therefore not recommended?