Investment Q&A

Q: TECK made a big move today, selling their coal business for $9 B (US funds). Wondering what you think of the deal, and more importantly, what do you think of TECK.B as an investment now that it will be divesting the coal business. The stock rose about $3 initially on the news, but then fell back to just below the previous close, so clearly, some people were not impressed with the deal.

Q: What is your interpretation of the reason for the sudden announcement today of the "retirement" of the president and chief operating officer effective tomorrow. The timing is very suspicious. Thanks

Q: With the bad news from Teck.b today, is that signalling a sell?

Q: Is this still a good company to hold in this environment? Are Rio, BHP better options?

Q: What are a few relatively safe material sector stocks that my daughter, mid 30's, could thinking about holding in her RRSP for the long term???......thanks for the suggestions as me, I tend to shy away from material sector stocks.........Tom

Q: best way to play cooper ??? for rewards of future electrification

Q: Would you hold or sell?

Q: Could you shed some light on TECK-B's disappointing quarterly results? Any news on the company's separating the 2 businesses?

Q: Any concerns with the issues surrounding copper production currently and going forward. Thinking of taking profits on this one.

Q: with so much extra copper needed in the future ,because of EV and clean energy what are your thoughts going forward on the copper price in the future?
It seems to me a no brainer as building a mine will not happen overnight either.
How would you play this as an investor?

Q: Given the recent Chinese export restrictions on geranium and gallium, are any Canadian companies poised to profit or that have the potential to profit? My geologist buddy tells me that TECK produces some as by-products of aluminum production. He doesn't know if it comes from imported bauxite or not and I'm not sure how that would matter. Any thought on this? Thanks

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Q: If one wanted to invest in copper, what would i5R recommend, both individual companies & ETFs. Please give a brief financial explanation for each recommendations. Thanks. … Cal

Q: Who should i focus on for copper. Manageable debt to survive any economic down turn, mining in stable political countries, low cost production, reasonable life of current mine(s) for future supply. Trading on the Canadian exchanges With EV etc I expect supply of copper will be another metal that will be in short supply but will have its ups and downs in the short term.

Q: Teck is starting to drift downwards again, including a big drop today. Don’t see any news. Any reason you can see for the drifting down? Just fading confidence that an acquisition is going to happen? Seemed like there may be new/different offers on the acquisition the horizon a few weeks ago, has that changed? Would you recommend holding on in anticipation of acquisition offers coming in again? Not in a rush to sell, but don’t want to hold on if pricing is going to continue to move down to pre-acquisition offer levels.

Q: Can you please give us your recommendations what will be minimum / maximum CDN dollar amount for Teck resource shares if someone gives offer. I just want to analyze if it is worth holding until offer comes or add more.

Thanks for the great service

Q: Bit of a gong show. Initial plans to spin off (with royalty attached so how much of a real spin off was it?). Change the spin off plan plan with shorter royalty life. Decide to can the spin off plan after spending substantial time and money (I have the half inch thick Proxy Circular). Now their Q1 is over of mine costs and short on revenue.

Is this company really a hold or should I give up and take the gain?

Q: Hi, I have held Teck for many years and watched the stock linger much below my purchase price for years. I am now finally up 30%. I did buy it for diversification in my portfolio which is heavy on dividend payers such as financials, pipes, telecoms, utilities.
I am now much older and retired and need to be more conservative with my investments. Would you advise selling on this price, the highest on the 20 year chart, or hold on to catch proceeds of the planned spinoff of EVR? Teck is held in a registered account.

Q: would you buy Teck.b now given the takeover rumblings?

Q: Can you comment on the Glencore bid for Teck?

Q: Hi Team

In general it seems like commodity stocks underperform the markets. Let’s look at SU, ABX and TECK which are large cap stocks in the oil, gold and copper categories. It seems commodity stocks had a good run from about 2003 - 2008. Since 2008, each of these three commodity stocks have traded in a range and are currently close to the top of said range. It seems like the commodity stocks have underperformed the overall market for the past 15 years by quite a bit because the commodity stocks are about the same price as they were in 2008. There have been times when buying commodity stocks as a “trade” was great like in 2020 when SU was $15 or in 2015 when TECK was $5 and in 2015 when ABX was $10. But today these stocks are all at the top of the range. They never break out of this range and I don’t see any evidence that they will break out of the range. If they don’t break out of the range the only direction from here is down. For example, gold is a whopping $2000, and ABX is still only $25. Oil was over $100 recently and SU still never broke out of the range. When the markets tank the commodity stocks usually tank as well…. they don’t act as a hedge. There are exceptions like in March 2020 when the market tanked, and ABX did quite well for 4 months. But today, ABX is back to $25 where it was in Feb 2020. I understand diversification is important but why add commodity stocks to a (long term) portfolio if they never perform well. The commodity stocks are finally paying good dividends but so do many other stocks in different sectors.

Question #1 – please let me know if you agree or disagree to the above. If you disagree, what is the compelling argument to buy large cap (safe) commodity stocks unless they are trading at the bottom of the range.

Question #2 – is there an etf that tracks the Canadian stock market that does not include commodity stocks?

Thanks for your great input to your members questions.
Greg