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Q: Hello Team,
Made money with many recommendations but couple of tsunami like COV and TSGI wipe off most of the gain. How could I have managed better in terms of adhering to 5i advise and holding on to these losers longer than should have been? now these two stocks off the charts from the portfolios.
hope this will help many other members who are in the same boat as I am.
Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Pradip on September 09, 2019
Q: Down a lot on TSGI and saw in your email blast and that you dropped TSGI from one of your portfolios, but I've not sold yet as I wanted to ask a couple of a questions about their recent earnings report. For the 3 months ending June/19, adjusted earnings were $0.48/share. (1) What was the expectation for earnings? (2) Is this earning miss that bad given that revenues and the number of shares outstanding has increased by over 50%? Thank you as always for your great work and responses.
Read Answer Asked by jeff on August 26, 2019
Q: At current levels which should we sell/keep ? They now total ~35% of overall equity holdings, and ~20% vs overall holdings inc cash. Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Paul on August 22, 2019
Q: Two questions:
1) Of the two, which one would you be more optimistic about for the medium term (3-5 yrs).
2) Which would you prefer to sell for a tax loss. (and not repurchase)

And a third question...
Regarding TSGI, the last report (06/18)had upgraded the rating to an A-. It has been a while...is it safe to assume that an updated report would see a downgrade?

Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Mike on August 20, 2019
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

Read Answer Asked by Clarence on August 13, 2019
Q: Is now is a good time to average down on TSGI, either in general or for my specific case? I.E. is the likelihood of a turn-around for TSGI good enough to invest a little more at a time of high pessimism for this stock (buy low)?

Context for my case:
o I hold TSGI in my RSP,
o it is currently 1.1% of all our portfolios (which are up 20.7% YTD),
o it is down 56% since I bought in July 2018,
o I don't need the money from TSGI for a few years (I'm under 60).

Thanks.

Here is the summary of the 5i report from June of 2018:
"It is hard to not be impressed by what TSGI has accomplished. Over just five years, the company has grown from a market-cap of $500 million to $7.2 billion. While it has been a messy story, this is another case of a great Canadian company that no one ever talks about. Even if TSGI is trading at a premium to peers (we do not think it is materially more expensive), the valuation is cheap with respect to the growth and cash flow the company has. Meanwhile, we think the SBG purchase has a lot of potential over the long-term but this of course could lead to a few mixed quarters as costs related to the purchase work their way through results. We are upgrading TSGI one notch to ‘A-’."
Read Answer Asked by Robert on August 13, 2019
Q: Hi 5I,

After listening to the call today, it appears that the lowered forecast is due to the capex spending in the US in order to ramp up their business in PA, NJ and 2/4 other jurisdictions would this not be considered a reasonable expenditure to open up a nascent marketplace such as the US?

Do you view the call any differently, and has the business fundamentals changed that much to warrant the beating in the stock. If anything, I am looking at taking another bite at this low valuation.

Your thoughts?
Read Answer Asked by Kelly on August 13, 2019
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.
Read Answer Asked by Carl on August 12, 2019
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