Investment Q&A

Q: Hi Peter,

AVO took a beating when the CFO suddenly left immediately before earnings were released in May for "health reasons". It is now four months later and the company has yet to announce the hiring of a permanent replacement. Smells a bit fishy to me. Is this long delay a further cause for concern for AVO shareholders? How long should it take to hire a qualified and suitable CFO???

Thanks for the reply.

Q: Do you think GIL is a good buy at today's price. Thanks

Q: When are we gonna hear about the apple/win case?
And what are the chances for win to defeat apple in court?

Q: CSU had a good run and has been consolidating at the current price level. Any developments that would warrant adding on a pullback here?

Q: Hi team,
In your opinion, do you think the deal will go through? Is it a hold or sell position?
Thank you.

Q: Hi, for those of us taking either all cash or partial cash in the Tim Hortons / Burger King deal, what are your recommendations to replace THI with (consumer discretionary).

Thanks,

Q: the pipelines enb,ipl,trp,ppl have showed quite a downturn recently-is it just profit taking or is some other reasons ?

Q: I would appreciate your opinion regarding the full year earnings report issued by DHX this morning. I have been accumulating DHX shares, buying on improving quarterly results and momentum and I would like to buy more but would first like to hear your thoughts on this rather exciting company. Thank you.

Q: Can you provide the % of US sales for these 2 growth stocks. Presumably the weak CDN $ could give earnings a nice boost. Currently building positions.
Thanks

Q: RE ACQ - you still have this stock rated a "B" which suggested to me it was a buy and as long as your rating has not changed, it still should be. I am down 25% since my purchase of ACQ while the market is down far less in percentage terms. Has anything changed in your ACQ analysis that we should have known about? Thank you

Q: I haveno health care exposure and was thinking of adding Pfizer and Gilead Science to the US side of my portfolio.what are your thoughts on this? Also I bought BAD, ACQ and LNR when they were very high recently and am down about 30 percent in them. Would this be an opportunity to double down or do I just wait them out? It was bad timing on my part and am wondering if there is a way I can fix my mistake.

Q: My TFSA makes up a tiny portion of my overall portfolio and I have maxed my contributions to date. I have to sell about 1/2 of the portfolio within the next few weeks to pay for a wedding (life can get in the way of long term investing!).

However, I am stuck on what to sell. I hold AVO, AYA, BDI, CGI. DHX, CF, ESL, STN in a fairly balanced portfolio. I am trying to determine a strategy of what is best to sell. I am comfortable with all of them, long term. Do I sell 50% of each (even the couple I am down on), are there some that you expect to grow a lot sooner than the others (it will take a couple of years to probably replace the withdrawals), is CF anticipated to declare a special dividend, etc?

Any assistance as to how to orient my thinking would be appreciated.

As a caution to others, I should add that I did trim a bit earlier but I became complacent with the high valuations and didn't prepare for this September drop in the markets.

Appreciate your assistance and I hope you are transitioning well from all your riding. I did the Ride to Conquer Cancer and it took me a few days to slow myself down!

Paul F.

Q: Re: Contrans Group Inc. Class A Subordinate Voting Shares...

Should I tender my shares or hold on till a better deal comes along?
I have till October 3. 2014 to respond.
Thx -- Hanna Abramowitz

Q: Regarding CGX
Someone on BNN commented yesterday that Cineplex was cheap right now...from a P/E or P/CF it does not look overly cheap to me. Would you say it is inexpensive or fairly valued and by what metrics?

Q: Symbol : ACQ.TO
Good Morning Peter & Team.
Auto Canada is under lot of pressure recently and is loosing heavily. Is there any news on this stock? Is this a stock a buy / hold /sell currently? Is it worth entering in to a new position in this stock at current levels?

Thanks for your help.
Vinod

Q: A day or so ago, ENB announced that it was transferring a 1.76 Billion pipeline package to the Enbridge Income Fund. My question is why they are doing this and how this transaction will affect the stock price of both companies. Tnx for all the great work.

Q: Do you have any suggestions with regard to selling your losers? For example, I own Avigilon (AVO) and currently have a loss of 41% and keep on holding it with the hope that some good news will be on the horizon and the stock will head up. Frankly, I wish I had sold it long ago. I know that some investors have a rule if a stock drops 7-10% from purchase price, it is sold. Do you have any general recommendations for selling losers? Thanks, Bill

Q: Questor (QST) is dropping in a major way today. I expect that small caps will generally fall more than large cap stocks when we experience the kind of drops we have seen on the TSX over the past few days. This, however, seems overdone on no news. Is this an opportunity to add to my QST position?

Thanks you for your assessment.

Q: T:AD - ALARIS ROYALTY CORP
Please provide me a recommend a list of Canadian companies that can benefit from us markets and us growth . I believe that AD would be an example as it is in the us or moving that way ? . I prefer dividend stocks.
Thanks
Yossi

Q: I have had BYD.UN for a long time and it has done good but it has gone down (like most everything) today. What is your feelings of this stock. Thank you.

Ron