Investment Q&A

Q: My healthcare exposure is very lean with CVS as my only current holding. What names interest you that would warrant further research on my part? It will likely be held in a TFSA. I'm looking for a moderate growth/risk name at this time.
Thanks!

Q: Could you comment please? Thanks.

Q: Do you like TH? Did management sandbag buyers of its units at $2.40?

Q: Can you provide update. Can't believe the vol.

Q: Your views as to the growth and outlook of this company. tks

Q: I've been a long-term owner of Allergan. The potential deal with Pfizer indicates that 11.3 shares of PFE will be granted for every 1 share of AGN. Looking at the closing prices of each company on Friday Nov 4th, AGN closed at $316.50 and PFE closed at $32.80. At 11.3 shares of PFE per AGN, this currently values AGN at $360.80.
In your opinion, why are the AGN shares not trading around the value of the deal? Is there significant pessimism about the deal? Are the targets for PFE shares significantly lower over the next year?
Seems to me this is kind of a "back the truck up" opportunity...

Thanks!

Q: I have held SPDR Health Care E.T.F. XLV-N for some time. At this time, it is a hold or sell? Going forward for a longer term horizon, Is there another US ETF that I should take a position in?

Q: Any thoughts about the potential here as it is trading for it's cash value with no debt. Thanks

Q: seems like pli is selling on good news? isn't switching clinical trials to a placebo controlled one a higher quality trial? so why the sell off? is it time to add or wait for this to shake out?
Thanks Peter.

Q: Jean-Coutu has fell 15% since yesterday because the governement will effectively make generic drugs cheaper. This is a huge part of Jean-Coutu's business. Could you discuss the impact on the company? (1) Considering the extent of the impact on their future revenues, how much do you think the stock could contract? Technically, there is some support at 15$. (2) If you were close to retirement, who you buy? I like the nature of the business, 2.5% dividend and the dividend growth history. However I don't want to see the stock fall another 15%. (3) Insiders were buying a lot at 19$ very recently, they must have known about the possibility of this happenning? Thank you team.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-26/jean-coutu-slumps-most-in-7-years-on-proposed-quebec-drug-reform

Q: Peter and team: Currently holding Phm and GUD, (3%) of my portfolio.. I have thought of adding Concordia CXR, but am open to other names. Any suggestions?

Q: Hello Peter & Team, in your response to a recent question about Merck versus BMY, you refer to the Valuation of Merck. What does Valuation mean? How do you define Valuation? You say that MRK valuation is about half the valuation of BMY, and has much more debt than BMY. Still, you prefer Merck. Thanks, Gervais

Q: Good Afternoon Peter, Ryan, and Team,
My question is with regard to insider ownership at Savaria. According to the recent Ink Insider Report on SIS the CEO and CFO own approximately 30 million out of a total of 32.55 million shares outstanding. This means that the total public float is about 2.55 million shares or less. Could you verify if this actually true ??
Thank you. DL

Q: Could you advise when they will release the third quarter results.

Thanks

Q: Nobilis has deferred the issue of their quarterly financial statements again. They have indicated that the delay related to their auditors and that they did not believe that any adjustments would be material. I listened to their conference call several weeks ago and at that time their explanation for potential adjustments and their affect made me think that they were probably immaterial to their results and consequently could be ignored. But this later announcement has me concerned. What do you think. Thanks
Mike

Q: Good afternoon,
I am currently up 60% on Prometic Life and not sure if I will be seeing anymore growth out of them. Should I continue to hold or sell? Thanks

Q: CRH Medical announces they have secured a $33M revolving line of credit with Bank of Nova Scotia at 2.5-3% and are using the funds to repay loans from Knight Therapeutics $22M and Bloom Burton Healthcare $2M that had interest rates of 10-12% with a resulting estimated savings in finance expenses of $2.5M. Good news. The company has said they will use the balance of funds for future acquisitions. Do you expect an acquisition will occur before year end and would the asset to be acquired be in the US? Thanks

Q: I would like to send a thanks to Michael for providing insight into Inspira's reimbursement protocol, following my recent question. I appreciate the information.
Thanks.

Q: Hello 5i Team,

I hold BMY with a very nice dividend/gain, but notice that you seem to favour MRK. May I have your comparison of the two companies? I'm thinking of switching some money from BMY to MRK..... or maybe putting it all on NVO?

Thank you again for all your advice.

Thank you again for the advice.

Q: Hi 5i Team,

This is just a comment about today's market 6% decline. The Wall Street Journal published a scathing article today about drug makers who don't spend any money and on R&D and sky-rocket drug prices. In my opinion Concordia was unfairly criticized in the article as as being one of the worst offenders.

Thanks, Shane