Investment Q&A

Q: Hi,
Happy Holidays. Please deduct as many credits as needed. I mainly follow your balanced portfolio, some of your other two portfolios and some US stocks etc. I just transferred my pension to a LIRA and have 30% cash to invest. With this pull back the timing might work out well. Retirement is 12 years away and my husband has pension for the fixed income portion of retirement. I plan gradually start to deploy 20% of the cash (still hold 10% cash for now) and add to all my current half positions and increase my holdings back to full positions that been beaten down such as TCL.A, DOO, NFI etc. I am not sure about adding to the following and wonder if they are a show me story or a good opportunity. Their portfolio weights have dropped to roughly the 1% range all in registered accounts with no tax loss advantage. Would you add to the following or just wait:
FB
Photon
COV
DOL
ENB
BOX
Any other stocks in your Balanced portfolio that that you would not add to at this time? Does this plan sound ok? Any other suggestions/advice
Thanks,
Kerri

Q: I'm in the process of adding to/updating my consumer cyclical, materials as well as financial sector, with a tendency to a balanced vs. growth approach. I would like to add one stock of the below selection for each sector. Can you please give some guidance and as to why said particular stock should be selected?

C. Cyc.: GC / MG / TOY Materials: WEF / MX / CCL.B Financial: BNS / SLF / VB

Many thanks!

Q: Happy New Year Peter, Ryan and Team,

Thanks for all you do. Which stocks in the Model Balance Portfolio will you recommend adding the new 6k for TSFAs to?

I have them all with a few substitutions. Weighting and risk are not an issue.

Thank you,

Wes

Q: About a month ago, I sold these equities, with the only reason being to take a tax loss against gains I took earlier in the year. This has left me with some liquidity. What do you recommend regarding re-purchasing these companies, or waiting for a more stable or upward momentum. Generally, my portfolio follows your balanced equity portfolio.
Grazi,
c

Q: Team, if you we're trying to create a dividend growth portfolio of 8 Canadian stocks what names would you include for a long term hold.

Q: I know you don't have a crystal ball, but I'm starting to feel that COV may be another RHT. Any thoughts?

Q: MX stock appears to be strongly correlated to oil & gas price. Would you agree ? If so, do you expect this to continue in the long term ? Please comment.

Also, do you know why methanol usage appears to be mostly from Asia (more than 70% based on the November 2018 investor presentation - page 37) ? Thank you!

Q: Can you please comment on the payout ratios and free cash flow of these companies. As they are both growing and acquiring other companies, I thought the payout ratio was low. How would you rate their capital allocation over the last few years (cash flow, debt vs issuing new shares) ? Thank you!

Q: Why wouldn't you average down TSGI in the portfolio if you still like it and you are down 50%+ ?
Thx,
Silvia

Q: hi there,

i know that BCI is an odd trader especially with the low volumes. However it seems to be down in an up market - is there any news i missed? It has been a very stable stock to own through all the market girations and i was looking to slowly add to my position unless i missed something.

Cheers

Q: I would like to invest for long term and am looking at either KXS or CCL as both are down. Would you have a preference? and what are the risks with either stocks?

Q: I was wondering if 5i has done much ground truthing when it comes to Alcanna Inc. With my experiences at their stores, have gotten impression that staff working there are pretty unknowledgeable with what's going on with there company, well as with product they sell, ie: booze. Does someone test company out from a customers perspective before recommending a stock.

Q: I hold SHOP in diff accts; one is listed on Cdn exchange, other on US exchange. I notice today that the Cdn listing SHOP is up $14.27/share, the US listing is down $1.22/share. The difference is not the currency. Does this possibly illustrate the negativity of US investors, or what is/are the probable reason(s) for such a spread? Usually the diff is small once the currency is factored in.

Q: Is cov's announced issuance of stock options today, causing it to be down 13% this today. Your current thoughts on COV would be appreciated.

Q: I have a question about ECN auction.
At some point today on Dec 24, ECN was trading below 3.35$ which is the lower price of the band of the auction. Can ECN modified the auction price band if the price keep going down bellow 3.35$?

Thanks,
Stef

Q: Would you consider Enbridge expensive right now? Do you expect more growth over the next couple of years? The PE seems high and I would like to add. Thanks

Q: Great news that the state of Kentucky finds in favor of Stars group. This lawsuit has been an overhang on this stock since 2015. Hopefully this will help light a fire underneath it. Now they just need to secure a few more states with their sports betting platform. Good times ahead. What do you think?

Q: IIROC Trading Halt - TSGI?

Q: whats going on today ?? Thx

Q: PKI is acting like another melting ice cube.I thought it would act more like ATD.b ,which has been more resilient lately.Your comments please.