Investment Q&A

Q: I just read an article about the future of Esports by B Carlson and he concludes that Esports is (will be) very big. Any ideas how to invest in this growing trend? Not sure that players bet on outcomes, so TSGI may not be relevant. Apparently Bezos owns a piece of the action, so maybe Amazon?
Thanks for helping with this rather difficult question.

Q: I recently entered into a 2% position in the recent dip when Amazon announced the PillPack acquisition. This dip was shortly after WBA's addition to the DOW. Do companies historically see short to medium term strength after being added to the DOW? The long term trend isn't great on WBA so I am trying to decide whether I should lock in profits and enjoy the successful trade or hold it longer term as an investment. My healthcare allocation is ~5% including WBA.

Q: I am looking to add another US growth company in my TFSA, and am thinking about GRUB and SPOT. Which of the 2 would you prefer for growth, or do you have others that you would prefer over these 2 stocks. I am already pretty heavy with tech in my TFSA.
Thanks
Nancy

Q: At about 9:30 this morning, the price was approaching a 3 year high, but seems to have met resistance, although it didn't drop dramatically.

Are fundamentals still looking good and could we hope that the price may break through the resistance level?

Q: Cintas has been very good to me but I am seeing comments recently that it is currently very much overpriced and will probably take a serious hit with the first sign of bad news. I believe it is a great company but I am thinking it may be time to move on. What is your opinion of holding on to this stock vs. putting a close stop loss on it?

Q: Is it good idea to invest in Applied Materials, Inc. AMAT

please give your thoughts.

Q: Your current view & outlook for remainder of calendar year please.

Q: Peter and His Wonder Team
Another question about this company if you please. It is about trading volumes. The other day BBOX in a filing to the SEC stated that they might run out of cash by the end of the year and have to file for bankruptcy. The stock crashed from $1.95 to $0.75 in a few hours. Then 2 days later they announce a great giant contract and the stock recovered closing at $2.03 today. The company has 15.1M shares outstanding yet the trading volume today was 61.4M...YES that is right 61.4M. That is 4X more than the entire float. So as a rookie investor I am trying to understand this incredible volume. Is this professional day traders buying and selling ...buying and selling knowing that the price has to continue to rise. Also I notice large orders going through...are these mutual funds buying and selling when they have made a 5-10% profit.
Would you rate this as a very unusual event. Your assessment please! Thank you immensely.

Q: I wish to add more fixed income to both my Can $ and US$ portfolios. Reviewing recent Q & A has given me information for Canadian options. Can you suggest US$ Etf's for US and/or international exposure. Thanks for your help and continuing good advice. Doug

Q: How do you rate SNY and IMGN ? Are they buys ? Thank you for your valuable advice.

Q: I notice that DBX is declining today while most tech companies are doing well. I’m wondering what the reason is for the relative weakness and if that’s a bad sign. What’s the valuation like after the drop?

Also, in a recent answer you referred to BOX and DBX as the two best in their sector. Did you mean “cloud computing” as a sector? Perhaps you could name a few of their rivals to give me a better idea of what you meant. Thanks.

Q: Hello Team,
How would you rank this company compared to Visa and Master Card for safety and growth.
Thank You,
Barry

Q: Healthcare is approximately 10% of our portfolio. Medical Facilities is the largest investment which we have held for a long time. JNJ and HCP we have added more recently. NVS and AZN we inherited. We want to simplify our portfolio and plan to sell NVS and AZN and add to JNJ. Wonder what your opinion is of DR and HCP specifically and also AZN which I didn't see mentioned in your question section.
Thank you, Marie

Q: I own these three US traded companies. my question is are they all bankrupt and should I be gifting them to my online brokers TD, to clean up my portfolio. mlkkf,rbeif,guesf

Q: I have 4 stocks on my US watch list and even when the market is underperforming they always outperform the Market. One of them TRHC I asked you about awhile ago and you said it was a good growth story. I should have acted on it then. The other 3 are SRPT, NTLA and FNKO. Which one do you think would be the best taking risk into consideration and which one is the worst taking risk into consideration? Thank you. Dennis an old Sprott Growth Fund holder.

Q: With the recent pullback of almost 15% in the last few weeks of this company,would like your thoughts on a possible good time to take a position on this company and what you think of it...thanks for your always professional service. Greg

Q: Is 5G going to be an investment opportunity for us? Any company recommendations?

Q: What comments do you have about KBWD - Invesco KBW High Dividend Yield Financial ETF? On the surface this Powershares US ETF seems too good to be true with an average dividend of 9% and share price growth from $12.00 USD since inception in December 2010 to a current price of $23.34 USD on July 3rd with a 200 day MA of 22.46. Other than a 25% correction in early 2016, the share price growth has been steadily upward since inception. It has a very high MER of 2.4% but the PE ratio is 9.1, PB ratio 1.04 and beta is 0.754. Are there any reasons to avoid this ETF?

Q: Hi Ryan, What do you think of the bank for a buy at this time.Thanks for everything,. Cliff

Q: Good day,
You had a fairly neutral comment on ZEBRA (ZBRA) two years ago. Has your view changed since then ?
It seems difficult to find interesting stock (high potential growth, reasonably secure) in the industrial sector now. Would AVAV, BOOM, NSP, NVEE be good choices or what else you recommend ?

Many many thanks,

JD