Investment Q&A

Q: Morning, I have held HCG for years, and XTC for about a year, have been waiting for a turn to positive on both. Is either expected to improve or are there better names in these areas? Thanks, Lavern

Q: I'd appreciate your opinion/suggestions on a few companies that a GARP (Growth At Reasonable Price) style investor should find particularly attractive currently - ignoring sector diversification.

Thank you

Q: In 2016 I had significant realized capital gains as I sold off shares to re-balance my portfolio. Currently I am in a loss position with the above mentioned companies. I was thinking of selling shares in these six companies to help offset the realized capital gains. Which of these shares do you think I should buy back after 30 days to avoid the superficial capital loss? Normally I would not be selling them, but for tax purposes I am contemplating doing so. AAPL makes up a significant part of my Info Technology sector and GILD is my only exposure to the health care sector. If I do not buy back the other four companies it will not impact my asset mix in my portfolio significantly. Is this the right time of year to do tax loss selling for these companies?

Thank you

Q: XTC (Exco Tech.): beaten down, low PE, low debt., good ROE, met last Q expectations & missed previous three. Would this be a good long term buy at some point soon?

Q: Peter, as I build up new cash balances to invest, I need to resist the temptation to keep buying new stocks but, rather, to add to existing positions - simply to avoid to point where I'd have 80 or more stocks! I have an account that currently holds modest positions in Exco, K-Bro, and Tourmaline. With a 5-year time frame, which of those three would you expect to produce the best total gain? Or, since the account also holds the Horizons ETF HXT, would you be inclined to prefer that broad basket (although, obviously, diversification is not my concern!). Thank you.

Q: I have 300 shares of MRE that have not done well. Would you advise selling them for XTC? Thanks

Q: Hello, I would like your thoughts about last quarterly results for Exco Technologies. Do you consider this stock a buy at current price levels.

Q: Peter and Team:
Above is a list of stocks I hold in an more aggressive non balanced account with no bias towards weighting. (I also hold a more balanced portfolio modelled much after yours--thank you!).

I am down 20-50% on all of these. I was wondering if you thought there were any I should cut loose now in search of better opportunities. I am patient (somewhat) with a long time horizon.

Thank you for a wonderful,ever improving service.

Phil

Q: Good Morning
Magna and Exco make up about 9% of my registered account. I would like to add New Flyer based on your comments. Would you endorse a switch from XTC to NFI? Do you see NFI as auto related? I am concerned with my sector exposure.

Thank you

Q: Have some monies sitting on sidelines. Can you name me a cheap (excluding energy) sector if any and a couple of recommendations? Thank you. Bill

Q: What is the consensus for sales and eps?

Q: How would you rank these stocks based on expected total return on a 1-2 yr time horizon and why? Thanks.

Q: My question is about "peak auto". I have not yet read any reliable source that shows auto sales heading for a slump. In your experience, have you seen "cheap" large caps like Magna fall 40% based on a "guess" that was repeated enough times in the media to convince everyone, a guess that ended up being wrong? It's hard to believe all this selling is based only on a guess about a "top". I am not seeing XTC or LNR executives buy their stock. At 6.5 times earnings, you'd think they would buy if they their EPS was projected to be maintained over the next 3 quarters!

Q: Hi,
I caught Ryan on BNN last night and he seemed a little worried about IT. I own mostly balanced equity portfolio stocks and just a few growth portfolio stocks, with IT being one. Ryan didn't like the risk/reward at this time. Should I switch into one of his top picks like XTC, which I assume has a better risk/reward. Or on the other hand, should I just hold IT for the long term and ride it out.
Thanks,
Steve

Q: Could you please give me a list of your favourite insider owned companies presently? A percentage of insider ownership and a brief reasoning as to why you are choosing the company/companies over other possibilities. If there is one that could be considered a full position purchase at this time or would you ease into all the names. Thank you

Q: Hi, in my RRSP I hold most of the Model Portfolio holdings and I also hold 2 of the Growth stocks , XTC and DBO ,.....XTC Ive had for over a year now without much movement on the upside , I"d like to replace it with another of the Growth names, which ones would ou recommend, its worth appox $1300.00..........Thanks,

Q: Do you think it may be prudent to lighten up on the auto sector in an otherwise balanced portfolio? Given a choice which company would you let go MG or XTC?
Thank you

Q: Afternoon,

I am looking for some guidance on XTC. Its been trending water the past 12 months. Last quarters don't ring any alarms which is nice but I'd like to get some return on this in the next 12 months. What are you thoughts?

Q: Of my Industrial holdings, I currently own WSP, BYD.UN, XTC, and MG. Industrials are about 15% of my portfolio overall, which I think is decent, but am wondering if having BYD.UN, XTC, and MG carries too much exposure in the auto industry. Is there ever such a thing as too little diversity within a section?

Q: How would you rank these 3 industrials given a 2-3 year time period?