Investment Q&A

Q: I am wondering your thoughts on if options on the energy sector stocks would be a reasonable gamble given the current state of valuation?
Do you see cpg as a good stock or which others do you recommend with options
Also open to the service industries for this industry

Q: Can you tell me what co. bought the Sask. properties from the above co. last week. Jim

Q: Crescent Point Energy just announced the sale of their Utah assets plus some Saskatchewan property, reducing their debt by almost a billion. With their reduced Cap/Ex, share buy backs, and paying down their debt is this the time to jump in? They appear to still have many years of proven reserves and a large 160000+BPD production and great potential for share appreciation.
Appreciate your opinion.
Thanks Gord

Q: Good Morning 5i,

So on this fine Friday long weekend morning, I'd like to pick the brains of people who've "been there and done that" much longer and more successfully than I, and have seen some things in the financial world first hand that I have not.

I want your opinion on oil and gas. Are we not watching one of these classic "blood in the streets" scenarios you always read about as investors and wish you'd had the fortitude to plug your nose and dive in? The shares of almost every publicly traded company in the space are being thrown away for nothing. The good ones, the bad ones, the ones making money, the ones losing money, good balance sheets, bad balance sheets - it's almost irrelevant. If they're in the space they're being slaughtered.

So if the thesis is:

a) it will take a lot longer to power the world with worm casings, pixie dust, and unicorn farts than some would have us believe (i.e. hydrocarbons are not going anywhere in the foreseeable future)

b) a surprising number of these companies have solid balance sheets

c) a surprising number of these companies are earning profits hand over fist, doom and gloom aside

If a, b, and c are indeed true, you'd have to believe a lot of these companies trading at historic lows will eventually make investors a lot of money. Like buying Florida real estate in 2009.

What am I missing? What holes can be shot in this thesis, looking at it objectively?

I take the point that there is no catalyst to change things or excite investors in this space (although I do get surprised from time to time that the fact that a company can throw off ridiculous amounts of profit and return it to shareholders via dividends and buybacks doesn't itself become a catalyst, but I digress...)

I also take the point that these scenarios can persist for a lot longer than people think they can before things change.

Single-company risk is always there, I understand that, but I reject the idea that all of these companies are headed for bankruptcy.

Aside from patience and the stomach to watch your investment get hammered in the short term - where exactly are the risks?? This seems like such a great buying opportunity that I feel I have to be missing something.

Thank you for whatever insight you can share, and happy long weekend to you and your families!

Ryan

Q: Eric Nutall at Ninepoint keeps on saying he is buying heavy into energy space companies that are trading around 2.5 EV to Cashflow. Just wondering what some of the better names he’d be buying into may be. Any idea or suggestions?

Q: I am considering adding a few long-term positions to my registered accounts and looking for ideas in oil & gas - income and growth. A few names are noted above, however, looking for your top 5 recommendations.

Q: I am trying to clean up my Energy sector. I have the following: CPG, CVE, ERF, HSE, IMO, SU, TRP, VET, MX Could you please place them in order, starting with first to sell.

Also, could you please let me know which companies I should buy with the proceeds. I have a very long timeline, and I feel that companies that are rather low right now may jump a fair bit when the price of oil rebounds.

If there are any other companies that you would suggest to buy, please include them as well.


Thank you once again,

Fed

Q: Good morning,

I've been shellacked by AIM and CPG and they each are about now only 0.25% of my holdings. Should I just cut my losses here and redeploy what's left of that cash?

Thanks,
Robert

Q: does a person sell buy more or stay pat with the big downward movement lately

Q: Wow, oil stocks are taking a whollop today, is this slide justified? Or, do you think this is a good day to jump into oil for a short term hold. I bought these stocks in December and sold in April for a 15% gain, and might consider again. Or, does it look like this downward trend is going to continue.

Q: Good day,
What are your thoughts on CPG. My avg price is in the low teens, do you suggest that I buy at these levels to avg down? I have a longer term time horizon ahead of me and can wait this out. Likely missing out on better opportunities by doing so.
Thoughts?

Q: Is it a good time to enter the Canadian energy sector? If so, which of these would you choose? Or something else? Charge me two credits if necessary.
Thanks,

Q: Looking to start a position in a canadian energy name. Was looking to do it a few months back but wasn't certain on which one to buy. Would you rank the names I have sent with your thoughts on each.
Thanks Gary

Q: Hi 5i - I have 10% invested in these energy stocks, now worth 5% of my portfolio. Would you put any new money in any of these to take advantage of the run up in oil? Or just sit tight and hope for a recovery (or sell outright)? Thanks, Neil

Q: Saw the Q on CPG. I forget who on BNN but they liked CPG because of it's US exposure. The idea being it had more leverage to WTI pricing than a CDN domicile producer.

Q: Hi Team any particular reason why the high volume lately with CPG. Is this a possible takeover candidate, Thanks, Nick

Q: Hi Peter/Ryan I've held CPG since I bought it at 39.52 back in 2013. Whats going to take to make this move, is it worth holding on to it's in my RRSP account and now represents a .89% position. Thanks, Nick

Q: cpg seems to have bottomed. good time to step in?

Q: At the current share price of around Can $3.50 CPG has an enterprise value of about 6 billion ($4 billion in debt and $2 billion in equity). CPG produces about 175,000 boe per day so that means it trade at around Can $34,000 flowing barrel. Isn't that an extremely cheap valuation? If so, could that cheap valuation attract a takeover offer. Even at a 50 per cent premium CPG is trading at a cheap price on a flowing barrel metric. Or is there such a lack of interest in the Canadian oil patch that no body cares that it trades cheaply?

Q: Down 20 to 22% on cpg and considering taking a hit and replace with su at42.50to 43/share .su would have to rise about 8 to 9/share to cover loss.whereas cpg has to rise to 5$to break even.your thoughts greatly appreciated.the dividend on tks Larry