Investment Q&A

Q: Over the next year or so I'd like to transition into some US names. I also plan on travelling a fair amount to the US as well. Can you advise on how you feel the Canadian dollar will do.

Also, can you advise on the current state of the economy. Today's increase followed by verbatim that there will be multiple (more than expected) I find concerning for the Canadian economy. We are late in a cycle (as per prior length of cycles) and we this will certainly impact discretionary income significantly. Not even considering an uptick in mortgage defaults which I would imagine would rise just on the basis of simple economics... I guess my question is, do we really see rates rising quicker than expected? Just seems surprising to me.

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Q: Good day gentlemen,
This company seems to hold 400M in cash. I believe that is roughly 2$ per share. Can you confirm? Also, the contract with Quebec is for 20k kilos in year 1, with increases every year for total c. 200k kilos over 5 years. I looked at the latest financials I could find on their site. It seams their selling price for past periods was 10$ per gram. I know that this is not possible with the Quebec contract. As a back of the envelope calculation, would it not be conservative to think they could NET 2$ or 3$ per gram on this contract.
Would that not make this stock extremely cheap? Also I notice most analysis is done on EV / Ebitda, can you explain the difference between this and P/E. why do they use this and not future P/E.
Thanks

Q: Hi, I currently own NFI, SIS, BA, FDX, and GD in the industrial sector. Are there other companies you like better than FDX and GD?
Thank you

Q: Is it a good time to buy back into Alalis mainly for income. thx Jack

Q: How do you feel about the sustainability of Cardinal's ~10% dividend?

Thank you
Dave

Q: Hi there,

It seems like in this quarter, good results are being punished. Over the last several years this did not seem to ring true. It seemed like good results were rewarded - even on negative sentiment days - however now it seems like good results are received poorly. Does this usual indiciate something much larger going on in the markets?

Thanks

Q: why are these stocks down so much, sis and ry.
what is your take as to buy, sell or hold. Thanks.

Q: Good day gentlemen,
Has anything changed with regards to fundamentals that can justify a move from 20 to 13 since beginning of the year?
Is there a price where you consider this a must own or at least compelling value?
Thx for your valued insight.

Q: Is SDX worth holding now or is it time to move on to other opportunities? Thanks for your service

Q: With the company being bought out later this year and td webbroker saying that it will be paid out in american dollars and have to be converted is it better just to sell now. Thanks Chris

Q: Hello. Can you point me in the direction of a few solid health sector, dividend paying stock options that would be suitable to hold within an RRSP? I’m looking at a five to eight year horizon and consider myself as a ‘low to moderate’ risk investor.
PS found recent ‘ How to Pick a Stock in 2018’ very helpful. Thanks!

Q: I have a question about Amarin.Can you provide comment on your view of Amarin as an investment from this point forward?

Q: Would you be buying the above stocks now? Thank you, rose

Q: Purchased these on Aug 30th - TEAM ( down 26% ), SQ ( down 22% ) and Visa ( down 11% ). What would you do at this stage - sell and cut your losses or hang on and hope for turn around. I see that you are still recommending these to your subscribers ?

Q: 2 questions
west fraser and norbord, do not own, totally beaten down, would you take a position and is this beat down justified.
yangarra and tamarack, have small position in both, my main oil holding being parex as you suggest.with tax loss selling should i let tamarack and yangarra go,, and revisit in january, i know i am giving them away,but these 2 could go a lot lower. dave

Q: The period November to March is usually a strong market. Should I start putting money into stocks starting in November. Outlook is still good for 2019. If Trumps tariffs come off against China this would help outlook
What is your outlook for 2019 ? Increased profits for US Companies ? A strong stock market in 2019 ? RAK

Q: Is this company worth holding onto?

Q: Bank of Canada just raised the key rate to 1.75% and drops its pledge to move gradually. What's Mr. Poloz seeing that the rest of us are missing because the TSX is singing a much different tune? I hope it's not the part time jobs from the recent elections in Ont, Que & NB. We're a little removed from what's happening in Central Canada but I can safely say the Alberta economy is not running at full capacity. In fact one of the largest land developers in Calgary just recently let go 40 office workers.
It's not the first time the BoC has been offside and had to reverse course. They seem to focus too much on a few key data points and ignore the economy as a whole.

Q: Hi, could you please recommend:
A global dividend equity ETF
A global high dividend equity ETF
A US dividend ETF
A US high dividend equity ETF
In all cases traded on the TSX, also hedged to $CDN is preferred.
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Thanks.

Q: Not sure this is for this Q & A but as i started looking at my capital gains and losses for tax loss selling, I am not sure how stock splits are handled. For example, can you walk through how 100 shares of EFN split with ECN how to calculate my adjust cost base. My trading platform shows the adjusted cost base but for the life of me i cannot figure out how they came up with the number.