Investment Q&A

Q: Could I get your opinion on ADN - I am looking at a small position to be held mainly for the dividend with some hope of small capital gains. Can you tell me what their payout percentage is, insider ownership, potential impact by US lumber talks, and is it a take-over candidate (I think I've heard this somewhere)?
Thank-you

Q: I have a question about ATD.B.Was it the increase in debt from the acquisition from Imperial Oil that caused the drop in share price today or profit taking or something I'm unaware of? By the way my portfolio is up more than 52% so far this year, in no small measure, because of your sage advice.Thanks, as always.
Dave

Q: Looking to build a small portfolio of energy stocks that are diversified about 6 names that have a good growth potential and are in oil, gas , coal, uranium.

Q: Can I please get your comments on the recent agreement signed between Carmanah and Globalstar Inc. and how you feel this impacts outlook for Carmanah.

Thanks

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: Would you agree this still happens daily?

For well over 100 years there have been stock manipulators, stock operators and stock traders...such as one of the classic and considered the best all time operators, and he did it back in the ~1910 - 1920 era, Jesse Livermore who was more concerned with beating the market, specific stocks & futures, than actually concerned about making $$$ even though he could and did routinely make millions in a year back in say 1920!

They, the "movers" will move a stock - buying or selling some - to get it moving and then once other investors, such as retail investors and institutional investors, take notice and start buying into the stock the "movers" starts selling or close their short for a profit.

This is often all that is happening when a stock moves and there is no news or incident to be found. Most "Investors" want to know why for everything but in reality there is nothing to know other than movers doing their daily business of attempting to make $$$ in the market.

There are so many different interests and money making approaches used from around the world.

Not everything is explainable. Such as why GUD or CSU is rising lately. Note CSU is down today as it just hit a resistance level from before. Kinda predictable I think from a technical perspective.

Have a great day.

Q: Hi Team,
What you think of CXI results ?
I am holding ACQ for some time, is there any upside potential or should I sell it and buy NFI.
Kuldip

Q: I've been struggling to find out what to do with all the cash I was holding in my portfolios so a while back I used VDY as sort of a money market fund,for me that's pretty conservative. I realize that VDY is basically buying the tsx financial sector, I'm up about 4-5% with this right now but do realize that with a correction in the financials it could come down some. I'm looking for something "safer" to park my money in.

Q: I own this stock and I am concerned about the number of insiders selling this stock. Would appreciate your comments. With thanks, Bill

Q: I view EQB as a mini HCG. EQB stock has performed well this year and is near its 52 week high where as HCG has not. Why do you think EQB has performed better this year? Which do you think is a better buy at this time?

Q: your opinion on buying a gold bullion etf, and any suggestions as to which one

Q: Can you explain the e recent weakness in SLF

Q: What's the reason for the sudden decline in Painted Pony. I bought this stock around $4.50 and have enjoyed the ride to the top. Is this just people taking profit? Or is there something more fundamental going on?

Q: i bought efn because it was financial operating in a different niche than the banks or lifeco's. i'm looking to add some more and bring it up to 1/2 position in my portfolio. add now or wait for the split? if wait for the split, stick to the leasing business?

Q: Hi,
I've been holding MCR for quite awhile and am now at a 75% unrealized loss. Is there hope for this one if I continue to hold indefinitely? Or should I cut my losses.
It's a small position and I have a balanced portfolio.
Thanks,
Robert

Q: Please name a favorite slow and steady value creator for each of the 10 sectors. I noted with interest the comment you made in your updated report on Magna. Thank you.

Q: Regarding historic P/E ratios etc.

http://financials.morningstar.com/valuation/price-ratio.html?t=XTSE:GUD

I don't know how to get to it through the menus. I just change the ticker symbol in the URL.

I hope it helps.

Nick

Q: Why does FTB have such a large spread between the Actual MER (.50) and the Actual Management Expense ratio (.92)/ My financial planner is actively promoting it. I wonder if he gets some of the MER as an incentive therefore encouraging him to promote it. Its current yield is 3.4% wile CLF has a yield of 2.9% with an MER of .15 and .17. Do you have any comment on XBB, XSB, CLF, and FTB. Should I mirror the FTB portfolio of the five bond fund ETFs (CLF, XBB, PGL, ZEF, and ZHY) or buy FTB? I assume the yields are after the MER is taken.

Thank you.

Q: I assume you get historical PE ratios from Bloomberg. Is there an easy way for me to access this info?

Q: You sent out an email about a company that paid its first div unfortunatly it was deleted so would appreciate the company name