Investment Q&A

Q: If you could only buy one of DSG or ESL, which would you choose?

Q: Hello Peter
The recent stock prices decline has given me an idea to open new portfolio "an exceptionally concentrated portfolio" that I found idea in your 5i Research Blog from July 20,2014.
Please give to me your 5 best at this time candidates for this type of portfolio that one can double down on them.
Thanks Andrew B.

Q: It looks like chances of energy stocks coming back in a few months are very low,do you agree?.Gold stocks have perhaps bottom out,which gold stocks are worth buying after gold corp.Is kinros at $3.00 a buy?.

Q: What do you think about a RME and CVL vs ACQ for a long term BUY (5yrs)?

ACQ is roughly UP 40% on a YEAR CHART vs RME & CVL DOWN roughly 20%.

I have looked at basic ratios.

P/E RME 14%, CVL 14% ACQ 30%
YIELD RME 4.1% CVL 4.5% ACQ 1.5%
PAYOUT RME 54% CVL 77% ACQ 44%
GR MARGINRME 13.8% CVL 18% ACQ 17%
ROE RME 9.27% CVL 9% ACQ 21%
DEBT/EQ RME 24% CVL 38% ACQ 141%

To me looks like AGRI is the low side of a cycle and why it is a laggard right now compared to increasing high cars sales in Canada.

Can you give me your thoughts on RME and CVL vs ACQ?

Thank you
Regards
Stephane.M

Q: Hello team

Can you please tell me what symbol we are to use for Mellon Bank? And do you have any commeNts in its metrics and future?

Thanks for all you do

Gord

Q: Nobody has asked about TIO since June. Do you have any new thoughts on this stock please? I absolutely LOVE being responsible for my own portfolio and appreciate your valuable help. My knowledge of the market has improved immensely simply reading answers to member questions and your reports are superb!

Q: Hi Team. Just a general question. What is the relationship between share price and net asset value of companies? Is book value and net asset value the same? Some companies trade at multiples of book value. Thanks for the help. Joe

Q: I have a sum of new money to invest and would like to invest 20% of it into the 'bond side' for balance. Ignoring what I may already hold in bonds, could you suggest an ETF or ETF's that would be an appropriate purchase? Would the ETF's in your income portfolio be appropriate?
thanks

Q: I'm considering investing in sm cap energy cos. that are focused on the Monteney and Duverney and Horn River Basins. Which of the following would you prefer: Donnycreek (DCK-V), Yoho (YO-V), Artek (RTK-T) or Storm (SRX-V)?

Thanks for your insights and analysis. Appreciate your efforts.

Q: Hi Peter,
Do you expect gold and silver stocks to get hit with tax loss selling by year end again as was the case last December, and if so, would you expect a rebound in the new year? THANKS!

Q: Hi team: any insight into how the IPO is going. I understand they are still proceeding and are trying to get it done. any sense as to final price? thanks

Q: What caused stagflation in the 1970's? Do you think we are at risk of stagflation again?

Thanks,
Hans

Q: I want to buy above US index in Canadian $.Please advise how(mutual fund,ETF etc) Thanks a lot. Looking forward to seeing You on BNN"s Market Call on monday morning

Q: Which one would be your preferred choice in the restaurant casual dining space, Boston Pizza or A&W? It looks like the cash flow is not covering the A&W dividend.

Q: I'm fairly well diversified with your model portfolio stocks but I do take on some fliers for some spice. I see you occasionally sell down on stocks that go up and buy up on stocks that are down. I think you do this for companies that you rate as good investments only. My question is does this strategy apply to more speculative stocks as well. I guess in my mind I view these speculative ventures as a partitioned subset of my portfolio. For example I'm well up with Concordia CXR but I'm down with Questor QST, Enterprise ESI and C-Com CMI. Should I sell some CXR and buy some of the others? Or should I just leave these all alone as speculative ventures that were one time good ideas and sell when I think I've had enough keeping in mind reasonable weighting.

Q: Will the injunction the judge issued in new jersey to stop legalized betting that was supposed to start this weekend affect amaya shares this coming week. Dave

Q: Good Morning Peter and Team,
We own the portfolios + a some complimentary companies. With all the volatility of late what 3 or 4 companies from the portfolios would you add to at this time ?
Thank you.

Q: we hold tou and are down 20% would you consider this a good time to trade some or all of tou and buy either fm or wcp or possibly both ... tou is a small holding is less than 1% portfolio holding thank you for your continued help in these matters

Q: To what degree do you expect tax loss selling to impact these stocks in the next 6 weeks: Enterprise Group, Surge and Auto Canada.
Also, I noticed a few stocks (EH and ACQ to name two) that had a great year in 2013 and had a significant selloff in January 2014. Is there such a phenomenon as tax gain selling, where investors hang on until a new year to defer capital gains for a year. If so, do you recommend waiting on some of the years big gainers as late January may represent a better entry point.

Q: This is a 2 part portfolio editing question:
1. I hold BDT as well as STN and WSP. Should I hold all 3 or sell BDT and split the funds between STN and WSP?
2. I hold CHW and have a paper loss on it as I do with AVO and ACQ. Thinking several years up the road, would I be better off selling CHW and re-investing in AVO and ACQ, both of which you appear to like; or simply hang on to CHW?

Thanks for your help and guidance.