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ARC Resources keeps returning its cash flow to shareholders through a growing dividend and substantial share buybacks.
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Recently, one reader wondered, “...what is a good entry point when purchasing a stock or an ETF? I always pay too much then the stock drops like Home Capital Group dropped from the $50 range to $30 range as soon as I bought it. Setting a limit price is difficult— does one choose a 50-day moving average, or…?”
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Many investors make buy and sell decisions with the help of moving averages and other forms of technical analysis. I don’t know if this has any consistent impact on their long-term returns—for better or worse. It may be more reliable as a comfort factor than a source of improved profit.
After all, there’s a large random element in stock-price changes, especially in the short term. When you focus on timing buy and sell decisions to improve your investment results, you are trying to come up with a system that can outguess a random factor. But a random factor is something you can’t outguess.
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Recently, one reader wondered, “...what is a good entry point when purchasing a stock or an ETF? I always pay too much then the stock drops like Home Capital Group dropped from the $50 range to $30 range as soon as I bought it. Setting a limit price is difficult— does one choose a 50-day moving average, or…?”
Soon after, another reader addressed her question. He suggested that she look further into moving averages, and shared some of his views on how to profit from them.
Many investors make buy and sell decisions with the help of moving averages and other forms of technical analysis. I don’t know if this has any consistent impact on their long-term returns—for better or worse. It may be more reliable as a comfort factor than a source of improved profit.
After all, there’s a large random element in stock-price changes, especially in the short term. When you focus on timing buy and sell decisions to improve your investment results, you are trying to come up with a system that can outguess a random factor. But a random factor is something you can’t outguess.
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Stellar Biotechnologies, $4.41, symbol KLH on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 8.4 million; Market cap: $47.7 million, www.stellarbiotechnologies.com), farms keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH). That’s a protein used in a range of therapeutic applications to stimulate the human immune system. Stellar’s KLH products can be used to create therapeutic vaccines, or immunotherapies. They are treatments that use the body’s own immune system to target and treat disease. KLH can also be used for immunodiagnostics. Those are tests that determine the health of a patient’s immune system before a new drug is used. KLH is refined from the “blood” of a rare clam-like snail—the giant keyhole limpet. That ocean dweller is found in the waters off Southern California and western Mexico. Its blood is called hemolymph and flows through its circulatory system....
General Dynamics Corp., $130.87, symbol GD on New York (Shares outstanding: 311.2 million; Market cap: $41.0 billion; www.generaldynamics.com), is the world’s fifth-largest aerospace and defense contractor by revenue. In 2015, the U.S. government accounted for 57% of its total sales. The company has four divisions: Information Systems and Technology (29% of its 2015 revenue, 21% of earnings) builds computer networks and data centres for the U.S. Department of Defense. Its clients also include other government agencies and large commercial buyers....
Western Copper & Gold Corp., $0.68, symbol WRN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 94.2 million; Market cap: $65.9 million; www.westerncoppercorp.com), owns the Casino project in the Yukon. The mining site is Western Copper’s sole asset. It contains an estimated 8.9 million ounces of gold, 65 million ounces of silver, 4.5 billion pounds of copper and 483 million pounds of molybdenum. The company completed a feasibility study on the project in 2013. The operation would centre on an open-pit mine with a 22-year life expectancy. Western Copper is now two years into the permitting stage. It should take another two years to complete....