Emera Inc T.EMA

What a superstar anchor in a portfolio

[Carbonbull]

Trough to peak plus dividend a 30 percent plus return in an utility ,,, selling my position will redeploy into SU , wait for a pullback to get repositioned. Might regret the move EMA superior downside protection hard to give up , greed wins out here , hope I dont regret the selling of a favorite stock.

[Quintessential1]

Yeah I am thinking the same thing.  I am not sure it has peaked yet and I have a different stock for the funds but yeah, it is almost time.   Been a great ride though. GLTA

[SargeX]

As you know from the ENB board, my wife & I are long term buy & hold dividend income/growth investors so we don;t have to worry about stocks peaking and us trimming. We're keeping all of our utils - AQN, CPX, EMA, and FTS. Having said that, I actually think that the utils still have more room to run. They got spamked a bit with the initial interest rate stuff and have been bouncing

[Red_Deer]

Hey SARGEX__You STILL Have TIME to ADD a LOT of TransAlta__BEFORE the BrookField TAKE OUT.

[SargeX]

Hey Red I hope all is going well for you in the investing world and down on the Island in general. These markets are sure unpredictable. I keep expecting some sort of correction but they just keep chugging away. We hit another all time portfolio value high both yesterday and today. (must be about the 20th this year so far). Hitting a high today is quite interesting in that the TSX is down -0.65

[Quintessential1]

Hey Sarge, I am familiar with your investment strategy and I have a deep respect for it as I have defended the buy and hold philosphy for ENB many times on the ENB board. That being said your investment strategy works for you and yours in your particular place in life (I assume retired) with your funds ( I assume far more than mine) at this particular point in time.  Belive me I wish I

[SargeX]

Hey Quint Thanks for the very nice and insightful comments and you are very correct on a number of points especially accumulation vs retirement/income stage. Taking profits and redeploying the cash is a very reasoanble and sound approach during accumulation.  We are indeed retired (9 years) and live off dividend income so total return doesn't really matter to us. That means no need