Investment Q&A

Q: Can I get your thoughts on AQN’s recent release detailing the weather impacts in Texas. How significant is the impact, will we see a significant decline in share price and if so would you see the decline as a buying opportunity. Thanks.

Q: good afternoon,
These 3 companies from the income portfolio offer outsized yields. Also have 5% in Telus. Want to increase my position from 3 to 5 % in BCE. Telecom are out of favor right now but wondering about the future what will weigh more on BCE rising rates or recovery? The goal is to free cash for growth stocks.
Thanks !

Q: I am considering adding Power Corp to the income portion of my portfolio as a partial replacement for my overweight position in BCE.  The primary reason for considering POW is that I feel that there may be significant value through their ownership of Wealthsimple.  Are you able to quantify the Wealthsimple value within POW given their rapid growth rate and more than $9 billion in AUM?   Do you think that they are sitting on other spinoff possibilities, similar to the Lion Electric IPO? (that I understand added close to $3.00 per share value to POW).  And perhaps most importantly, do you feel that management is motivated to act to surface value for shareholders?  (they don't appear to have been in the past).
Thank you.

Q: Hi Peter and team, Just thought I would ask about the ethical aspects of this so called hostile take-over? In my mind BIPC only with the support of BAM.a and BUFFALO AQUISITION CORP. aka BIF IV (looks like a shell company to me that) are trying to BULLY in here on long suffering shareholders of IPL. Let me try to put this in perspective, IPL has spent nearly four years and nearly four billion dollars engineering, designing, procuring, and constructing and world scale propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene (PP) facility, all to the boohoos of the so-called "investment community". The projected increase to IPL's EBITDA is estimated to increase by $400million to $500 million (a double), not including the recent increase in PP prices. Do you think IPL could get one good word out of anyone? Nope, they all stayed clear, even after IPL raised $700 million with the sale of 50% their Europe storage assets. Now IPL is self funding the project thru to it's completion (which significantly de-risks the project from a monetary point of view. Last CC management shared they are ramping up for testing and commissioning which looks like PDH should be up and chugging along by summer. I've been working in the energy industry for 42 years and can share, that a typical approach is to use IP, from patented chemical processes and copyrighted proprietary equipment that is proven. This isn't rocket science. What recourse do shareholders have considering BIPC aka BIF IV have acted unethically by acquiring an additional 10% of IPL without disclosing this to anyone? Who are the responsible authorities that should be looking into this? I would like to thank BIP for acknowledging the new facility has a great business plan as well as PPL ,as they have an almost exact replica (delayed by COVID19) planned in next year.

Q: Hi Peter, further to my previous question, Please advise what you have (and your source) for the short positions for the above equities. I have:
BAM.A=1.32%
BIP.UN=0.62%
BIPC=1.56%
IPL=0.00%
PPL=0.84%

Thanks

Q: Hi, I purchased EIX end of March 2020 for its div and for some stock price upside. My research at the time showed it to be a solid company with decent dividend and earnings growth. Aside from its nice dividend the stock price has languished for the year and div growth not great but analyst seem to forecast price still in the 80.00 range. I noticed you had 1 Question about it awhile ago and you seemed to like it. Can you give me your analysis please?

Q: Stocks like EMA and FTS have declined about 10-12% during the last four months whereas the TSX is up by about 12%. Are there any fundamental issues with these companies? Or the rotation of funds from utilities to riskier companies is causing the decline of the utilities?
Thank you for your insight.

Q: Is SPB now in a position to work with BAM to acquire a large size U.S.propane distributor such as Ferrellgas?
Thanks
Bob Rose

Q: May you please compare these two stocks and advise if you have a preference between the two of them, with an explanation as to why.

Q: Do you have a preference between these stocks for a long term investment? Would you recommend purchasing an etf instead of a few stocks for exposure to the renewable energy sector?

Q: I own a cross section of the Brookfield companies for a long term play. would you consider them a economy recovery theme?

Doug

Q: If you where to choose currently .....with a view to one year horizon...which offers more potential return? Bam.a or Bbu.un?Why?

Q: Could you please give me a break down as to what this company does.
Thank you

Q: I currently hold NWH.un in the REIT space and have been very happy with its overall return. Disregarding the more advantageous tax treatment accorded Canadian dividends, would you add ACRE to an otherwise pipeline, bank, lifeco, and phoneco-oriented income portfolio?

Q: Hello 5i: I ask about Fortis and know you continue to like it but I question the continued trend down and what will it take for it to reverse this action. Thank you Barb

Q: Hi,
Your comments on SOLR and H, please.
Thank you.

Q: Can you provide any insights on Capital Power's earnings, released this morning? Does today's news strengthen or weaken the thesis in investing in CPX?

Thanks.

John

Q: What's up with the big miss on eps this quarter?

Q: For an RSP retiree wanting reliable yield, which of these companies would you pick or would you have some of both in the portfolio?
Thnx

Q: We know of dividend increases when a company reports earning but is there a site that shows recent dividend increases buy all companies? Not sure if anyone / site tracks that.
Please advise.