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Q: I'm looking at adding a dividend-paying company in the financial sector, which is not one of the traditional banks. Which of these two businesses might you suggest has a better chance to outperform the market, over the longterm?
Read Answer Asked by Anthony on November 20, 2025
Q: Hi 5i Team - I am having some difficulty deciding whether to sell or hold onto my shares of Propel. Could you summarize the reasons for its decline as well as the potential for recovery over both the next year and longer term. Do you have confidence in the ability of management to do this. There are certainly many developing opportunities in other companies to use the money if I were to sell. Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Rob on November 20, 2025
Q: Can you comment on whether or not you feel there are currently issues in the Private Equity market today, and how it would (or perhaps would not) have any affect on BAM and / or BN's business. What is the biggest current concern that is negatively affecting stock price. I am trying to decide whether or not to take a position in one, or both.
Read Answer Asked by James on November 19, 2025
Q: If you held GSY and PRL in a taxable account and were down about 35% on each. Would you sell to claim the tax loss and buy back a month later? Or if there a decent risk of either going up in the next month? Thx
Read Answer Asked by Adam on November 17, 2025
Q: Hi. I've built positions across the digital asset and payments ecosystem that I'd appreciate your perspective on. My current holdings include: direct Bitcoin ownership (DCA monthly for store of value), FETH (smart contract infrastructure exposure), GLXY (institutional crypto services plus AI compute optionality), and PYPL (established fintech playing multiple angles; PYUSD stablecoin, BNPL, crypto trading, traditional payments, and I use PYPL quite a lot myself). I do also own JPM.

I'm considering adding CRCL but struggling with the valuation at 79x forward earnings (although it is 31x 2 years forward). My thesis is that I already capture stablecoin growth multiple ways; FETH captures a lot of stablecoin volume, GLXY services institutional stablecoin users, and PYPL's PYUSD gives me direct issuer exposure with less regulatory risk since they have diversified revenue streams.

CRCL feels like paying growth multiples for what I think might become a "utility-like" business earning regulated fees. Also, if stablecoins become critical infrastructure the regulatory hammer could fall hardest on pure-play issuers like Circle versus diversified players.

I think my current portfolio seems to cover the bases; Bitcoin for macro crypto adoption, Ethereum for DeFi/Web3 infrastructure, GLXY for the picks-and-shovels institutional play, and PYPL for the mainstream fintech integration angle (+ maybe JPM).

Am I missing something by passing on CRCL? I'm interested your thoughts on whether CRCL offers unique exposure I'm not getting elsewhere? Or if there is something I am overlooking?
Read Answer Asked by Michael on November 17, 2025
Q: With some miners turning there business models to Data Centers, do you guess the unit price here will move more on the Data centre theme or price of bitcoin? Same question for GLXY?
Read Answer Asked by Charles on November 14, 2025
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