Investment Q&A

Q: I'm playing around with a screener and trying to find potential multibaggers. I've been screening for ROE and ROIC greater than 20%. What other metrics would you suggest for this screen that would include quality potential multibaggers but exclude the crappy companies that just show up due to 1 year of high ROIC & ROE. Thx

Q: When a company like Eif does a share offering does the brokerage house pay up front for the shares and then sell them to their clients when they want to? How is this procedure executed? Thank you

Q: Hi 5i, I’m going to be selling out of the money covered calls in my US/Canadian RRSP accounts. Now my understanding is the Canadian option market in not very liquid so should I journal over my Canadian banks, pipelines, Telecom, Utilities (big companies) to the US RRSP account? Also I imagine I’m looking to write covered calls on on big stable companies do REITs make sense. Can you rank the best sector’s and maybe some companies that make sense. Your help is appreciated.

Q: Good morning!

I wonder if you could provide the names of 2 or 3 investment or financial advisors that fit the following situation.

I am currently helping another person deal with how to invest their funds after sale of an unneeded property, and plan on helping them find an advisor so that I am not permanently responsible for their financial results. They are financially inexperienced.
In my ideal scenario, it fits the following criteria:
1) Large company: I.E. a bank or such, which helps in my mind to essentially eliminate any possibility of some lone wolf absconding with the dollars.
2) Charging by the hour, not the usual 1% or so the portfolio value (will be high 6 figures).
3) Doesn't push mutual funds, and will be OK with blue-chip dividend payers.
4) Can perform the necessary trades when rebalancing has to happen.
5) Can spot basic tax implications.

I am thinking also that I might recommend something for them along the lines of your income portfolio, or maybe Beat the TSX, or the dividend aristocrats ... basically something they don't have to think about and that will let them sleep in peace.
Your comments are appreciated! Please feel free to take more credits, as I realize this may be asking a tad more than usual!
Thanks!
Paul

that makes it unlikely thfee only but who can do trades in equities for a blue-chip

Q: From readings, it seems the preference is to withdraw funds from a RRIF or LIF later in the year rather than at the start of the year. Me, wondering what are the reasons for this. Do you have any thoughts on this?........Thanks for your insights........Tom

Q: In the long run , When writing 30 day covered options in your opinion is it better to write them on high volatility companies with high premiums or very low volatility
companies with small premiums

Q: I run 2 balanced portfolios, one for my wife and one for myself. Both are in our TFSAs and each portfolio contain 24 stocks. My question is would it be more advantageous to have the same stocks in each portfolio or different stocks in each to have more diversification. Can being too diversified work against you in certain cases. Thank you very much for your much appreciated advice.

Q: This is something that has been rattling around in my noggin for some time. In a LIF account for a 72 year young senior, the weighting for CSU is currently 8.10%, and from time to time, nearly reaches 10% but for the overall portfolio is now 3.93%.(The overall portfolio includes trading accounts, TFSA and one LIF account for a family of four person, 2 seniors and 2 yougner ones.) The question is this - should I reduce the weighting of CSU, say. in the LIF account as it is approaching 10% and then add the trimmed amount to another account, like trade or TFSA?.....This is more about the  approach or principle of things rather than about specifically CSU........Thanks for the assistance on this matter/issue.......Tom

Q: Hello 5i Team

Imperial Oil (IMO) completed its Significant Issuer Bid (SIB) on June 15.

IMO then announced a new Normal Course Issuer Bid (NCIB) commencing approximately June 29.

In the 2nd quarter financial report, IMO has stated the NCIB will be completed by the end of October, based on purchasing the maximum allowable shares per day as per the NCIB.

Question, if IMO completes the NCIB on November 04 based on the maximum daily share purchases can IMO commence a second SIB in the one year period following the completion of SIB completed on June 15 (i.e. commencing early November or December 2022).

If IMO cannot undertake a second SIB, would they be limited to either increased dividends or a special dividend or are there other options to distribute excess capital back to the shareholders.

Is there a readily available website source for SIB, as recently other companies have announced SIB (E-L Financial, United Corporations, Economic Investment Trust)? Maybe as they are announced they can be included on your dividend announcement page?

Thank you

Q: Let me echo the earlier comment about the valuable insights from your Canadian Quarterly Earnings Pulse Report.......Wow, like an "executive summary" that puts plenty into perspective........Many thanks and looking forward to "digesting" future Pulse Reports, too!!!........Tom

Q: I just read your new Canadian Quarterly Earnings Pulse Report; great report and very pertinent! Thanks.

Q: I have a single share of BAMR from the spinoff. Am I able to have a BAMR share journaled (if that's the correct term) to a BAM.a share?

Thanks

Q: Hi

What is 5i's take on your first Sentiment Survey - anything surprise you particularly?

Thanks

Q: Hi, you mention short interest from time to time. Using MTTR as an example, you say that short interest is very high at 15%. I assume this is a negative as there are a lot of shorts (or shares short) that want to drive the price down. However, some view this as a positive as any good news can force all the shorts to cover. There are also different views on days to cover. MTTR shows 6 days. Some view higher numbers, such as 10, as positive as it means there could be a sustained rally if the shorts have to spread out their buying over a longer period rather than a quick spike.

What short interest levels and number of days to cover do you view as being positive or negative influences on a stock price?
Thanks

Q: I have ~$10,000 in ATS Automation. Do you think I’m better off to apply that money to a LOC charging a floating interest rate currently around 7%?
In general would I be better off doing this with all my un-registered stock holdings?

Q: Dear 5i
I believe its probably a good time to start buying back into the market slowly over the next couple months but i`m concerned that i`ll buy quite a bit only to see values go down once a recession hits . I know there`s no guarantee of a recession but it does look very likely that we will have one to at least some degree . With the recession possibility in mind do you still think buying selective stocks and ETF`s over the next two or so months is a wise strategy ?
Thanks
Bill C

Q: I have a sizeable RRSP holding with many Canadian and US companies. Soon I’ll start trading out of the money covered calls to enhance the portfolio yield. I understand how covered calls work but when I actually start trading them my knowledge will grow considerably and don’t want to make rookie mistakes. I’m thinking of starting with telecom, utilities, and banks as they have big share counts and option interest. Does this make sense, also what do you look for when trading covered calls? Specific sectors, large stable companies?
Thanks for your help!

Q: I have had the impression that covered calls were a riskier type of investment but when I look at the beta, std dev, alpha, sharpe ratio, etc I don't see much difference between the two ETFs listed. Are they both considered about equal?

Q: When doing my do diligence and research on a stock there are of course many fundamentals and ratios to consider---I count 11 on my spread sheet--I think they are all important but can you boil that down to maybe the 3 most important.

Q: What's your view on using protective puts and covered calls?