Investment Q&A

Q: My question involves a Co. which has doubled in value and pays a 4% dividend.

Example Paid $5. per share with 4% dividend. Now Co. worth $10. so dividend
rate is now 8%.

Hold or sell the Co.? What is your rational on long term holds where the dividend effectively doubles with the doubling of the fmv of the stock?

Q: hello:
This is a question about a private company.
About 10 years ago, we invested into a company called "Redev". Over the years we've collected a small amount of dividends. Recently, I've been interested in selling some shares to raise cash but haven't been able to contact the company. I've left voice mails and email messages.
Do you know this company at all? Is there some other way to go about contacting them (eg. a public entity like OSFI or ???). We're very disturbed that there is no communication. Can you help on this one?
thanks
Paul

Q: What would you recommend be the weightings for a particular stock, what is half and full positions referred in some of the questions.

Q: Good morning 5iteam: Do you still compile a list of your most promising growth prospects for the year.Seam to remember such a list in the past but can not find it if you do . Tks. Larry

Q: Hi,

I have held both MFI and TOY for several years now. Much to my surprise both popped today from earnings. I am thinking about selling both of these to switch into NVEI (after their earnings next week).

I get that none of these companies are comparable on any metric-but I am interested in your viewpoint of selling stocks that have upward momentum to buy into a stock that currently has downward momentum.

Thanks,
Brad

Q: Peter and His Wonder Team
TD Webbroker has a feature called Advance Dashboard.
Before I sign up I wanted to know how useful it is for a long term investor and not a day trader. So when buying or selling a stock it would be helpful to see how many buy or sell lots and there volume were lined up...if you know what I mean. Your thoughts please! Thank you!

Q: No specific question, just a thank you.
I have been a member for 7 years and always look at your various resources before making any buy/hold or the more difficult sell decisions. I have always been disciplined in your suggested sector diversification and portfolio weighting. LSPD proof of portfolio weighting. Initial purchase at $35.00 and trimmed 1/3 at $150.00 (It still went up to $165.00. Oh well still slept better). After the short attack I trimmed again at $110.00 and it went back up. Today I still feel good holding a stock up 142% with a big payout on the trimming and a portfolio weighting of 3.5%. The decline was not as dramatic as it could have been. It was very hard to trim a stock on such an upward trajectory (still looking for that 10 bager). Thank you for the continued reminder of portfolio weighting and being able to sleep at night.
Roy

Q: Hello Peter,
What are Nvei's and CSU's estimates? Also, for lower volumes stocks like csu, and topicus, how does a manager sell them? For example, I was trying to sell 10 shares of csu at price x and 100 shares of toi at price y, i placed a limit order for a period of time. On many occasions, the stock hit those limit prices, but i never got them filled. I checked with the brokerage and i was informed that there were not many shares traded at that time so did not fill. Hence, how would a large institution sell a large block when a retail person can't even fill smaller shares due to lower volumes.. What would you suggest a sell or buy strategy for lower volume shares? Thanks very much

Q: Every so often I accumulate some bad apples but I have far more "winners" that you have brought to my attention than the odd bad apple. When you start noticing these bad apples in your watch list would you not be better off getting rid of them because there are so many good ones you can replace them with? It seems these type of stocks never recover to any degree. Your opinion would be valuable. Thank you.

Q: What are your thoughts about the CDR's offered by CIBC. Are these more or less the same as owning the actual stocks? What is the good and the bad investing in these CDR's? Is this a good way to own US stocks without purchasing these high priced stocks. Will owning these CDR's result in the same returns as the underlying securities. What about the dividends are they payable the same as the actual stock and if so how are they treated for withholding and tax? Anything you can share would be appreciated. Thank you.

Bellow is a list of the CDR's offered by CIBC through the NEO exchange.

https://cdr.cibc.com/#/cdrDirectory

Q: We have all seen bidders or sellers put in (bids/asks) prices 10 to 20% either below or above yesterdays prices. How effective is the practice?
As always thanks for great advice.
Clayton

Q: You mention that whenever there is a big drop in share price the ambulance chasers come out and try a class action lawsuit. I have seen it in many stocks lately. How often would you say that the lawyers see something out of it or do they just fade away when they don't get enough people to sign up? Or the share price bounces back making the lawsuit useless.

Q: Is there a summary of Canadian Closed end funds that is available to view? Years ago, Financial Post carried a daily summary of this sector, but I cannot find that anymore.

Q: Any beaten down stocks that are in that state due to tax-loss selling that you'd be interested in at this time?

Q: Is there a ‘best time’ for tax loss selling? Many Chinese stocks are candidates for this but will everyone pile in on the last week of December, driving the price even lower? Vs everyone buys them between now and year end , as they are considered ‘undervalued’?

Q: I have a CDN RRIF account and also US RRIF which TD seperated . Can I transfer Canadian Cash from Cdn to US RRIF with no tax implication approx 10,000 US to take advantage of stocks I would like to purchase or do I buy from Cdn account and TD will transfer to US RRIF. Money wise which way would be better. Tks 5I

Q: If I purchased company "A" at $40.00 with a 6% Yield.
Since then, company "A" has gone to $60.00 and the Yield looks close but frankly I have forgotten.
Is the current indicated Yield based on the Share or on the Price ?

Q: Could you explain "goodwill" to me please.

Today on BNN Ross Healy was commenting on NTR and indicating that 60% of it's balance sheet was goodwill. I have googled it and am wondering if part of the answer is the customer base and the related contracts. If goodwill is intangible, then how to you come up with a number?

Is this 60% number something to be concerned about?

Thanks...Steve

Q: Hello,

I am in the process of converting my RRSP into a RRIF.

I also have a USD-SDRSP, would you know how the conversion of a US based account works?

Thanks

Stephen

Q: Dear 5i,

can you suggest some valuation metrics/ratios one can consider when trying to get an idea of a companies valuation when the company in question doesn't have any positive earnings? Can you also please give ranges from expensive to cheap one can use a rough guide. Is Price/Sales a good one to use?

thanks