Investment Q&A

Q: Down 16% on LIF and 12% on SLF. Would you recommend tax loss selling and - if yes - can you please suggest proxies and indicate if you would re-purchase either in 30 days. Thank you.

Q: What order and at what price would you nibble at the stocks listed (already own them all at this point but no full positions other than Cost) + brief explanation why?

Is there any other screaming buys you would recommend at this time regardless of sector , Thanks for your help with my portfolio

Q: During the recent short run up these were up a lot: UPST was up 75%, CELH was up 22%, AFRM was up 70%, ARKW up 15%. They have not fallen back as much as others with this big drop in NASDAQ May 18. Should I be adding to them? They seem to outpace most of the other ones. Reading Seeking Alpha, GOOGLE's account in Russia was frozen and indicated they were going bankrupt in Russia and moving out of there. Doing a lot of research, I come across Jeff Brown (Micro chip expert) you probably are aware of him - and he said a Dutch company (I have heard of it before ASML - price is about $630) said this would be the number 1 chip stock for the next many years. More than one answer would be helpful for the above questions. I realize it may cost an extra credit or 2 for this. Thank you,

Q: Peter; A “ no question is too dumb” to ask! The Bitcoin sector has been hit hard and I read that a few have lost their “ peg” to the dollar or gold. Can you clarify on this? Thanks,Rod

Q: I'm wondering if you might have an opinion regarding "seasonality" with respect to the various sports betting companies, especially regarding the opening and closing periods for the various sports leagues. Thank you.

Q: Hi 5i,

The CEO of CIGI recently purchased $17M dollars worth of stock. Is this significant relative to his holdings? Would you consider this a very strong vote of confidence for this stock by the CEO? What do you think an attractive purchase price would be for the stock assuming you think it is a good long term investment? thanks

Q: Hi 5i team,

Given recently many tech companies share price meltdown, I keep asking myself that are we going through 2000 dot com bobbles again? Could you please walk us through current situations your lens? If people have time to hold tech names for 3 to 5 years, will they be rewarded?

Q: Hi group p

Please explain in simple terms what Harvesting tax loses and proxy mean when selling stocks at a loss

Second question please give me your top 3 picks (in preferential order) c/w short explanation for following sectors ....Consumer staples, Energy ,
Materials, Real estate, Health care, Commodities, Financials

Thank you for your help





staples,

Q: Taking into account their current valuations, and their individual company risk, could you please rank these stocks in terms of overall risk from high to low for a 2 year time frame:
LSPD SHOP NBLY TOI NVEI WSP CAE TIXT GSY

Thanks for all your work!

Mike

Q: Can you explain why ITP is trading more than $1.50 under its acquisition price of $40.50? Is there a risk that the deal won’t close?
Thanks
Dave

Q: Looking to add your top $C four or five picks to an already diversified portfolio .
I’ve been sitting on the sidelines for a while. A bit rusty on what looks good, after the free fall. Time to start buying again???

Q: your thoughts about their results please.
Anyone you would purchase right now?

Q: Sold ATZ for tax loss. Is CROX a good proxy or would you recommend something else? Would you buy ATZ back later?

Q: In a diversified portfolio where I want to add to the above holdings, please indicate in order, which one you would add to first and so on.

Please of course consider the stock appreciation potential, the markets and are these in favorable segments or not, etc.

Thanks


Sheldon

Q: With rising interest rates likely to slow down house building in North America, do you still consider WFG a good investment? Should I take my profits or wait for the stock to recover from this swoon? I am not in urgent need of cash, and can probably wait out the recession.

Q: Hi Peter & Team:
Can you give me some idea which of the above companies for TFSA , rank from your best and down. Thank you as always.

Q: Of the 5 stocks listed in this question, do you see today as being a good time to purchase/ add to any of these names? And what order would you rank them, if buying today. Or, are there better ideas out there today that you would prefer? Thanks

Shane.

Q: Ever since I started investing roughly ten years ago, I've always enjoyed trying to identify companies that could become acquisition targets. Could you please name five companies (TSX only) that you believe have a high likelihood of being acquired or taken private in this current environment? Thank You

Q: Nasdaq is now down about 28% from its' high in Nov. Based on the past history of corrections/bear markets, etc, what would you guess is the likelyhood of it going past 35% ??? Thanks Jim

Q: Hello,
If you were to start a portfolio today, what would be your top picks across all sectors? Could include ETFs too. CDN and/or US. Thx!