Investment Q&A

Q: What is goeasy's track record for recent earnings releases? How has the stock reacted afterward? Thank you

Q: Hi team,

Can you provide the quarter estimates and date for goos?

Thanks

Q: What are your three highest conviction growth stocks from your Growth Portfolio at this time. This for a long term medium to higher risk for my TSFA. I already have all the stocks in the Balanced Portfolio.

Q: can you please explain why this stock has gone from 24 to 120 in two years?
is it acquisitions that drive this price? and can you comment on the after close earnings? many thanks...

Q: The market has been less than enthusiastic about Dye and Durham since the takeover announced a month ago, which looks iffy now there is another rebellion among Canadian legal clients over fee jumps. If the takeover succeeds an article in the Jan.29 Globe projects debt will be 5X EBITDA up from 3X which could bury DND.

5i's assessment of David Berman's piece and the outlook for shares should the takeover be turned down by regulators in Australia, please.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/inside-the-market/article-investors-have-turned-cold-on-dye-durham-heres-why/

Q: Good day.

1. I am considering the purchase of mentioned. I did some quick research and noticed that on Jan 19th you mentioned in a response that it had a P/E of 15. Looking at its profile on your site and the BMO site, it shows 9.x.

If I look at the current stock price of $142 and its EPS of $15.66 (from its profile), this would correspond with the P/E of 9.x (which would not even be its forward looking P/E but its historical).

Am I missing something here? It appears to be a great deal.

2. I read your Jan 18,2022 report about this company. At the very top of the report (on the right hand side) it states that debt is high. At the very bottom of the report in the Summary section it mentions that that this company has strong balance sheet. Furthermore, this section and and "Key risks" section do not mention any concerns with debt. Is this something we should be concerned with? (Note; I normally look at the debt on the balance sheet but have difficulties understanding how to interpret this number for financial institutions as they have customer deposits on-hand as debt OR they would need to borrow money to lend it out which is also debt. Do you know of any articles that help explain this).

3. Do you think the business model is sustainable? I went on their web site and rates start at 30% for personal loans. That is high, really high (I feel).

Thanks again. Walter.
P.S. I recently posted a question and must have accidently posted it as private. If you want to make it public, please do so.

Q: LSPD reports F2022/Q3 on February 2 after the market closes. For this quarter, what is the estimate for revenue and gross margin, and what is the estimate for adjusted EBITDA (loss) and adjusted EPS (loss)? Thank you.

Q: When does it report and what's expected? What does it need to report to start to turn the ship around, and conversely, what type of results will put it down for good?

Q: Is SHOP attractive to you today at the current price or do you think there is still plenty of room for the market freefall to pull it down further?

Q: Hello Peter,
On yahoo, i get a pe of 32 for shopify. Does this make sense ? What are the metrics one should use to evaluate good value for shopify? Given that there is competition for shopify, do you think the company deserve a full weighting of 5 percent? I am just concerned about what happened with black berry (RIM in early days) when apple and samsung came along.. can this happen to shopify as well as there is competition building.. Much appreciated

Q: Hi Peter and Team
Although a lot of down positions in my RRIF, I would like your opinion on whether to continue to hold XBC and Acuity Ads; both down so much that they make up less than 1% of the portfolio.
Would you hold on, or switch to a couple of your recent suggestions, ANRG and CTS (that have aslo dipped since your December reports.
Don't worry about tax loss and the RIFF is long term growth.
Cheers, Peter

Q: Please shed light on what has been happening to Boyd. Its price has been in a fairly steady decline from over $250 in October to around $175 today. Some decline is to be expected in this current period of economic uncertainty, but 30%, steadily, over 3 months? New and used cars are in short supply these days due to the chip shortage and transportation bottlenecks, so why aren't people spending as much or even more on repairs to their older cars? Is Boyd suffering from internal problems of some kind? I am puzzled by what's been happening, over a period of many weeks, to a company with such a solid longer term record. What does the market know that I don't?

Q: I own LSPD in a registered account and am just breaking even. Considering swapping it out for SHOP, which I suspect may be lower risk and a sounder investment going forward. Given the wild ride both companies have had recently, which do you believe will perform better in the long term (3-5 years)? Thanks.

Q: What problem will the class action suit be to dnd? How big a deal is it

Q: Current thoughts on lightspeed? Would you buy it today?

Q: Hello 5i Research team, not a question, more as a follow-up to your response to Sheldon's question earlier today about Park Lawn: I would like to mention that I believe a major factor that has allowed funeral homes to perform well in 2020 and 2021 is the COVID surcharge ($500+) imposed at each funeral in many jurisdictions for the additional sanitation measures required due to the pandemic. The profit margin on this surcharge seems to be quite generous in my opinion... Publish if you think this information can be useful. Thank you for your collaboration, Eric

Q: Hello Peter & Team,

MG is showing a P/E of 16.85 yet the PEG is a -2.64 meaning that the company is losing money or that the estimated growth rate for future earnings is negative, indicating that the earnings of the company are expected to decrease in the future. Have I read this/interpreted this correctly? And if so, is MG a company we should be staying a clear of right now? Or do I have this all wrong?

Thanks for all you do

gm

info sourced via MSN Money

Q: I invested in this a few months ago for a number of reasons. It is a renewable energy investment, 5i gave it an 'A' rating and it pays a good dividend. It is down 18% since purchase.
The current dip in the market presents buying opportunities. Would you recommend adding to my current position of BEP.UN or simply holding what I have?

Q: Hello, after doing some research i have come to understand that Shopify has a PE of 32. Is that correct? Seems like that can’t be right. Would you buy now or wait? Thanks

Q: I like both of these companies and I own both but would like to put some more money into one of them. Which would you recommend for a 3-4 yr. hold and why.
Peter