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Investment Q&A

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Q: Good morning 5i team!

What is your near term outlook for MITK?

Is there specific news, or activity(chatter...rumours...?) to account for recent downside volatility?

What is your medium to long term outlook for this stock price taking into consideration any recent news or anticipated developments?

If I were to decide to sell to harvest a capital loss, which stocks would you consider comparable substitute in this sector for a pair trade?

Thanks for your assistance.

SGR
Read Answer Asked by SG on September 27, 2021
Q: What do you think of these semiconductor equipment suppliers? Thinking of adding them to my TFSA. They haven't done anything for last 3 months but sales and profits have been growing nicely. Reasonable PEs and HIMX has a dividend. Thanks

Ross
Read Answer Asked by Ross on September 27, 2021
Q: Is SIVBP just a way to be SIVB shares in small amounts . i.e. ( 1 Sivbp share = 1/40 of ! SIVB share).

Is this a safe way to buy smaller amounts of SIVB ?
I don't know if this is a common way to do it.

Thank you
Read Answer Asked by Leonard on September 24, 2021
Q: Hello Team,
Could you rank these three different securities for growth and safety. Are they all companies you would recommend?
Thank You,
Barry
Read Answer Asked by Barry on September 24, 2021
Q: I have a position in BAM and am thinking of increasing it or adding a new position in BX to enhance my diversification. Does BX offer a range of different assets compared to BAM, or am I simply doubling up? Is now a good time for a purchase of either BAM or BX? Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Randy on September 24, 2021
Q: Hi 5i Team,

I have approx. $100k USD of capital to deploy to a portfolio with a 3 to 5 year hold outlook with a focus on High Growth. Comfortable with higher risk.

I’d like to have meaningful position sizing so want to limit the # of stocks to 4.

The pool I am considering is COIN, SI, ROKU, NVDA, SHOP, AFRM, SQ, CRWD, and ZM.

My inclination so far is to go:
45% - NVDA – This just seemed like a must own to me. Semiconductor exposure in a supply-short environment along with the multitude of other things they support – AI, Gaming, Genomic sequencing etc. Hard to see how they won’t be over a trillion dollar market cap especially if the ARM acquisition is go (Risk factor).

25% - AFRM – BNPL adoption in North America is far behind that of Europe/APAC and I like AFRMs positioning as a consumer first proposition with transparency and AI with strong partnerships with AMZN, AAPL Canada and SHOP.

20% - COIN – Continued adoption of Crypto. Would use this as a proxy instead of going with ETFs/Fund exposure

15% - CRWD (Valuation risk so smallest position, but cybersecurity industry hasn’t matured yet with lots of runway remaining for a stock with strong MOAT)

I decided against SHOP due to how much growth they've already seen and potential impact on consumer spend from an inflationary environment.

Could you comment your thoughts / advice on the above? Any stocks that you would switch out or position sizing you’d recommend to reconsider?
Read Answer Asked by TRINA on September 24, 2021
Q: ZIP IPOed recently, and I wonder what your thoughts on it are? I worry that it may not have much of a moat compared to larger job board Indeed, but it seems to be growing very fast, and may be a great idea for the post-pandemic recovery, especially since so many people are changing jobs right now. What are the strengths/weaknesses and risks that you see?
Read Answer Asked by Thomas on September 23, 2021
Q: Hello 5i,
I am fractionally underweight Communications (BCE, T) and fractionally overweight Consumer Cyclical (AW.UN, LNF, MGA). I am also significantly overweight Canada, underweight United States.
My thought was to sell AW.UN and use the proceeds to purchase VZ in my RRSP. The yields are very close which is a major consideration. Obviously, no tax considerations.
Would you see any concerns with such a move?
Many thanks as always!!
Cheers,
MIke
Read Answer Asked by Mike on September 23, 2021
Q: I think there may be an opportunity in china and would like to purchase CQQQ as I could use some more international exposure . In my US RRSP I would need to sell either ROKU or MITK. Which stock do you think has more upside between these two?
Dave
Read Answer Asked by Dave on September 23, 2021
Q: How best to play the labor shortage market present in Cad /USA. Head hunters may be a preferred option - your thoughts please
Read Answer Asked by Terence on September 23, 2021
Q: Casino stocks have taken a beating because of the fear of Chinese Government intervention and renewal of licenses in Macau. Do you think it safe to initiate a position in the above companies? ThNks
Read Answer Asked by Joanne on September 23, 2021
Q: In our “balanced portfolio” we have decided to go to US stocks for our healthcare allocation. Currently holding MDT, VEEV and GH. Are these reasonable holdings? We like a concentrated portfolio so only have these 3 as our healthcare stocks. Would you suggest any changes or potentially a new 4th position? We are buy and hold growth investors looking at greater than 10 years until we would require these funds.
Read Answer Asked by Paul on September 22, 2021