Investment Q&A

Q: Which has greater potential for SPA over 3-5 years, and why?

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Q: It has been awhile since Kinaxis has been at this level. I know that you like the company, but do you see any reason to trim or pull back at this time. I am at 5% but that doesn't keep me up at night.

It just seems they get a few good quarters in a row and then one bad one bumps them back down for a couple years and then they claw there way back to where they are now.

Thanks for the great service. Have a wonderful day.

Q: I am wondering what to do with this stock who seems to go nowhere, cut oits dividend and show s a P/E very high, which would you suggest as replacement, you seem to favour CLS?
Your advice always apreciated.
Thank you

Q: Could you give your analysis of the Q
thanks

Q: I understand that DSG and KXS operate in different spaces, but had thought that, as the market put April 9 behind it, they would recover along similar trajectories - but KXS has clearly taken the lead, today matching its December, 2024 high. Supposing that at least some of Trump's tariff plans come to fruition, is KXS the better investment? DGS's RoC (per your database) is far more attractive.

Q: I have some money to invest. Could you please let me know, in order of best stocks to buy.

Q: I need to liquidate a portion of a portfolio holding the 8 stocks listed. Can you please rank them in the order you would sell (first to last) based on potential for total return over the next 3-4 years?

Q: Which 5 Canadian growth stocks would you start to accumulate today? Cash account.
Which 5 USA growth stocks would you start to accumulate today? Cash account.
Five year hold.
Thanks

Q: I noticed that Kinaxis is up today, on a bad day for the markets.Would you buy it or prefer to buy more Descartes on this pullback?

Q: what 3 metrics do you use to value DSG. compare these to the last 3 years is DSG close to a duopoly. if not name their major competitors. thanks Richard

Q: I have held Kinaxis for a few (disappointing) years now. This is a logistics/ risk management software company as I understand it.
If what there were a time to succeed in this environment, it would be this- I mean the only thing more timely might be a German weapons maker in terms of sector demand.
Is there reason to believe that KXS has a useful downstream growth story to justify holding?

Q: With the pull-back, I want to take positions in the above at an appropriate weighting for a long term hold - the Canadian holdings and NVDA at full position, the others at 2-3%. Could you mark them at todays levels as buy, partial buy, watch or don't buy, and make any appropriate back-up comments. Thank-you!

Q: Assuming that the reactions to the tariffs ends up being a great buying opportunity, and also that we've probably passed the crystal ball "sell everything" point, WHEN and WHERE (industries, specific favorite stocks) would you look to put new money in please?

Q: Kxs traded higher on good volume on a day most everything else was down. After seeing the recent Earnings are you more comfortable holding this company? Also what is the current forward P/E ?

Q: Good morning 5i team,
In today's market, would you add/start to a full position on these four names?
Looking to hold EQB, KSI, KXS and VBNK for 5-10 years.
Thank you for your advice,

Stephan

Q: A recent article in the Globe postulated that M & A activity in the Canadian tech sector could increase in 2025. Some of the reasons given were the delayed implementation of the increase in capital gains taxation, the low Canadian dollar and tariffs.

Are there tech companies you would view as potential take-over targets in 2025?

Thanks for the great service!

Ian

Q: Your thoughts on Q4 and annual earnings. Do Special charges seem reasonable?

Q: All three companies reported yesterday. Can you review results for each with special attention to any strengths/weaknesses? Any surprises? Outlook for stock performance going forward? How strong is 5i's conviction in each (rate out of 10).

Q: Long term owner of KXS. Happy to be a patient long term investor as long as the investment thesis is not deteriorating. Are you seeing any signs in their numbers that KXS business is deteriorating or getting disrupted? Revenue growth, margins, new customers, any other metrics that you feel are relevant to the question.

Thanks.

Q: As one of 5i’s early subscribers, I find it a useful thought experiment to give my answer to a question before clicking on the 5i answer. I have found over the years our answers converge and so I rarely send in questions and comments. However my sense is that DeepSeek is a significant change.

On one level it is a clear lesson in the reality that, as Keynes said many decades ago, it’s real resources that matter, not money.

The American approach to AI development was that if you don’t have a $1billion you're not in the game. The Chinese have shown that if you have the pool of talent, amazing things can be done with relatively little money. The prevailing narrative that the Chinese are just copy cats was also blown out of the water. DeepSeek not only upends every assumption underlying the American approach to AI, it shows that the Chinese can out Silicon Silicon Valley and that means that, unlike in the past, China’s most talented minds will want to work for Chinese companies not American ones.

How will the Americans respond? Having staked political capital on the $500 billion Stargate, Trump and his entourage of billionaires have no choice, they will double down. We are hearing the narrative already, they are now saying that $500 million invested in DeepSeek’s advancements will produce even more amazing advancements in AI.

At a moment in history, as America consumes itself, China has taken a leap forward. Not only have they bloodied Trump, they have shaken the world in ways Napoleon could never have foreseen.

There are actually lessons to be learned in how Canada might deal with Trump but the political bobble heads and corporate Canada have actually come to believe the myths of neo-liberalism they started purveying in the 80’s, and are now incapable of rising above their paralysing fear.

Every investor has to ask, what are the implications of DeepSeek for their investments? Doubling down by the Americans will keep the party going for a while but it seems reasonable to expect a reckoning. Where would 5i look for alternatives to AI investments? Please suggest 5 US and 5 Cdn stocks that have strong balance sheets and reasonable growth prospects (without stretched valuations) that would benefit from using much less expensive AI? Also, please suggest a couple of ETF’s for Europe and China that would benefit should those markets surprise to the upside?
Mike