Investment Q&A

Q: I have the above securities, as well as RBC Cdn Equity Inc, Sentry Cdn Inc, Sentry Global REIT, and fixed income via Fisgard Capital, Annuities, a company pension, CPP and soon-to-be OAS.

I really focus on asset allocation and am a little light on Consumer stocks, holding CGX, PBH and TCL (although some consider TCL to be in the Industrial sector). I am normally a buy-and-hold investor who trims-adds around core positions.

Question 1 = I am looking to add 1 more consumer stock and am looking for a dividend ideally > 3%. Based on my stock-ETF-MF mix, are there a few stocks you could suggest that would fit in my above set of securities.

Q2 = if I was to consider ideas from the Income Portfolio, is there an issue with having multiple food stocks....like PBH and A&W and NWC. Why have more than one food stock?

Q# = because A&W is a ".UN" company, how are their dividends treated for tax purposes? Are they eligible for the dividend tax credit?

Deduct as many credits as you deem appropriate....got loads and will never use them all up.

Thanks as always...Steve

Q: I would like to replace pbh with something else and am wondering if qsr or nwc would be good choices or if you prefer something else.

Q: Hi All at 5i! I was thinking of swapping my PBH shares for QSR, in hopes for more growth. I would value your thoughts on this. Cheers, Tamara

Q: Hello Peter, Ryan, and Team

I need to raise some cash and would like to know how you would rank these stocks from "sell first" to "sell last":

BLX 1.07%
BNS 1.9%
KXS 1.35%
NFI 0.81%
PBH 1.7%
SIS 2.22%
SYZ 0.94%
TFII 0.58%

I am underwater on all of these. The number following each symbol is the stock's weighting.

Thanks for your assistance.

Q: My portfolio is light in consumer non-cyclicals. Last week I was considering the purchase of NWC for dividend in my non registered account. With the recent earnings release and drop in price is this a good entry point or should I move on?

Would PBH be a better choice? Or is there a better non-financial dividend payer to add to my portfolio?

Thank you

Stephen

Q: Good morning, my question is regarding PBH's recent 5 year outlook. " achieving over the next five years annual sales of $6.0 billion and an
EBITDA margin of 10%." I am wondering if this goal were to be achieved do you think this is ambitious? They estimate sales to go from 3 billion to 3.7 billion a 23% increase, so that would mean if sales are 6 billion at end of 2023 then revenue only grows at 13% per year 2020-2023 which is quite the decrease or would this be their goal without taking into account growth by acquisitions? They do note EBITDA margins would improve to 10% so maybe I am missing the importance of this.

Q: your thoughts please on selling PBH and buying QSR. Thanks.

Q: Time for tax loss selling? How much chance is there of this stock going higher in a month? Related to this is , at this point, is there any sense in tax loss selling right now, rather than holding until the end of they year, collect the dividend and then sell, if it is still down.
thanks

Q: Can you explain the sell-off this morning? The results seemed pretty decent!

Q: Hi, Could you please comment on the earnings release from this morning. Sounds upbeat !! What do you think of their plan to double Sales with higher margins over 5 years ? Do you believe, company is back on track after repeated misses ? Thanks

Q: Now that the quarterly results are out, what is the buy argument vs the sell argument when it comes to PBH?

Q: Hi Peter, which company would you buy today. Time frame 2 years. Thanks Alnoor

Q: With the quarterly misses from PBH, are you still excited about this company and recommending it or should I sell and use the funds in another recommended name in a similar space?

Q: Our portfolio largely follows your balanced model, and I see we're somewhat overweight in Consumer Non Cyclical. If you were to lighten up on one of these three, which would it be?

Q: does 5i have the estimates for the release on thurs?? Thx

Q: Hi Gang, good news is I sold most of the above with gains except for COV and KXS, looking closer if I did not the losses would put me in big trouble, over 40% for most of them from the high, I know that 2018 was not a stellar year but I'm 65 years old and can't wait 5 years for these stocks to come back, do you have any thoughts on how to get out before a stock takes a 40% haircut, is a 8% or 10% stop rule help or perhaps farther out. Thanks Anthony

Q: PBH, NFI, KXS, TSGI, GC, BNS, SIS, CCL and now TOY. Not good. It feels like, for some time now, a lot of risk but not the commensurate reward. Please comment.

Q: These 2 are laggards in my portfolio. PBH down 22%. SIS up 7%. They both hit my mental trailing stop of over 25%. Do you see any near term catalyst for them? While I am an investor and not a trader, if they are likely going to be "dead money" for another year, I probably like to sell and move on. What do you think? Would you also suggest replacements for them? They are in my TFSA account. Thanks again for all your valuable advice.

Q: I have a position in PBH and it has not done well recently although it has performed well in the past. Are there any issues with PBH? I am considering selling half and getting a half position on ATD.B. I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks. SHyam

Q: I have funds to add another stock to my grandson's RESP. At the moment it holds the 3 stocks mentioned above. Which would you see as a good complement today?