Investment Q&A

Q: Hypothetically, a person has $100,000 to invest in a non-registered account. If this was you: a) currently, what would be your top stock/etf CDN picks? (technology excluded; Balanced/growth focus, not income); 5 year time frame b) how would you allocate the 100K? Thank you. 5iResearch has been fantastic!

Q: With quarterly earnings winding down I'm curious to hear about about a couple of your biggest surprises. Are there a few outliers on the positive and negative side? Can be US or Canadian.

Q: Can you comment on its most recent Q please. Also, Ace Beverage has acquired Nude RTD beverage. There has also been some recent change to the board. Seems like much activity has been going on with this company relatively speaking. Can you comment on whether you see the recent Q, additional RTD acquisition of Nude has potential to
generate some growth or do you continue to view it as an income stock. Would you buy, sell or hold the stock. If sell what would you buy instead?

Q: Could I have your thoughts on the new CON DEB issue- assume it ranks above the common dividend - but at 7.5 % still high risk ? Ok for a limited investment

Q: Why the 3,678% drop today to $46.63? Add,Hold or Sell. Txs for u usual great services & views

Q: I have US dollars and I am looking for a high interest savings etf similar to PSA but trading in USD.

Thank you

Q: What do you think of spmo, as an alternative to the s&p500 or qqqq

Q: long time holder of XDV (15 yrs). I see XDIV has outperformed by far since its inception with similar yield and lower MER. For what is worth XDIV has a 5 star Morningstar rating vs 2 stars for XDV. Thinking of switching my XDV for XDIV. Your opinion please.

Q: Kindly contrast these two for growth, for a 12 month horizon, and on timing/price basis for a Buy.

I appreciate your diligence 5i. Thank you.

Q: Hello

Where do you suggest 5i members reference historical P/E avg s for any CDN or USA equities ?

Q: Peter and His Wonder Team
MATR just reported quarterly results. In general how would you rate this quarter. What is your prognosis going forward.
Is it still a buy as some analysts maintain? Thanks as always!

Q: What would be your top 5 picks for Cdn dividend paying companies that have a safe and growing dividend? No financials please. Thank you.

Q: Can I have your comments on the latest results from Quarterhill . It has a huge backlog of work, but it seems to find it very hard to make a profit. Any hope here , or time to move on ?

Q: I’d like to know what you think of small cap CDB.V (Cordoba Minerals). Their main project (Alacran) is in Columbia. Recently they partnered up with Chinese mine construction co. JCHX, who purchased 50% of the Alacran project for $US100,000,000. This certainly makes the current market cap of CAD$45M look cheap. Years ago this was a favoured stock of Brent Cook and Joe Mazumdar, but they lost interest when Robert Friedland took control of the company (via IE), citing that further development had lost its urgency and near term returns unlikely. They were quite correct, as it’s 5 years later and little has happened except share price collapse helped by RF diluting retail shareholders to oblivion. Things do finally seem to be looking positive with the JCHX involvement, so I’d like your opinion, how the future might play out for this stock considering IE’s significant control position and the small retail float, – e.g. Given RF’s prior behaviour in similar circumstances do you think he’s likely to either promote this and liquidate part of his investment in future, or continue to grind the retail float to dust? (PS, they have another greenfield asset in Nevada with Bell Copper (BCU), but it’s not clear if this option has any value)

Q: What 5-10 core stocks would you buy today in a new portfolio, in both CAD and USD.

Q: I am not sure why NTR is up so much today. Is there any news that I have missed or Do you know the reason.

Thanks for the great service

Q: How does HBM compare to the others ? Do you have a favourite ? Thank you.

Q: Could I get a list of the best Small Cap ETF's to buy for Canada, USA & International?

Thank you.

Q: Hello,
I have owned these 3 stocks for a few years now and doing some portfolio cleanup and wondering if still worth holding - long term. I don’t trade. Can you please briefly comment on their potential individually and if some should be sold, in what order in your opinion. Thank you.

Q: Hello,
Can you please recommend a few US blue chip large cap with reasonable valuation, decent dividend, some growth, buy and forget type of stock. I am reviewing my portfolio and looking for some ideas. No need to comment on why you like the names. Thank you,