Investment Q&A

Q: Source seems interesting as an energy play not tied to a single producer. Do you have a general recommendation and, if so, a recommended price?

Q: Which would you recommend as would provide the largest % total yield, dividend+capital appreciation, for the first year of ownership? What is your reasoning please?

Q: In 2024, I put some money in BMO HISA accounts (ex: BMT109- not sure how to call them). The distributions are reinvested, not paid. Do you know if BMO will declare the interest paid at the end of the year, or will I have to declare them only when I sell some of it? Good day.

Q: Good morning,
I read that Enbridge cut its pipeline tolls by more than 10% in late August due to competition from the TMX pipeline. Will a cut of this size have a significant impact on ENB earnings? Which do you consider a better investment at this time: ENB or TRP? Thanks as always for your advice.

Q: With the downward trend of OIL -what effect will it have on the yield of ENCC ? etc?

Q: Hi Peter & 5i,
May I get get your thoughts on the 1st Quarter of F25?
Are you concerned about the small sales increase compared to Q1 of F24?
Are you concerned about decreases in profit (.8M versus 1.2M) and EBITDA (2.6M versus 3.2M)?
Thank you for your thoughts and great service.

Q: What are the current prospects for SLS? Do the drill results confirm the extent of their deposit?

Q: A 12 year member. Used to find Forums easily but after searching for quite some time cannot find Forums on Sept. 8.

Q: Any reason why Topicus just seems to maintain close to highs as the market corrects? I want to add to it but it isn’t easy here. Should I just give up and buy in or wait further?

Q: Hi, I'm interested in some oil/mining stocks that have recently plummeted. Do you think there's more room down, and when do you see them rising again? Thank you.

Q: If I were to pick only two themes for long term investment, they would likely be urban water supply and the electrification of North America. (Would appreciate your thoughts on those choices...).

Regarding electrification, I'm well positioned in energy providers, including green & conventional energy producers. I have a half position in HPS.a and a small amount of GRID. I am struggling to decide if I should move upstream into a copper producer (BHP?) or if I should stick with small caps like HPS.A to get more torque.

I'm retired and no longer young; my finances are solid. Most of my investments are with a professional manager. I keep about 20% for fun, but even the fun money is mostly in fairly blue chip stuff. It is in this small chunk that I shall play around, and I am okay with adding a bit of risk.

So the question is: raw material producer or end user stocks? Where would you head? Specific suggestions most welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Q: Follow Up from my recent question.

A couple questions weren't answered, but can the following one be addressed?

4. AMD. Is it worth holding the 2nd fiddle? Would it be better used in something in 1st in a different space? like AVGO or QCOM?

With your answer to SMCI from my previous question, do you have an idea based on multiples, etc that you could see an achievable price target at for 12 months?

And Finally, the last couple weeks have been ROUGH. In the other answers I've seen you mention issues with the Election, Recession fears, and just general fear with earnings coming. Are we in for a rougher ride? I know that not being invested for the few key days in a period of time drastically reduces total returns over a period, but do you foresee one of those key days coming say, by the end of the year? Would it be prudent for an investor in times like these to say, go to say 25, 50, or 75% cash? Which?

I picked up PRL and ASPN after your response to mine and other questions, and am 10 and 20% down. Did I jump the gun? Worth going to a full position in the current turbulence? Or is it worth a steadier broad market etf or energy Utility until things calm down?

Q: If you owned BEP and BN, do you think it's worth selling BEP to buy BN as a replacement? I understand is that BEP pays BN a lot in fees, and that would be the smarter play in the longer run. What would you think of that? What are people saying about the cagr growth over the next few years? For example, if BEP is expected to grow up to 12%, but BN is expected to grow at 18%, BN would probably be the better choice. Is that logical thinking at all? Thank you!

Q: Since july 2022 the U.S 10/2 year bond yield is no longer inverted what should we take from that, if any thing?

Q: What do you think about dollar tree. i bought it earlier this year. It had a bad earnings report and dropped a lot. Market over reaction?? Should I buy more ?

Q: Hi,
After carefully curating the Q&A over a period of time and posting questions, I put together these companies as my own personal 5i Small cap fund!
As of today this is where I stand:

GSY negative 8%;
LMN negative 11%;

HPS.A Positive 1.5%;
PAY Positive 7%;
PRL Positive 1.5%
TOI Positive 5.3%.

On the whole in terms of raw numbers, it is still positive.


For the new monies, would you add to these positions or suggest another small cap equity.
IF you were to add to these existing positions, in which order would you add.
I am a patient guy and willing to wait for a while. I was with you holding Knight Therapeutics for a long time! (Negative)
Also with you in energy sector (Positive) So, I know how this goes.

Thanks for all your answers.

Q: What US equity ETF do you suggest for a very long time horizon (I’m in my 20s so likely will keep investing for decades)?

Earlier this year I had been adding to RSP since most of the gains were concentrated in the Mag 7. With the market having broadened out a bit, I’m not sure if I should keep adding to RSP or if I’m better off investing new money in VOO (or VTI).

Which of the 3 ETFs (RSP, VOO, VTI) would you expect to have the best long-term total return?

Q: Hi 5i

CCO ($49.70) hit my radar due to the roughly 33% pullback since the high in May. A couple questions: How does TA look to you? I've had success buying around 30 RSI and CCO is near this.
-It looks like CCJ trades about 3 times the volume compared to CCO. I've noticed US investors are more prone to pounding a stock lower than deserved, and on the flip side, will also push companies way higher than they should go sometimes. Would you agree? Do you think this applies to the run up in May (went higher than it should) and now perhaps is lower than it should be?

Thanks,
Greg

Q: Blake on September 7th ask about valuations for CSU, LMN and TOI. If you inherited $10,000 and had to invest it by Monday evening, how would you allocate or split the difference between these three stocks?!? The usual thinking ahead three to five years. Thank you for what looks like a fine service!

Q: Sold 1/2 my portfolio (except CSU, TOI, LMN) at the end of August. First week into Sept and I'm looking smart. While I think it's still too early, when and how do I get back into market? Holdings (some sold out in August) include AMZN, META, NVDA, AMD, VRT, BN, SHOP, AXON, SNPS, NOVT, GOOG, NU, ELF.