Investment Q&A

Q: Hi 5i,
I need to access some cash by selling some TFSA holdings and hope you can give me advice as to the best way to go about that.
I'm nicely up on WCP and TVE, and with dividends accounted for close to break even on DBM. CTS, CURA, QST and WELL are down a lot, and GXE is down some but not too bad.
Selling 1/4 of the WCP or 1/2 of the TVE or DBM would cover my cash requirement, whereas I'd have to offload pretty much all of any one of the others at their presently reduced values to get where i need to be.
If I didn't need the cash I wouldn't sell anything at present, in the expectation that WCP and TVE will continue to do well, that DBM will at least hold steady, probably rise relatively soon and keep paying dividends, and that the others will find their way out of the woods in due course. But unfortunately I don't have that luxury.
Given the above, could you advise what i might best hold on to, and what might be best to sell in fairly short order?
Thanks!
Peter

Q: Do you know if it's possible to transfer out of a rif account in US currency to make your annual withdrawal and keep it in US currency or does it have to be converted to Canadian currency and as such lose the US currency which is what I would like to avoid.

Q: Above are my Consumer Defensive holdings. Can you please rank in terms of Value? I want to hold only 4 consumer defensive large cap buy and hold stocks - would you replace any of these 4?
Thanks!

Q: RNW attributes much of the bad news in its Q3 results to lost income from and rebuilding expenses at Kent Hills, and given management's comments ("Rehabilitation is targeted to be completed by the second half of 2023 for the Kent Hills 1 and 2 wind facilities"; MD&A p14), it looks like these losses will continue for at least three quarters (possibly offset by cost-recovery from third parties and their insurers.) All that admitted, is there some forward-looking point at which RNW becomes attractive again?

Q: Can you please rank the above utilities for Value. I used EV/EBITA data from Yahoo Finance and got this: NPI (8), BIP.UN (11), FTS (12.7), BLX (13), BEP.UN (15), NEE (26), AQN (28)
Thanks!

Q: Peter; Oil & gas is up sharply yet energy stocks are flat or down . What am I missing? Thanks Rod

Q: CSU reported an EPS of $6.42 but for some reason, on Yahoo, it has the 3rd Q EPS as $21.67 instead of $6.42.
Here is the link
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/CSU.TO/analysis?p=CSU.TO

Cold there of been some adjustments to the EPS that was observed by YAHOO?
Thanks

Q: Peter; Could I have your thoughts on PayPal ? Thanks.Rod

Q: What are your thoughts on IGV? Buy, sell or hold. Is it worth holding a basket of software stocks or just sticking with Microsoft which is owned? If you were to recommend selling IGV what sector would you suggest? Tempted by energy but know late to the game. However, looking at PEs of energy companies they are still relatively cheap compared to other names. Look forward to your thoughts.

Q: Hello 5i,
I currently need to add a U.S. Industrial in a RRIF, so yield is very important - as is overall safety. I need to increase Industrials by about 3.0 % and increase my U.S. holdings by 4.5 % so an equity suitable for a larger weighting would be ideal. My other industrials are EIF and SIS.
I have been looking at Raytheon, Ryder, Lockheed Martin and A.O. Smith but was wondering if you have any other suggestions and how you would rank these for safety? If there is a name with a yield in excess of, say, 4.0% that you would be comfortable recommending, that would be ideal.
As always, many thanks for all of you invaluable assistance - it is always very much appreciated!!!
Cheers,
Mike

Q: With both the US and Canadian governments announcing taxes on share buybacks could one speculate that companies might in the future start to accumulate more cash and not always having a “good” option to make good use of this cash. Almost giving some companies no choice but to issue more in dividends or start a dividend? Am I mistaken but I thought from the 1940’s to the 70 or 80’s dividend’s were quite common? This shift in taxation could be interesting the way it plays out. Your thoughts on this is greatly appreciated thank you again for all your help.

Q: Please comment on Q result released on Nov 4 morning & going forward. Its parent T reported sold results & increased Div. It is very discerning to see Tixt dropped 7.2% to $29.85 on Nov 4 on a strong day for N.American markets after big drop of 4.92% to $33.42 on Oct 27 after announcement of $1B acquisition,.Add,Hold or Sell? Txs for u usual great services & views.

Q: Which co would you prefer as a way to buy gold at this time. Thanks

Q: Hello

I own 5 % of home capital in my 3 investments accounts for almost 20 years and today am down 4 %. I also own Goeasy 5 % which I did well(Thanks to I5) with it as the only financial assets. What's your outlook for Home Capital going forward & what will be any 2 good replacements.
Thank You

Q: Hi Peter, thoughts on earnings ? Any reason not to have 10% of ones portfolio in Omaha ? thanks.

Q: Hello:
Appreciate your ongoing honest and open approach. I know many of us find these challenging times. It feels like many "truths" of investing are no longer true. (i.e. how bonds respond to various market periods, whether preferred shares will ever behave as expected and how valuations of growing companies can swing so wildly.)
I need some help (I know, you can't personalize advice...) with SELL strategies. I am tempted to sell part of some holdings at all-time highs such as XOM. Is this ridiculous? If it's down 30% in January I will be kicking myself. I did NOT sell during very high valuations for a lot of growth stocks and I don't mind being patient while those recover but in hindsight selling half positions would have been a great way to solidify paper gains. I have held XOM for a long time as it was under water from my buy-in position, and it swings so widely on demand and oil price.
Is it crazy to be reducing positions in oil and gas now? Any SELL strategy thoughts appreciated.
Thank you!

Q: I was going to include this link in my last question as I thought it was a good read and a good reminder for long term investor's, but forgot. Here it is:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/op-ed-investor-ron-baron-on-investing-during-periods-of-entropy.html

Q: I am thinking of selling AT for a tax loss. I was thinking of GOOGL as a substitute, as both are driven by advertising. Does this make sense? If not, what substitute would you suggest? Would you switch back to AT after 30 days or would you stay with GOOGL for the long term?

Q: Your explanation for the drop in NVEE today, please. Thank you.

Q: Hi
With reference to Brian’s question on October 11th regarding high dividend stocks like these 3 & their safety 5i was OK with these 3.
I accept that nothing is invincible….. But is the risk/ reward on these positive enough to anchor an income on?

I m not greedy and don’t hunger after really big capital gains These would keep me
quite happy.

My plan would be to add other dividend etfs ( XLF etc) and some individual stocks like an ENB, BNS, CM, ABBV….

Thanks for your helpfulness. I