Investment Q&A

Q: Hi 5i,
Doing some Sunday morning tinkering, and have noted that in Portfolio Analytics you classify NFI and VMC as Consumer Cyclical. Could you explain the rationale for that, because if I follow that classification for those 2 companies it has quite an impact on my actual and recommended sector weightings. I had thought they were both broadly Industrials before being further fine tuned to machinery and heavy equipment, based on the products they provide and the "consumers" (municipalities mainly) of those products.
Thanks,
Peter

Q: YTD, CNR is down about 8 % yet CP is up 9 %. They are both in bidding war. Why such a discrepancy in YTD performance? What is the market seeing?

Q: This company appears exceptionally well run and I was wondering if you could speak to the share buyback strategy employed by them or generally. Is it expected the buyback program will eventually lead to a squeeze on the share price pushing it higher or is it implemented to improve EPS and other metrics? Curious if there is a tipping point with buyback programs to propel the share price.

Q: Hi,

Im looking for an investment thats fairly stable, with some income, some growth and should do well in the next few years. I own no REITS, and no industrials presently.

Can you recommend 2 CDN REITS I should consider? If you have better options than the ones I listed, what else should I consider?

Can you recommend two US REITS as well?

Q: Do you think there is any likelihood that either BCE or Telus will follow the lead of AT&T and 'resize' their dividend using a similar rationale? If so, where might you put that likelihood on a scale of 1 to 10?

Q: I have growing concern about my TECK investment. Although the company has many operations worldwide it appears to have significant copper +... producing mines as well as development projects in Chile and Peru.
Reuters, on May 17, ran an article titled "In world’s top copper region, political risk rises" The discussion suggests that Chile is overhalling its constitution and debating royalty changes. Peru's president has promised to make changes to keep 70% of mining profits in the country. Also, Peru has an election in June and a little-known socialist candidate is leading in the polls. I understand that both countries are struggling financially.
I would like to know how important are Chile and Peru to TECK's revenue and profit and your assessment of the potential problems for the company. I also own RIO and TKO for base metal exposure. If I sell TECK, what would you recommend as a possible replacement?
With appreciation
Ed

Q: This question might be a bit far afield, but I’d appreciate any thoughts you have on SRHI and how the latest political developments in Chile might affect investments there going forward, especially in the mining sector. (ECH, the iShares Chile ETF, is down more than 10% today.)

Q: I currently own FSZ and wondered if you feel a 5% weight would be too high for an RRSP account? At the moment I have a 3% weight and wondered if bringing it up to 5% would be ok ?
Thanks

Q: Can you help to explain the significant price drop in this stock? It seemed to have a lot of promise but it's stock price has been dropping consistently for some time now.

What are your thoughts about the price rising again? Is there any potential in this company?
Do you see any red flags?

Thanks,
Michael

Q: I have a long term outlook and high risk tolerance.

Can you recommend a few ways to play the drone technology, for those that feel they will be used for delivery services.

Best regards

Q: How do you feel about SIA now after Q1 numbers?

Thanks for the great service!

Q: Moving from growth to income. Have a 76% realized gain and 76% unrealized gain on CAE.
What do you think of selling CAE ? Most dividend paying stocks I’ve looked at seem rather expensive. I already have full positions in AQN, BNS,BAM, CAR.UN, SUN, VGG, VDY, half position inT. Any dividend paying stocks that you would consider reasonable priced or discounted?
Unregistered account.

Q: Would you buy AT&T or DISCA? Also, what is the difference between DISCA & DISCC? Finally, AT&T will cut its Dividend by 50% after this
Thanks!

Q: Dear Team,
These stocks are listed as 'comparables' in a Refinitiv report. I would appreciate your ranking as to capital structures and growth potential.
Thank you, Team!

Q: In a growth orientated TFSA I hold Real that I am tempted to sell and replace with Nuevi is this a good idea? (Oddly Real is up today and Nuevi is down)

Q: PLBY (PLAYBOY GROUP INC.)

Please provide some thoughtful insights on PLBY Group.

The company has performed very well since it de-SPACed approximately 8 months ago. The company was taken public in 2011 by Rizvi, but since Hefner's passing in 2017, the company has shifted in a new direction led by CEO Ben Kohn (someone with great success in his previous ventures - taking minority stakes in pre-IPO tech companies [Twitter, Facebook, Square, Snapchat, SpaceX, Uber]). I have watched as many interviews from the CEO and recent developments I could get my hands on, and I'm impressed!

Retail Analyst Brian McGough from Hedgeye has touted this to be a potential 10 bagger ($250.00+ stock / 10B+ valuation) (See his publicly available tweets). Ben Kohn believes the company can be worth 40B.

The thesis here is multi-fold, which also includes improving licensing agreements (Hef and Co. were lackluster on this front), expanding in other categories, and possible NFTs (monetizing on their previous works).

There seems to be significant brand improvements from the old Playboy from my cursory exploration. www.playboy.com / www.yandy.com / www.playboy.tv
(Seems more youthful and gender balanced).

Just wondering if PLBY has come across 5i's radar, and what insights you can provide beyond the recent earnings report. Very much appreciated!

Q: What is your long term outlook on the above companies.

I own them and some ARKG. Do you have any others you fell would complement them? I got space to add another name or two with out being overweight in the sector.

Q: I am planning to reduce my health care listings and sell one of these. Was thinking about letting BMY go. What is your opinion about BMY? In order, which ones have the best prospects for the future in terms of dividends and growth?

Q: Retired, dividend-income investor....normally. Assume I already have a balanced portfolio.

Considering topping up a 90% XIT position (my Technology weighting is 7.5%).....or...buying a small position in Copper Mtn (CMMC)....(my Materials weighting is 5.0)%. Reading prior copper questions indicates that you think there is much more room to run in Copper...for a while. Assume a roughly 1 year holding.

Second question = oil better than copper over the next year or so?

So, I guess the question is = please rank 1 year performance (best to worst) for Technology, Copper, Oil.

Thanks....Steve

The conservative side of me = XIT. The aggressive side of me = CMMC.

Q: please comment on today's bad news about production at a major USA mine. thanks