Investment Q&A

Q: TD Waterhouse are opining today (in advance of NWC's Jun 9 quarterly reporting) that the "quarter is expected to be the last strong quarter before EBITDA turns negative".
What information if any have you to support or refute this statement?
What are your thoughts on whether to hold or sell NWC going forward?
If sell, what replacement recommendations have you?
Dividend-focused investor, with NWC & PBH in consumer staples, and LNF, MG & CTC in consumer discretionary.
Thank you for your thoughts.

Q: If dnd good private what is a good company to replace it in my tfsa growth portfolio.

Q: This past Jan you stated : "GENM has nearly doubled in the past year; market cap is now $115M. It has $13M cash; insiders own 6% and have been buyers; Eric Sprott owns 9%. It owns an 80% interest in the largest undeveloped palladium project in N. America. It is a good project with solid potential. Recent drill results were good. As a developer there is more work to be done here, and there are always financing, construction and other risks. But it has some good qualities for sure."

Any changes to the company? Is it also a copper miner? Is it moving into production? Outlook?
Thank you.

Q: Hello,
I am opening a RESP account for my 6month old son. In your opinion, is it better to invest in Stocks or ETFS? Can you please also provide me a top 3 stocks or ETFS in your mind?

Thanks!
Kelly

Q: Would selling PHO to buy TOI be a good move now?

Q: I am a long time holder of Stingray, partly for the dividend and partly for moderate growth. Please give me your view/opinion of the 4thQ results and managements comments and expectations.

Q: Hi, Im interested in this etf for the income portion as it seems to pay a good dividend and holds some of the big blue chip cdn companies. Morningstar gives a 2 star rating. What is your analysis of this etf? Do you see a better rated etf. Looking for a good dividend payer with a low mer and some growth. Total return I would like is about 5-7 % including dividends. Already own xtr. Thanks

Q: Good morning. I was wondering if you could recommend an ETF that is conservative with some growth and also having a world wide focus.

Thank you for all your outstanding investment information. I couldn't invest without you.

Q: What are your views on ECOM as a higher risk growth stock investment?

Q: Further to Bill's question today about ROC payments, it seems that if such a payment is made in a registered account its value is lost entirely as there is no capital gain to be had. Is there anyway to recover some or all of this value or are we better to avoid stocks in a registered account (at least for income purposes) that principally pay ROC?

Q: Hello 5i,
I am a 75 year old value investor for dividends and some growth with a balanced mix of ETF's and individual stocks. I hold ENB, FTS, TRP, BCE. I see that ZWU is at an attractive price point with 7% yield. As it holds others that I do not have would this just be a duplication of what I have and leave it as not needed. or go for the value and dividend?
thank you
Stanley

Q: Hello 5iTeam,
Your thoughts on these 2 names. Thank you!

Q: Do you see a need to hold both these ETF's. If not which is your preference.
Thanks

Q: I am looking for an ETF that contains Google, Amazon and Microsoft bought with US dollars. My goal is to have both market and currency appreciation.

Q: Please explain why a company, such as CSU, would offer such a small dividend (0.27% annually) despite sound performance over the years/decades. What is the strategy?

Q: Hi 5i team.

I'm going to try to re-phrase my question asked earlier re: levels in the S+P.

What is the S+P currently trading at and forward PE?
Since this is on the high side historically, what would be the reversion to the mean number? (I believe it's currently trading at 25xs and the mean would be 15?)
If at some point the market heads back there (as is typical in theory) what would the S+P be trading at vs where it is today?

Many thanks.

Q: I bought these semis over the past few years in different accounts at different times in both non-registered and registered accounts. All of them did very well for me. I added them up yesterday and noticed they are over 5% of all my invested assets. As much as I hate to sell winners I probably would have to trim soon. Do you have any suggestions as to the trimming methodology? Reduce each and every one by half (or third) of its current value. Selectively sell some and not others? Sell the ones in registered accounts as there is no immediate tax consequence. keep the ones in taxable accounts? Sell some and keep the promising ones (can you tell or predict?) ? Any other suggestions? I have a high degree of risk tolerance. Thanks.

Q: With inflation increasing and might remain higher than the past few years, I'm wondering if GDI, that I understand generally signs agreements under contact for say 5 years with Municipalities, would have the annual service fees adjusted to changes in inflation. Any idea, or is this a general practice for service providers signing longer-term agreements?......Tom

Q: Twitter launching a new service with a subscription fee. Any thoughts on Twitter blue and would you buy the news? I had Twitter and sold it around the 69$ mark. To give me an idea, could you please rank these in terms of a buy as of today: Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Snapchat, Netflix. 5+ Yr hold, Registered account.

Q: Similar to a question I asked the other day, NVDA has had a nice increase in price in the last while, though not without some volatility.
5I has suggested that NVDA is a good growth opportunity; do you see growth continuing from its current level? Can you provide some context to why you like it at this time. Also, I am comfortable with its current weight in my portfolio; at what price level would you start to trim, or even sell the whole position?
Thanks you for your excellent service