Investment Q&A

Q: I don't really like the way this has broken down today. Any news out there?

Q: In your Income Model Portfolio XHY shows a negative 24% return since inception, yet it yields 5.99%. I've held it in my RIF for many years but its price history is weak. Is this a good time to add or a value trap?

Can you suggest better options?

Q: Thinking of trimming GOOG (10% weighting) and adding to MSFT (3% weighting) or trimming MSFT and start a position in AMZN. Lastly trim GOOG and but more CSU started position last week ($3250) and now taking a bath

What's you thoughts on selling some winners or losers and buy into MSFT or CSU ,NVDA, CSU (see list of holdings below and pick highest / conviction

Presently own MSFT SHOP TFII FFH WSP TOU ARX WMT COST NRGI NVDA GSY GE CLS BN BAM


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Q: Hi 5 i guys. Nice start to 2026!! I have a small position in Frontier Lithium that I bought back in the Lithium heydays about 3 or 4 years ago. Since it is a very small position in our portfolio and it is in a TFSA, so the tax loss would be of no use, I just kept it so we would have a little toe hold in the lithium sector. The last few days FL share price has been on a rip to the upside but I can't see any reason why. In the past few years I have not noticed a strong correlation between FL's share price and the price of lithium, which I attribute to the fact that FL is still just a proposed project so the current price of lithium does not effect earnings, because there are no earnings. Is there something on your radar that might give us long suffering FL share holders an idea as to why the shares are up sharply the past few days? Would you use this rip to the upside to get out of FL or should I wait to see if it keeps its upward momentum? It seems like someone (person or institution) is trying to get a position in FL, but it is above my pay grade to figure out why they want in on FL. Our only other position in the lithium sector is an equally small position in E3 in Alberta (It least on that one I got a double and sold half my position is what is left is the house's money!!

Q: Could you help me to understand ZCS.L - accumulating units - ie. the nature and merits of " accumulating units ".
From the BMO web-site , this ETF appears to be identical to ZCS -their S/T Corporate Bond ETF except that distributions are made only annually .
Is this correct ?
Is this the only difference ?
For someone who does not need / want the income from ZCS's monthly distribution but just some FI allocation , is this a better option ?
Chart suggests so .
And would it also be a better option in this respect than HBB which makes no distributions but has a much longer ( undesired ) duration ?
Thank-you for the clarifications

Q: Can you explain why GFL CEO compensation is so much more than WCN and WM?

company CEO Annual pay Market CAP
GFL Dovigi $49.2m $15.2 B
WCN Mittelstae $ 7.3m $ 43.1B
WM Fish $17.1m $ 88 B

When would you expect these companies to perform better? Of the three which would you recommend today?

Q: Hello any idea why TOI is down 8% on Wed at 3:30pm? Lmn is only down 1% .
thanks

Q: CSU is making new lows. What should I do? sell, hold or buy more?

Thanks,

Lin

Q: Which company has the most growth going forward GRID or STN?

Thanks for your service!

Q: Why the big drop today.

Q: At what price would Csu consider taking it private?
Best Guess

Q: Hello team,

What do you think of CRM these days? It continues to fall most likely due to the AI fears?

Given their decent quarterly report in December, strong balance sheet, 2026 margin expansion and further adoption of Agentforce, insider buying activity (recently David Kirk $500k and Mason Morfit $25 million through his firm), CRM’s accelerated program to retire shares ($3.8 billion spent in the 3Q), and increased target prices from $340.00 (Goldman Sachs) to $430 (Citizens JMP), would you buy or hold?

Would you be concerned about competition from likes of Adobe (Firefly/GenStudio), Microsoft (Copilot) and Service Now (AI Agents)? Or are these products rather complimentary? What is CRM’s moat and how strong is it against encroachment by other giants?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

(I asked this question twice already in the first few days of January and then yesterday, but I didn’t get any reply. Perhaps the 3rd time is the charm. No worries though! I suspect it was my computer. I just wanted to wish everyone at 5i, the greatest investment advising team, the best for 2026 again!)

Q: Is it time to give META a break? I was looking for some growth and RDDT has been a great one. What do you think about taking my META allocation of 2% and adding it to RDDT to bring it to a larger position? I can revisit META another time. Or would you suggest keeping both…or taking the profit on RDDT and adding to META? Wayfair looks interesting as well.

Q: Your current thoughts on SNDK please ? I assume the 12 bagger since April is AI and memory chip prices? Thx

Q: Hearing the "options based ETF" category as a means of hedging against equity risk. Could you provide some comment and any specific favourites. Thanks.

Q: Comments on CNQs purchase of TOU assets? Outlook for both companies after transaction?
Thanks.

Q: Lots of discussion and comments regarding small caps today.
My only exposure - about 10% of my portfolio - is VIOO.
Is this a good choice to play in the space or would you have other suggestions.
Thanks

Q: Would you recommend SRU for income in RRSP account? I have exposure to bond funds but am looking for diversification and enhanced rate return.

Q: I am considering adding to each of the above companies. Can you discuss the EPS, and sales % growth prospects. If you had to provide these %'s for 5 years out, what would they be? Can you also discuss PE's, trailing and forward and their relation to both the projected EPS growth and historical valuations? Please deduct as many question credits as necessary. Thank you.

Q: Thank you for those useful articles on all-in-one ETFs. I plan to gradually invest this way​ to make life easier on myself or whoever may be doing the investments in the future.
The problem (and it's not a big one ​as it just needs a bit of math). To have a position of 50%​/50% ​Equities/Bonds I need to have an 80% position in a 40/60 E​quity/B​ond ETF and a 20% position in a 80/20 E​quity/B​ond ETF.

​Is there an all in one 50/50 ETF with a reasonable MER?
​Alternatively, are there similar diverse all-in-one​ 100% equity and diverse all-in-one ​100% bond ETFs where we could just have one of each then rebalanced every 6 to 12 months back holding 50% of total each​? (Makes the math really simple :)

Though I don't tend to use timing​, is there a time of year long term where that rebalance might offer a​ percent​ or fraction of a percent advantage?​ For example, do bonds trade higher or lower at certain times of the year? Similarly equities?