Investment Q&A

Q: Is there an etf that has google facebook apple and microsoft that trades on tsx in canadian funds.
T Steve

Q: I have some new money to invest in my TFSA. I am well diversified in my other accounts, and am now wondering what to add to my TFSA. I am a senior so I would say about a 5 year time frame that this would stay in the TFSA, maybe more.
Any suggestions you have would be helpful.
Thanks so much for your help in the past, it has always proved very lucrative.
Shirley

Q: For the 6 big techs listed above, could you please list in order of best to "least best", for a buy and forget 10-year hold. Can you also list the 6 from least risky to highest risk. If you were going concentrate on only 4, what would they be at this time?
Thanks!!

Q: With the upcoming rate hikes, when would be the best time to take a position in big tech?

Also, GOOG or GOOGL?

Q: Hi Team,
SQ is being hit extra hard again today, apparantly in big part to Apple coming out with their ability to allow essentially turn their iphone into a payments terminal. Is this real bad news for SQ? Or is the reaction today overblown? Should I be selling SQ ? Or should I hold on to it here? The selling has been relentless, as with many names. Thanks

Shane.

Q: Hi- interested in your thoughts on the Apple move to direct payments through the Iphone. This would seem to be a real headwind for competitors like SQ and PYPL and others? Between SQ and PYPL which would you choose for best growth forward?

Q: I am thinking of making the following move. Selling my TECH and then on the US side of my portfolio buying the top three from the fund. I am thinking MSFT, AAPL and GOOG. Do you agree with these three as the best of the six? And if not which would you switch out and why? Please note that for any buys that I am currently making companies need to be in a net cash or minimum debt situation. And am I right in presuming that I could claim the capital loss on TECH even though there is technically considerable overlap here? Thank-you.

Q: Hi, we are trying reduce our Technology exposure in US stocks. These are the companies held in our portfolio, in this sector, with weighting in descending order as follows: AAPL,MSFT,AMZN,MA,V,GOOG,PYPL,NVDA and ISRG.

How would you rank them, Today, based on the current valuation, growth prospects and risk ?

Also, should MA,V and PYPL be considered different than others ?

Thank You

Q: Re your response to John, January 17th, you answered "it's hard to beat a single great company that compounds year after year".
Could you please recommend 5 Canadian and 5 US companies that fit into said catagory that have declined recently due to the tech sell off, and represent a good buy/nibble point,
Please include a mix of larger e.g CSU and Google, along with more recent up and comers e.g. Shop and Roku, which seem to be among your most obvious favourites.
Thanks Peter.

Q: Hi Peter,

I have been a big fan of the FAANGM group and have been fortunate to invest in all of these companies.

What is your ranking over the next three to five years of the above group of stocks from a risk-return perspective?

Thanks,

George

Q: Hi,

I'm looking for an average beta US ETF with some growth, to hold forever.
VOO has a beta 1. Over five years its done 17.86 % annually
IUSG has a beta 1.1 Over five years, its returned 23.4% annually
VGT .has a beta of .9 over five years, 31.46% annually.
So both IUSG and VGT have lower beta and higher returns than VOO?? And both VGT and IUSG have done much better in the recent tech selloff? Seems hard to believe? While past performance is no guarantee, the numbers suggest I should choose VGT. What do you think?

Q: Hi, Technology is the largest weight at about 45% ( even after the recent sell off) in our investment portfolio. Most of these holdings have been down 25-50% from the highs, over past 2-3 months, following the general market trend of indiscriminate selling in High multiple Tech stocks. LSPD and NVEI, of course, saw much steeper losses.
We do have the rest of the portfolio invested in Cdn large cap banks, industrials, utilities and telcos, generating decent dividend income.
We recently retired and as a part of portfolio planning/risk management, would like have a strategy to reduce the Technology weight to less than 35%, over next 2-3 years. The plan could be executed in phases, once the current tech rout is over and valuations have recovered.

From the perspective of risk, growth, stability and valuation, what would be the recommended/desired weighting for each company, balancing these factors. What would you suggest to be order of priority for the purpose of initiating sale of each stock. Also, it would be really helpful, if you could provide a reasonable price range for sale/trimming of these companies, based on price history and future expectation over 2-3 years.

CSU 14.5%
SHOP 9 %
TOI 5.2%
SYZ 3.5 %
LSPD 3 %
KXS 2.5%
NVEI 1%
US Large Cap Tech ( AAPL,AMZN,MSFT,MA,V,PYPL etc) 8% (we want to keep as is)

Thank You for your insight, which we value so much.

Q: I am a little overweight techs in a well diversified portfolio. Considering valuation contraction where do you see a new normal forward P.E. the S&P in 2022 and for those stocks highlighted?
Please provide forward P.E. and multiples for those that make profits and guestimate where the low end could be for the others.

Thanks

Yves

Q: What are your thoughts on this etf? Are there any similar options to get exposure to these companies?

Q: Hello,
Are you able to rank these companies (best to worst) for entry today for long term hold.
Thank you

Q: I would like to add to my TECHNOLOGY sector. I own Apple/ AAPL
, Microsoft Corp / MSFT, Open text/OTEX
, and EVOLVE CYBER SECURITY INDEX ETF UNIT/CYRB for a total of 13%. Would Costar group CSGP be a good addition for both diversification and as a growth stock.

Q: Hello Peter, I like your article on the National Post about the five areas to invest in for 2022. I have a few questions: for the small cap space, would Aritzia , ATS Automation and Topicus fit the category? In the large cap space, would AMZN be a good stock (instead of AAPL) as it has not done much in 2021? what do you think of the renewable energy space as it did not do well in 2021 (i.e BEP, etc). Lastly is the definition of small caps in relation to market caps less than $1 billion or ? Thanks very much. Happy new year

Q: Thank you for your rapid response! Followup question (feel free to deduct extra credits as needed), If I were to replace SLQT, FIVE, and PAYC with three new US positions, which would you recommend? Please exclude these equities as I already have positions in them: MSFT, PFE, IBM, MDT, ADBE, PYPL, GOOG, NVDA, TOL.

Again, for longterm growth in my US dollar TFSA, risk profile in-between 5i Growth and Balanced Portfolios, disregard sector/market cap considerations.

Thanks again!

Q: Hi 5i team. Thanks for the great service over the years and looking forward to a great 2022!!

What would be your top 5 ranked stocks both US and Canada for growth in the next 5-10 years+ with strong balance sheets and strong management ?

Q: Thanks for all the work that the 5i team does. I just retired and saved a good nest egg. I should note that about 45% of my portfolio is in fixed income and it is not included in this question. I enjoy keeping an eye on the market and investing. I read your answers to questions daily. I like about 20% exposure to tech stocks (good ones like aapl, goog, shop, etc).
I have selected a total of only 20 stocks in all sectors and I have weighted them as best I could to meet the portfolio analytics suggestions (adjusted by me for more tech). I have say $170K in Unregistered, $150K in TFSA and a much bigger chunk in SDRSP (Minus the 45% Fixed income), I would like to put the same 20 stocks (weighted as per above) in each portfolio BUT in the bigger chunk SDRSP put 60% of the SDRSP funds into the 20 stocks and put the remaining 40% of SDRSP funds in 4 Value ETFs (2 CDN, 2 US) and 2 INTL ETFs. Therefore, I would have the same 20 stocks in three portfolios and 6 ETFs in the SDRSP.
This makes perfect sense to me … but maybe you have other thoughts. I would like your expert opinion on this approach please.
Thanks so much and happy holidays