Q: hi, what would be your current top ETF for China, and why? also, if you were to buy individual China stocks today, which ones would you be looking at ( I assume on the US exchanges?)?
cheers, Chris
Q: Hi Peter…May I have your thoughts on the McEwen announcement? I can’t figure out who is buying whom. It looks like GOT is taking a position in McEwen which seems distracting. Can GOT sell the $10 million worth of McEwen shares? Is this a start of a merger? Any thoughts you have would be appreciated.
Jim
IESC went to the moon last week with the Stargate announcement, then got torpedoed by Deepseek on Monday. Still worth holding for the new data centres electrical build-out theme, or swap for NBIS or FRSH?
Q: I'm over weight Technologies with the following securities KSX, SHOP, CLS, TOI, PLTR, CSU and NVDA. If you had to sell one or two which ones would you sell, or would you trim some from each and keep all?
Q: SPB cut their dividend by 75% late last year. They have bought back almost 5% of outstanding shares since then. Seems like a stable energy distribution business where scale offers cost advantages. It is leader in Canada and 4th in US.
The shares are down 60% from their high a couple years ago, but all assets and accounts, etc remain intact. The only change I can see is capital allocation has changed from dividends to buybacks.
Q: I added some units of BEP Brookefield renewable Power when it went sub $30. The dividend yield at sub $30 is about 6.5 per cent and the price is getting close to 52 week lows. I know that on Monday a lot of the utilities, especially Vistra in the US, dropped a lot on speculation that the new Chinese AI model might indicate that power demand for AI may not be as robust as some think. But BEP has been drifting down for a while. Is there something wrong with BEP that I don't see? Should I continue to hold BEP or even add some more at these depressed prices?
Q: Perhaps I wasn't crystal clear in my earlier question on these 3 - Canadian companies with US operations could be a target under the IRS section 891 to double taxes paid on their US operations. What Canadian companies might be affected by 891 in retaliation for our Digital Services Tax to pay more US tax?
Q: Good morning all; I've a two part question for you, First, the listed investments are in a RRIF. The current plan is to extract only dividend income, and have some modest stock growth.
I have funds for one more position and I'd like 3 of your suggestions that would add decent dividend income with modest growth of stock value.
Second question is about XLB. It was originally purchased as a post-inflation investment looking for some appreciation as rates declined. While Canada may get a bit more downward adjustment I believe Trump policy will be inflationary. What would be a sound replacement, meeting the dividend and growth goals for the account?
Q: Follow-up to my earlier question about any news for the drop today. You indicated no news. I was hoping for more than this. Can you provide some thoughts on why it's down? I don't think its profit taking as the stock hasn't been a great performer recently.
Q: Are large (but not giant) tech companies at risk of being competed-out by the trillion plus tech companies? With their high multiples, is the growth case still there in 2025 and going forward?
Q: Hi 5i, today on BNN a PM @ Donnville just commented on his view that Hammond will have capacity constraints even though they are expanding in Canada and Mexico. He stated that they would only be able to grow the topline by 10%, and at today's price it was expensive. Any views on this comment?
Q: Hi 5i, I was curious on your ranking of SIS being highly impacted by tarrifs. I was of the view that FDA approved items would be exempt. Please comment.
Q: Further to Stuart’s recent question on European defense spending, I’m also interested in the security theme. I recently purchased Axon in the belief police spending will be ramped up going forward. Do you have some suggestions for me to investigate in the areas of security/defense for the following: police, computers, military. Perhaps a couple of companies in each area as your top choices. I realize you have covered companies such as Raytheon extensively through the years but this theme hasn’t been on my radar until recently. Unfortunately, it seems to be increasingly significant going forward.
Thanks so much for your guidance in these challenging times.