Investment Q&A

Q: What do you feel are the best opportunities right now in the market as a growth investor? Can you provide reasons and your top 5 opportunities in order please? A risk and growth potential rating for each. 1 being low risk and low growth potential.
Thank you

Q: Hello,

Regarding Clayton`s question and you answer asked/answered on March 16, more specifically, point "3) Look for bargains if one has capital and time. "

Please recommend 3 bargains for the US and Canada.

Thank you as always

Q: Being mostly a "dividend long term" investor ,I did not invest in tech stocks up to now, except for some specific etfs . Considering this kind of "switch" from tech to energy stocks in the markets,and new valuations of major US tech stock ,I just started to invest in this sector.What is your view versus the opportunities and timing for investing in major tech stocks actually ?

Q: hi group thinking of selling BYD.CA presently trading at break even /held it for many years but been dead money time to sell? (ITs in my TSFA also own FTS ATZ,TOU BAM ENB FFH in what order should i add if decide to sell BYD:CA or hold the cash for now as there may be better opportunity in the near future sure looks like a market correction to me

Also same with NRGI the only money made here is on the dividend (owned since inception) what should i replace it with ? again maybe just keep the cash until things recover a bit? its in a cash account

Not happy with my tech holdings either own GOOG AMAZ NVDA MSFT CLS SHOP (12 % of my portfolio ) is that too much or not enough exposure for this marketthanks for your help with this

Q: Hi 5i,

What are your top 5 conviction stocks currently (Canadian or US)?

What about your top 5 defensive stocks (with a dividend) if we are concerned about a downturn in the market?

Thanks,
Evan

Q: Hi, given recent action, including a nice jump by Nebius, but keeping in mind possible cyclicity, can you please rank these five stocks as possible best buys today, indicate whether they are buy, hold or sell, and give a small blurb why they are worth buying today. 3-4 year holding. Thank you

Q: Could have I an update on your views on Medtronic’s and Qualcomm. Its hold in a RRSP. Would you suggest 1-2 companies for each one with better or same risk profile you would suggest to switch for if you think that’s a good idea .

Q: 3 to 5 years
What would be a better pic.
I currently own both and I am able to top up a few shares
Both are great companies.

Q: Would you say goeasy is a quality business on sale right now?

It is clear to me that this is a manufactured share price collapse for the purpose of gain to those in the know.


Would you suggest 10 Canadian blue chip type companies misvalued right now...with a view to generational wealth?

Q: Hi 5i - Im looking to take advantage of the sell off in tech stocks. I already own 5% GOOG, 4% NVDA, AMZN and 3% SHOP, CSU and 1.5% KXS, LMN.

Which tech stocks would you recommend to add to the current stocks?

Thanks, Neil

Q: I very much enjoyed reading your AI Stack report and have adjusted some of my holdings accordingly. I hold: NBIS, NVDA, AVGO, MU, TER, VRT, GOOG and MSFT. All between 2-3% weighting. Do I need to hold both NVDA and AVGO? If not, I would sell AVGO. Assuming AVGO is sold, which would you be inclined to top up: NVDA, NBIS, MU, TER, VRT or GOOG? Thank you.

Q: I own NBIS shares and continue to hold with the thought that the market is not either recognizing or giving credit to the company for the expected surge in revenue and hopefully earnings growth in the coming 12-15 months. Do you continue to support this premise?
Also what are your thoughts on this company as a takeover possibility? Who might be interested and why?

Q: What are your top 5 growth stocks? Can you provide a couple of compelling reasons why each makes the grade and also rank them from highest to lowest conviction. Finally can you indicate where you feel the stock price will be 12 months from now.

Q: After recent news/earnings and along the thinking that AI will not completely replace SAAS but work along side it and even provide positive tailwinds, do you think its time to rotate a bit more from hardware to software or proceed with caution still? I hold CLS, NVDA, NBIS, VRT in hardware and CSU,LMN,TOI,SPOT, SHOP,CRWD,BKNG,TRI in software. Also own GOOG. I'm trying to find the right balance. If we look at SOXX/IGV, are we going to see mean reversion back to the mean?

Also what part of the market or credit cycle do you think we are in? Mid to late cycle? Should we be more defensive or still slowly adding to growth names? Thanks!

Q: Hello
like to add to the above , already has a 1/3 position
would you prefer goog over amzn
also an entry price to suggest would be great
thanks
Michael

Q: Thank you for your answer to the question (copied below) that I asked a few days ago.

I wasn't so much asking about my own strategy, but whether you think such a strategy (moving some money out of tech and into the broader market) is a good move in the current climate.

NVDA and GOOG are part of the same theme. Do you think these are winners to be held on to, or whether trimming a bit to put in the broader market would be wise?


Question: Given that the market is broadening out and that I would like my portfolio to follow suit, I am thinking of switching half of my money in XUU, a market-cap weighted fund which makes up about 10% of my portfolio, to EQL, an S&P equal-weighted fund.

What would your opinion be on that?

Also, along the same line of thought, I'm considering trimming NVDIA and GOOG although the mere mention of it has my investing friends screaming "NO!". They understand the sentiment but think it's not the right time.

Answer: We think XUU is a solid fund, but if diversiifcation is a goal then we think EQL makes good sense. For example, XUU currently is about 42% tech. EQL is barely at 10%.

Q: Given that the market is broadening out and that I would like my portfolio to follow suit, I am thinking of switching half of my money in XUU, a market-cap weighted fund which makes up about 10% of my portfolio, to EQL, an S&P equal-weighted fund.

What would your opinion be on that?

Also, along the same line of thought, I'm considering trimming NVDIA and GOOG although the mere mention of it has my investing friends screaming "NO!". They understand the sentiment but think it's not the right time.

Q: So many members ask questions where they ask you to rank a number of companies which they suggest. Let me change that up a. bit. Please rank the top 10 Canadian companies that YOU think have the best chance of yielding the highest returns for 5i members In 2026. Perhaps an unfair question but I"m curious.

This was a question asked earlier which seems quite popular. Can I ask the same question for US stocks
Thanks

Q: Hello Team and good Family Day for the ones in Ontario,

Apart from the market fixation now on overspending on AI which costs a bundle and may not generate more profit, I read somewhere an analyst making a parallel between GE (pre-separation in 3 separate entities) and the 3 members of the Mag 7 listed above. He says they may be going the way GE did when the market started pricing conglomerates the way it did for the last 15 years which consequently brought GE to a very low multiple. What did it for GE, he says, was being involved in different and unrelated businesses, for one, and one strong entity pulling the weight of costly money losing members for another. He says it is also true especially in the AMZN and GOOG cases. What do you think? As always thanks for your strong insight, Adel.

Q: I have watched many Youtube examples where jobs can be replaced with AI, whether it's call centers or financial analysts where Claude filled in forecasts exactly as an analyst would have. What stocks would you identify as leveraging the AI technology the most in the future? I would buy Anthropic if they were public (may occur this year yet). I'm assuming Google, Nvidia, but am I missing any? For example, Propel Holdings Inc uses AI... I would think that this would make Propel ahead of the game and be a very smart investment today.
Thank you,
Kevin