Investment Q&A

Q: Seasons Greetings, to you all,
In order to start my TFSA year of right can I get your opinion on a few of each Cdn. & U.S. stocks that may be considered MUST OWN in the Materials & Health sectors.
Also an alternate on ETF's?
Thanks for your usual good answers!

Q: In past responses to questions about thinly traded stocks, you have cautioned members to be wary of these. How do you designate a stock as thinly traded? Is there a particular daily volume average, and/or a concerning bid-ask spread?

Q: Hi was wondering which Canadian etfs you would recommend to Track corn, soybean and wheat futures? Individually would be preferred over a group of all three.

Thanks, appreciate all that you guys do.

Q: Hi, IPV
Can you please throw some light on their potential growth in the coming future

Q: RESN What do you know about this American Stock

Q: Our investment group holds these 3 stocks in our portfolio and they seem to have not increased over time. Are these companies you would recommend selling or keeping as we don't by and sell rather hold and hope for steady growth? What are the reasons for their recent performance?

Q: Hello 5i Team
I would like to follow up on Jim question regarding Tesla stock .
You mentioned that, you should try to finding the next Tesla ? Does Nio has potential to be the next Tesla ?Are there currently any companies that could possibly qualify to be the next Tesla?I know this is just guessing ? Thanks for all the advice
Regards
Claudio

Q: First, Thank you for your insights in the last 9 months, your wise words and recommendations made a big difference in the total value of my investment accounts.

In the bad (but good news) I am now way out of whack in my portfolio, 7 of my top ten positions are in technology. I remember JDS fitel and how I let that position grow to 50% of my portfolio only to have it crash down to about 5% of my portfolio and kicking myself for that and promising myself that I would never get into that position again....and here I am. Then the only great returns I was getting was on JDS and Nortel. Now its on US technology stocks and a few Canadian technology stocks , Lspd, Shop and NVei. I know the right thing to do is to rebalance the portfolio but its hard to say goodbye to stocks that are churning ahead most every day to go to slow movers.

I know to get better returns I have to stretch and bulk up on technology but is that the right thing to do or should one bite the bullet and try to keep a balanced portfolio ejecting part of the strong to buy a little more of the "ho hum steady Eddie" stocks. I guess it boils down to what is the maximum percentage of technology stocks that you think one should have in their portfolio and what is the maximum percentage one should have in one stock.

thanks for the great service, Jean

Q: I have a very small position (<1%) with Artis REIT. It has grown smaller as most of my other holdings have increased in value. While I'm down 20% off my purchase price, it's redeeming itself with a nice dividend. But at this point I feel like I should either buy more to bring it up to closer to 2%, or dump it and find something with more growth potential (not necessarily a REIT).
Any advice? Eliminate it or add to it?

Q: Last week on BNN Bloomberg the ceo mentioned that they are supplying to Tesla. On the company website they have technical/ marketing papers that explain the use of their transformers in electric power stations and how there will be large demand for more dry transformers as the demand for charging cars increases. I note they opened a plant in Reno Nevada in January 2020 that is 3 times larger than their other plants nearby and is not meant to replace current plants but to add capacity. Tesla has a big battery factory in Nevada.

Q: I see that Grand West Transportation BUS-X is up 27.5% on the day. Do you have any news to support this update? Thanks

Q: Hi, other than GBTC and QBTC, if one wanted to take a flyer in some bitcoin stocks, what would be 2-3 "high quality" Cdn or US names and how would they rank? And any other ETF's other than the two mentioned that could benefit? Thanks!

Q: If this sector 'breaks' or the market cracks, some of these EV names are going to be hit very hard. For now, we would pass.
A quote from your answer to Austin on Jan. 4, I am just curious about what happens when a sector breaks.
In the case of EV charging being early in development how would it break?
Thank you, Peter

Q: Several questions so please take credits as applicable,

For Growth please choose one, but please ignore the different sub sectors:
1. CAE or AC or or SJ, or WSP or CJT
2. CCL or WPM or TECK or AEM or FM or LUN or WFT
3. EFX or ENB or CVE or CNQ or PPL
4. DOL or QSR or TOY or CTC

Thanks!

Q: Peter; I own multiple Mawer funds thanks to you . One is the Maw130- I just tried to buy some more and was told by BMOINVESTORLINE that it is F class fund and I can’t buy it - yet I must have once because I own it and it shows in my holdings. Can you clear this up ? Thanks. Rod

Q: My holdings in these two companies have grown substantially even though I recently sold a bit of NPI. Given that I think the sector has a very strong future, I am loathe to sell too much even though you'd say I am still overweight the sector (13%, not including other utilities like FTS).

Does it make sense to move some of my holdings into AQN, or would you really prefer to advise me not to let the holdings in this sector get too big?

Thanks for all your help.

Q: I'm now seeing many many people on different social media platforms, including very young people, talking about day trading, leverage, how much money they made on this or another stock. It reminds me very much of the tech bubble when, overnight, everyone became a stock market investor and guru. Are you seeing any of this and is it going to float prices higher do you think?

Q: Thoughts on this company as an investment? When is the lockup period done?

Q: Myself and my 21 yo daughter have been building a balanced portfolio following your recommendations. Thanks to your service this has been an incredible learning experience for her and profitable to boot! Right now we are trying to decide between PINS NVDA and AMZN to add to her TFSA (We are also adding TT at this time and are balanced across market sectors). Just wonder which you would prefer at this time for potential long long term growth.

Q: there is a company called, ark clean energy . They build small nuclear power plants. Do you know or any competitors that are listed on stock markets and can be invested in ? thanks.