skip to content
  1. Home
  2. >
  3. Investment Q&A
You can view 3 more answers this month. Sign up for a free trial for unlimited access.

Investment Q&A

Not investment advice or solicitation to buy/sell securities. Do your own due diligence and/or consult an advisor.

Q: Dear 5i Team,

Thanks for the great service. Most of my holdings are the ones recommended by you or other conservative dividend paying stocks. This one time, I bought a small amount of KODK few months ago. The news was that KODAK was going to have its own version of bitcoin. Anyways, the stock is down 51%. Do you recommend selling it and take the loss. Also it is in my TFSA, so can't write off capital loss against capital gain.
Read Answer Asked by Alka on June 28, 2018
Q: FAP seems to be a loser, and i am just now starting to weed out the bad and cut back on my stocks. i will be selling FAP, what would be a good stock to replace it with? i am heading into retirement.

k
Read Answer Asked by Karen on June 28, 2018
Q: I currently hold TCN and REI in my TFSA. I am thinking of selling them and replacing with IIP.UN and CAR.UN. I am looking for income with some growth. Do you recommend this or would you leave things as is or possibly consolidate to just one? If so, which? Weighting is high - 17% for REI and 10% for TCN.
Many thanks for your great service!
Read Answer Asked by Jennifer on June 28, 2018
Q: I've held Boston Pizza for a number of years. thanks to the dividend, I'm still ahead on it, but I'm beginning to wonder if it's the best consumer discretionary stock for an investor well into retirement, albeit with a reasonable pension. Health issues are beginning to have an impact on our savings. Thoughts?
Read Answer Asked by M.S. on June 28, 2018
Q: Who tests these cannabis products for content and contamination?
Are there any public companies that will benefit from testing fees or selling the hardware.
Read Answer Asked by edward on June 28, 2018
Q: My question is about Meta - META.V, (previous name recently was NAC - National Access Cannabis Corp)
They appear to be getting a lot of rights and/or contracts to distribute cannabis throughout Canada and the stock is reacting very strongly lately on that speculative news.
With legalization occurring in mid-October this year, how do I go about valuing this company to predict a future stock price in 6 months or 1 year?
Thanks for your time and advice
Read Answer Asked by Erol on June 28, 2018
Q: I have a question that may be of interest to some of your subscribers who, like me, are relative novices at investment. I've been reviewing my portfolio -- specifically Payout Ratios (I'm using Morningstar data, so there may be some variance when compared to other reporting agencies). I hold the following stocks with payout ratios beginning at 130%; however, two reach into multiple hundreds. VET and AQN are not included in your model portfolios, but ENB and PKI are in the 5i Balanced portfolio; CSH.UN, ECI, and ENB, again, in the 5i Income portfolio; and CLIQ in the 5i Growth portfolio. My question, quite simply, is: Why should we not be concerned about the stability of dividends from these companies? Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by RANDALL on June 28, 2018
Q: Greetings, I have a portfolio of Canadian and US stocks that is weighted about 60% in banks and insurance companies. I want to hold dividend paying stocks and am considering AQN, CU, & EMA to get more exposure to utilities (have Enbridge already) and PG for a consumer staple. Does this make sense or are their other names in the utilities and consumer sectors to consider?
Alex
Read Answer Asked by Alex on June 27, 2018
Q: A few years ago you recommended using longrundata.com. This was a fantastic site. I made a lot of money by utilizing the information I could obtain from the site. It was an eazy method of finding annualized total returns and dividend increases. Longrundata is no longer in operation. A few months ago I asked you if there was a similar site that I could use. Your reply was that you would investigate to see if there was an alternative; maybe something 5i could get into.
I would be more than willing to pay an extra subscription fee if you could duplicate longrundata.com and I'm sure many of 5i's subscribers would also be interested.
Any chance of reviving this site?
Michael
Read Answer Asked by Michael on June 27, 2018
Q: This is a macroeconomic question about the oil patch. I own a property in Fort McMurray which was burnt down in the fire and is being rebuilt completing this October. Since then I have moved on, so I am not planning to go back there. If you were in my shoes would you sell now or rent it out and sell later?
Read Answer Asked by Andrew on June 27, 2018
Looking for more? Sign up for a FREE 14 day trial! No credit card required

We invite you to sign up for a 14 day free trial of 5i Research!
Experience all the benefits and tools we have to offer; stock research, model portfolios, Q&A with our experts, and so much more. Join a community of like-minded investors today!