Investment Q&A

Q: hi can I have your opinion on Intel earnings/guidance. and can I get your top picks for a semiconductor stock please...
thx chris

Q: A question on OCT 21 concerning ARX and when hedges would no longer affect income : no answer shows when hitting Response? Thanks.

Q: what are your thoughts on thermo fisher at current prices for a long term hold. I would like some health care exposure without drug specific concerns.
It seems to me that Thermo is the Magna of pharma and biotechs is that a fair comparison ?
As they produce all the products necessary and even produce drugs in small batches for some pharma companies.

Q: Peter; Do you have any thoughts about the Metaverse ,i.e., is it investable and if so how ? Thanks. Rod

Q: Hi,
So at this point do we just assume SNAP is technically 'broken' for now? Better to salvage some capital and move on to a better opportunity? My guess is this earnings miss and selling on heavy volume would indicate a long road ahead to repair the current technical damage - but I would appreciate your thoughts on whether to hold or sell SNAP.
Thanks!
Dawn

Q: Whats popping this 10% this week?


Thx

Q: What is your thoughts on this small cap pharmaceutical company and future earnings growth…

Q: Hi, I sold GUD awhile for tax loss, and will sell WELL also for tax loss. It is my only stock in that sector 4%. My question is whether to buy back all in 30 days, change to another company after my sale, or purchase two stock for the Heath sector (Canadian market). I have no problems with risk with good management.
Could you name the two or three health companies you might prefer, thanks

Q: Could you provide the names of some companies that have declared their first dividend over the past several months. Canadian or U.S., any size market cap. Thanks.

Q: Hi 5i Team - Could you provide an update on Westaim, its cash on hand, level of debt, insider holdings and any other fundamentals you consider important. Would this be a buy either for growth and/or income. Thanks.

Q: I own a small position in WELL and am looking to slowly add to it. Would you be comfortable adding new money to this company right now?

Q: Hello!

Can you please provide your comments on Camping World Holdings as a longer term stable growth holding? It seems to be rolling out a pretty nice network and leveraging the Good Sam name. Any red flags? Any "more preferred" names in a similar business? I see the theme of camping continuing to be strong.

Q: I have a 1% position in WELL which is down 10% from my purchase cost. Trying to decide, do I increase the position to 3% or sell? I have a 3year time frame. Thank you.

Q: Whats going on with goog, down big today.

Q: I am up 200% on TOU. With the potential of The liberal Gov’t changing the rules on capital gains, would I be wise to swap TOU for ARX for 30 days to trigger the capital gain and protect my win? I will switch back in December.

Q: My 28yr old son is looking to build a diversified ETF portfolio with 100% equity exposure with a bent towards growth given his long investment horizon.  These will be spread across his TFSA, RRSP and Non-Registered accounts.  Since he will be contributing smaller amounts on a regular basis a zero commission platform such as Wealthsimple is appealing.  However, they charge 1.5% fee for all currency conversions making it only practical to hold Canadian traded ETF's.  As a result he is considering the following:

ZSP 40%
XIC 25%
TEC 20%
VIU 10%
VEE 5%

ZSP + XIC + VIU + VEE together create a mix of ETFs that are globally diversified and very similar to the structure of XEQT/VEQT.  Versus XEQT/VEQT This portfolio has a slightly lower weighted-average MER at 0.16% and also has 20% in TEC (in place of something like QQQ) which is more growth oriented. Here are how the sectors would be weighted with this portfolio:

Info 31%
Financial 15%
Cons Disc 11%
Industrial 9%
Healthcare 8%
Communica 7%
Cons Staples 5%
Energy 5%
Materials 4%
Utilities 2%
Real Estate 2%

These would be the top 10 holdings with this portfolio and these top 10 would account for 24% of holdings in this portfolio:

AAPL5.1% MSFT4.9% AMZN3.2% GOOGL1.8% FB1.7% GOOG1.7% TSLA1.5% SHOP1.4% RY1.2% NVDA1.2%

If this was you at 28, can you please comment on
- are the 5 ETFs he has chosen ones you would go with given his objectives, if not, what changes/substitutes would you make along with recommended % allocations?
- is his % allocation across the 5 appropriate or would you make changes? For example I thought there might be too much overlap between ZSP and TEC as they are both highly invested in AAPL, MSFT, AMZ and FB and he is looking at 60% going into these 2 ETF's. That may well be what you want at his age but  I wonder if he is better served by reducing ZSP to 25% -30% and TEC to 15% and add  the remaining 15-20% to CDZ or VGG (or something else?)
- given he will be making contributions to his TFSA, RRSP and Non-registered, which ETF would be best in which account and why? 

Thanks for all your help, 
Scott

Q: Curious what your thoughts are on this Canadian hedged inflation protected TIP ETF? Would it be good for part of the fixed income part of a portfolio during rising interest rates?

On the shares website the distribution yield is listed as 7% but the real distribution rate is listed as minus 2%. What does this mean?

What are the risks of this type of investment? What is the downside?

Q: Hi 5i - I’m looking for ways to invest in the ever growing focus on ESG and carbon emissions. Are there any ways retail investors can access the space? KRBN is one idea I’ve found. Are there any investable companies who are focusing on creating carbon offsets?

Thank you!

Q: Further to my question.....based on your response, are you confident ROKU would still do well and (the 2nd part of original question) is this an opportunity to add/buy ?

Thank you !!

Q: Thoughts on CTS for a smaller tech play and which is of these two do you prefer in the crypto space?

Thnx for all your great advice for us DIY!
Dave