Investment Q&A

Q: Please give your opinion on their results, and the company .
Connie

Q: I have a few questions about your question-handling process. Approximately how many questions do you receive each day? How do you approach answering them? Are certain types of questions given priority for quicker responses, such as questions about Canadian stocks over U.S. stocks, stocks with recent news or earnings reports, or stocks in your 5i portfolio? Finally, do you aim for a specific response time with each question?

Q: Donald Trump has previously signaled his desire for a lower US dollar. JD Vance has recently signalled an even stronger desire for a lower dollar, saying it would bring manufacturing back and calling China a currency manipulator. And if history is any indicator, Vance will be running just about everything in the day-to-day operations of the White House while Trump golfs and engages in twitter wars with celebrities (as Pence did 4 years ago). Right now most of my US holdings are in unhedged ETFs. Would it be wiser to shift some of that over to hedged ETFs? If the US starts trying to lower the dollar how quickly would that happen?

Q: Hello 5i,
We have CDN and US funds in our RRSP’s and TFSA’s, no pensions, income is CPP and OAS only, + RRSP withdraws.

We are looking at placing funds needed for the next 3 years into less volatile environment with a yield of 4%-5%. We have laddered GIC's and PSA for CDN funds and are looking for something similar in US funds. Our equities (stocks and ETF's) would remain in place though each year we would sell some stocks and purchase short-term ETF’s to retain a 3-year comfort zone. This allows us to retain higher risk equities in a longer time-frame in case of a large drawback.

Some examples we found were IGSB, BIL, VGLT, VCIT, VCSH, AGG, IEF. Do you have any recommendations? What are your thoughts on long-term Treasuries with a Trump win? Dump and run?

Thank you for your service.

D&J

Q: I have held a position of about 2.5% in MG (was higher, but its performance has lagged that of my overall portfolio, thus the decrease in relative exposure) for years now, and have maintained the investment due to a decent dividend (about 4.5% at today's price) and low P/E (trailing P/E listed as 11.59, current forward P/E quoted as 6.75 with Yahoo! Finance). I am concerned that the potential of the US exercising tariffs on goods imported to their country could profoundly impact MG's future performance. I believe that Magna does have some factories in the US: would this exclude them from having tariffs levied on US consumers of their goods?

If MG would be affected by tariffs, and a pivot to another investment would be prudent, I have been considering AXON and ISRG as potential replacements (my portfolio could tolerate a decrease in Consumer Cyclical exposure, and I feel I have room to increase exposure to Industrials and/or Health Care).

Ultimately, my questions are as follows:

1. Will MG be affected by the potential for tariffs to an extent strong enough that an exit from the investment should be seriously considered?

2. Of AXON and ISRG, which company do you feel is poised for greater growth in the next 36 months?

Q: What are some canadain companies that could do well under a trump administration

Q: These shares have an attractive yield. Could you please shed some more light on them. Considering for non reg account. When do they reset? At what rate? If reset today, what would rate be? Thanks

Q: As I’m running low on time to spend on investing, I’m thinking of selling all of my equities and buying ETFs instead. I’m considering the following ETFs in a 1:1:1:1 distribution.

XIC
XUU
XEF
ZEM

Could you please give me the pros and cons of these ETFs, and alternatives if you feel there are any that are better.

Thank you very much for your service.

Q: Hi Peter,

Can I get you to compare Chapters Group AG to Pinetree Capital. Both are small cap holding companies. Do you see a lot of similarities between the two and would they be comparable. Both have had good runs.

I appreciate your views.

Thanks

Q: Hi
I'm curious as to how shareholders are affected by the following scenario... assume a delisting followed by a listing again. I think this happened before with smci but I am more interested in knowing about the impact on a shareholder who holds throughout. I.e. once relisted is it as if nothing happened with respect to the number of shares held before/after etc...
Thanks

Q: any comment on earnings should i switch to Well health or Vitalhub

Q: Can you tell me if this company is worth holding in a TFSA. And if a sell, what should it be replaced with.
Thanks

Q: Hi 5I,
If lspd is able to take itself private at what price would you expect a deal to be successful?
What is the Capital Analyst day? I read that this event was postponed. Do you know if is this correct and if it is correct what would you expect the reason would be?
thx

Q: hi, thoughts on Q3 results for Surge energy, and going forward...would U rate it a Buy/Hold/Sell....thx, jb

Q: Since the results of the US election were clear, I wanted to move a few dollars around preparing for the next 4 years. Can you rank in order the 12 stocks listed from best too worst. Only looking for capital appreciation over the next 3-4 years. Thanks.

Q: Hi-Kraken is powering upwards very impressively over the last few weeks. I'm unable to find any neaningful news that would explain it. Is there a whiff of a takeover or maybe something else?
I appreciate your business model.
Dave in Montreal

Q: Hello 5i,

I meant to sell some of my seriously overweight NVDA shares weeks ago to buy PRL. Would you still be a buyer of PRL at today's price?

Q: You have been busy Nov 8 ! How do you do it ? More staff ?
Publish if you wish ...

Q: I've had my eye on Enterprise Group for a while, watching its share price shoot up. It released earning yesterday and pulled back 20%. I'm wondering if this might be an opportunity or is this quarter a sign of business fundamentals breaking down? Thx

Q: Hi,
I am curious as to your thoughts on this company - seems to have had blow out earnings - is this something you think should be on our radar? Or just a start up flash in the pan?
Many thanks for all your hard work!