Investment Q&A

Q: I saw a press release how Amazon is making its own cooling for its large data centres. Can you comment on how this might affect VRT? Percent of current business? Still lots of opportunities? How does VRTs produce line compare? How do you rate VRT as a current Buy?

Q: SMCI Good morning,
Looking into buying smci. Are they done with their accounting problems?
Would you buy at today’s price?
Thanks. Alnoor

Q: What would you say are the top US manufacturing stocks to buy now for growth?

Q: BN is sitting at 7.5%, AXON - BKNG are 5% and the rest are 3% positions totaling approx. 83% of my stock assets. I have some 1-2% positions in my cash account (GSY, ATZ, PRL, CLBT, HPS.a, BNS,SU, TMDX, TVK and CNQ. I'm heavy tech, financials and industrials going into H2 2025. Would you add to, remove or change anything is this was your account (assuming you're 52 and plan to retire in 8 years). Not looking for a person allocation but rather if it was you, what might you be looking to adjust, if anything. Note I have no utilities currently. Thanks and have a great weekend.

Q: I hold all these tech stocks as part of a well diversified portfolio with weightings below. Tech stocks are 25% weight in my overall portfolio. The issue I'm having is determining how many to hold in this sector and what weight to allocate each. All new names that I see on my potential watchlist with high growth seem to be all tech names as well (CRWV, CRCL, SRAD, GENI, RDDT, etc..) but I'm hesitant adding more tech if my holdings are already high quality unless one of them is dragging its feet. I'm trying to balance between holding long term compounders like CSU, LMN, TOI vs high growth shorter term names like NBIS, VRT, CLS that are benefitting from AI tailwinds which could turn quicker. Do I hold 5 companies at 5% or 10 companies at a mix between 2%-5%.

Do you see any overlap here in names that could be combined? If you had to rank these names based on growth and risk/reward, what would they be currently for the next 5-10 years? What is the high level process you go through when trying to determine between candidates for a sector? Thank you!

Constellation Software Inc. 5.60%
Lumine Group Inc 5.04%
Shopify Inc 3.02%
Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 2.20%
Topicus.Com Inc 2.17%
NVIDIA Corp 2.07%
Cellebrite DI Ltd 1.58%
Vertiv Holdings Co 1.41%
Celestica Inc 1.32%
Descartes Systems Group Inc 1.00%
Nebius Group NV 0.39%

Q: Hi 5i, Would you consider these 10 stocks to be a part of significant players of the AI boom, these players are driving innovation, fueling need for better and bigger hardware and software infrastructure:

ANET: Provider for the networking solutions 
ASML: Leader in photolithography systems used in the manufacturing of semiconductors.
AVGO: Semiconductor Solutions and Infrastructure Software.
CEG: It provides clean energy and sustainable solutions
CRWD: Cybersecurity products and services
NVDA: Semiconductors and Equipment
PLTR: Big data analytics
TSM: World's largest dedicated chip foundry
TSLA: Automotive and clean energy company.
VRT: Critical infrastructure and services for data centers, communication networks

If you have to select 5 for a 10 year hold, which one would you pick.

if you have to select 3 for a 3 year hold ?

Please deduct as many question credits as you must!

Thanks

Q: Can you give me your updated view of this company, and why it seems targeted by short sellers.

Thank you very much in advance

Q: Hi Everyone,

Can I ask your favourite (3-5 names) US Industrials names right now and a brief statement why? I'm not concerned about the tariffs or recession possibility, but rather wondering what do you see as some great opportunities right now that have serious potential beyond the current situation.

VRT is my only US "Industrial" at present.

Thank you!

Q: hello 5i:
could you do a comparison between the above companies? Would you consider them competitors? If only buying one, which do YOU favour?
thanks
Paul L

Q: Which offers the best return over the next 5 years, Nbis or Vrt?

Q: Can you comment on Vertiv's earnings and the outlook for the stock? Positive market reaciton but how much of that is the market itself generally being up?
Thanks.

Q: Which tax loss proxies would you suggest for the following companies?
Are there some that you would rather stay in cash for a month or just sell out right and buy something unrelated?
I am a bit hesitant to sell BN,GOOG and AMZN for a tax loss as I feel they have the most bounce potential on good news. What do you think of that?

Q: Please rank from most conviction in a recovery to least conviction. Thank you

Q: Is FOUR debt level manageable to weather the storm? How would you rank with VRT, AXON and FIX

Q: I am looking for tax-loss proxy ideas for the following names: CAN: HPS.A, KSI, VHI. US: NBIS, SYM, FOUR. Thank you!

Q: Hi 5i Team - Could you name a few companies that service AI data centres in a structural way such as construction, maintenance/repairs, cooling, etc. Also a few companies that provide the power needed to run these centres. These would be stocks that have good growth ahead of them. Any market cap is fine but at least one small cap and a couple of mid caps. Also a combination of U.S. and Canadian companies.
Thanks.

Q: Hi, holding a few of these losers now in my non registered accounts - they were nice winners just a short time ago. What are the best proxies for these as a tax loss strategy? If my holding is CAD and the proxy is US, should I convert CAD funds to buy US or avoid these situations? Also, at what $ or price % loss would you consider doing these tax loss trades? Thanks!

Q: One would think that CLS, HPS.A and VRT would be screaming buys if Trump said "just kidding" and ended his tariff war tomorrow. But I wonder if this is true. What are the chances that AI/data centre stocks were in a bubble and all it needed to burst was a new low energy search engine like DeepSeek? Is it possible that the wider market chaos is just masking an inevitable re-pricing of AI and data centre stocks? If so, the current lower price for these stocks may not be the screaming buy they might appear to be.

Q: I am, as you put it, sharpening my pencil. Can you comment a bit on the above three companies. How much overlap is there? Which is the one you would rank the lowest of the three? Leaving aside stable mega caps, for the agressive side of my tech holding, are there any others that you would rank in the top 5 to start looking at that are better or roughly in the same class as these? Thank-you.

Q: Could you please list these industrial stocks in order of conviction from best to least conviction. thank you.