Investment Q&A

Q: Hello Peter and team,
Echoing the comments of so many others, I would like to extend great thanks for the wonderful service 5i provides and wish everyone a wonderful holiday season.

I currently own GC, but as part of a portfolio re-balancing, was planning on selling it when adding new money at the start of January. It appears the current offer will be voted down. Having never owned a stock that has had a tender offer fail, I am a little unsure as to how this might play out. I would hate to lose some (most?) of my gains by holding onto the stock too long.
You have already expressed the opinion that Apollo will likely increase their offer rather than walk away. If that were to happen, would Apollo make their intentions known before or after the vote happens? If comfortable sharing, what is your best guess as to how the stock price will react over the next few days.
Thanks in advance,
Rory

Q: I know you generally don’t advise making decisions in what “might” happen, but I need to absorb some capital gains in a non-registered account in the next 6 months and I’m thinking about the potential for changes to the taxation of capital gains. It would seem that taxing capital gains at a higher rate is a likely target to pay for some of debt that government is accumulating due to COVID. Should I hedge my bets and absorb some of the capital gains this year?

Q: Good afternoon, team. This morning on BNN it was announced that CP is planning on developing a hydrogen locomotive. The G&M had an article identifying stocks it felt were positioned to make a pivot to the "hydrogen ecosystem". These seemed to be mostly drillers: HAL, BKR, SLB and, in Canada, PD and EFX. Also today my Economist arrived with an article hydrogen powered flight. Something seems to be happening here. I have had Ballard Power but it hasn't ever made a profit. Is XBC in this field? Can you identify two or three US and Canadian companies that might be good for investment now?

Q: Hi!

As part of my industrials sector weighting, I have 4% allocated to transportation. Given the current environment, I believe airlines are the best value, but probably also the riskiest. Nevertheless, my portfolio is reasonably well balanced. Do you think it is prudent to invest my 4% allocation entirely in AC? It clearly provides better value than the railroads and trucking, but as I said, with increased risk.

Thank you,
Jason

Q: Retired, dividend-income investor, who normally employs a buy-and-hold strategy. I have long term core positions of mostly conservative equities (ETFs = CDZ, XIT, ZLB, ZWC, ZRE, LIFE; Stocks = AD, AQN, BCE, CSH, FTS, MFC, NTR, NWC, PBH, PLC, RY, TRP, WSP) and fixed income of annuities, Fisgard and Gov't-Private pensions. I believe my portfolio is set up fairly conservatively.

I have cash for another position in my Cash Account. I have been reading several 5iR questions lately about various themes for 2021 (Recovery Trade, Swap from Growth to Value, Emerging Market improvements, Take-Over Candidates, etc.). While I'm not even sure if this is possible, I'd like to ask you to screen for as many of them as possible (all thrown into one big ball) to create a half dozen candidates for me to do more research on. I'm looking for a starting point. I'm not even sure where to start, hence the request.

I'm looking for a Canadian (preferably) or USA company, potentially a take-out target, benefitting from the recovery of the economy. I lean towards the Value spectrum, as I inherently find it difficult to buy a stock that has already had a good run. If a dividend could be thrown in, that would be a bonus. Market cap and sector do not matter.

This is sort of a "kitchen sink" kind of question. If that results in zero candidates, then please use your discretion and drop various filters. As you can tell by my current holdings, they are for the most part, blue-chip companies. If we could identify something like an Enercare (that was taken out by Brookfield), that would be a homerun.....happy to hold it but ecstatic to have it taken out. But Enercare is just an example.

Please rank them from best candidate to least...maybe 3 Canadian and 3 USA companies or all 6 from Canada if possible.

If you can run this exercise, then I'll do some further research on your list. I know this is a crazy request...thanks in advance. Take as many credits as you need to throw some brain power at this....I'll never use all of the credits I currently have.

Much appreciated...Steve

Q: Engh took a big hit,undeservely so, after decent results What is a good price to enter ? Thanks for u usual great services & views

Q: Do you know why there were 9.5 million shares of GUD traded on the 18th? What should we do on this news?

Q: I would like to diversify a little more internationally in the coming year. I was looking at these two ETFs EZA and ZWP for a combination of yield from ZWP, and growth and yield with EZA. Naspers, I believe has a large interest in Tencent and has not followed the SP growth to the same extent so I am thinking this might be a good way to play this within an ETF. Could I please have your thoughts or other recommendations to expand internationally?
Thank you
J

Q: In a previous question I asked the following:

I am looking to purchase both XEF and ZEM to increase my international exposure. Any recommendations of percentage allocations to each? Thank You
Answer:
We can't personalize allocations, but if we owned these we would look to 10% XEF and 5% ZEF.

In relationship to your answer, Portfolio Analytics suggests I have 35% in foreign market exposure and the answer given would make up 15% of the 35%. Are there any other ETF's you would suggest to make up the remaining 20%? I realize you don't give personized advise, however I'm looking for a generalization to increase my international exposure?
Thank You

Q: Can I have your opinion on the takeover of BioTelemetry by Royal Philips at $72/share.

Thank you and Happy Holidays.

Q: I have a full position in MX in my TFSA. Even after the recent rally, I'm still down about 15%. It seems to be having good momentum, so I'm a bit hesitant to sell, especially when I can't claim the tax loss. But a part of me just wants to just get out and buy something like WELL, XBC, or STC.

Any thoughts, or advice? Thank you for all that you do.

Q: Your thoughts on QYOU please.Thanks.

Q: BEP's recent share split announcement indicated, if I read it correctly, that any fractional shares resulting from the split would be rounded up to the nearest whole share. I owned, pre-split, an odd number of shares. My broker rounded down, and I think I've been cheated out of a share. Is my understanding correct and do I have grounds to go after the broker? Not a huge amount on an individual basis, but if a broker does it to hundreds or even thousands of investors . . .

Q: Hi Folks,
I currently have the above companies in my Non-Registered account. I am looking to add some money - can you tell me what company you would add to OR can you recommend another that I can take a look at. Appreciate your comments.
Thanks

Q: In looking a bit deeper into COLD, I see the short position is ~ 14%! Is this simply b/c it is quite expensive for an REIT? Forward P/E is 70. Apart from it being "expensive" is there any other reason for a high short position on what should be a fairly stable company?

Q: Hi 5i team, please rank their risk and potential ,top to bottom. Thanks.

Q: Could I get your thoughts re timing. Would you recommend to wait for a pull back ?

Thx.

Q: General Motors was recommended yesterday as a top pick on BNN by Gordon Reid.
His description of it basically makes it sound like a company poised to become a green economy automotive star. Your thoughts please.
Thank You
Peter

Q: What are your current thoughts on AND ? Thank you.

Q: I note that Covid has ignited a lot of demand in modular construction throughout the world. Today's New York Times has a nice article spotlighting the increasing usage and it appears this is a long term upward trend. Dexterra is about the only pure play stock in Canada and it also pays a nice dividend. Fairfax is the largest holder. I think a long term holder will be amply rewarded.