Investment Q&A

Q: I have taken a loss on shares which I own of the Stars Group (TSG) in my US investment account. If I sell these shares, and then immediately buy the Stars Group (TSGI) shares for my Canadian investment account, am I still allowed to deduct my tax loss from my US account? In other words, are the US shares (TSG) and the Canadian shares (TSGI) considered unique for the purpose of tax deduction on a loss? Thank you.

Q: The sudden drop in price by 17% is alarming.
Is this the chance to BUY more of a promising business model
or is this a signal to SELL ?

Q: Regarding the Company debt at around 5.1Bln, at what rate of repayment would you consider to be on the right track? You mention their ability to generate FCF and the need to reduce debt and by extension interest expense, so what would you determine to be a positive level of debt repayment?

Thanks

Q: Your analysis of Canadian Tire earnings please.

Sheldon

Q: For US dividends, why own VGG (MER = 0.30% , div. yield = 1.34%) vs. DGRO (0.08%, 2.44%)?

Q: Can you please comment on their earnings released last night? Thanks

Q: Hello 5i team: ALA was originally at a20% weight in my tfsa.now ALA is down 50%.considering no tax loss advantage would you suggest I dump it ? I have read other answers. I hold all the energy I want in my open account. Any Best case replacement to regain my loss?or hold? Time frame not an issue. Thanks Larry

Q: Is there any Cloud ETF that trades in Canadian dollar hedge or Unhedged. Which Technology ETF would you recommend?

Thanks for the great service
Hector

Q: I asked this question yesterday but it must have been lost in the ether since it wasn’t answered.
AltaGas issued an IPO in mid October at a price of $14.50 which was well before the stock price dropped fro $20 per share to about $16.50 after the 3rd quarter results were released. This makes no sense to me as I would believe the stock price should have immediately reacted to the announcement of a share offering.
In the 3rd quarter results, the company announced an increase in dividend to $0.1825 from $0.175 beginning on November 27. This again makes no sense to me since I was under the belief that the company needs to shore up its balance sheet. In addition, at current prices the dividend is already at about 13% of price.
Can you help explain both of these?
Thanks
Ed

Q: Is this not the Time for GUD to buy something in a down market ? Its been some time sitting on all that cash. Do you think they are afraid to make a move ? How many years have they had all that cash RAK.

Q: What caused the severe drop?

Q: could you comment on why arx is down so much today.

Q: Well tax loss selling is upon us again, I'm down to two energy companies and I would like sell either one of VET or WCP. Both are down about 30%+, which one would you recommend? Thanks for your help.

Q: Here is a list of some of my holdings. Most of them are frightening. TOY, GSY, PHO, COV, TSGI and KXS which I just increased to a full position the other day.
RHT, CXR and SINO FOREST. I have seen them go from dollars to pennies and out of these I am very concerned that TSGI -- one morning I will wake up and it will be pennies and when I go to 5i you will be telling us that you will be removing it from the portfolio and selling it. If it will take years for these to recover, should we not put our money somewhere else until that time comes?
Thanks Dennis

Q: If you had to choose one right now for a long-term hold which would it be?

Q: I have reviewed your previous comments on Premium Brands and see that earnings have been missed 50% of the time but you still feel this is a good long term holding. The stock has dropped over the last 3 months. So my question is does the market expect a miss and is it currently priced into the current stock price.
Thanks John

Q: Hi All at 5i! Second cup has ambitions to evolve in to Amsterdam like pot lounges. What are your thoughts on this and would SCU be a worthy investment at this point in time. Cheers, Tamara

Q: Just 2 quick questions:

1 - Looking at Interrent, Boardwalk and Killam, it seems like they measure their debt differently. Boardwalk does a ratio of debt to FMV of assets, Interrent seems to do debt to GBV and Killam does debt to total assets. Which metric is correct and is this not a standard measure?

2 - I put a few companies on my watchlist, but I don't seem to be notified when there is a question about them.

Thanks,
Jason

Q: Hi there,

In the process of transitioning my US 401K from a balanced portfolio to an income portfolio as i get ready to transition to retirement. If you could recommend 5 US stocks or low cost ETFs for income what would they be.

Q: A number of members have asked about selling losing stocks to claim the loss and then buying back the same stock after thirty days possibly at the same price. It occurred to me that this could be counterproductive unless I am misunderstanding the impact of this maneuver. For instance, let's say I bought ABC at $100 and its value drops to $80, and I sell ABC to claim the $20 tax loss and, after 30 days buy ABC again at $80 and, sometime in the future sell it at my initial $100 price to gain $20. It seems to me, unless my tax bracket has shrunk substantially, that the tax recovered initially will be paid back on the second sale. Isn't that a losing proposition because one would also have incurred two bank charges on the way? What's the point; am I missing something?