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Q: Hi, Dollarama was added to your Growth portfolio recently with full position. The stock was quiet for several weeks but took off recently to $169 (+10% since added). I bought a few shares at $158, during recent decline. However, with the market jitters (coupled with Desjardins downgrade citing valuation) specially over past two days, tested the lows of last quarterly release. Valuation seems to be still expensive. What's your take for short/long term ? For now, it's a tiny 1% position for me. Should I take advantage of the pull back and add or just liquidate ? Thanks
Read Answer Asked by rajeev on February 12, 2018
Q: Hi Team,

I sold my holdings of AVO, (Thanks for that one!). I own the entire balanced portfolio, and would like to deploy the cash in a company that has been beat down a bit in the last little while that has good upside potential. I was thinking DOL but would like a few suggestions.

Thanks,

Jamie
Read Answer Asked by Jamie on February 08, 2018
Q: Hi 5i Team,
Please provide your stock recommendations (growth companies) for an investor who is interested in making regular fixed lump sum contributions to the same entities month after month . Time horizon for contributing to the holdings is 2-3 years.
Thanks for your great work!
Read Answer Asked by Greg on January 30, 2018
Q: Hi There,
This is a two part question regarding my kids RESP account.
The first question, I hold a full position of REI.UN in this account and just learned that as of November, Riocan has suspended their DRIP program. In light of this and the recent weakness, I am considering selling REI.UN and replacing it with CSH.UN. Is this something you think would be prudent, or should I replace it with something other than CSH.UN? (see second part of question)
If I replace REI.UN with CSH.UN I will still have enough cash to buy a position in two of the following stocks, DOL, NFI, GC, PHO, GSY .
In this account I currently hold BNS, MG, FFH,OTEX & REI.UN with a five plus year time frame.
Thank you for your assistance.
Read Answer Asked by Kevin on January 20, 2018
Q: Can you recommend you top five growth stocks for my TFSA. I would like to take full advantage of tax free growth in this account. Rest of my portfolio is well balanced in my other registered and non-registered accounts. Time frame is 5 to 10 years.
Read Answer Asked by Vineet on January 15, 2018
Q: Could you please rank the three Balanced Portfolio consumer non-cyc names along with Dollarama separately for growth potential, value and risk?
Read Answer Asked by Peter on January 11, 2018
Q: Scotia shows outstanding shares for Dollarama declining from 144 million, in 2014, to an estimated 103 million in 2020. Is it within the realm of possibility that management continues to purchase shares and decrease the share count to the point where just privatizing the company becomes the logical end game?

Thanks for your opinion. I look forward to renewing my subscription before the end of January.

John
Read Answer Asked by john on January 05, 2018
Q: Hello Peter,
We made our annual contribution to our grandsons RESP. He is 4 years old. We would like to add one or two new stocks to his portfolio. The current holdings are:
ATD.B
CXI
GUD
NFI
PBH
In your opinion what would be some good Additions? Thank you
Read Answer Asked by john on January 04, 2018
Q: I own the following stocks and ETFs in a non-registered account:
ATD.B, AIF, AVO, BCE, BNS, BYD-UN, CCL.B, CNR, CSU, GC, KXS, MG, MX, NFI, PPL, PBH, TD, TOY, SJ, WSP, VFV, VUS, VEF, ZQQ
Apart from the ETFS, this mirrors fairly closely your balanced portfolio...

I also have SIS and PHO in my TFSA. I want to add another stock to my TFSA and saw that you had chosen SHOP as a to pick a while back on BNN. Ryan chose DOL just today. Between the two and considering what I already own which one do you think would be best for me? or maybe there's something else? I am looking at 10+ years before I would need the money. cheers
Andy
PS Thanks for the fantastic service and I hope everyone at 5i has an awesome new year!

Read Answer Asked by Andrew on January 03, 2018
Q: Happy and prosperous New Year 5i team,

I am just considering adding to my tfsa. I bought a chunk of Toy when it fell and thus have a bit of a profit already. And I was thinking of adding to it in 2018. But, I noticed that you added Dol to your buys this year and I have learned to pay close attention when you make a move. So, the question is, given that I am already well diversified, should I add to Toy or is there something about Dol which you have an extra strongfeeling about, since you added it to your portfolio?
thanks
Read Answer Asked by joseph on January 02, 2018
Q: Hi Peter,
I am looking for five good stocks to add in my RRSP right now. any advise?
no matters for sector.
Thank you,
KT
Read Answer Asked by kaushikbhai on December 19, 2017
Q: Hello 5i team,
I read an interesting article in the Globe on Thursday on Dollarama. According to the author they are essentially borrowing money to buy back their own shares and are now in a situation of negative book value. In other words, if the stock were wound up today, shareholders would find themselves with negative equity.
Your comments please.
Thanks,
David
Read Answer Asked by David on December 18, 2017
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