Investment Q&A

Q: Is there an easy way to follow the S&P Energy Bullish Percent Index?

Thank you

Q: The Nov.19 response to the tax treatment of GIC interest question is not quite accurate.
Most interest received is treated on a cash basis, so on a 1 year GIC a holder must only wait for the issuer's T5.
As for a COMPOUND interest GIC beyond one year, the second part of your response would apply, except it is the onus of the issuer to do the accounting and issue T5s.
See CRA link:
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/completing-slips-summaries/financial-slips-summaries/return-investment-income-t5/accrued-interest/investment-contracts/what-investment-contract.html

Q: I have a 10% position in TD and a 2.5% position in BNS. Would you reduce the TD position and use the proceeds to bring BNS up to 5% or just add to BNS using the 25% cash position in the account? In addition, I have 5% positions in V and BAC. Over exposed to financials period? I am a retired conservative investor who would ideally prefer to have good dividend with some growth. I have substantial gains in all financials mentioned.

Thank you for your great service.

Tom

Q: Could you comment on results ?

Q: I wish to iniate a position in gold. What do you believe is the best investment at this time? Would it be Agnico Eagle as you have chosen for your balanced fund or is there a different investment.?Perhaps an ETF OR Franco Nevada. Others?
Thank-you for your appreciated guidance.

Q: Hello
Would you please tell me where I can find the Screener-Tax- Loss selling list of companies.
Thank you

Q: hi, does this company have a manageable debt level if nat gas stays low for a couple more years? thanx

Q: While it is true FFH has had an annual compound return of 18% since inception. 1985, the lions share of that return was created between 1985 and 1998.
Since then , a shareholder who

bought FFH In 1998 has had an annual compound return of less than 1% a year. ( 540.00 1998 )
600.00 2018.
How would you judge this performance??

Q: Please let me know what is the short interest on CPG and TCW. Thank you

Q: Hi Peter amd staff
Today’s worry to me is PEO- what’s up? Even on days when market has a brief rally this thing is going down ?
Dennis

Q: Premium Brands (PBH.TO) said Tuesday that the Toronto Stock Exchange has approved its proposed repurchase of up to 1.7 million common shares, representing 5% of public float, starting Nov. 22 until Nov. 21, 2019.

Daily purchases will be limited to 26,256 shares.

Q: You have SPB in your income portfolio.I have it in my RRSP for the dividend which is now 6.87%.Is the dividend safe?
Would you prefer MX which yields 2.1%? Both stocks have dropped with the recent downturn and both are considered buys by TD.

Q: Could you please suggest 2-3 US not technology stocks to buy after this decline.

Thanks,
Milan

Q: Have to raise cash for YE withdrawal from my RIF. These are the smallest holding and are under water. Would you please rank them as to which you recommend to sell. Your input is appreciated. Thank you.
Werner

Q: Why the sudden drop of preferred reset shares?
Thanks

Q: Your answered to a member about BBI merger that larger is usually better. I bought BBI at 47cents, I want to average down at current price 22 cents. please provide details cash flow, debt and earnings, is it worth holding and share price will appreciated in 3-5 years? could I have your expert opinions please. Thanks always.

Q: Thank you again for this excellent service. I have a question about Savaria. In their most recent quarterly results, for the 9 months ended September 2018, stock-based compensation is $899K on $12.9M income. If I have done my calculation correctly, the stock-based compensation is about 7% of expenses. I do not know how to find the base salaries for the management (which would presumably further increase the management cost for the firm).
Is this not a lot excessive? Should I be concerned about the "cost" of management and how this cost could dilute shares or profits?
Thank-you

Q: I have owned shares of GSY for a number of years. Despite what I thought were very positive quarterly results and a strong outlook, GSY shares have taken a steep drop in the last few weeks. I noticed that insiders have made 35 buys (and no sells) totalling several million dollars in the last two weeks. I would think this is very significant news especially given that the President said on the conference call said that he did not feel that the company had credit quality issues (which seems to be a concern flagged by analysts). In previous conference calls, I have always found the President to be very transparent. Am I missing something here? If management uses their own money to buy millions of dollars of the stock, is this a strong signal that the stock is undervalued?
If you agree, is there any site you can go to which identifies the recent buying by management of the company stock, and presents the information in a table format?
Also, the Globe and Mail often does an article highlighting insider buys. I have not seen the GSY purchases identified, yet, they highlight much lesser insider buys. Any idea why? Is the data on the 5i website more current than other sources?

Thank you again for this wonderful service!

Q: Ala fixed rate preferred shares look interesting. Which series of preferred look most attractive. Given that preferred share dividend must be paid before common it would appear that their yield of between 5.5 and 6.75 should be relatively safe.

Q: Hello 5i,

Thank you for the great work and your valued perspective through this volatility. How would you rank stocks within the Forestry sector today for an investor with a 3-5+ year hold?

The sector is looking interesting to me based on the present weakness in U.S. housing. WEF is up significantly today and your perspective on long-term opportunities in the sector is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

G