Investment Q&A

Q: These mostly gas names are down significantly lately, and yet Gas is mostly holding a tight range. Are the earnings expected to be down significantly for Nat gas companies

Q: Hello 5i
Would appreciate your current 6 top picks in oil and gas producers. 3 gas and 3 oil preferably.
Many thanks
Les

Q: I'm starting an income portfolio. What do you think of 5% in each of the above? Thanks.

Q: hello 5i:
I'm looking at a possible upgrade for our portfolio, as almost all energy names are down (and substantially), to date. Please rank the following, best to worst, using dividend, safety and growth in that order as criteria. This is a long term hold, so > 3 years. And would ALA be a better fit in the Utilities sector than energy?
thanks
Paul L

Q: Hello 5i
I hold the above 4 companies in a taxable account that are down approx. 25%. I would like to sell to take a tax loss against future capital gains, and repurchase after 30 days. What might you suggest deploying the funds into in the mean time to still keep the sector allocation?
Thank you
Les

Q: Hi Team 5i,

I have been patiently awaiting the recovery of the O&G sector. I am under water on the list of 9 stocks listed. I have been patient and have harvested dividends and DRIPed in the meantime (bank brokerage DRIPing). But with the current US admin and shift to renewable energy sources, I am concerned that the recovery may be a long time (decades ?) away. My question is ... if I chose to sell a few of the above stocks, which do you think might be the poorist performers given the current energy environment and therefore could have the longest time to recover).

Q: Hi5i,
Which of these companies would you prefer at this time or would there be a better choice in this space.
Thanks Dave,

Q: Hi Team, I am down 24% on a half position of Peyto. I like the company and the dividend for income. Is now a good time to add another half position? Do you think the dividend is sustainable? Thanks
Gary

Q: What is your opinion of Cenovus? Or do you have a more preferred energy name?

Q: These low cost gas producers are down 30% plus in the last months, Is there a valid reason for this, as they both appear to be well hedged, and profitable. Is it a market access problem, or just a sector drop ?

Thanks

Q: Hi Peter, I do not have any energy in my portfolio of a 1mill portfolio, like divs, practically all my stocks, Reits, etfs pay divs. Have been looking at the above ones and would like ask you to rank them by safety of div and growth. Will appreciate your advise, as to oil prices(??),perhaps a better choice. Many thanks. J.A. P. Burlington

Q: Please comment on most recent result and your comfort level moving forward.

Q: I bought a full position on Friday. What are your thoughts ? How sustainable is the dividend ? Thanks.

Q: If I where to pull the trigger on one which would you prefer at this time and why. I know you like both maybe for different reasons ? VET had a good run in the past year PEY has not but it is moving today ? Hold SU,WCP,IPL for 6% of pf.
Thanks for the insight !

Q: Good morning, my energy exposure CPG,SU,WCP,IPL.Thinking of selling CPG and buying PEY giving my portfolio gas exposure and almost double the dividend.TD,Royal and Scotia have a target of around 45$ for PEY which is a very nice upside.Still like it ?Or would VET be better/safer ?
I started looking in deeper at the metrics, so many ! Which ones do you consider most to base your preference on a stock. Noticed that RRX has a very high netback, low debt.

Q: Hello, I have a question regarding the bounce back potential/probability of some of my energy stocks. Irregardless of the rest of my portfolio.

since the recent peak in stock values I now have a drop in these:

Sgy 23% down
Rrx 24% "
Pey 29% "
Vet. 12% "
Hwo 6% "

I've done exceeding well on all, especially sgy. Consistently however 5i lists Sgy well below vet in terms of "likeing it".

Considering selling half of my 150,000 shares of Sgy and plugging into one of the others.

What are your thoughts? If Trump/border issues clear up and oil gains, how would you list these stocks in likelihood of gaining the most by percentage? And, is "by percentage" the intelligent way to view this?

Side request - could you refrain from short forms of industry lingo. I read many answers you provide members and between typos and lingo I'm sometimes lost as to your meaning.

Many thanks, 5i has been the number one reason my portfolio has been a success. It's greatly appreciated.

Dave

Q: Just a comment re the recent Peyto question and answer. If I recall correctly, one of the issues facing Peyto is the increasing difficulty of getting pipeline space to get their product to market.

Q: Hi Peter and Staff
Eric Nuttall was far less than charitable this week on BNN discussing Peyto. Comments about CIBC also down on it this week saying dividend is not sustainable . Comments?
Thanks for all you do
Dennis

Q: I'm starting to question why I should keep holding-on to "Peyto" for its 4.7% dividend. Natural gas lost of lot of ground and Equity Clock shows that seasonally it goes much lower during the end of summer. What concerns me the most is this: Could PeyTo be impacted by Trump's BAT? GameHost has a 5% dividend. If what I want is income and insulation from the Trump's trade war, is that a smart switch?

Q: Peyto and Alta gas have fallen lately for different reasons. How secure is their dividend, and their price ? Which one would you rate better for a 5 -10 year hold ?