Investment Q&A

Q: I am thinking about starting a position in each of these companies: PRL, DSG, CLS, WSP & KXS. Any concerns or is there anything I should be aware of before pulling the trigger? Thank you in advance for your consistently excellent counsel.

Q: From your answer to Neil’s question yesterday: “We feel the key for investors is owning a mix of names across sectors, HALO, AI-HALO, and not chasing into the latest 'hot theme' with a large weighting, but taking a measured approach to names that have long-term secular tailwinds in growth industries.” For a new long-term portfolio (5-10 years+) could you supply the sectors you are referring to and a stock or two for each sector? Thanks!

Q: Hello 5i,

We had set a target of 7,280 for the S&P to begin shuffling to a more defensive portfolio. We delayed the change as we wait for a response from Iran as there may be a small hypercycle for a couple days.

IF there is an agreement, which sectors may increase the most and other than oil is there any other sectors who may be negatively affected. We thought that fertilizer and metals may decrease with oil price declines.

Do you have a few specific stocks or etf's that could be vaulted with an agreement.

Thank you
D&J

Q: Do you have a preference between Micron, Terradyne and Celestica? If I were to purchase an equal weight for all 3 how long is the time frame for each in this AI buildout

Q: What would be a good entry point for CLS as a long term hold? It is up significantly today.

Q: What would be a good way to have exposure to IA?

Q: I have gone from Fear to FOMO with these market gyrations, and am sitting on a ~15% cash position that I am anxious to deploy given the opportunity cost I have already incurred. I am targeting the above companies with most if not all of this cash. Three questions:

1. Could you rank these holdings in terms of long term capital appreciation potential?

2. How would you recommend I deploy this cash in this market towards these holdings? Over time or just proceed at this point?

3. Which 3-5 companies would you feel the most 'urgency' with?

Q: GOOGLE, VRT and CLS need to be trimmed as they now between 15-18% each of my portfolio.

I want to trim them to 10% and reinvest.

I want to invest into other high growth stocks. In what order would you buy BE, GEV, MU and KGS if they are worth buying today for a 2-3 year hold? Do you have other recommendations? I am looking at both Canadian and US stocks.

Thanks

Q: Which of these 2 would you side with today for long term growth?

Q: Palantir seems to be lagging many other tech names recently. What is your view on Palantir and do you see this as a buying opportunity? Or are their other names you prefer?

Thanks
Tim

Q: Hyperscalers (AMZN, MSFT, GOOG, META) announced plans for a staggering, nearly one trillion dollars, of spending on AI buildout for the next year. Can you recommend a basket (5?) of companies that represent the best investments to benefit from this massive spend?

Thanks.

Q: Please rank this group for growth and risk over the next 2-3 years. Thanks for your great advice. Steve

Q: Understand size and sector differences. Adding to a diversified portfolio, + 3 % in dollars of current. What rank in order to purchase for 3-5 year hold? (I see CLS moving favourably in pre-market).

Q: This is a follow up to Dennis‘s question on the number of stocks to hold in a portfolio. You have suggested that about 20 (15-25) is all that you need. This may be correct for a conservative investor, but I feel your client base is a little bit more aggressive. Hence 20 conservative stocks, and a dozen more aggressive ones. I have used your advice to help me invest in a dozen smaller or unknown companies of which some have done great, some have done well, some are treading water and some have done poorly. I have started all these at a quarter position, which has worked well over the years. My biggest problem is knowing when to trim the great stocks as a fourfold increase only brings them to a full position. A great problem to have. Thanks for your advice over the years.

Q: Hi 5i Team,
Pls comment on Celestica 1st qtr earning result.
Thanks.

Q: What % is a good split between holding hardware vs software names? Barbell approach? Do you think the sasspocalypse is over? We've seen these names bounce off the recent lows and you have days where they are leading and days like today where sentiment swings the other way. I believe the names I hold are of good quality and can be patient while I wait for them to bounce. But then you have the opportunity cost of not buying more AI leading names with positive momentum. For example, do I sell some CSU/LMN/TOI and buy more CLS? Or sell some AXON and buy more NBIS? What would be a good approach? Thank you1

Q: My TFSA portfolio has done exceptionally well in large part due to the invaluable information and coaching provided by Peter and the rest of the 5i team since 2013. Thank you very much for helping to build our intergenerational legacy.

I plan to use a fraction of the assets in my TFSA to set up a high-growth, moderate high-risk concentrated 10 stock six-digit sub-portfolio with a 10 year time-frame and hoping for a 5-10 fold target. The idea is to select the best high conviction durable names, maximize capital gains compounding, and minimize dividend drag such as US withholding tax in the TFSA. With the help of my chatbot assistant, it looks like a base case of 17-25% annualized is required to reach the 5-10x target, even with periods of significant drawdowns and bull cases. Obviously stock selection and staying invested for the long term are key.

My initial tentative selection of 10 stocks NVDA, ASML, MSFT, AVGO, NBIS, GOOG, TSLA, CCO, NVO, and SHOP with weightings ranging from 6% to 16%

Could you please critique my strategy and the stocks selected. Suggest improvements including alternative names to consider as replacements that you feel might work better.

If you were creating such a portfolio for yourself which 10 names would you select.

Q: If YOU were starting a portfolio right now in this market, which 10 stocks (more or less in order) would you buy with pure growth on your mind? Ignore diversification for the purpose of this question. 3 - 5 year hold. Canadian or US Stocks.

A brief explanation for each.

Thanks so much!

Q: Using the baseball analogy in what inning would you say we are in as far as the buildout of data centres? With what's going on in our crazy world, would you say the build out will slow down or speed up over the next year? Finally, what would be your top 3 picks 5i investors should own if wanting to participate in data centre buildout? As always, thanks for your valuable guidance.

Q: I’m looking at starting a position in Celestica. Aggressive growth in my TFSA is the goal. One concern I have come across is the potential fraud case about Google switching suppliers. I realize these potential cases are a dime a dozen but after my recent GSY experience I am extra vigilant about potential malfeasance on the part of management, either real or imagined, as either scenario is bad for the company. Could you please offer any insight into this situation. I’m fine with short-term noise but if there’s potential for lingering issues I’d rather put the money elsewhere. Thanks for your insight.