skip to content
  1. Home
  2. >
  3. Investment Q&A
You can view 3 more answers this month. Sign up for a free trial for unlimited access.

Investment Q&A

Not investment advice or solicitation to buy/sell securities. Do your own due diligence and/or consult an advisor.

Q: Hi 5i,

What do you guys think about the recent financing of bam.a? This is a stock I have been looking to buy for a while. I am looking to perhaps sell home capital and replacing it with brookfield. I am a little cautious about valuation however, all the great stocks are always expensive.
Thanks for the great job, and keep doing those blogs!!
Read Answer Asked by Marie on April 21, 2015
Q: Hi guys. Please give me a Canadian equivalent etf which will protect against Cdn $ appreciation against U.S. dollar
Read Answer Asked by Richard on April 21, 2015
Q: Could you please sequence the below stocks taking into account Macro factors, sector, industry and most important company specific factors.
Using roughly the following criteria:
1 capital preservation
2 Dividend yield and growth prospects
3 quality of management
4 recession resistant ( some )

CHR.UN
DRG.UN
CAR.UN
LW.UN
MBK.UN
AW.UN
BEP.UN
CHE.UN
ECI.UN
ENB.UN
PZA
WIR.UN
ALA.UN
I own some of the above but adding would not be an overweigh issue. I am overweight energy.
Comments would also be appreciated
thanks
Yossi



Read Answer Asked by JOSEPH on April 21, 2015
Q: Peter,
Carmanah want to issue 40% of the existing float, will ask shareholder approval (done deal, of course...) get insiders to buy 500000 shares that (i think) will be sold immediately to the brokers as kindle for shorts. I called the CFO who was "surprised" by my call. This deal I do not like, but as usual I could be very wrong or not. This is a company that I have followed for 13 years and had his share of hiccups but riding the solar wave has given the new CFO wings to call Canacord, Comark (upgraded the stock to to pick 03/31..) and Salman (upgraded the stock from 3.15 to 4.6 0n march 5th..)as underwriters.
Are we facing down the road the days of reckoning or is this regular business deal.
Your experienced judgement will be appreciated.

Read Answer Asked by claude on April 21, 2015
Q: Guys,

Great service, I've only been a subscriber for a few days but have got more out of this then any other newsletter/board I've ever found. My question is on Biosyent- within the past week a second analyst has began covering the stock and has in my opinion very low EPS/Revenue estimates for 2016. Do you know who recently picked up coverage and what reasons they gave for estimates significantly below Cantor's? Thank you!
Read Answer Asked by Chad on April 21, 2015
Q: Would appreciate your opinion on the opportunity for growth of this company
Thxs
Wayne
Read Answer Asked by wayne on April 21, 2015
Q: I am helping my 82 year old father-in-law to do some self-directed investing (after talking him into selling some higher MER mutual funds). He is risk adverse and has always been in bond funds for safety. So I have him only in bond ETF's CBO, CLF, XBB, and a REIT ETF: ZRE. All held in his RIFF, TFSA and unregistered accounts (the majority unregistered). Is this strategy considered 'safe' with interest rates threatening to rise -or does he need more diversity? Would some small allocation in solid stocks increase risk or increase safety through diversity? Other ideas for his mix? These are pretty well his entire assets other than CPP and OAS income?
Thanks for your excellent site!
Paul
Read Answer Asked by Paul on April 21, 2015
Q: I see that you have included DHX in your growth portfolio. I bought at $2.25 and sold around $8.60. What is your view of DHX now that they have lost the Disney contract? Is it a good time to get back in and what are DHX's growth prospects? A couple of years back, there was speculation DHX may be a takeover candidate by, eg. Netflix. What is your view on possible takeovers? Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Ron and Irena on April 21, 2015
Q: Hi. I have some money to place until i want to but some stocks please couldyou tell me where i CAN place this money in some etf canadian or us whit relative l'y some sécurité should i try Hedg or not Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Denis on April 21, 2015
Q: With oil prices stabilizing or increasing, what are the implications of the reduction in the high fuel margin tailwind that resulted from falling fuel prices? Is recent weakness just profit taking or is this part of the reaction to high multiples in the consumer staples sector. I have reduced my position from 28% to 17% over the last few months. Would you recommend reducing some more? To what level?

THanks,
Hans
Read Answer Asked by Hans on April 21, 2015
Q: To Denis' message about the Verizon spin-off from Vodaphone, I am in the same situation. He would have received a T5 covering the dividend 'amount' as I did.
The same thing happened the year before with my Abbott shares when the company spun off Abbvie. In that case, Abbott actually offered shareholders the Election option to defer the dividend but I got a T5 anyway and the CRA taxed me accordingly. I'm still trying to contact them about that since I submitted all the relevant paperwork with my return.
Perhaps another member with accounting expertise would care to comment?

Sorry I didn't post this sooner.

Molly
Read Answer Asked by Molly on April 21, 2015
Q: Thank you for the article on Preferred Shares. My former advisor at RBC-DS did not explain 90% of what was in your article. I lost a significant amount on the preferred shares he sold me. My question is this: Generally, at large brokerage firms, what kind of behind-the-scene commissions or "incentives" do advisors earn for flogging preferreds?
Read Answer Asked by Helen on April 21, 2015
Looking for more? Sign up for a FREE 14 day trial! No credit card required

We invite you to sign up for a 14 day free trial of 5i Research!
Experience all the benefits and tools we have to offer; stock research, model portfolios, Q&A with our experts, and so much more. Join a community of like-minded investors today!