Investment Q&A

Q: What is your opinion on the following trades:

I have 800 IPL shares and no MTL in my RIF acct.

I sell 500 IPL and buy 400 MTL?

Thank you.
Albert

Q: Good Morning Peter,

Wanted to say thanks to Martin for the stock screening app suggestion & to your team as well.

Could you recommend an ETF for the following

1) Canadian Junior Natural Gas ETF

2) Canadian Junior Oil ETF

3) Canadian Junior Precious Metal ETF

Additional comment as to why you would recommend the above would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you...Gordon

Q: What is your opinion on agrium? Is it going much lower? Thank you linda

Q: Hi Peter & Team, Surge Energy (SGY) has a yield now of just about 9%. Its getting me concerned as i think the share price needs to appreciate so that the yield is lowered. Your thoughts?

Thank,Ilesh

Q: http://dividendhistory.org/

Pretty decent website that documents all the dividend increases for companies on the tsx. A little more user friendly and objective (no opinions, just numbers) than the previous website suggested by a fellow 5i subscriber.

On the right hand side of the homepage there is a "symbol search" field. Enter in the stock symbol and the company's name appears. Click on the company's name and you'll get a historic account of the dividend's paid by the company. Very useful i find.

Q: Hello 5i,

this is not a question but a comment regarding websites with dividend increases for Canadian companies.

Go to : http://www.dividendblogger.com/dividend-increases/

Not an endorsement but the only site that has this info that I am aware of.

Thanks for the great site!

Randy D.

Q: I currently hold WPK. Is it worthwhile to switch to CCL.B or just hold on to WPK at this time. Taxes are not an issue.

Q: You have mentioned in the past that it is best to wait at least an hour from the market opening before you start trading in order to get an more accurate read on the market. I was wondering, in the same vein, if the overseas markets give any indication as to the direction the North American markets will take. Do the overseas ones "follow" North America, lead North America or not have any connection at all. For all the reliance analysts put on what happens in China, it seems to me there is almost no connection to what their markets do and the North American ones do.

Thanks.

Paul F.

Q: Hi 5i,
Can you provide any comments and insight on the offer to Enercare (ECI)? What are the chances of it going through and if it doesnt would it be bad for the share price for a while? It doesnt seem like enercare management is cooperative.

Thanks!

Q: do you know anything about hyduke hyd. dave

Q: Hi Peter, as asked by Gordon today I use an app on my iPad called Real Time stock tracker downloaded from the App Store for $9.99. It has many good features to follow your portfolio, the market, has a stock screener and many other good features to give an overview of the market. The main news portion is slanted towards the USA but news for each Canadian stock you enter is specific to that stock. I use it daily to follow the market as an adjunct to my bank investment info and 5i research info. Please note that I do not know how it works or if it is available for other tablets. Stay healthy and keep the cadence high!

Q: Hi Peter and 5I what are your thoughts IShares ETF XEI and would you buy at this time
Thanks Murray

Q: I'm the type of investor who looks for stocks of good companies that have hit a rough patch and that everybody avoids as a result. I'm inclined to think that Whole Foods Market (WFM) is just such a company. It continues to generate higher and higher revenues and profits. Yet, its share price has fallen considerably and its P/E ratio is now around 27 (compared to the high thirties last year). Have your thoughts about the company changed since your comment last November?

Q: Your comments on the latest financing from RMM.un thanks

Q: Any comments for Canadian Mining Company? v.cng It's engaged in mining high quality zeolites in BC. There may be a growing market for zeolites.

Q: Hello, I hold smaller positions in GUD and E as a portion of an overall well balanced portfoio. Do you see any problems with either, they seem to be going down or sideways for some time.
Reasons, or just overall summer doldrums? Thanks, Lavern
p.s. Hope you are fully recovered for your quickly approaching ride. Best of Luck!

Q: I own CXS-T counsel corp and have aquired shares of HGP Heritage Global Inc. These were transfered over at .725 per share in April. The price is now .43 per share. Should I sell these?
Thank you

Q: Hi,

Do you like any of Difference Capital, RB Energy or New Millenium Iron, and if you had to choose one would you have a pereference?

Also you you look at purchases by insiders under a plan the same as purchases in the open market?

Thanks,

R

Q: Hi 5i team,

I am working on getting a more diversified portfolio in my non-registered accounts when I add new money. According to RBC Direct Investing I have 0% utilities, 0% industrials, and 45.1% in energy.

It seems that you consider ENB, IPL, and PPL as utilities. Is that correct? If that is the case then utilities make up 22.9% of my portfolio, and energy is 22.2%. Still too high I suppose.

I would like to add some dividend paying industrial stocks that would make up around 5% of my portfolio. What industrial stocks do you recommend at this time? [I guess STN and BAD] Is there a seasonally good time to buy industrial stocks? I can wait if there is.

Note: If I recall you classify BAD as an industrial stock, yet TMX lists it in the energy sector. Sometimes it's difficult to figure out sector allocation when some stocks get classified differently depending on the site you use.

Paul

Q: Can you explain the cause for the sharp drop in the stock down 15% July 16 for. First Republic Bank
FRC New York exchange . This followed what seem to be pretty good quarterly results .
I bought this bank on a recommendation recently by someone who was on BNN .
Thanks. Rick