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Q: Which Canadian Banks or near banks have the least exposure to investment banking and other capital markets?
Read Answer Asked by Murray on October 24, 2022
Q: Good Morning,

Thank you for the ongoing sage commentary.

Would you mind providing 3-4 dividend stocks with growth potential that are cheap at the moment?

Thank you
Read Answer Asked by Delbert on October 24, 2022
Q: hello 5i:
reviewing previous questions from members, I take it that TOU and CNQ would be your two favourite energy companies with diversification for oil and nat gas. Is that correct?

Can you reiterate the yields of these two (including the special dividends) and your take on the sustainability of the dividends? Are debt levels moving down? Are these two cheap on a last 5year comparison (PE, earnings yield, P/S, P/FCF and enterprise value)?
thanks
Paul L
Read Answer Asked by Paul on October 24, 2022
Q: Hello Peter,
Algonquin Power has a current dividend rate of. 6.72 percent given the current price of 14.55 cdn according to yahoo. Does this rate include the conversion to Canadian currency. I was thinking of buying AQN over Canadian Apartment Reit mostly due to the dividend (6.7 percent vs 3.53). I know it is not an apples to apples but from an upside both seem to be the same, approximately 30 percent. If you do think it is worth diversifying, is there another reit that pays high dividend but is considered stable. Thanks very much
Read Answer Asked by umedali on October 20, 2022
Q: Hello 5i folks,
We are wondering what comments you have on the news we read in the local newspaper this morning concerning Fortis having avoided 2.2 billion in taxes over the last 5 years. The report was released by 'Canadians for Tax Fairness'.
We own Fortis shares and wonder if it is really the great company we think it is?
Thank you, Len
Read Answer Asked by Len on October 20, 2022
Q: Hello,
Could you please briefly list what you like and don’t like about these for income and preservation of capital? What’s your favourite utility? Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Carlo on October 18, 2022
Q: Hi Everyone at 5i!!!! I have a TFSA with a goodly amount of Tech stocks, Shop. Light speed , unity software, Crowdstrike NVDA etc… most of which are in the tank. So my thinking is to just hang on for five plus years in hopes of recovery. I see no sense in selling because the realized losses would cause severe heartburn. The TFSA also has half of its value in divided paying stocks .. banks , Fortis,.. etc. So now my question… would you suggest I reinvest the dividends in the beaten up tech stocks in anticipation of a comeback or reinvest the dividends into their source stocks. I am newly retired but don’t need the money and hopefully not for quite a while . Cheers, Tamara
Read Answer Asked by Tamara on October 17, 2022
Q: AMT has been beaten down badly. I have some funds in US $ that I thought I should put to work. This should be fairly recession resilient but will sharply higher interest rates hurt this company when they have any of their substantial debt coming up for renewal? I am never sure what drags down the value of utilities, telcos, reits, etc when interest rates go up. Is it the fact that TINA is no longer true or is it the big debt loads become too big when they have to be renewed at higher rates? Or is it a combo of the two? AMT has not had a particularly high dividend at least recently so I am not sure the TINA effect applies in this situation. What is your take?
Read Answer Asked by Paul on October 16, 2022