Investment Q&A

Q: Hello 5i,
Exchange Income Corp (EIF) has grown its dividend consistently over the past 5 years. How stable is the company? What is the payout ratio?

Have you had this in the income portfolio since the portfolio's inception?

Andrew

Q: As of today, what are your top 10 (5 USA, 5 Canadian) dividend yielding company's that you would invest in for a 5 year horizon. Thank you once again

Q: I am looking for a good Canadian high dividend ETF. VDY seems to have the best performance following the FTSE Canada High Dividend Yield Index. Can you tell me a bit more about the latter index and stocks are selected. I know the CDZ, also has some set criteria for selecting stocks based on dividend payment history. Thank you in advance for your comments!

Q: With utilities, I believe 5i likes BEP best for management and outlook for the future, but based on current price, which of the above 5 energy stocks represents the best value? For my own learning, I would appreciate knowing what main metrics you are using to determine value?
Thanks!!

Q: Looks like LNF beat estimates and the stock really took of..(sigh). Can you please comment on results. Did I read correctly they currently have $400 m FCF and how this compares to the industry?

Q: What's your opinion on the recent earnings, do you consider any upside from here on the company thx

Q: Please comment on NPI earnings. Is the growth there for the next few years? Would you pick BEP or NPI for future growth?

Q: Greetings:
Not a question, just a comment. I read with great interest, the ideas
and truth put forward by KEITH on the BULLY tactics being used
by Bip in their unwanted meddling. We all understand that the market
is the market, but the shareholders have taken a reduced dividend
and now when energy is turning the corner they are trying to steal it. I have a large holding in IPL for many years, and all we can do is try to make other shareholders aware of what is happening. I talked to IPL investor relations today about it , and I would suggest that others do the same. Thanks for printing this.
BEN.

Q: Greetings 5i team,
I am looking to sell my shares in IPL (hopefully at a higher bid than currently offered by Brookfield Infrastructure) and replace them with another pipeline company. I can either add to my current position in ENB, or put the money into TRP. Can you please compare the balance sheet strength of both companies, future growth prospects, and dividend growth prospects? ENB recently raised its dividend by 3%, while TRP raised its dividend by 7%. Is TRP the better income stock moving forward? I'm a long-term investor with a 10-yr + investment horizon.
Many thanks,
Brian

Q: Hi Peter, Ryan, and Team,

Would you attribute Algonquin's 'relative weakness' compared to Brookfield Renewable Partners due to Algonquin's Texas exposure? Is Fortis in a similar situation as Algonquin? Please rank these stocks, with a rationale for your choices. Thanks in advance.

Q: Hi There
Thanks for your informed service.
I have had Chorus in my unregistered account for some time and enjoyed the dividend that it had. Now that there is no dividend and the price has recovered somewhat, I am thinking of selling it and putting it into other monthly dividend payers that I hold. I was thinking splitting up the proceeds ($25,000) into DIV, EIF, NXR, SPB, and DIR.UN. I am looking at income (being retired) and want relatively safe dividends. Chorus had none and who knows where it will be a year from now. Why not put it to work in these monthly payers? Are there any in the group you would not put any of the proceeds into and would it be best just to add $5000 to each or would you put more into one. This is a small portion of my holdings and the above stocks represent between 2%-5% of my holdings.
Thanks for your help
Kevin

Q: Good Day Team,
I have held BCE for a few years now and bought it at 59.99.
Certainly doesn't seem to be very exciting to hold it seems. Any advise and whether to hold or sell?

Thank you,
John

Q: I fully understand the risks associated with borrowing money to invest and I've been working towards being in a financial position for quite some time (thank you for the great advice over the years) to comfortably initiate a leveraged portfolio. My objective is to create a portfolio that generates a decent income to cover carry costs, have some growth and allow me to sleep at night over the next 5-7 years. What 10 positions would you recommend?

Q: The utility stocks appear to be moving out of favour. Is this a good time to add, or has their softening only just begun. I realize it's a market-timing question, so maybe the question is better framed as: on the whole, are Canadian utility stocks running below or ahead of their average levels, whether based on FCF, PE, or some other more relevant metric?
Thanks very much...

Q: Can I get your thoughts on AQN’s recent release detailing the weather impacts in Texas. How significant is the impact, will we see a significant decline in share price and if so would you see the decline as a buying opportunity. Thanks.

Q: good afternoon,
These 3 companies from the income portfolio offer outsized yields. Also have 5% in Telus. Want to increase my position from 3 to 5 % in BCE. Telecom are out of favor right now but wondering about the future what will weigh more on BCE rising rates or recovery? The goal is to free cash for growth stocks.
Thanks !

Q: I am considering adding Power Corp to the income portion of my portfolio as a partial replacement for my overweight position in BCE.  The primary reason for considering POW is that I feel that there may be significant value through their ownership of Wealthsimple.  Are you able to quantify the Wealthsimple value within POW given their rapid growth rate and more than $9 billion in AUM?   Do you think that they are sitting on other spinoff possibilities, similar to the Lion Electric IPO? (that I understand added close to $3.00 per share value to POW).  And perhaps most importantly, do you feel that management is motivated to act to surface value for shareholders?  (they don't appear to have been in the past).
Thank you.

Q: Hi Peter and team, Just thought I would ask about the ethical aspects of this so called hostile take-over? In my mind BIPC only with the support of BAM.a and BUFFALO AQUISITION CORP. aka BIF IV (looks like a shell company to me that) are trying to BULLY in here on long suffering shareholders of IPL. Let me try to put this in perspective, IPL has spent nearly four years and nearly four billion dollars engineering, designing, procuring, and constructing and world scale propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene (PP) facility, all to the boohoos of the so-called "investment community". The projected increase to IPL's EBITDA is estimated to increase by $400million to $500 million (a double), not including the recent increase in PP prices. Do you think IPL could get one good word out of anyone? Nope, they all stayed clear, even after IPL raised $700 million with the sale of 50% their Europe storage assets. Now IPL is self funding the project thru to it's completion (which significantly de-risks the project from a monetary point of view. Last CC management shared they are ramping up for testing and commissioning which looks like PDH should be up and chugging along by summer. I've been working in the energy industry for 42 years and can share, that a typical approach is to use IP, from patented chemical processes and copyrighted proprietary equipment that is proven. This isn't rocket science. What recourse do shareholders have considering BIPC aka BIF IV have acted unethically by acquiring an additional 10% of IPL without disclosing this to anyone? Who are the responsible authorities that should be looking into this? I would like to thank BIP for acknowledging the new facility has a great business plan as well as PPL ,as they have an almost exact replica (delayed by COVID19) planned in next year.

Q: Hi Peter, further to my previous question, Please advise what you have (and your source) for the short positions for the above equities. I have:
BAM.A=1.32%
BIP.UN=0.62%
BIPC=1.56%
IPL=0.00%
PPL=0.84%

Thanks

Q: Hi, I purchased EIX end of March 2020 for its div and for some stock price upside. My research at the time showed it to be a solid company with decent dividend and earnings growth. Aside from its nice dividend the stock price has languished for the year and div growth not great but analyst seem to forecast price still in the 80.00 range. I noticed you had 1 Question about it awhile ago and you seemed to like it. Can you give me your analysis please?