Investment Q&A

Q: For a single gold stock at 5% of a TFSA, would you pick FNV or AEM, and why?

Jack

Q: Record(?) or near-record free cash flow of $760M, $2B in additional buybacks announced. Bought back ~$750M of stock since Feb 2024 (~2% of shares outstanding). Gold currently ~$300/oz higher than their average selling price in Q3 of $2518. Surely slightly higher costs aren't that important in the context of the gold price being so strong and the large buybacks.

The old adage is to date the mining companies and marry the royalty companies. Is now a good entry to start dating Newmont?

Q: Do you recommend buy, hold or sell?

Q: this company seems to have a deposit that no one cares about . Is it just a loser or is there other mitagating factors like undrip affecting developement ?

Q: Hello 5i team,

For our TFSA, we hold AEM & ABX and RRSP - FCX long term over 5 years or so. We try to keep to 3 names max and keep trimming them down.

I appreciate having your thought on switching to PAAS / WPM or sell them all off and switching to energy/ energy services like OXY, BEPC, CNQ. We already have Enbridge, TC & Pembina in our portfolio for income. Thank you

Q: Still sitting on a pile of NDM shares now going on 8 years. From my perspective at the current valuation not worth selling at all but I notice it is inching upwards recently. Has anything changed ? or is this pure speculation that the Donald might interfere if elected.

Q: Hello Team,

Can I get your thoughts on Gold over the next few years. I currently have about 3% of my portfolio in Gold stocks and thinking about increasing to 5-6%.

Where do you think the market in general will price Gold stocks? Do you see an "AI" type frenzy at all coming with gold prices heading towards $3000. I feel most companies are under priced/valued.

Can you give me your top 3-4 high growth gold stocks.

Thanks.

Q: hello
it has dropped to a support level of 9.7
I wonder what is a good entry point to take a half position in this
stock for copper?
thanks
Michael

Q: Good Day,

Edit: I got to the end of this and realize there is a lot to unpack here. My apologies and please forgive the transient nature of my ADD brain. Take however many credits you need.

I really enjoyed Jonathans question and your subsequent answer on Oct 10. Continuing on that thread, I too consider myself primarily a growth investor, and have a fairly high tolerance for risk. However, in contradiction (somewhat) to that, I also Love equities with a DRIP program.

I'm planning on making a significant contribution to my RRSP investment account to hopefully capitalize on some opportunities/ tax loss selling in the end of the year, and enjoying the tax break in April.

1. I think? I have a pretty solid basket of growth names, significantly from 5i recommendations. CALF CLBT CROX MSFT NVDA POWL SMCI TCS TMDX AMZN ASPN HPS LMN TVK VRT. In the growth space, Please provide 6 recommendations (CAD, US) ranked in decreasing order of preference that you would consider beneficial to these. If any of these current positions are in a very attractive place to add, you could suggest that with a why.

2. In the dividend/DRIP space, I have DE CHE.UN ZWT BAM SU PPL. About a month ago, I sold my BEP and BNS and rolled them in to my double up my BAM, which paid off, but am considering a re-buy. Reading the questions lately, you have been big on BNS and TD, but seem to contradict yourselves on it. Often recommending BNS over TD, only to recommend to someone that holds both to cut BNS over TD if only one is to be held. Are they that close in terms of future runway/room to grow/total returns? With my Love of DRIPs, would you give the edge to BNS due to the higher dividend? Could you recommend 3 - 5 options in this space, preferably holdings that would require less than 10K (20K for very high conviction) invested to DRIP a unit. ETFs are OK with low fees and higher Dividend.

3. In Jonathans question you commented on Materials being a great addition to a growth investors portfolio as a semi uncorrelated diversification. I've held LUN and LIF in the past, but with the power demands and resurgence of Nuclear, are there better options out there? Please provide 2-3 dividend paying and up to 5 growth options in this space.

4. Is GOOG a buy here? I fully agree that the impact was way overblown. Is it worth getting into one of the 2x leverage tickers for GOOG if ones conviction is very high? Is there any company you would consider a leveraged holding on? If so, which?

Thanks for everything!!!

James

Q: Do you have any info on todays sudden pull back of 8.50 Are there any fundamental reasons to cause concern?

Q: Can I please have your view of Winshear Gold Corp?

Q: For someone who wants physical exposure to gold, is it better to buy Sprott Physical Gold Trust or Sprott Physical Gold Trust Unit? I understand that the former trades on the TSX and the latter on the NYSE. What is your preference? Thank you

Q: This has been my only gold stock but except for a nice dividend, it has gone nowhere with the price of gold skyrocketing.
I’d like to replace it with something with more torque. Any suggestions! AEM and WPM have skyrocketed. Would they still be buys? Perhaps B2gold will move next year when their mines come on stream?

Q: Peter and His Wonder Team
I am not a gold bug but I can see the reasons why it is over $2700.00 and heading for $3000.00. I have owned this company forever and am almost even. I know it is small and will move in tandem with gold. Do you think it has any potential to go a little higher or is the price of gold already baked in. So is it a hold or sell? Thanks!

Q: Hello. What are the ETFs available to trade/cover the uranium and nuclear space? Any aside from URA, HURA, URNM, NLR and NUKZ?

Can you rank the top three and provide some commentary on each? Seems like NLR is winning the year to date performance race.

Thank you.

Q: You may have answered this question before. How does one buy gold instead of gold but trades like a stock -- liquid and is 100% correlated to the price of spot gold

Q: Looking for your recommendations on buying some silver stocks large and small cap in both Canada and the US. Thank you for your great service!

Q: Would you please name a couple of your best silver stocks.
Thanks.

Q: With msft, googl and amzn going for Nuclear Power, When will NXE come on stream and how many pounds production a year, i understand it will be huge .

Is it the best play right now or are there others you prefer ? RAK

Q: Can you provide an update on this company and if it’s a good buy for the sector. Valuation etc? Thanks