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Q: As the SOXX, iShares PHLX Semiconductor ETF is approaching it's all time high, PHO is bouncing along close to it's 52 week low. I understand the lag in spending from the semi companies showing up in PHO earnings, though it seems to me investors are paying up for forward earnings in semi companies but not PHO? Are similar companies to PHO experiencing the same fate or is this company specific? Do you have examples of similar companies to share?
Read Answer Asked by Charles on September 09, 2019
Q: could you give me more details about how these debentures work?
with a price around 129 $, what is the current yield?
Are they trading is US or CAD ?
I understand that at the end of march of each year the company can announce that they redeem them in a 5 year period. Hypothetically, lets say I buy them today at 129$ and on March 31th 2020 they announce the will rebuy them (at par, so @100$ ) in march 2025. What would be the reaction of the market on the next day. Would the price slowly goes down on a 5 year period ?
What influence the debenture price ? (how CSU is going, interest rate, something else)?
I also have 5 % in my portfolio in CSU, if I had debentures up to 5 %, would you see that as a concentration risk ?
Would you have a few similar products to suggest in other quality companies ?
Read Answer Asked by Olivier on September 09, 2019
Q: Hello Team,
Made money with many recommendations but couple of tsunami like COV and TSGI wipe off most of the gain. How could I have managed better in terms of adhering to 5i advise and holding on to these losers longer than should have been? now these two stocks off the charts from the portfolios.
hope this will help many other members who are in the same boat as I am.
Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Pradip on September 09, 2019
Q: LGO, at 1.37 is close to its 52 low. The chart/ trend is ugly.... definitely not my friend :( BUT according to RBC it is cheap at 6xe .... and has a Morningstar "Undervalued" rating with a FMV of $2.05 (~50% upside). All of this has me thinking that this is a good time to add to a losing current position.
Could I have your current thoughts on LGO given its continuing presence in the 5i Growth Portfolio.

Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Donald on September 02, 2019
Q: RBC shows fair market value of $41.37...would you concur with this valuation with a pe of 59.6 and pb 1.4x and roe of 2.28 and total debt of 11.38%...but a profit of 5.28% .. eps growth of 92.7% sales growth of 45.16% and income growth of 60.18%...these numbers seem all over the map ...also would you still remain positive on growth at todays price of $25.31...thanks for great service...gene
Read Answer Asked by gene on September 02, 2019
Q: I am reformatting my spreadsheets to line up with the 5i format and have a couple of questions using the Balanced Portfolio for July as a reference:
1. Where it says "1 Year -6.6%" does that mean total calendar year for 2018?
2. Under the "Calendar " column where it says " 2018 -13.2%" - does that mean trailing 12 month period (i.e. July 1, 2017 - July 30, 2018)?

Thanks for your help here.
Read Answer Asked by Donald on September 02, 2019
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