Investment Q&A

Q: What is your opinion of this company today?
Thanks for all you do.

Q: BIR has been moving up YTD, more than TOU. Would you take this opportunity to take a loss and switch to TOU?
You said Yes to a similar question in June, but could BIR be a takeover target, how probable? Thanks

Q: Good day 5i. Which of these two energy dividend companies would you prefer, PrairieSky Royalty (PSK) or Freehold Royalties (FRU). Currently the dividends are PSK 3.5% and Freehold 7.6%. Thanks.

Q: your opinion on vle please.
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Q: With the decision today that the ICSID refused to hear Transcanada’s case, what do you think the impact on the stock price will be?

Q: I need to decrease my energy and energy related exposure. Thinking of the next 3 years, can you recommend 2 stocks from this list to sell? Or am I better off to just sell a portion of each one?
SU CNQ TOU ARX ENB TRP PKI
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Q: your view on kei please
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Q: Calfrac Well Services crossed my screen. Can you give me an in depth analysis in this stock, insider buying, financial ratios, management , and industry. Will it ever catch up to Precision Drilling’s success? what do you like or dislike about it ? Buy , sell or hold?

Q: hello 5i,

looking for your ideas re : a few ETF recommendations.
1. One would be for US defense holdings.
2. Agricultural, either international or N. American.
if there are individual stocks that would better than an ETF by all means please advise.
thanks so much.
Ralph
Hi 5i,

Second half of question. Could you please recommend one or two ETF's covering the following categories.
1. A pure play natural gas ETF.
2. Any basket ETF covering the Honk Kong exchange?
You guys are the best!
Thanks,
Ralph

Q: Tourmaline has been on a slide recently. I am looking for a bounce and will be selling my position and would have thought the excessive heat in the US and parts of Canada would have supported the price of Nat Gas and thus Tou. That hasn’t happened.
Could you provide your opinion on the short term, 3-6 months, price of Nat Gas and Tourmaline’s stock price?

Q: What is the path forward for CLS . Still a buy or wait for earnings to come out? Would like your opinion on the big drop in natural gas prices? Thank you.

Q: I am retired and in an income based RRSP your thoughts on switching ARC, SUNCOR and TOPAZ to the higher yielding EMAX and or ENCC

Q: I am underweight in resources, thinking TVE or WCP...your thoughts on which of these two and perhaps a couple of US midcaps recc...thank you for all that you do.

Q: I currently own SPB in a lost position and wondered if you would add to it or would prefer to sell SPB and buy CNQ? This is for a RRSP account.

Thanks

Q: Hi, I am down quite bit on this one. What is your favourite midcap at this time to replace it with. Thanks and Greetings, Peter.

Q: I have a research report for North American O&G producers, large or SMID. It includes the following ‘scatter plot’ graphs.

• EV/EBITDA vs 2025E Levered FCF Yield
• EV/EBITDA vs 2025E D/CF
• EV/EBITDA vs 2025E ROCE
• 2025 CFPS vs Strip & Consensus

How would you rank or use these graphs to evaluate a company ? Thanks.

Q: Arx. Has been weak since mid April..thoughts?

Q: What is the estimated cash flow for 2024, in CDN?
Is the recent departure of an executive all that significant?
This one has really been drifting lower.

Q: Electrification seems to be a big theme going forward. Can you suggest some companies, large and small cap, and any utilities that stand to benefit the most from this . I would assume Hammond would be a beneficiary.

Q: I have a variety of questions about WCP. First, of course one cannot complain about its very healthy dividend but the share price has languished for quite some time. Can you offer any insight as to why the share price is not pushed higher given the attractive yield?

Second, many commentators refer to O & G companies enjoying substantial cash flows, that many companies are paying down debt at a rapid rate, and that once paid down the companies will return surplus to shareholders in one form or another. What is the state of WCP’s balance sheet in this regard....do they have much debt? Is it being paid down at a rapid rate or does the dividend use up a lot of its cash flow? And if they are paying down debt, when will it be done and what do you think they might do with surplus cash, given its already healthy dividend?

Third, last week there was a headline about WCP doing a sale of part of an asset with Pembina, but it seems most of the sale proceeds were going to a Pembina subsidiary to further the operations of the asset. Is that correct, or can you discern exactly what is going on? And regardless, what does this transaction mean to WCP’s prospects going forward?

One company but lots of different issues. Many thanks for your excellent service.