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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
Read Answer Asked by Kevin on February 23, 2021
Q: Hi there, Happy New Year to the 5i gang.

I noticed a fair amount of insider buying on SPB , almost all of which being bought by Marquard and Bahls AG, do you know (or think) this company is merely making a large investment here or are they possibly making a creeping takeover of SPB, similar to what Brookfield does in some cases? It seems their buying is what is mostly triggering recent price gains recently.
thanks and cheers Tom
Read Answer Asked by Tom on January 13, 2021
Q: Seems there is a trend or investment opportunity to buy shares in small Canadian companies that are then acquired by US companies. What comes to mind are JPMorgan acquiring Solium Capital and Goldman Sachs putting in an offer for all of People. What other such small Canadian companies are liking to "suffer" this acquisition fate?.....Tom
Read Answer Asked by Tom on December 18, 2020
Q: Please rank these stocks in terms of safety of dividends and please provide payout ratio for each. Thank you!
Read Answer Asked by Chris on November 27, 2020
Q: I havent had much luck with this stock over time. I sold it for a loss earlier this year just before Brookfield stepped in(sigh). Re-bought in 30 days thinking there might be opportunity for SPB rolling up small biz in the states. How big is this area in the US and does SPB have credibility as a divvy growth for doing this?
Read Answer Asked by Gerald on November 05, 2020
Q: Good morning, Portfolio Analytics suggests we (as elderly seniors) lower our Utility holdings by 6.32%. Currently, we have:
AQN 3.9 %, BEPC 3.5%, BIP.UN 4.6%, H 2.2%, SPB 1.8%. Firstly is there a holding I could eliminate? If not should I just lower the larger percentages? All are in RRIFs.
Second suggestion from Analytics is to lower telecom by 3.54%. Currently have BCE 4.2%, T 3.5% and GOOG 4.2%. T and BCE are in RRIFs. GOOG is in an unregistered account. I have always looked at GOOG as technology sector. Any comments. Thanks for your expertise.
Ted
Read Answer Asked by Ted on August 21, 2020
Q: SPB vs PKI. Several months back in the Q&As you were more positive on PKI than SPB. Is that still true or would you prefere ATD.B over both. I hold SPB and thinking about adding/switching SPB for PKI. How would you rank?
Read Answer Asked by William Ross on August 14, 2020
Q: Analysts (TD) are predicting that SPB will go to positive earnings (0.33/sh) on Q3 , would you agree ?, and if the prediction becomes true , would the share price go up ?, or this earnings prediction is already baked in the actual price ? You said ( on June 24) that SPB is good mostly for income, does it mean that the dividend can be considered secured ?.
Read Answer Asked by Alejandro (Alex) on August 10, 2020
Q: My income portfolio consisting of the above equities has taken quite a beating in the recent market downturn. Except for LB, there has been some recovery in prices, and so far dividends have been maintained. I have some excess cash to deploy, and would like your advice on whether to double down on some on my current investments, or your suggestions for other beaten down income investments. Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Jean on June 12, 2020
Q: Have held 1000 units of NWH.UN in non-RSP account since 2015 and the ROC is now about 1/3 of what I paid for it. Confused about ROC and how it helps me but I do understand the lowering of the cost base when units are disposed of. Faithfully track all ROC’s for all units held including SPB. I don’t depend on the income from the portfolio but I am in a 43 % marginal tax bracket as a retiree. So when do I dispose of NWH.UN?
Your Q&A database says that NWH.UN is small, has wide geo distribution and not much growth, the distribution is safe but amount is only so so. However, there is a lot of ROC. In this down market, my 2 other similar amount of REs are down also (CSH.UN and SIA, 35 and 44% respectively). Also, have similar amount of AD that is down 52%. I am about “even” on my gains and tax loss sales so far for 2020 taken early in January but could use some carry-back for last year’s gains. Thinking of a trade of selling NWH and AD and perhaps CSH and SIA, waiting the 30 days before buying AD back unless you could suggest a suitable alternative proxy for the interim (or just buy CAR.UN instead all in non-RSP). Or would best option be to let it simmer and revisit during tax loss season to see if any of these have sufficiently rebounded? Have I missed something? Maybe the best decisions taken are those decisions that did not have to be taken.
Read Answer Asked by William Ross on May 26, 2020
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