Investment Q&A

Q: Comment on earnings please

Q: Looking to start a position in 1 of these companies for a 2-4 year hold could you give me the pros and con of each and which you would select and why thanks

Q: Open Text has apparently entered into recent deals with Google and Mastercard. Are these probably already baked into the price or would you still anticipate good growth?
Regarding FSZ can you clarify the scary PE? Why is it still considered a safe income stock? Many thanks.

Harv

Q: I am looking to add 2 tech stocks to my TFSA. I already have CSU KXS and LSPD. what would you recommend?

Q: I read in the recent CMS issue (July/Aug 2019) that OTEX would have 15% foreign taxes withheld since the dividends were paid in USD (see page 25). Is this the case for all Canadian stocks paying dividends in USD?

Q: Hi,
I need to increase my Technology Sector. I started with full positions in CSU, which has doubled, and KXS (which is flat), and a half position in Open Text.

What would you do hear to increase my sector holding by 50%?

Thanks,
Robert

Q: Hello，

Could you please compare OTEX with GIB.A? It seems GIB.A has been growing faster.

Thank you！

Q: Have the above stocks in a TFSA. Would like to add 3 stock to the collections. Suggestions or should I just add to the exiting stocks. Long term hold 5 years plus. Thanks

Q: hello 5i:
On your advice, I purchased OTEX back in 2015, and have done very well with it. thank you. I feel, however, that its overvalued at the moment and don't want to see the gains disappear. I'm thinking of selling OTEX and buying PANW. Could you comment and elaborate a bit on this potential move? I'll be staying in the Tech sector, so any other options you have would be of interest.. I'd like a US company, if possible (already own CSU and a small amount of PHO).
thanks
Paul L

Q: I want to add positions in each of these companies as money becomes available. In what order would you add to the portfolio?
Thanks

Q: Grand children (2) RESP's
Present total $ 30,000 with approximately 10 years to go.
Now invested:
42% Bank N Scotia
21 % Parkland Fuels
15% Savaria Corp
14% Vanguard All World ex Canada
8% Bank Savings Account
Question: With the belief a more growth oriented stock is needed to help off set the present conservative holdings I am looking for ideas.
I am thinking Open Text or CGI for additional planned contributions.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks

Q: Hi

Looking for an alternative to AYX since am not able to invest in AYX. Anything in similar business with similar outlook for the stock?
Thanks

Q: I own all of these in equal weighting (7% each). Down quite a bit on NFI. Just seeing if I should keep it and give it the long term (10 years) to provide a good return or sell because there is a better company to replace it with for a better long term performance at this point. Any other recommendations as I do have some cash side lined at this point (30%).

Q: I hold 5 Growth Portfolio 5iR position as noted above.....that I've held for some time.
I've decided to fold them into my Income and Balance Portfolios rather than track the group separately. The reason is to better manage the position weightings. Although these 5 are more growth-er positions, I'm really more a 70/30 balance/income investor...and closely follow the 5iR positions and weightings.
Now for my question - what weightings would you give each of ECN and GSY in an income portfolio, and also for each of DOL, OTEX, PEO and SHOP in a balanced portfolio?
.......again, thanks for your guidance......Tom

Q: Hi Peter, Ryan, and Team,

In our combined portfolio (RRIF, RRSP, TFSAs, and non-registered account), we are underweight in Information Technology. 5i's latest recommendation for this sector's weighting is 15%, but we are at 13.4%.

We hold these stocks/ETF followed by their weighting:
CSU: 5.67%
ENGH: 2.38%
KXS: 1.09%
OTEX: 2.50%
SYZ: 0.92%
XIT: 0.91% (We use it to park cash as it's a commission-free ETF for us)

My wife has a preference for holding dividend payers (even a small dividend) in her RRSP. In her RRSP, she holds a 1.51 % position in CSU, and the full 2.38% of ENGH. In order to increase the IT weighting to 15%, she needs to invest $19,500. There is sufficient cash in her RRSP for this purchase. What course of action would you suggest? Should she top up her position in ENGH? Or should she start a new position in ET or OTEX?

Please deduct sufficient credits for this rather convoluted question. Your guidance is very valuable to us.

Q: I have decided to only keep a few stocks and follow the Growth ETF Portfolio. Of the 10 stocks I have mentioned above 9 are listed in your BE Portfolio with the exception SHOP. All have done very well for me SHOP up 568%, CCL,B up 180% ,SIS up 159%,MG up 112% and the rest all up between 11 and 42%.So my question is do I keep them all? Sell some ? Any suggestions appreciated.Paul

Q: Open Text has performed well in the Growth Portfolio, and seems to have solid fundamentals with a 13.7 Forward P/E. I was surprised to see James Hodgins of Curvature Hedge Strategies (Arrow Capital) is shorting it. To paraphrase, he said: 'They have 2x debt-to-EBITDA. It's pretty expensive, and their access to capital will decline since we are late in the cycle.'

I should point out that many analysts love the stock, including you guys. I'd like to know your opinion because once in a while the shorts (depending on who they are) offer a valuable perspective.

Thanks! Elliott

Q: If you already had a 3.5% weighting in OTEX and none in CSU, now that earnings have come out, would you add to OTEX up to 6% weighting or start a CSU position instead?...& please explain your preference and if quarterly results hadn’t just come out would you have made a different choice.
Please consider that I am looking to hold for 5 or more years.

Q: i think their earnings announcement was quite good, would you add to a position .
relative to kinaxis and some other tech companies i think it is quite cheap. do you agree. dave

Q: I have all these stocks in my non-registered account, I have some money to deploy. My two smallest holdings are CP and WCN, should I add to either one or would you suggest a new stock?