Investment Q&A

Q: In view of current conditions, in your opinion, is PBH a buy ,sell,or hold both a registered and an unregistered plan. Thank you,

Q: Which one of these, if any, would you sell to increase my tech sector allocation? Can you please rank them as well.
Alternatively, if they all have good long term potential, I have the flexibility to increase my equity allocation with additional cash. Please let me know you thoughts and thank you!

Q: The above TFSA holdings have not performed well and of course, are not eligible as tax loss harvesting. This is one of the potential downsides of TFSA investments. Please give me your thoughts on which ones you would move on from and without worrying about sectors, some replacements you think will recover well. Thanks again for your guidance.

Q: 5i had answered a similar question back in November, however I would appreciate it if you could revisit the question in light of today's environment. Between the Premium Brands Holdings an Maple Leaf Foods, which do you see as having better potential for growth? Is debt an issue with either?

Your answer in November had been "PBH is now bigger than MFI, is cheaper on valuation, has better growth potential, and recent earnings/outlook were far better. It would be our choice today."

Thanks!

Q: Hello 5i team
Thanks for working through this mess.
I have BCE, ENB, EIF, FSZ, MG, PBH, SPB in a non registered. I can sell these for a tax loss presently but should I, and if I do should I replace them with similar dividend players or risk 30 days to buy them back? This might fall into the personal decision category but if there is any comments or advice that you could provide please.
Thanks
Jeremy

Q: Good afternoon.

I’m interested in which you prefer (1 and 2) in each category below.

ATD.B, PBH, MRU, L

SLF, TD, BAM.A, TRI

WSP, SIS, CAE

CSU, SHOP, ENGH, KXS

BEP.UN, FTS, AQN

Thank you.

Q: If I were to average down on these stocks which would you buy first and are there any in which you would not buy at this time. Could ECN go under if things don't improve over the next 6 months. Thank you.

Q: Which companies in your balanced equity portfolio have a poor balance sheet and could be in trouble in this environment.
Thanks

Q: Please comment on earnings. Thanks.

Q: What would you recommend as the best Consumer Staple at this time? I have a long time horizon and am looking for a steady performer (hopefully) over the next 5+ years. What portfolio percentage would you recommend for consumer staples? Should I have 1 holding or more?
Thanks!!

Q: Hi Peter and Ryan,
I am looking to take advantage from the current market dip and add the the above securities and ETF to my RRSP Portfolio. My time frame is 5 to 10 years. with adding the above I will be having all the 5i balanced portfolio stocks included. In addition I am adding some ETF and other stock that I think it can help my portfolio. Appreciate you advise of which stock look good at this time to buy (please rank). Is there any of the list I should avoid. Do you have other suggestions for good quality stocks and ETF (in the US and Canada) that have a good growth potential.
Thanks,
YR

Q: Hi 5i team! What can we expect from the Q4 results for PBH that will be released this week? Thanks again for the sound advices in these turbulent times.

Q: I bought PBH at 5% weight and now only at a 3% so if I was to buy more would buying back to 4% weight be okay or would this be considered too high during these times of volatility ? I have a very long time frame.
Thanks

Q: Retired, conservative dividend-income investor with a "buy-and-hold & trim-add around a core position" strategy. At times like these, I take a fresh look at my holdings and ask two key questions. #1 = are there any of my equity holdings that have alarm bells going off? #2 = how safe are the dividends (knowing that no dividend is 100% secure)? The portfolio capital may rise or fall, but it is the continuation of the dividend that is more important.

For asset allocation purposes related to individual stocks (as opposed to sector allocations), I use the following:
5% targets = AQN, BCE, BNS, PBH, RY, TRP, WSP
4% targets = AD, AW, CSH, NWC
2% targets = LNF, MG, NTR
ETF targets = roughly 3-7%

Q#1 = are there any of these equities that you hear alarm bells?
Q#2 = are there any of these equities where you foresee dividend risk?
Q#3 = any thoughts on how I have my asset allocations set up (knowing it is a very personal decision?

Take a bunch of credits. Thanks for your help...Steve

Q: I have CCL.B in a few of my portfolios; do you think its time to sell and replace? I allocate 50% of CCL.B to Consumer Staples and 50% to Materials. Right now CAE is the only Material security that interests me, are there others that you would recommend, I don't want MX. I have PBH and ATD.B in Consumer Staples and could add to either of these or are there others that I should consider. I'm a buy and hold type of investor; with a growth focus.

Q: With the markets not really pausing for much these days are there any stocks represented in the 5i portfolios that represent good value today or should an investor exercise patience?

Thank you,
Mike

Q: I am underweight in these companies from your Balanced Portfolio and I have some money to buy into one of the above. It would not materially affect my sector weighting and dividends, while nice, do no affect my choices. Which one would you suggest for a long term hold?

Q: I own both parkland pki and pbh. would you switch from pki to atd.b at this juncture or perhaps add to pki?
Also would you suggest an alternative pick to pbh.
I am also looking at buying irdm but would like your opinion please.
Thank you.

Q: Recent reports on PBH suggest that while there is progress on the Asian Swine flu epidemic it is going to take some years to recover from - and pork prices in the local stores are still prohibitive. At the same time PBH has supposedly invested in several productive moves which should come into play in the first half of this year. Yet share price progress is modest, the shares are well priced and share price expectations do not encourage the idea that significant progress is anticipated. What is your take on these issues and do you know and have an opinion on the "meaningful moves" that this company has made? Thank you.

Q: Have to raise cash - the above are my poorest performers (SIS is negative). Have to sell 1 & 1/2 positions. What do you suggest I sell.
Thanks for all the great performers you have named.
Bill