Investment Q&A

Q: hello 5i:
I'm considering selling shares of SJ, and buying one of the above. Can you advise which you see as a favourite today, overall, considering safety, capital growth, dividend growth. Long-term hold, approx 5 years.

Q: If MX were taken out by another Company, what would you replace it with today?

Thanks

Q: What are your top five materials sector picks at this time? Canadian and/or American listed. Thank you.

Q: I am currently light in Healthcare & Materials. Companies that I currently hold are COV, CSH.UN, GUD, CCL.B, MX & WEF. Can you suggest three stocks in each sector that I could add?

Thanks, Dave

Q: Howdy!
I am slowly repositioning the Canadian equity portion of my RRSP portfolio to emulate your Balanced Equity Portfolio.
About 27% of my portfolio is sitting on cash right now; I do not yet own the listed companies - Are they all good to buy today? Or please rank them in order of value for purchase today versus perhaps holding off a quarter or two.
Thank you

Q: With MX and CCL already owned in a materials allocation, and having just sold Stella Jones, would you add TECK or WEF? Thank-you.

Q: I’m thinking of selling one or two of these holdings, all currently in a RRIF, and re-buying them in a TFSA. I’m thinking that the best ones to transfer would be the most “growthy”. What would you advise? Could you list them in order of expected growth?
As always, thanks for this great service!!

Q: Keeping in mind the extended length of the current bull market, the often bewildering ‘noise’ emanating from our once friendly neighbour to the south, and a myriad of other moving parts, I’m finding it difficult to identify Canadian companies that can survive and continue to grow over the long term. I would greatly appreciate it if you would share with me a list of dividend paying Canadian companies that are so well-managed and have such strong stories that you believe they have an excellent chance to continue to grow and flourish well into the future. I would consider these companies to become core holdings and held for 5 to 10 years. Hopefully, your choices would represent multiple sectors.

Q: With the recent more aggressive move into packaging by TCL, do you have a preference between it and CCL? I’m thinking of its growth potential and higher dividend.

Q: Hello 5i

I read and consider your advice as very insightful. You often urge us - and demonstrate through your own model portfolios - that one should not overweight a company too much.

At present the stocks I have identified are all at or just over 7% of my total portfolio. To me, they are all “keepers” for the long haul. Still, they weigh heavily on my portfolio which is balanced with many other stocks sitting at around 5% weighting in my portfolio. Obviously I keep my holdings down to a manageable number and am not a trader.

Do I just ride the winners and be aware of the danger involved? Each of my mentioned stocks are up over 100% so I’ve got some space to “lose” money in a market downturn.

I do not need the money. Indeed, the capital gains on too many sales would put me in claw back territory.

Please deduct as many credits as you wish.

Best

Peter

Q: I have ccl.b at 3% of PF. Would you add a like amount of tcl.a or initiate a position in atd.b? Conservative investor, balanced PF.
Thank you.

Q: I bought equal positions of SIS and CCL.B, which are in your balanced portfolio August 2017. Since then SIS is up 24% and CCL.B is up 12%. It seems that there is a lot more growth potential in SIS, so therefore I am considering selling CCL.B and adding proceeds to SIS. Would you agree with this trade? Or would you recommend another stock to add to with my CCL.B proceeds for better growth and momentum?

Q: Hi there,
I am an investor who generally does not like single company risk so i often end up with small groupings of stocks in the same line of business. Hence I owned these three in the packaging business for a fairly long period of time and done well in all three. Can you explain to me which of these business is likely to do better going forward and if you had to drop one which would it be. (i am thinking Winpak)

Thanks for all you do.

Q: Hi there,

For a balanced investor with a growth tilt and a longterm hold - how would you rank the following 6 stocks from best to worst?

Thanks for your great service!

Q: This has done precious little since its split. I have a 2.5% position and now wonder if the long term thesis on CCL.B at a $60 cost justifies an additional investment to bring my holding up to 3.5%.
Thank you.

Q: Please comment on the continued weakness of CCL.B . What is the reason for the big drop in price? Thanks

Q: Hi, Any comments on CCL earnings release, please ? Does any specific comment stand out, like CCL Secure results, this quarter, boosted by a customer's large launch order, not likely to repeat? How do like the guidance for 2018 ? Thanks

Q: Hi, could you please post the estimates for upcoming earnings. Thanks

Q: I am building my porfolio following the BE porfolio. I have listed the stocks I currently do not own from the BE porfolio I have funds available to purchase 4 positions (or 8 half positions) in the stocks I have listed. Which four or eight would you recommend me adding?
SLF, CCL, WSP, CLS, PKI, GC, AEM, MG, ATD.B, PBH, GUD, TOY, AIF,

Q: Which packaging manufacturer has the best ability to transition away from plastics into recycled and/or paper based packaging? As TCL reinvents itself as a flexible packaging producer (Coveris acquisition) do you see this, or have you heard this discussed by management?