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Q: What are 5-6 stocks 5i would pick that are Canadian, profitable, and less than $1 billion market cap for the higher risk/growth part of a portfolio, to hold for the long term?
Read Answer Asked by Jeff on July 02, 2024
Q: BAM is currently overvalued per Morningstar (price of $51 vs fair value of 44 ish).
BN is currently undervalued per Morningstar (price of $56 vs fair value of 60+ if I remember correctly)
Would you agree with this valuation?
I am currently owning both BN and BAM. The BAM holding was spun off from the BN holding. I just want to simplify into 1 holding. Would it make sense to sell BAM and add to BN here? My priority is growth as the horizon is 10 + years. Thank you very much.
Read Answer Asked by Anh on July 02, 2024
Q: Morning 5i Team,

I have s simple question regrading tax treatment of interest expenses.

Let's say I borrow money to purchase dividend paying stocks. How should I handle the interest so paid on such a loan? Do I simply write it off in the year the expenses are incurred or do I add the cumulated interest charges to the adjusted cost base of the stock when I sell.

Your help is much appreciated.
H
Read Answer Asked by Harry on July 02, 2024
Q: TMX share price has had a bit of a run up lately, and I think from a review of past answers must now be pretty close to the high end of its historical valuation range? Do you have any concerns about it getting ahead of itself at this point or do you think the fundamentals are supporting this upward momentum? Appreciate your insight as always.
Read Answer Asked by Stephen R. on July 02, 2024
Q: I have a TFSA account, and would like to add more for investment. I am very happy the current performance and would like to look for those well sleep Canadian’s stock. Any suggestion?
Read Answer Asked by ma on July 02, 2024
Q: I have some USD cash from selling USD tech stocks. I still hold quite a few US tech stocks.
I would like to purchase some non-tech US companies for a long-term 5+ year hold.
Can you please recommend good non-tech US companies for me to consider buying?
Read Answer Asked by STEVEN on July 02, 2024
Q: I've made the mistake in the past of selling a full position too early or holding too long. Now I'm trimming positions / rebalancing when appropriate. With some gains I want to make sure I'm diversified, is it a bad idea to throw gains into an S&P500 index or something to ensure gains over the long term. I'm 32 so many more years in the market.
Read Answer Asked by Ashleigh on July 02, 2024
Q: a number of questions related to the Slate family of companies.
1) What is the relationship to each other, and the purpose of the different Slate ticker symbols?
2) For SGR.un, are they impacted or could problems at SOT.un spill over to them?
3) For SGR.un their payout ratio is very high. i) have they shown forward finacials that imply this will come down? ii) if not do you have any data which suggests the dividend could be at risk? I am thinking of investing just for the dividend, and hope that the principal will simply hold where it is. Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Phil on July 02, 2024
Q: What, if any, are the tax and dividend implications of having CDRs in a registered and a non- registered account?
Read Answer Asked by John on July 02, 2024
Q: I'm certain that our family's cellphone experiences are not unique. Even though we own BCE in our combined portfolios, and our rationale for continuing to hold it was that the dividends would pay for the monthly bill, but enough is enough! Without warning, Bell Mobility increased the monthly fee by $4.00 for a very basic plan. (We are seniors who rarely need data since we rely on WiFi.) Our other cellphone had been on Virgin (owned by Bell) who did the same thing, although they did 'warn' us about the impending $4.00 per month increase. After researching options, we opted to switch to Freedom Mobile, since the price was a lot less, and the basic plans were much better than we had with Bell Mobility and Virgin. My point is this: BCE will, in my opinion, continue to languish due to their predatory price gouging. Yes, it's an oligopoly, but Freedom is rapidly increasing their customer base, while I suspect that Bell/Virgin will continue to lose customers.

Thanks for all you're doing for the retail investors, and Happy Canada Day to everyone at 5i and our fellow members.
Read Answer Asked by Jerry on July 02, 2024
Q: iTrade, In my RRSP/TFSA/Margin accounts, If I transfer US securities on my CAD side to my USD side, are there any charges?, I'm thinking not, since they are just moving it (journaling).
Can you please clarify it for me.
Read Answer Asked by Fernando on July 02, 2024