Investment Q&A

Q: Would you please evaluate their recent acquisition in terms of the dilution of shares debt and what it might mean to future earnings and would you recommend adding to a small position? Thank you.

Q: What would you suggest a full weighting for A&W be and would you be buying on this pullback? Thanks.

Q: could you please give me a few stocks from your portfolios with the highest insider ownership. GSY comes to mind along with SIS. Thx

Q: Dear 5i,

This is where you guys are worth your weight in gold!
I looked on the investor area of their web site and found very little information.
Where can I find more detailed breakdown of their financials?
What percentage of shares does Brian Baulmer actually own?
It looks to me like he is just the celebrity marketing face of the company and provides
some consulting on the side.
Can I also get your thoughts on this company?

Q: Dfn has been going down since doing financing at 8.75. Closed at 8.37 yesterday. Your thoughts as to holding for the long term

Q: MFI is getting blasted this morning. I am inclined not to panic but would like your take on earnings, guidance and especially on whether or not this affects anything in their longer term planning.

Thank-you again.

Q: What is your opinion on FM. Good buy, sell or hold

Q: Hi Everyone at 5i ...me again. I have a non registered account with the following breakdown: 60% GICs ( because this is my retirement money and I am conservative and I know that GICs in a non registered account are a losing proposition as far a inflation etc. )..10% XHY/CPD.....and 30% stocks..BMO, ZUT, ZWE,BNS,BCE,BAM.A,BEP,UN,BPY.UN,CCL,CAR,ET,FTS,GSY,HR.UN,KXS ,NTR,OTEX,PEO,QSR,SLF,T,TD,VFV,WSP. Now to my question....I am generating $30,000. Combo dividend ( a larger percentage ) and interest income . I want to increase this but at a lower risk. .I would like to extract 150K from the GIC column and produce a higher level of dividend on these monies, but yet, keep things as conservative as possible ( this is called having your cake and eating it too.) What would you suggest?...I thought I might divide this between XBB, CPD or....your suggestion. Thank you for your help, Cheers, Tamara

Q: I bought recently shares of ITP and BPY.UN on the TSE(both companies pay their dividends in US dollars). and naturally paid for the shares in CAD. this morning I asked my broker to journal these shares to the US dollar side of my cash account in order to collect the dividends in US funds he said since the shares were bought on the TSE all future dividends would first be received in Canadian dollars and would then have to be converted to US dollars each time they were paid regardless of the fact the shares were to be held on the US dollar side of my cash acct he said the only way I could have avoided the exchange cost was to have bought these 2 companies on a US exchange! am I getting the correct advice from this large national brokerage firm?

Q: Your thoughts please on ALA’s earnings and ability to meet current dividends going forward? Thanks.

Q: May I have your current thoughts on Alantica Yield? Have they reduced their debt load since your February review of the company? I suppose as a utility like company they can carry more debt due to their steady cash flow. On the other hand recent experience with ALA has taught us that utility like companies can still get into debt problems! 6.9% dividend yield seems to be implying that the company is entering either the danger zone or becoming a great buy - not sure which. Gordon Pape recommends the stock in todays Globe. We already own AQN, BEP.UN and ALA to a 6.5% weighting. We could make a purchase of AY and bump our weighting up to 9%. We wouldn't go higher. In your previous review you noted a link with AQN, could you explain the link a little more?
Thanks,
Jim

Q: Any comments on these 2 High Yield US stocks? Are they best bought in Cash, TFSA or RRSP for Tax implications?

Thanks as always!

Q: I have sold a security and have cash to invest. Can I have your thoughts on Cargojet and Waste Connection. Which of the two do you see as the better investment? Thank You.

Q: Last year global oil demand again hit a new record, over 100M barrels PER DAY. Even with renewables increasing, the demand for oil is continuing to increase and the EIA expects this trend to continue for a long time since global energy demand is will grow and renewables won`t even be able to keep up with demand. So assuming oil goes from 100M consumption per day to 120M barrels, what oil companies do you see benefiting the most. If Alberta oil continues to be landlocked due to political reasons, would it be best to look to the USA who now have record exports. If so who would be the best companies. Or do you think that with Canada being curtailed it will mainly benefit state owned companies like Iran, Saudi.

Q: Can you please comment on the earnings for $WCN, Waster Connections.

Thanks Valter

Q: I have finally broken even after 3 years. Is this a good long term hold? Thx James

Q: to invest
Good morning
My son has recently opened an rrsp acct where he is putting a small amount every month $400 per month he is ensure how to proceed. i feel that an etf would be the way to go but how does someone get around the trading fees? Are you aware of any financial institutions that would have a program or programs that would work for individuals such as him who would like to get started but have only limited funds?
Thks
Marce

Q: I picked up some FRU on the recent sell off. At the time I thought PSK was the more stable stock! How does FRU compare to PSK now? Is FRU in danger of succumbing to the same problems that have just hit PSK? Which do you consider the better stock?

Q: Hi, to what extent does BEP’s investment in TA make the dividend on TA preferred shares more secure?

Q: Follow up on my previous Shopify question... Is it possible to extrapolate what SHOP's estimated eps will be for 2019 and for 2020 based on 3 quarters in the books for 2019 and today's updated 2019 guidance?

Thanks again.

John