Investment Q&A

Q: When answering Scott's question about the lightspeed IPO you said Shopify is 10X sales. On the 5i's website under companies it says SHOP is 55X sales and on Yahoo finance it says 25X sales on the TSX and 19X in the US.

Can you tell me where these discrepancies come from? It makes it difficult to compare companies. Is it best just to do the math yourself?

Thanks.

Q: Hi 5i team,
I do appreciate you going into the usa to recommend a stock. I am trying to reconcile/understand your Micron (MU) recommandation at your latest appearance on BNN (Peter on feb 20th). It seems like MU is rarely (not so often) listed in your more and more frequent lists of recommended usa stocks (am I wrong?). Are the criteria, risk profil or time horizon different for your BNN appearances then your Q&A? More specifically, would you consider MU a long term hold or more a cyclical hold (meaning sell/underweight at certain portion of the economic cycle)?
Thank you for your collaboration,
Eric

Q: cpg seems to have bottomed. good time to step in?

Q: any thughts on a good entry point?
thank you

Q: Hi there,

Now that the company has IPO'd and the price looks like it's close up at around 19, would you be waiting here to enter into a position? If so, what would be a good entry point and how much of a weighting in a portfolio seems reasonable considering the risk.

Thanks!

Q: These all in ones are marketed as simple, low cost, well diversified ETF’s. There are no historical performance results to consider however. I’m considering for very long term hold in pension accounts.
Your thoughts on these products and type of investing strategy they best fit.
Appreciate your feedback.

Q: A big drop today? What are your thoughts on this company? Is this an opportunity to buy? Or is this just another hype in the cannabis field?

Q: Should I sell now or wait for takeover is there much of a difference

Q: Reading through 5i answers to questions regarding Cdn. coys that pay dividends in USD made me wonder if there is a way to increase my cash holdings in my USD account without incurring FX charges and being eligible for the foreign tax credit.

I currently have AQN and HOT.UN in my TFSA that pay dividends in USD that are converted to CDN$ with the extra wrinkle of HOT deducting withholding taxes that are not eligible for the foreign tax credit because it is held in TFSA. Also hold BAM.A and BEP.UN and BIP.UN in Cdn. cash trading account that also pay dividends and interest in USD$ and are converted to CDN$ when paid.

Can I as owner 1) TRANSFER my AQN (up about 150%) and HOT.UN (down 25%) shares this year from my TFSA to my USD cash trading account to get dividends/interest in USD and 2) do the same with BAM, BEP and BIP from Cdn. cash trading account to USD cash account to capture and keep the USD payments and avoid FX conversion fees and build my USD cash reserves in USD cash account without incurring any fees and charges from my online broker? Or do brokers and CRA have rules against clients benefiting from structuring dividend/interest transactions in a manner like this?

Obviously this would open up SOME space for extra contributions to my TFSA in early 2020 above and beyond the TFS $6000 contribution limit to provide for increased flexibility for sector rebalancing and re-allocation opportunities. Also this would make the USA withholding tax payment on the HOT.UN dividends eligible for the foreign tax credit when filing my tax return to CRA?

Comments?

Q: Good Morning,

What would be your top 2 or 3 picks for cloud space investments in the USA and Canada?

Thank you!
David

Q: I want to invest in a small cap lithium mining company. Looking at tmi.t, wmi.v, and lith.v Which one do you think is the best choice or do you have an alternative suggestion? thanks

Q: Preferreds have slowly recovered however the ones from Brookfield infrastructure seem to be stalled out. Is there something in the set up of these ones that i am missing.

thanks as always

Q: I would appreciate your comments on ENG's earnings release.

Thank you, Peter

Q: I am currently researching the Vanguard Conservative ETF Portfolio. I would like to confirm that I understand the total fees properly.

The Vanguard website indicates that the MER for this product is 0.25%, and "For any Vanguard fund which invests in underlying Vanguard fund(s), there shall be no duplication of management fees chargeable in connection with the Vanguard fund and its investment in the Vanguard fund(s)."

VCNS holds a portfolio of other Vanguard ETFs. I interpret the above paragraph to mean that the total fees paid to Vanguard is 0.25% (ie. that there is no stacking, that I do not pay the separate MERs for the underlying portfolio ETFs, PLUS an additional 0.25% for the VCNS ETF). Can you please confirm that my understanding is correct?

Thank you for your help and your insightful advice.

Q: Lightspeed, what are your thoughts on $16 IPO price? Is it recommended as a buy, considering normal IPO risks? Do you know when it will start trading? Overall, what are your thoughts on prospects?

Q: Hi Team,
I know your focus is equities. I would appreciate any thoughts you may have about the risk of buying Morguard's 5 year corporate bonds on offer to retail investors? They would be part of a diversified 5 year bond ladder of corporates rated BBB or higher.
Many thanks. Michael

Q: Further to the question on Brookfield prefs, the 5i response likely refers to BIK.PR.A (the Investment corp). I hold BIP.PR.C (Series 3) in a registered account because as can be seen from the link:
https://bip.brookfield.com/~/media/Files/B/Brookfield-BIP-IR-V2/2018-tax/2018%20Canadian%20Taxable%20Income%20Calculation%20Preferred%20-%20Series%203.pdf
the majority of income is foreign. All BIP.PRs are the same and I believe BEP also.

Q: Good Day Team,

Between VEEV and AYX which would you prefer for long term and why? Would you please compare them on their:
1- Quality of management, 2- Software competitiveness, 3- Potential for growth, 4- Current valuation, 5- Balance Sheet.

Much appreciated as always!

Q: I have been waiting for the bleeding to stop on NVDA. Down over 40% and still falling, time to move on? I have about 1.5% in COV and thinking about bringing back up to 3% with selling NVDA

Q: I currently have TOY at 1.6% weight. It was higher but with the recent decline in price this had made my weight lower. Would you be comfortable buying this stock for the long term for at least 3 years or wait to see how the next 2 quarters are? I am thinking of buying to increase it to 2.6% weight.
Thanks