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Q: Is a crunch coming again to Regional Banks with exposure to commercial Property.

A lot of empty space and people are not coming back to offices. I BM said come back or find another job. How bad is it. Is it wise to avoid all Banks fir the next few months.

* heard that South Korean Pension Funds ate deeply exposed to U S Commercial Buildings as are Regional Banks

New York and California are a disaster

Avoid or start to accumulate on weakness

What banks look good to you ?

RAK

RAK
Read Answer Asked by bob on February 02, 2024
Q: In regards to the comment of the energy sector being very very cheap.
If you had zero exposure to the energy sector, and only cared about total return and growth.
What would be your 4 top picks to research?
Read Answer Asked by Shawn on February 02, 2024
Q: I have these companies in my tfsa and and I have $7000 to add. How would you rate them right now.
Read Answer Asked by Mike on February 02, 2024
Q: How significant is the number of stars assigned to analysts employed by the banks and other brokers ? For instance, should an investor ignore an analyst with one star and concentrate only on the advice of 4 or 5 star analysts ?

In addition, can you please provide a link where all the analysts are listed with their respective stars ?
Thank you as always for your insight.
Read Answer Asked by Terry on February 02, 2024
Q: Hi,
Kicking myself in the butt for not buying SMCI a few months back after humming and hawing about it. I guess because I have a large NVDA and GOOG position already so didn’t want too much AI exposure.

For some of these names that have run hard over the last 3-6 months, would you add or initiate new positions? I own NVDA, HPS.A and TVK and have nice gains but want to slightly add for long term. I’m reluctant now to buy these new daily highs in SMCI and VRT, afraid of a sharp pullback. How would you proceed? For all the stocks mentioned, what inning do you think we’re in for each? Still long runways? And I know it’s hard, but what would be good price targets to buy if they pulled back? Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Keith on February 02, 2024
Q: I got a call back from BMO Investorline as a follow up to my questions last week. I think I now have the answers and want to share them. The PDYPF are not ADRs and he did not see a need to do anything immediately. I can have the shares converted to FLUT on the NYSE but there is a 1% "stamp" tax ($608 for me) plus to sell I would pay the standard $10 commission and would then have to do Norbert's Gambit to convert to CAD or pay their conversion fees. If I sell the shares on the LSE I would pay slightly over $280 commission plus two fees/taxes totaling 0.6% and have to pay the conversion from sterling to CAD. I'm glad I have a good profit on these shares because that sure adds up. I both cases slightly over 1% of the value. I hope this information helps others.
Read Answer Asked by Earl on February 02, 2024
Q: I'm hoping you can give your thoughts on these as well as rank these potential AI companies for a 5 year hold.

EPAM; GLOB; C3AI; PERI; UPST; PLTR; SNOW; CAN; VRT
Read Answer Asked by Gregory on February 02, 2024
Q: I have owned KXS for several years and although I am not unhappy with its performance it is rather volatile. DSG which is in a similar business seems to experience more price stability. I am ok with volatility and tend to hold equities for the long term. Using long-term growth prospects and current valuations as a guideline would you favor one over the other to any great extent? Taxes are not an issue so I could easily switch to DSG if the metrics suggest this is the better stock.

Appreciate your insight.

Paul F.
Read Answer Asked by Paul on February 02, 2024
Q: You responded to an earlier question today about SHOP's decline today with: Yipitdata, a cloud-tracking service, noted it estimated that SHOP gross payments volume growth decelerated 'significantly' over the past week of reporting (to Jan 22). If volume did drop significantly, would this not be something 'significant'? I can see a slight drop that gets washed out over a longer time frame but a big drop all of a sudden isn't a good sign. What would cause a significant drop? Also, how reliable is Yipitdata? I guess what I'm asking is if SHOP is still looked on favourably by 5i? Is there anything to be overly concerned with?
Read Answer Asked on February 02, 2024
Q: Hi guys at 5 I's.
Major Drilling is getting near 52 week lows again. I have kept a core position and trade another tranche of shares buying in the low 8's and selling in the low 9's. I have done well so far and I still think MDI should do well in an intermediate time frame because it has virtually no debt, is the leader in their field (drilling for minerals) and it is in what is supposed to be a growth area (looking for more mineral deposits so that we will have enough metals to electrify the world). So why does MDI keep trading down to less than 10 PE? I am quite happy to pick up so more MDI shares at a level that I think is cheap. Do you think MDI is cheap in the low $8 range?
Read Answer Asked by Paul on February 02, 2024
Q: Hi 5i,

I have held OTEX for many years as a 1.5% weighting and have a loss in a registered account. I am currently underweight tech and would like to slowly increase this sector. Based on the recent earnings and the division sale would you recommend adding, holding, or moving on with the position as a portfolio cleanup? If OTEX was sold would adding to a small position in CSU be a good move?
Read Answer Asked by Dean on February 02, 2024