Investment Q&A

Q: Hello Peter,

In the US, where would you go for the Santa rally? Would it be momentum stocks? Undervalued? Specific sectors -Industrials, AI related? or Crypto?
I am thinking crypto - the backers of the new govt. Add dollar tariffs to the mix. Crypto heads higher.
How would you play the Canadian market end of the year? I am going to dabble in short term trading this year.

Regards

Rajiv

Q: Can you comment on Highland Copper's insider ownership and insider buying. Is it significant? What's the outlook for this stock has the balance sheet been improving over the years and is this a good microcap (amongst microcaps) for a copper play? What is the outlook for copper in 2025?

Q: Realizing that these 2 new etf have nominal assets at present would you recommend one over the other for income and why? Thanx.

Q: Is this company worth a new position?Who are they?

Q: Thinking of beginning a small position in this one...what are the pros and cons of MMA..many thanks

Q: Hello team,
Can you help me understand please whether i should put new monies in TFSA towards bep.un or bepc ? On yahoo, i see bep.un has dividend of 5.87 percent but 1 year return of minus 2 percent where as bepc has dividend of 4.7 percent but one year return of 14 percent. From income and growth perspective, bepc seems to be better bet.. If this is the case, are investors losing out by investing in bep.un? i have huge loss in my rrsp from bep.un so would like to know where to put new monies as it seems brookfield would benefit from the energy transition. Alternatively, am i better off simply putting all my monies in BN and forget the spinoffs.. please explain and thank you ..

Q: What are your thoughts on Valeura? Good time to get in? How is it's expected growth looking? Curious about your ideas. Thank you.

Q: I'm curious as to whether the growth of starlink could have an affect on the telecommunications company's in Canada. Is there potential that Elon could begin a mobile division of starlink to go along with his internet division?

How hard would the barriers to entry be if he did decide to go this route?

Q: May I have your thoughts on GOT’s latest press release concerning 2024 drilling? To my layman’s eyes the grades posted seemed generally positive but not much more. The market greeted the announcement with a big yawn. I think they need a director of communications!
Jim

Q: Good morning! What are your thoughts on KSI these days. Buy, hold or sell. What would be a good entry price if you are positive on it? Thanks

Q: What is the impact of the proposed Trump Tariffs? Is this the reason for weakness in rails, oil and gas, and in general, the TSX lately? Happy holidays and thanks for all you do!

Q: This is the bond portion of my portfolio. Would you recommend adding or swapping ETFs to enhance diversification and allocate funds to markets with optimal returns?

Q: Hi there, I’m curious to know what you look for in a true compounder. What are the key metrics that catch your eye when analyzing a company and how they make use of their cash.

Q: Which stocks or ETFs would you recommend for long term to a 25 year old with contribution room of $60K in the TFSA and $8k in First Home Savings account?

Q: Hi Team,
Is it just me or why do I get the feeling this market is getting a bit “out of whack” in some areas . It looks to me like people are selling the solid winners such as Nvda , for names such as Tesla and Bitcoin. Am I the only one that thinks some of the moves made since Trump got in will end up painful when the hype fades and there’s no real meat to back the valuations ? It’s almost like the irrational excuberance phase has kicked in like it did at the end of 2021 before the tech sector crashed. Except this time only in certain high flying names.

Just looking for your take on things as they stand today. Stay the course ? Join the Tesla party and fly into the sun ? Or buy the laggards perhaps in undervalued areas (Gsy , or even add to nvda dip for example, or trim nvda if the justification is there …which I don’t think it is) . Hard question perhaps!

Thanks ,
Shane

Q: Another big drop for Baytex. Are you aware of any reason?

Q: Hi, I’m looking for your five top CDR ideas for a TFSA. The criteria I’m interested in is share price growth, capital preservation and valuation. A brief summary regarding each choice would be much appreciated. Happy Holidays!!

Q: Do you know when the ex-dividend is/was?

Q: Hi guys,

Please provide feedback on HBFG financing announced today.
Thanks again for all your help navigating the financial markets. Merry Christmas

Jim

Q: In response to why NVDA might be experiencing weakness, CNBC has been talking about:

MON, DEC 16, 2024

The Exchange with Kelly Evans
FROM THE DESK OF KELLY EVANS

 
AS OF MON, DEC 16, 2024 • 11:24 ET

What Just Happened.

 
"The market's most important stock is faltering," the CNBC headline aptly reads this morning. And as our Fred Imbert catalogs, Nvidia shares are down 3% in December while the rest of the market is up nearly 4%, and are down nearly 10% from their November 7th all-time highs.



Now, a tiny correction in a stock that's up 164% this year, and 9x in two years, is hardly reason for concern. But there could be a meaningful reason why the shares are stalling out here--and why shares of another chip company, Broadcom, are suddenly soaring.



It goes back to this fascinating discussion between Chetan Puttagunta, a general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark, and the anonymous fund manager known as "Modest Proposal" on Patrick O'Shaughnessy's podcast a couple of weeks ago. I'm no technical expert in AI, but here's my best effort to summarize their discussion.



Namely, has the arms race to develop the biggest, best, and fastest large language model--the kinds of model that uses hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips in massive data centers--begun to stall out? A few marquee players, like Meta's "Llama" and Musk/X's "Grok," are still plowing ahead, but the broader market may be starting to shift.



The shift is happening because (1), Meta's Llama model is open-source, and therefore start-up teams are now able to use it to produce smaller, more targeted AI models for specific use cases, and (2), the "training" of large language models using both real and synthetic data has stalled out, giving way to a new era of grading them based on their inferencing ability, also known as "test-time compute."



And if this shift is happening--and the podcast only barely got into the chip implications of this--then it would make sense if demand were also starting to shift from a land grab of Nvidia's workhorse chips, to a market where Broadcom's "custom" chips could suddenly become a very important player. Indeed, Stifel CEO Ron Kruszewski told us that's exactly where his firm is looking as they begin to deploy AI.



And boom--Broadcom's earnings last week confirmed its sudden rise as one of the foremost players in AI. Its overall revenues soared 50% from the year earlier, and its AI revenues were up a whopping 220%. The shares surged more than 20% the next day, putting it above the trillion-dollar market-cap mark for the first time. And they've kept rising, adding another 6% today.



Now, if this shift is real, there could be further implications, ranging from expected data center power usage to perhaps reigniting a start-up boom in AI that many beleaguered Silicon Valley investors thought might never come. And Nvidia could still come out just fine, as top analyst Vivek Arya told us last week, even as he raised his Broadcom price target.



But the shift would certainly explain why Nvidia's performance has been more muted lately.



A final player to watch, by the way, is Marvell, another custom chipmaker. Its stock also surged 20% earlier this month--and is now up 102% this year--after stronger-than-expected earnings. For now, though, it's still a much smaller $106 billion market cap.



So perhaps what we're learning this month, in other words, is that Nvidia may be ceding its crown (to whom exactly, we don't know yet) as the most important stock in the market.



See you at 1 p.m!



Kelly