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John DeGoey ISHARES SP GLOBAL WATER IDX ETF CWW-T BUY Sep 13, 2022

Water ETFs Are not many of them, but they are an important infrastructure play due to global warming. CWW is a safe way to get exposure to infrastructure.
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DON'T BUY
A long-term hold to buy on dips. Not a fan of water stocks. Limits your water stocks to 5% on your portfolio. If you want dividends, go to banks and utilities. These stocks will grow, but likely valuations will run ahead of the stocks. Better to donate to a water charity than buying water stocks.
WEAK BUY

Long term hold? There's nothing wrong with it, but CWW doesn't excite him. You can buy it now, but he feels neutral about it. He'd rather buy SPY.

BUY
He's used it in the past, buy uses something else with more diversity. But CWW is good with fine diversification and has performed well this year. We're in a world dealing with climate change and drought. So getting water to people is becoming a bigger deal and therefore more demand for companies that deal in water. CWW is fairly safe for this need for water.
BUY ON WEAKNESS
Why do the dividends on this and similar ETFs fluctuate so much from quarter to quarter? The lumpiness may be due to M&A activity in the space and CQQ had to distribute a capital gain; or some international stocks pay dividends only once a year, so they're lumpy. Water infrastructure is so essential to human life, and this infrastructure is 100 years old and needs repair. A massive opportunity to rebuild and fix this, but the water space is not cheap.
COMMENT

Global water ETF that is half focused on the industrial side, like pipelines and infrastructure for water, and half the utility side. CWW is for the Canadian etf, and PHO trades in the US.

COMMENT
This involves water infrastructure and the infrastructure field. This is a promising area as governments move to greener economies.
HOLD

16 years old - signifies ability to consistently perform. 
Water infrastructure products.
Good if bullish on infrastructure.
Defensive name - good for conservative investors.
Benefits from large government expenditures. 

DON'T BUY

Doesn't know much about and sees little growth in this. For long-term growth, he prefers VGG or another S&P ETF.

WEAK BUY
CWW & CGW

Two different companies; one trades in Toronto, and the other in New York. Essentially based on the identical global water index. Ask yourself if you want to own it in CAD or USD, and that will depend on what type of investment account you have. With CWW, most of the underlying securities are not in Canada. 

Likes them both. He uses the AQWA ETF, which has better exposure.