CanWel Building Materials Group has made a sound acquisition. Its earnings are set to rise this year and next. It remains a buy for long-term price gains and attractive dividends.   Read More

Pembina Pipeline Corporation is a North American oil and gas stock that transports crude oil and natural gas liquids. The company’s high-quality assets and integrated structure should permit it to   Read More

Barrie, Ont.-based ValueTrend portfolio manager Keith Richards thinks so and he offers nine indicators as the evidence that convinced him to adopt a bearish market outlook and a defensive investment   Read More

Canadian Pacific Railway has caught up to rival Canadian National Railway when it comes to its operating ratio. CN now expects to earn no more than last year. CP’s share   Read More

The Money Reporter currently recommends a 40-per-cent portfolio allocation to fixed income securities, and 55 per cent of that in corporates. It is worth considering using some preferred shares to   Read More

We hold a high opinion of Winpak Ltd. It’s earning record profits, year after year. The company is using its excellent balance sheet and solid cash flow to build the   Read More

U.S.-based global stock 3M Co. is expected to earn record profits this year and next. This will give it the means to keep rewarding its shareholders. While not cheap, 3M   Read More

Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho observed: “Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.” Northland Wealth Management portfolio manager David Cockfield must concur. He names a   Read More

Lower water levels and unfavorable international currency exchange rates hurt top Canadian income trust Brookfield Renewable Energy’s 2015 financial results.   However, that failed to dampen the partnership’s management’s outlook and   Read More

PFB Corp. earned much more in 2015 and is expected to earn more this year and next. Its solid balance sheet and cash flow is enabling it to expand. This   Read More

High Liner Foods earned less last year. But this largely reflected the lower loonie and one less week than the year before. This consumer goods stock is expected to earn   Read More

Investor’s Digest of Canada recently surveyed market analysts who follow 40 real estate investment trusts (REITs). The analysts surveyed found three that were being driven by acquisition growth in both   Read More

Floating-rate preferred shares have advantages and disadvantages. You earn higher dividend income, along with the potential for capital gains, when interest rates rise. But the opposite can occur when rates   Read More

Dividends pay you regardless of where the market goes. They let you live off income, not capital. And they let you beat inflation. So seek stocks with growing dividends from   Read More

Telus may be facing some headwinds in Western Canada because of Alberta’s oil-related economic challenges and Shaw Communications’ recent entry into the wireless telecommunications arena with its acquisition of Wind   Read More

Key stock TransCanada Corp. is acquiring U.S.-based Columbia Pipeline Group. This gives TransCanada many benefits, including access to liquefied natural gas terminals on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Acquire TransCanada as   Read More

The financial sector’s exposure to the energy sector is driving banking stocks down world-wide. John Stephenson is portfolio manager and President and CEO of Stephenson & Company Capital Management Inc.   Read More

Loan demand is down and defaults are rising but the big six Canadian banks are well-positioned to weather the storm in the energy-producing areas of the country. In the meantime,   Read More

goeasy Ltd. is a provider of consumer goods and alternative financial services. The Company is engaged in merchandise leasing of household furnishings and home electronic products and offering unsecured installment   Read More

Your best long term strategic investment plan is to balance your portfolio across the five main sectors of the economy: finance, utilities, consumer products and services, manufacturing and resources. Each   Read More

With our current recommendation of a 40-per-cent allocation to fixed income, and 55 per cent of that in corporates, it is worth considering using some preferred shares to boost the   Read More

Cable and wireless services fees, like bank fees and service charges, drive some people nuts. A simple way to finesse the problem is to buy the company’s stock. Both Telus   Read More

Among the oil and gas stocks included in the Money Reporter’s “Best Income Trusts For You”, we continue to find ARC Resources Ltd. the most attractive if you’re seeking a   Read More

Key stock Loblaw Companies earned more last year. It’s expected to earn significantly more this year and next. This gives the company the means to reinvest in its businesses and   Read More

The banks can suffer when longer-term interest rates are only slightly above short-term interest rates. But they can offset this by expanding their businesses, particularly with higher-yielding assets. So the   Read More

Loan demand is down and defaults are rising but the big six Canadian banks are well-positioned to weather the storm in the energy-producing areas of the country. In the meantime,   Read More

Fortis Inc. has agreed to acquire U.S. stock ITC Holdings. This company will cost a lot. But ITC should also add a lot to Fortis’ earnings and growth potential. Fortis   Read More

Jean Coutu Group’s earnings are rising very slowly. But with lots of cash and excess cash flow, this debt-free consumer goods stock can afford to continue paying rising dividends. It   Read More

The financial sector’s exposure to the energy sector is driving banking stocks down world-wide. John Stephenson is portfolio manager and President and CEO of Stephenson & Company Capital Management Inc.   Read More

McDonald’s global branding campaign based on the “i’m lovin’ it” slogan and song was clearly meant to promote the sale of its fast food products. But this dividend aristocrat’s shareholders   Read More

When consumers have to spend less on gasoline, they have more disposable cash to spend elsewhere. Two groups which benefit from low oil prices are automobile manufacturing stocks and consumer   Read More

Financial technology stock DH Corp. seems to have shaken off the aftermath of an October U.S. short seller’s research report accusing the company of engaging in accounting tricks to cover   Read More

Corus Entertainment has agreed to buy the media business of Shaw Communications. This should strengthen its position in the changing cable-TV industry. This puts the consumer stock back on buy   Read More

Toronto-based portfolio manager Mike Vinokur has named two financial stocks for his picks as currently-rated “best buys”. Canadian bank stock Scotiabank is “cheap on a P/E basis” and U.S. private   Read More

Couche-Tard has agreed to acquire Ireland’s largest convenience store and gas station operator. It should profit as its sites grow worldwide. Due to the high share price, the growing dividends   Read More

Canadian stocks are now in bear market territory. This setback gives you a chance to buy fine companies on the cheap. Follow our advice to invest both safely and profitably.   Read More

CCL Industries shares have upward momentum. This Ontario-based world class manufacturing company produces packaging products for brand-name firms. It also has facilities in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Toromont Industries   Read More

Fortis Inc. operates as an electricity and natural gas distribution utility for residential, commercial, and industrial markets in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. Equity analyst Cory O’Krainetz of   Read More

David Cockfield, Markham, Ont.-based portfolio manager and managing director of Northland Wealth Management, says determining how much a security can lose is a vital part of picking investments. He recommends   Read More

The U.S. economy is growing more quickly. So we continue to focus on U.S. companies that do lots of business at home in addition to their sales abroad. We picked   Read More

An Investment Reporter Key stock, wine producer Andrew Peller Ltd. is earning much more this year. It’s using its growing cash flow to reinvest in the business, to repay debt   Read More

From the universe of top financial stocks, we continue to advise you to buy the big five Canadian bank stocks. They’re safer than most companies, such as suffering commodities producers.   Read More

Analysts follow as many as 20 stocks, most of which are rated ‘buys’. Of those buys, an analyst has one or two special favourites seen as most suitable for new   Read More

DRIPs (Dividend Re-Investment Plans) and cash option plans let individual investors build their wealth. That’s thanks to the dozen benefits that we outline below.
Dividend Re-Investment Plans (DRIPs) can build   Read More

The price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil continues to fall. OPEC launched a price war. No one knows how low oil prices will go nor for how long. But   Read More

A study shows that from 1900 to 2005, dividends produced 90 per cent of the returns of investors worldwide. So focus as much on high dividend paying stocks as on   Read More

Every month the Money Reporter publishes a comprehensive list of the best bonds to invest in including 13 Canadian corporate bonds and 38 Canadian federal and provincial government bonds and   Read More

We regularly review Saint-Georges, Quebec-based Canam Group in The Investment Reporter. Since we published our June 5 issue, its shares have fallen by 13.7 per cent. The company’s outlook, however,   Read More

High Liner Foods’ growth is slowing and its shares have been driven down into bargain stocks territory. Still, it should continue to earn and pay more. That’s why the shares   Read More

If you watched Saturday night hockey games on TV in the 1960s, you’ll remember the commercials with always friendly ‘nice guy’ Esso dealer Murray Westgate assuring you that you could   Read More

PPG Industries Inc. is a U.S.-based world class manufacturing stock supplying paints, coatings, optical products, specialty materials, glass and fiber glass to customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction   Read More

The stock market and commodities markets are searching for direction from forward looking indicators. John Stephenson, president and CEO of Stephenson & Company Capital Management Inc. in Toronto, and a   Read More