Benjamin Graham was the father of fundamental security analysis. His value-based stock-picking method has strong points—and weak points.
Benjamin Graham believes defensive investors should stick with large, prominent companies that are   Read More

Canada’s big five banks dominate the investing public’s attention when it comes to choosing financial stocks. But the next tier often offers interesting investing opportunities based on regional factors that   Read More

Seniors housing and business software technology may make for an odd couple on anybody’s ‘best of anything’ list. But chartered financial analyst Christine Poole sees money to be made from   Read More

In spite of a large body of evidence that investing in equities produces superior long-term results than does investing in any other class of assets such as bond, money-market securities   Read More

Blue-chip consumer goods stock Metro Inc. has agreed to acquire drugstore chain Jean Coutu Group. We think that Metro will profit from this transaction. It remains a buy. Coutu’s shares   Read More

VersaPay is a financial technology (fintech) stock that provides clients with cloud-based accounts receivable automation software called ARC. ARC currently has over 100 suppliers signed on the platform, more than   Read More

Stock market speculators should continue to work in Canadian oil and gas stocks and precious metals stocks. Gold, silver, oil and natural gas are all in long-term up trends right   Read More

Transcontinental Inc. is expected to earn more in the year to October 31. Its earnings are expected to slip a bit next year and the year after that. But as   Read More

If you want just one Canadian equity mutual fund, let it be Mawer Canadian Equity. The fund has one of the lowest management expense ratios in its category, giving you   Read More

Top Canadian stocks like financial stocks and oil and gas stocks are doing very well right now. Rising interest rates are boosting the former, while infrastructure investment has created greater   Read More

Canada’s two largest bank stocks, Royal and T-D, continue to rack up impressive earnings-per-share (eps) growth. Both of these blue chip financial stocks are rated buy for growth and income.
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BRP Inc. was founded in 1942 as L’Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée (Bombardier Snow Car Limited) by Joseph-Armand Bombardier. It was spun off by Bombardier in 2003. Canada has fairly few large   Read More

Every month the Money Reporter, the newsletter for income-oriented investors, publishes its list of 25 recommended common stocks and 16 recommended mutual equity funds.
What to do about common stocks now
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Drivers of Canadian growth today (real estate and consumer debt) may be tomorrow’s burst bubble. Solid blue chip stocks like Canadian banks or Canadian oil and gas stocks are safe   Read More

There’s a lot going on these days for those with private corporations and those without. You owe it to yourself to preserve your hard-earned money for the people and causes   Read More

‘The Back Page’ is a weekly feature of The Investment Reporter that examines the market outlook with a focus on a particular industry. Here are 5 engineering stocks to buy   Read More

The emerging markets are in the best economic shape they have been in for years and they offer something that the developed world does not—explosive growth and dynamism. John Stephenson   Read More

You can profit from shorter-term swings in value by looking for stocks that are stuck within a sideways trading range. ValueTrend portfolio manager Keith Richards reveals four stocks stuck in   Read More

Manulife Financial has thrown cold water on the rumours that it was considering selling its US operations. It does have some underperforming assets in the US, but it would like   Read More

Benjamin Graham wrote that investors should mostly ignore the stock market. They should buy only bargain stocks that the market greatly undervalues. And sell only shares that the market has   Read More

“Irrational exuberance” is how former US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan described the stock market during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Investor’s Digest of Canada columnist Edward Gardiner looks at   Read More

While the latest pullback in the technology sector might represent a decent buying opportunity, MoneyLetter columnist John Stephenson believes that 2017’s second half strategy is to favor value stocks over   Read More

Hydro One is a buy for long-term share price gains and attractive growing dividends. It’s building a bright future in Ontario and the US.
Hydro One’s shares (TSX—H) are somewhat costly   Read More

In its monthly review of bonds and preferred shares, the Money Reporter recommends two corporate bonds that would fit well in a five-year laddered GIC portfolio.
What to do about bonds   Read More

At this silver mine it apparently pays to get the lead out. Investor’s Digest of Canada columnist Mike Kachanovsky has found a silver mining stock with enough revenue from its   Read More

At ValueTrend, as the name suggests, portfolio management is driven by value-based principles. But, says portfolio manager Keith Richards, any system worth its salt will save you in the long   Read More

At this time of the year, the forward-looking stock market is more and more using outlooks for 2018 to set stock prices. Before you sell a stock that looks over   Read More

GBC International Growth Fund is well diversified by industry sector. It has exposure to most sectors of the global economy, and its greatest exposure to a single sector is just   Read More

You can profit from shorter-term swings in value by looking for stocks that are stuck within a sideways trading range. ValueTrend portfolio manager Keith Richards reveals four stocks stuck in   Read More

“It’s a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer/Leaving me here on my own/It’s a cruel, (it’s a cruel), cruel summer/Now you’re gone”. British pop artists Bananarama weren’t singing about Canadians’ 2017 proposed   Read More

Four times a year The Investment Reporter reviews its outlook for the economy’s five main sectors—financial, utilities, manufacturing, consumer and resources. Its guiding rule is that investors keep at least   Read More

To paraphrase its own popular 1960s slogan, Imperial Oil needs to put a tiger back in its own tank. Planned and unplanned outages resulted in a second-quarter loss. But this   Read More

Investor’s Digest of Canada columnist David Chapman says the current bull market which began in 2009 should be over by the first quarter of 2018. Both stocks and bonds are   Read More

So a stock pays you less than a dollar a share. Are those pennies really all that important? Maybe more than you think. Long-time strategic investors look particularly for stocks   Read More

Key stock goeasy’s earnings are growing fast as it expands across Canada. Especially since it buys back its shares. The company has raised its dividend for three years in a   Read More

Every month Investor’s Digest of Canada surveys leading securities analysts for their advice on over 1,000 Canadian stocks. This month the survey found two junior western Canadian oil and gas   Read More

The MoneyLetter columnist Ken Norquay creates a long-term investment strategy based on his study of behavioural finance and its effect on the stock markets. He says if the S&P 500   Read More

Consumer goods stock Canada Goose Holdings is a buy for long-term share price gains. But only if you need no dividends and you can accept buying stock in a company   Read More

Recent weakness in the Canadian market leads us to recommend Canadian equity funds now. Higher stock valuations in the US have made international equity funds the more attractive choice globally.
The   Read More

Seasonal financial analyst Don Vialoux says precious metals and their mining stocks generally reach a seasonal low in July and pick up speed again until late September. Cyclical stocks usually   Read More

After a big beer conference, the presidents of all the breweries decide to have a drink in the bar. The president of Labatt orders a Blue, the president of Molson   Read More

US stock Cardinal Health did well in the year to June 30. This year it’s expected to struggle. But the shares are cheap for a blue chip stock that rewards   Read More

Despite rising interest rates, income securities still have a place in conservative stock portfolios. Yielding 4.1 per cent, Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust is a buy for growth and income.
The   Read More

While waiting for major US technology stocks to pull back, portfolio manager Guy Lapierre is  putting his clients into two exchange traded funds that he says will profit from the   Read More

Selling the family cottage (or, depending on where you live in Canada, the cabin, the bungalow, the lake, the chalet, the camp, the shack, the farm or the summer house)   Read More

Experience has taught us, and billionaire Warren Buffett, that bad acquisitions create a bad conglomerate stock. But a company can improve its chance of success by making acquisitions within its   Read More

While the latest pullback in the technology sector might represent a decent buying opportunity, MoneyLetter columnist John Stephenson believes that 2017’s second half strategy is to favor value stocks over   Read More

Beacon Securities head of research, Toronto-based Doug Cooper, analyzed New Look Vision Group’s latest acquisition and concluded that the transaction not only grows New Look’s store count by about 66   Read More

Mining stocks and oil and gas stocks have compelling valuations right now which makes a specialty fund such as RBC Global Resources attractive. If you’d rather track a broad index,   Read More

Canadian global manufacturing stock Magna International should earn record profits this year and next. This, plus a solid balance sheet and growing cash flow, gives it the means to raise   Read More

Investing in mortgages is a lot like investing in real estate, except without the headaches and capital required to actually purchase a property. Corwin Mortgage Capital vice president Jason Geall   Read More

Brookfield Renewable Partners LP is a renewable power generating company. Its portfolio of renewable electric power generating facilities is spread across North America, Latin America and Europe.
Brookfield Renewable Partners   Read More