Shield Mortgage Capital’s Jason Geall says the private mortgage market during COVID-19 is seeing lenders tightening up credit criteria and sticking to low loan-to-value mortgages.
It’s been a wild few months,   Read More

Utilities pay much more secure dividends than companies that operate in the volatile manufacturing or resources sectors.

The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed some companies into bankruptcy. Survivors have eliminated or   Read More

Accumulating a portfolio is half the battle. The other half involves getting your money back when you need it. After all, future cash is surely what present investing is all   Read More

“Considering the management and the systems involved, and considering the complex nature of the business, there’s nothing in the world quite like Canadian National Railway.”

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the less   Read More

Couche-Tard’s stores have mostly remained open during the COVID-19 pandemic and its results have been mixed. But it has the financial strength to see it through.
Deemed critical businesses, Alimentation Couche-Tard’s   Read More

Keith Richards of ValueTrend Wealth Management sees an opportunity to make money when money rotates out of overvalued theme-stocks into overlooked sectors and stocks.
Normally, one or two news headlines dominate   Read More

Here are three royalty and streaming stocks. They enjoy lower expenses and less risk than their operating peers, while enjoying the upside of any successes.
Government responses to COVID-19 are paving   Read More

Lightspeed POS is a buy for aggressive investors willing to take risks for large potential stock price gains, provided that you need no dividends.

Montreal-based technology stock Lightspeed POS Inc. (TSX—LSPD)   Read More

Central banks and governments are stimulating economies for a reason. Whatever the reason, behavioural finance analyst Ken Norquay says, you too should defend your portfolio.

In our last article, we promised   Read More

A manufacturer of higher-value, higher-margin edible, vape and beverage products and a provider of incision-free therapies for the treatment of prostate cancer are “strong buys”.

Before this year’s stock market correction,   Read More

Portfolios perform best with between five and 20 stocks. Fewer than five leaves you unable to achieve portfolio balance and diversification; more than 20 and it is hard to stay   Read More

Accumulating a portfolio is half the battle. The other half involves getting your money back when you need it. After all, future cash is surely what present investing is all   Read More

Gus Papageorgiou, PI Financial’s research head, says if a vaccine is developed by fall, we should see a robust recovery. If not, and a second wave hits, a recovery may   Read More

CIBC’s second-quarter results reflected a substantial increase in its provision for credit losses. But the higher provision reflects a conservative approach to dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.

CIBC’s provision for credit   Read More

ValueTrend’s Keith Richards thinks the odds for a second market pullback outweigh the odds for a return to the bull market just yet. “Wrong or right,” he says, “I have   Read More

NOA is a compelling opportunity for value investors with a longer-term time horizon to own a wealth-generating company which can be bought today near its tangible book value.

Although stocks have   Read More

Couche-Tard’s stores have mostly remained open during the COVID-19 pandemic and its results have been mixed. But it has the financial strength to see it through.
Deemed critical businesses, Alimentation Couche-Tard’s   Read More

CPA Mark Goodfield (aka The Blunt Bean Counter), says COVID-19 made many owners aware of the impact a ‘black swan’ event can have on the value of their businesses.

Not to   Read More

Here are three royalty and streaming stocks. They enjoy lower expenses and less risk than their operating peers, while enjoying the upside of any successes.
Government responses to COVID-19 are paving   Read More

And for both, you can ‘take it to the bank’—any of the Big Five banks will do just fine. Canada may have been founded by a department store but it’s   Read More

Here are three real estate investment trusts that, collectively, offer a potpourri of real estate—office, retail, industrial, residential—to buy for capital gains and income.

■ Brookfield Property Partners (TSX—BPY.UN) declared a   Read More

HealthSpace Data Systems promises to deliver its platform for contact tracing within 48 hours to any North American jurisdiction fighting COVID-19 outbreaks.

The rush to collect and measure medically relevant data   Read More

The coronavirus hurt gold mining stock Agnico Eagle’s production and drove up its costs. But cash flow is healthy and it should earn significant free cash flow in the second   Read More

Regardless of the investment philosophy or style of a fund’s portfolio manager, the only solid information we have about a fund is its portfolio and its past performance.

When you look   Read More

goeasy provides financial services to purchasers and lessees of its furniture, electronics, computers, and appliances.

Toronto-based Raymond James Financial analyst Stephen Boland resumes coverage of financial services stock goeasy Ltd. (TSX—GSY)   Read More

COVID-19 has had a mixed impact on Procter & Gamble’s business. Despite this, the company reported higher earnings in its latest quarter and increased its dividend.

There’s an old saying: “What   Read More

Behavioural finance analyst Ken Norquay says it is clear that the economic world is in chaos. Conservative investors should be much more cautious than usual.

In today’s world of fake news   Read More

Low energy prices and weaker local currencies versus the USD, improve the profitability of silver and gold stocks in Mexico, Australia and Canada.

The best medicine for market reactions to COVID-19’s   Read More

COVID-19 caused analysts to reduce their expectations for Open Text’s Q3 results. But this technology stock beat those expectations and the long-term outlook is positive.

Open Text (TSX—OTEX; NASDAQ—OTEX) has shown   Read More

Capital Group Global Equity fund has been a stellar fund over the years. But it’s not resting on its laurels. The fund is adjusting its portfolio in response to the   Read More

National Bank Financial analysts Matt Kornack and Tal Woolley say that if a sharp recovery emerges, these Top 10 REITS will materially outperform their class.
This report contains the result of   Read More

The collapse of oil prices hit pipeline and midstream stocks hard. They offer strong recovery potential when prices start to normalize. Here are four pipeline stocks we like.

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Share buybacks weren’t the dilemma of The Clash’s 1980s hit song. But they did lament: “If I go, there will be trouble; And if I stay it will be double.”   Read More

Much construction industry activity, notably public projects, was deemed an “essential service” and continued to operate through the COVID-19 shutdown.
With public-project construction largely deemed an essential service across most of   Read More

Manufacturing stocks can get hurt by unexpected factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic. And their dividends are less secure than those paid by utilities and financial stocks.

We often point out   Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased demand for groceries and other essentials. Loblaw same-store sales are expected to benefit from this demand.

Grocery companies have offered investors shelter in turbulent markets. A   Read More

BMO chief economist Douglas Porter takes a look at the possible chart formations tracking a post-pandemic economic recovery. Give me a “U”, give me a “V”; give me a .   Read More

We’ve always held a high opinion of dollar-cost averaging. That’s because we’ve often seen this investment strategy richly reward those who follow it.

To dollar-cost average, of course, you invest equal   Read More

Here are two high-yielding western Canadian oil and gas stocks with sustainable dividends and a royalty trust we’ve become cautious on.
Keyera Corp. (TSX—KEY)  

Among Canadian infrastructure stocks, pipeline and midstream issues   Read More

Seasonality analyst names this conservative ETF, with a basket of diversified international healthcare stocks (which, he says, trumps all other market sectors), as his current ‘best buy’.

Market volatility will be   Read More

Social isolation has raised the demand for consumer staples, healthcare items and home entertainment. Global stock Amazon.com Inc. stands to profit from these trends.

Amazon.com (NDQ—AMZN) has performed much better than   Read More

Here are three power generation trusts—Algonquin, Boralex and Northland—that are buys for growth and income.

Algonquin Power (TSX—AQN)
Algonquin had a busy year in 2019. The company added nearly 30,000 new customers   Read More

Mining stock specialist Mike Kachanovsky says now is the time to buy heavily discounted precious metals stocks and capture a rebound in this sector that is long overdue.

It seems that   Read More

Bull and bear markets succeed one another. But market timing just doesn’t work, so stay the course, invest gradually and rebalance your portfolio towards stocks.

The stock market’s unexpected plunge this   Read More

How do split shares work? It’s not exactly like having your cake and eating it too. You do give up something to double your dividends or double your capital gain.
Split   Read More

Guns and oil are the focus of Toronto portfolio manager Nicole Crawford’s search for the two best stocks to buy as governments try to get markets moving again.
Sequestered in her   Read More

Three factors will affect most of your investment strategy this year: the COVID-19 pandemic, plunging oil prices and the US presidential election.

Investors should look forward to a positive performance for   Read More

When stock markets turn volatile like they did this year, many investors start looking for refuge—a place to put their money simply to preserve it and maybe get a modest   Read More

Albert Einstein said: “In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.” Investor’s Digest associate editor Manal Ali went looking for some stocks that may prove him right.

As the coronavirus   Read More

With markets down by more than 30 per cent, we’re officially in a bear market. But a lower market lets you buy high-quality stocks that pay dividends and regularly raise   Read More

Guy Lapierre names two favourites of his, Ford and Disney, along with a company that has taken a significant hit recently, cruise operator Carnival, as his 3 best stocks to   Read More

Fixed-income investments like bonds have a place in most portfolios. But they yield little as central banks have cut interest rates to soften the blow of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus   Read More