Aim for balance when you diversify your portfolio. Decide how much you should invest in each stock or industry group so that it will have meaningful representation.
Most investors learn the   Read More

Aim for balance when you diversify your portfolio. Decide how much you should invest in each stock or industry group so that it will have meaningful representation.
Most investors learn the   Read More

Aim for balance when you diversify your portfolio. Decide how much you should invest in each stock or industry group so that it will have meaningful representation.
Most investors learn the   Read More

A recent survey of analysts’ reports on makers of semiconductor chips featured four manufacturing stocks to buy.

While the demand for semiconductors skyrocketed last year, it also led to a worldwide   Read More

A recent survey of analysts’ reports on makers of semiconductor chips featured four manufacturing stocks to buy.

While the demand for semiconductors skyrocketed last year, it also led to a worldwide   Read More

Here’s our forecast of what we expect of the economy and the stock market over the next six months.

Here’s our outline of what we expect of the economy and stock   Read More

American Depositary Receipts, or ADRs, give you benefits. One is diversification. In fact, it’s tempting to rename ADRs American Diversification Receipts.

ADRs followed by The Investment Reporter include companies based in   Read More

American Depositary Receipts, or ADRs, give you benefits. One is diversification. In fact, it’s tempting to rename ADRs American Diversification Receipts.

ADRs followed by The Investment Reporter include companies based in   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

Earnings outlooks for 2020 have set the prices of manufacturing stocks AG Growth International and Medtronic plc.
The shares of manufacturing stock AG Growth International (TSX—AFN) fell substantially in August, giving   Read More

Even the most conservative investor has to own up to some grudging admiration for the successful stock trader. That’s because conservative investors recognize the difficulties that traders face. Before you   Read More

Even the most conservative investor has to own up to some grudging admiration for the successful stock trader. That’s because conservative investors recognize the difficulties that traders face. Before you   Read More

That sums up the advice of Investor’s Digest of Canada columnist T. Edward Gardiner. “If you’re holding utilities stocks, they’re probably as safe as anything else, and resource stocks may   Read More

Lester Asset Management CEO Stephen Takacsy argues that the risk-to-reward ratio is best among emerging stocks, a description that fits both of his ‘best buy’ picks, manufacturing stock Grande West   Read More

We’ve always thought that discipline may help you choose the best investments and increase your returns. Here are six things to remember when you buy stocks.
We’ve often stressed the point   Read More

Our Investment Planning Committee has added growing agricultural products manufacturing stock Ag Growth International to our list of Key stocks. The stock is a buy for further long-term share price   Read More

We’ve always thought that discipline may help you choose the best investments and increase your returns. Here are six things to remember when you buy stocks.
We’ve often stressed the point   Read More

When you buy stocks in sectors and sub-sectors of the market, keep your goals in mind. If you’re a conservative, income-seeking investor, focus on utilities, financial stocks and consumer stocks.   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
After   Read More

It’s best to diversify your portfolio across all five sectors of the economy: finance, utilities, consumer, manufacturing and resources. Remember, though, there’s danger in loading up on stocks in sectors   Read More

American Depositary Receipts, or ADRs, give you benefits. One is diversification. It’s tempting to call ADRs American ‘Diversification’ Receipts. They give you industries that Canada lacks or has in short   Read More

American Depositary Receipts, or ADRs, give you benefits. One is diversification. It’s tempting to call ADRs American ‘Diversification’ Receipts. They give you industries that Canada lacks or has in short   Read More

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

“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

“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

Cyclical investing works if the timing is right. The key question is: “Is this the right time?” Our current expansion (begun in 2009) is getting long in the tooth. Sectors   Read More

Columnist Edward Gardiner looks at the uncertainties surrounding NAFTA negotiations, the U.S. budget and events in Europe. He’s encouraged enough to recommend holding pipelines, oil and gas stocks and automotive   Read More

Writing in The MoneyLetter between the first round and final run-off French elections, portfolio manager John Stephenson admires the strong economic recovery underway in Europe. He picks two financial stocks   Read More

In the 1972 federal election, NDP Leader David Lewis popularized a political rallying cry against ‘corporate welfare bums’. Investor’s Digest columnist Keith Richards may not share much of the late   Read More

American Depositary Receipts, or ADRs, give you benefits. One is global portfolio diversification. It’s tempting to call ADRs American ‘Diversification’ Receipts. They give you industries that Canada lacks or has   Read More

Dorel Industries and Gildan Activewear are both attractively priced consumer goods manufacturing stocks to buy for long term share price gains. Each also pays a modest but stable dividend.
Since May,   Read More

An ‘old school’ manufacturing stock and a ‘new age’ technology stock may seem like an odd couple for a ‘2 Best Buys’ story in Investor’s Digest of Canada. But here’s   Read More

The Investment Reporter has added manufacturing stock New Flyer Industries to its list of Key stocks that it recommends as core portfolio holdings. New Flyer’s earnings are expected to jump   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

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant,   Read More

Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” is the ultimate parody of syrupy songs meant to cheer someone up. “Some things in life are bad, They can   Read More

The Investment Reporter regularly monitors 10 top building materials companies. Eight of these manufacturing stocks offer capital gains potential over the next few years.
Since we last reviewed our building supply   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

Headquartered in Valcourt, Que., BRP Inc. turns out recreational products such as the iconic Ski-Doo snowmobile, Sea-Doo personal watercraft, the Can-Am series of both on- and off-road vehicles and Evinrude/Johnson   Read More

Resource stocks should make up at least 10 per cent of your portfolio. Buy those likely to maintain or raise their dividends. Buy companies that profit from lower commodity prices.     Read More

Manufacturing stock Stella-Jones will earn record profits again. It keeps raising your dividends. The shares remain a buy for further long-term price gains and small, but rising, dividends.
We regularly review   Read More

CAE Inc. provides advanced simulation and controls equipment and integrated training solutions for the civil aviation and military markets. CAE is the world’s leading supplier of civil flight simulators, one   Read More

Russel operates in the cyclical manufacturing sector. Current weakness in its share price presents a buying opportunity. While you wait for this cyclical rebound, Russel’s yield makes it one of   Read More

Mention Canadian auto parts makers and you immediately think of such heavyweights as Magna Intl. Inc. (MG-TSX), or Linamar Corp. (LNR-TSX).  But Martinrea Intl. (MRE-TSX)?

Yet Martinrea is an outfit worth   Read More