Week in Review: May 14, 2012 - May 18, 2012

The Week in Review lets you easily catch up on any Daily Updates you may have missed during the week. This is your opportunity to review the reports and analysis that may have the greatest impact on your investments.

This Week’s Reports

lululemon continues to hit new highs

Agrium grows rapidly with 230 Viterra outlets

Investor Toolkit: The dangers of investing on share price alone

Why share buybacks deserve more respect

Crisis in Europe is no reason to sell—Pat McKeough on YouTube

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This is the latest in a series of video interviews in which Pat McKeough will give his investment advice on a variety of topics. Some will deal with his overall investment philosophy, others on specific investment strategies and still others will be comments on events that are affecting the markets and the economy. This week, the topic is the ongoing crisis in Europe, and the apparently unsolvable problems of Greece. Is it time to take some money out of the market? On the contrary, says Pat, investors who remain calm …read more »

Dividends are in fashion with investors right now, and that’s always a good thing. Creative accounting can produce false impressions of prosperity and hide embarrassing financial problems. But accounting can’t create cash for this year’s dividend, let alone conjure up a history of past dividends. If you restrict your stock market picks to dividend payers, you’ll avoid most of the market’s greatest disasters.

It’s odd that while investors periodically crave cash dividends, they rarely get excited about stock buybacks. But in some ways, stock buybacks are better than dividends. In particular, …read more »

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you our advice on the fundamentals of successful investing, including specific stock market advice. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away.

Today’s tip: “If you let share price fluctuations dictate your buying and selling, you’re almost certain to lose money.”

It’s a fact of life on the stock market. Stocks go up …read more »

AGRIUM INC. (Toronto symbol AGU; www.agrium.com) makes fertilizers from natural gas. It sells its products to farmers and industrial users through its more than 1,200 stores in North America, South America and Australia. The company’s retail outlets help shield it from volatile fertilizer prices.

Agrium continues to add more stores. It recently agreed to pay $1.65 billion (all amounts except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars) for 230 fertilizer outlets in western Canada operated by Viterra Inc.

It will also purchase Viterra’s 17 stores in Australia, plus its 34% …read more »

Pat McKeough responds to many personal questions on specific stocks and other investment topics from the members of his Inner Circle. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions.

This past week, an Inner Circle member wondered about one of Canada’s most successful growth stocks. The shares for this athletic wear firm have done very well for this investor, but he asks Pat …read more »