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Google has become one the world’s best-known brands since it was formed in 1998. For many Internet users, the Google search engine is the only way to find information online.
Under Google’s business model, it gives away most of its products and services for free, then makes money by selling ads. Google is drawing advertisers away from traditional print and TV …read more »
TRANSCONTINENTAL INC. $15 (Toronto symbol TCL.A; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 81.0 million; Market cap: $1.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 2.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.transcontinental.com) is the largest commercial printer in Canada and Mexico, and the fourth-largest in North America. It also publishes newspapers and magazines.
Transcontinental also has over 250 web sites. These web sites will …read more »
SHAWCOR LTD. $35 (Toronto symbol SCL.A; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 70.6 million; Market cap: $2.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 0.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.shawcor.com) is buying the pipeline-coating operations of privately held Altus Energy Services. The company did not reveal the price.
This Nisku, Alberta-based business coats the inside and outside of pipelines to …read more »
Wyndham Worldwide, symbol WYN on New York, is the third-largest hotel company in the world, with 7,110 franchised hotels. It operates under a number of brands, including Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Ramada, Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate by Wyndham, Baymont Inn & Suites, Microtel Inns & Suites, Hawthorn Suites, Howard Johnson, Travelodge, Knights Inn and Ameri-host Inn.
We analyze Wyndham in …read more »
TIM HORTONS INC. $41 (Toronto symbol THI; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 173.0 million; Market cap: $7.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.8; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.timhortons.com) will make its first expansion outside North America under a new deal with Dubai-based Apparel Group. Under the terms, Apparel will open up to 120 Tim Hortons coffee-and-donut shops in …read more »
SHAMARAN PETROLEUM $1.30 (Toronto symbol SNM; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (416-364-8820; www.shamaranpetroleum.com; Shares outstanding: 499.5 million; Market cap: $649.4 million) reports positive oil showings at various depths from the Atrush-1 exploration well in Kurdistan. ShaMaran and its partners now plan further drilling to confirm the results.
ShaMaran acquired an interest in the Atrush exploration block in September 2010. General Exploration Partners (GEP) …read more »
ZARGON OIL & GAS $21.61 (Toronto symbol ZAR; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (403-264-9992; www.zargon.ca; Shares outstanding: 23.8 million; Market cap: $513.5 million; Dividend yield: 7.8%) is the new name of Zargon Energy Trust following its conversion to a dividend-paying corporation on January 7, 2011. The move is in response to Ottawa’s new tax on income trust distributions, which came into effect …read more »
BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS INC. $22 (New York symbol BR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 125.0 million; Market cap: $2.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 2.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.broadridge.com) provides communication, processing and other services to the investment industry. These services help its customers cut costs and focus on their core businesses.
Broadridge’s clients include 250 banks, …read more »
Broadridge began trading on April 2, 2007, after former parent Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP) distributed its shares to its own stockholders as a special dividend, or “spinoff.”
Like many spinoffs, Broadridge struggled at first. That’s partly because many ADP shareholders quickly sold their new shares. As well, institutional investors often ignore companies with smaller market caps (or the total value …read more »
MART RESOURCES $0.70 (Toronto symbol MMT; SI Rating: Speculative) (403-270-1841; www.martresources.com; Shares outstanding: 335.5 million; Market cap: $115.8 million; No dividends paid) is focused on developing, producing and drilling for oil at its onshore properties in Africa. Mart is currently producing oil from its 50%-held Umusadege field in Nigeria.
Mart recently released preliminary results from its latest well at the …read more »
