Updating Linamar Corp., Home Capital Group Inc. and Restaurant Brands International Inc.

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LINAMAR CORP. $67 (www.linamar.com) makes a variety of automotive parts, including cylinder heads, cylinder blocks, camshafts, crankshafts and connecting rods. It also makes self-propelled, scissor-type elevating work platforms. The company recently agreed to buy three plants that make aluminum auto parts. Two of the facilities are in France, with the third in Spain. Linamar will pay about $8.8 million when it completes the purchase in the next few weeks. That price is equal to 6% of the $145.1 million, or $2.20 a share, it earned in the first quarter of 2017. Buy. HOME CAPITAL GROUP INC. $14 (www.homecapital.com) is a Canadian mortgage lender serving borrowers who don’t meet the stricter standards of the big banks. The stock jumped 30% after billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (New York symbol BRK.A) agreed to purchase Home Capital shares and supply it with a line of credit. The company also continues to sell parts of its loan portfolio to boost its liquidity, and it…