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This past week, after Ted Cruz and John Kasich dropped out of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, the media began referring to the “Trump ascendancy.” Use of the phrase has since exploded. Google comes up with 374,000 hits for it. (In contrast, Google only finds 289 results in a search for “Romney ascendancy.”) The term seems to reflect a widely shared, negative point of view. “Ascendancy” started out as a reference to the rise to power in Ireland by a coalition of Protestant landowners, clergy and professionals, starting in the 1600s. Most historians would agree that the “Protestant Ascendancy” helped bring on a long stretch of poverty, mass emigration and intermittent starvation for the Irish. Judging by results of the Google search, the widely shared view about the Trump ascendancy is that it could be an awful thing for the economy and stock market. I bring this up because I see it as one more example of an orthodoxy that can cost you money by warping your stock-market decisions....
American Hotel Income Properties REIT, $10.08, symbol HOT.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 35.0 million; Market cap: $351.8 million, www.ahipreit.com), owns 80 hotels, comprising 7,072 rooms in 27 U.S. states. Of that total, 45 of the hotels operate under the Oak Tree Inn brand. For the most part, hotel guests are railroad workers. American Hotel believes this is a profitable niche market, as contracts with large railways keep occupancy rates high relative to the overall hospitality industry. The hotels are close to large rail-switching yards and hubs, and the railway contracts keep them about 75% occupied. The specially designed buildings feature crew shuttles and 24-hour food service....
Alaris Royalty Corp., $29.36, symbol AD on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 36.3 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; www.alarisroyalty.com), lends money to private businesses in exchange for royalties or distributions. Its goal is to generate stable cash flows in order to provide its shareholders with dividend payments. Since 2004, Alaris has provided over $595 million in funding to clients. They pay monthly distributions, and the company adjusts these rates annually based on certain criteria. Those include changes in a client’s gross sales or profits. Alaris currently collects distributions from 16 private businesses. Recent client additions include: Planet Fitness, which has 38 gyms in Maryland, Tennessee and Florida; Texas-based construction firm DNT; Sandbox, a Chicago-based advertising and marketing firm; Providence Industries, a California-based operator of clothing stores; Kimco Services, a janitorial company with more than 375 customers; and Federal Resources, which sells protective equipment for working with dangerous chemicals and radioactive materials....