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Every investor has to live with all-too-human tendencies that influence our decision-making. You have these tendencies for a reason, but sometimes that reason works against your investment goals. To succeed as an investor, you need to recognize these tendencies, and take control of them. Reaction to danger. This is one of the oldest human tendencies. It goes back to the millennia that our ancestors spent on the African savannah, hiding from saber-toothed tigers and other megafauna, not to mention marauding neighbours. To stay alive, we learned to keep a constant eye out for danger, react quickly, and run fast at the first sign of trouble. False alarms were frequent, of course. But the odds favoured running at any hint of risk. If we ran, we stayed alive, and at times we happened upon a new berry patch, a bird’s nest full of eggs, or a small rodent for our next meal....
High Liner Foods Inc., $15.27, symbol HLF on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 30.9 million; Market cap: $483.8 million, www.highliner.com), processes and markets frozen seafood. The company was called National Sea Products before it changed its name in 1998. High Liner sells its products in grocery stores throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico under the High Liner, Royal Sea, Fisher Boy, Mirabel and Sea Cuisine labels. It also sells food to restaurants and institutions under its High Liner, FPI and Icelandic Seafood brands. In addition, High Liner is a major supplier of private-label seafood to North American distributors and grocery stores. In the past few years, High Liner has steadily expanded its operations with acquisitions....
Goldcorp, $21.13, symbol G on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 830.3 million; Market cap: $18.0 billion; www.goldcorp.com), is a Canadian-based gold miner. The company produces gold, silver and base metals. Its mines include Red Lake and three others in Canada (Porcupine, Musselwhite and Eleonore); Penasquito and Los Filos in Mexico; Marlin in Guatemala; the Cerro Negro and Alumbrera (37.5% interest) in Argentina; and Pueblo Viejo (40%) in the Dominican Republic. As well, Goldcorp has five projects in the development stage. In 2015, the company produced 3.5 million ounces of gold, up 20.6% from 2.9 million ounces in 2014. The increase mostly came from the start up of the Cerro Negro gold/silver mine in January 2015 and the Eleonore gold mine in April 2015. In the three months ended December 31, 2015, Goldcorp’s revenue rose 28.4%. That’s a jump from to $1.07 billion from $835.0 million, a year earlier. Cash flow rose 30.5%, to $338.0 million, or $0.41 a share, from $259.0 million, or $0.32 a share....