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Sun Life Financial Inc. and Manulife Financial Corp. each offers a combination of solid earnings growth, ongoing share repurchases, and impressive dividend yields.
Groupe Dynamite Inc. is a high‑quality specialty retailer with gains ahead.
Teck Resources Ltd. is a solid bet on higher copper prices with its big merger winning approvals
Toromont Industries Ltd. should see continued earnings growth thanks to its leading market share and Canada’s plan to increase spending on infrastructure projects.
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One big risk of volatile, declining markets is that they can spur you to make impulsive sell decisions. They lead some investors to sell “at the bottom”—that is, to sell some if not all their best holdings right around the time when the market hits what will turn out to be its low. In hindsight, it may seem that the best way to deal with this risk is to sell when a market downturn is just getting started. That would be the best way—if only it were possible! But nobody can foresee how long a drop in prices will last, nor how far down it will go. You can find lots of systems and signals and gurus that that guessed right, once or several times in a row. Eventually, though, they all guess wrong. One wrong guess can create losses that far outweigh gains from a series of lucky guesses. One problem for unsuccessful investors is that they live by the idea that a stock is “worth” only what it will fetch if you have to sell immediately. You’ll sometimes hear them say things like, “I lost $50,000 last Thursday,” even if they didn’t sell anything....
Sprott Physical Silver Trust, $5.93, symbol PHS.U on Toronto (Units outstanding: 127.4 million; Market cap: $755.4 million; www.sprottphysicalbullion.com), holds substantially all of its assets in physical silver bullion. The trust aims to provide an alternative for investors who want to hold physical silver bullion without the inconvenience—transport, storage and insurance. The trust does not speculate with regard to short-term changes in silver prices. At the same time, unitholders who hold certain minimum dollar amounts of the trust can redeem their units for physical silver bullion on a monthly basis. The trust’s MER is 0.65%....
Energy Fuels Inc., $3.26, symbol EFR on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 45.3 million; Market cap: $147.6 million; www.energyfuels.com), operates two uranium processing facilities—the White Mesa Mill in Utah and the Nichols Ranch Processing Facility in Wyoming. Both supply uranium oxide (U3O8) in concentrates to major nuclear utilities. The White Mesa Mill has a capacity of over 8 million pounds of uranium oxide per year. The Nichols Ranch Processing Facility, acquired in the company’s purchase of Uranerz Energy Corporation in June 2015, has capacity of 2 million pounds of U3O8 per year. Energy Fuels also has uranium mining projects located in a number of western U.S. states, including small producing mines, mines on standby, and mineral properties in various stages of permitting and development....
Blackstone Group LP, $26.06, symbol BX on New York (Shares outstanding: 558.4 million; Market cap: $16.0 billion; www.blackstone.com), is a global alternative asset manager and provider of financial advisory services. The company’s alternative asset management businesses include managing corporate private equity funds, real estate opportunity funds, hedge funds, mezzanine funds, senior debt funds and closed-end mutual funds. Mezzanine financing is a mixture of debt and equity financing that private companies use to fund expansion. Mezzanine debt gives the lender the right to convert the debt to equity if the borrower defaults. It typically entails less due diligence by the lender, and the borrower puts up little or no collateral....