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As business booms, RTX Corp.’s (formerly Raytheon Technologies) outlook remains strong.
Perimeter Solutions Inc. reported strong revenue and earnings as it benefits from its unique position in aerial retardants backed by a multi‑year government contract base.
T. Rowe Price Group trades cheaply despite offering a high 4.8% yield with a 40‑year dividend‑growth track record and net cash balance sheet.
Mattr Corp. (formerly ShawCor) offers upside thanks to end-market demand drivers as well as potential for further tuck-in acquisitions or internal expansion.
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LendingClub Corp., $12.34, symbol LC on New York (Shares outstanding: 375.2 million; Market cap: $4.5 billion; www.lendingclub.com), operates an online marketplace that matches borrowers with potential lenders. The company’s software automates the application process, quickly determines a borrower’s creditworthiness and sets the interest rate on the loan. This method keeps LendingClub’s costs down, so its rates tend to be lower than bank lending rates. The company receives fees for originating loans, collecting payments from borrowers and passing them on to lenders. It doesn’t provide loans or assume any credit risk. Since it started up in 2007, Lending Club has helped more than 1.1 million borrowers get $13.4 billion worth of loans....
Vogogo Inc., $0.81, symbol VGO on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 35.0 million; Market cap: $35.5 million; www.vogogo.com), makes software that helps financial firms and merchants process electronic payments that use cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. Its products aim to cut fraud and make it easier for bitcoin transactions to comply with banking regulations. Bitcoin is a digital currency invented in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto (possibly a real person, possibly a pseudonym for one or more hackers). It isn’t the first digital currency, but Nakamoto’s innovation was to use math-heavy coding techniques that allow bitcoins to be exchanged without the need for a central authority or a physical standard, like gold, to deter counterfeiters and regulate the supply. Right now, supply is limited to about 12.2 million bitcoins....
Ag Growth International Inc., $29.09, symbol AFN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 14.4 million; Market cap: $418.3 million; www.aggrowth.com), is a leading maker of portable and stationary grain-handling, storage and conditioning equipment. The company is based in Winnipeg. Ag Growth sells its products through dealers and distributors in Canada and the U.S., as well as overseas, including Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. It gets 44% of its sales from the U.S., followed by Canada (34%) and international markets (22%). The company started out as an income trust. It first sold units to the public at $10 each and began trading on Toronto in May 2004. In June 2009, it converted to a corporation and changed its name from Ag Growth Income Fund to Ag Growth International....
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