Top pick Barrick Mining just raised its dividend a whopping 140% as it generates record earnings and continues its strategic asset reorganization.
Warner Music Group Corp. is well-positioned for higher-margin catalog revenues, added streaming adoption, and new AI monetization opportunities.
ARC Resources keeps returning its cash flow to shareholders through a growing dividend and substantial share buybacks.
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Ten Peaks Coffee Co. Inc., $10.49, symbol TPK on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 9.0 million; Market cap: $89.0 million; www.tenpeakscoffee.ca), owns the Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company, a Burnaby, B.C.-based firm that removes caffeine from coffee beans. Ten Peaks also owns and operates Seaforth Supply Chain Solutions, a coffee-handling and storage business in Vancouver. The company’s proprietary Swiss Water Process is a chemical-free way to remove caffeine from coffee. That’s in contrast to most other methods, which use chemicals like methylene chloride and ethyl acetate....
Trican Well Service, $0.51, symbol TCW on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 148.9 million; Market cap: $70.7 million; www.tricanwellservice.com), provides specialized products, equipment and services that are used during the exploration, drilling and development of oil and gas reserves. Calgary-based Trican operates in Canada, the U.S., Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Saudi Arabia and Norway. Falling oil and gas prices have cut drilling activity in Canada and the U.S. by about 50% in the past year. That lowered Trican’s revenue by 52.7% in the third quarter of 2015, to $325.5 million from $688.5 million a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, it lost $53.6 million, or $0.36 a share, compared to a profit of $36.2 million, or $0.24 a share....
Solar technology continues to advance, but one key drawback to investing in it is that it is still heavily dependent on government subsidies. Many of these subsidies seem likely to continue, at least for now, in China, Japan and the U.S., and that’s fuelling demand from utilities for large-scale solar plants. However, solar subsidies have lost support in many countries, including Germany and Spain. Meanwhile, low prices for oil, natural gas and coal make solar power less cost-competitive. We haven’t found any solar stocks we recommend as buys. However, here’s a look at a leading solar ETF:...
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