Top pick Barrick Mining just raised its dividend a whopping 140% as it generates record earnings and continues its strategic asset reorganization.
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ARC Resources keeps returning its cash flow to shareholders through a growing dividend and substantial share buybacks.
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The most valuable advice I can give you today is this: don’t be too quick to take profits in your U.S. stocks. Since the 1995 launch of our first advisory service, The Successful Investor, we’ve been advising Canadian investors to include up to 25% or so of their portfolios in U.S. stocks The U.S. market gives you access to the world’s top stocks. These stocks come in a range of size and quality that’s largely unavailable in Canada. In 1995, many of these stocks seemed likely to get even more successful as years passed, and that’s what happened. We think things will work out much the same in the next 20 years....
The most valuable advice I can give you today is this: don’t be too quick to take profits in your U.S. stocks. Since the 1995 launch of our first advisory service, The Successful Investor, we’ve been advising Canadian investors to include up to 25% or so of their portfolios in U.S. stocks The U.S. market gives you access to the world’s top stocks. These stocks come in a range of size and quality that’s largely unavailable in Canada. In 1995, many of these stocks seemed likely to get even more successful as years passed, and that’s what happened. We think things will work out much the same in the next 20 years....
Silver Spring Networks Inc., $11.94, symbol SSNI on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 50.3 million; Market cap: $625.8 million; www.silverspringnet.com), helps power companies make their transmission grids more efficient. Its main products include meters and related software that can automatically adjust home thermostats and streetlights. The company is bringing this expertise to technology for monitoring and analyzing data from a wider variety of Internet-connected devices, including smartphones, tablets, vehicles and appliances. This “Internet of Things” could total over 30 billion devices by 2020, and tapping into the information they generate should help Silver Spring’s clients improve their products and make better decisions. Since it started up in 2002, the company has shipped more than 22.3 million network-connected devices. It first sold shares to the public on March 13, 2013, at $17.00 each....