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Alaris Royalty Corp., $22.65, symbol AD on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 36.0 million; Market cap: $829.9 million; www.alarisroyalty.com), loans money to private businesses in exchange for royalties or distributions, with the goal of generating stable, predictable cash flows for dividend payments to its shareholders. Since 2004, Alaris has provided over $595 million in funding. Recent clients include Kimco Services, a janitorial company with more than 375 customers; Planet Fitness, which has 38 gyms in Maryland, Tennessee and Florida; Texas-based construction firm DNT; and Federal Resources, which sells protective equipment for working with dangerous chemicals, radioactive materials and explosives. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, Alaris’s revenue rose 8.8%, to $19.1 million from $17.5 million a year earlier. However, a writedown of bad loans cut earnings by 60.0%, to $0.18 a share from $0.45....
CPI Card Group, $14.30, symbol PNT on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 56.5 million; Market cap: $808.0 million; www.cpicardgroup.com), makes plastic credit and debit cards, mostly for U.S. lenders like Bank of America, American Express, Visa and MasterCard. It produces 35% of all such cards issued in the U.S. The Colorado-based company first sold shares to the public and began trading on the Toronto and Nasdaq exchanges on October 15, 2015, at $10 U.S. per share. CPI sold 15.0 million shares in its initial public offering, raising proceeds of $142.5 million U.S. It originally hoped to raise $300 million U.S. but insufficient demand forced it to cut the number of shares it sold and their price. The company is benefiting as the U.S. shifts to debit and credit cards that use chip-and-PIN technology and away from magnetic stripes. This change accelerated with the EMV (EuroPay, MasterCard and Visa) payment networks’ liability shift, which came into effect in the U.S. on October 1, 2015....
Brookfield Asset Management, $41.21, symbol BAM.A on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 981.1 million; Market cap: $40.2 billion; www.brookfield.com), is a holding company with a focus on real estate, infrastructure and power generation....
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