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WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE $68.94 (New York symbol WYN; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (973-753-6000; www.wyndhamworldwide.com; Shares outstanding: 116.1 million; Market cap: $7.6 billion; Dividend yield: 2.4%) is one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, with 7,800 franchised hotels worldwide. It also manages vacation resorts, rental properties, luxury clubs and timeshares. The company has 112,000 vacation-rental properties in 100 countries. In the three months ended December 31, 2015, Wyndham’s revenue rose 6.5%, to $1.31 billion from $1.23 billion a year earlier. Earnings per share rose 8.9% before onetime items, to $0.98 from $0.90. The company is raising its quarterly dividend by 19.0%, to $0.50 from $0.42. The stock now yields 2.5%....

BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS $55.43 New York symbol BR; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (201-714-3000; www.broadridge.com; Shares outstanding: 118.6 million; Market cap: $6.6 billion; Dividend yield: 2.2%) serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing and transaction clearing. The company processes 90% of all proxy votes in the U.S. and Canada. Without one-time items, Broadridge earned $46.5 million in its fiscal 2016 first quarter, which ended December 31, 2015. That’s up 16.5% from $39.9 million a year earlier. Earnings per share rose 18.8%, to $0.38 from $0.32, on fewer shares outstanding. Recurring revenue cuts risk...

GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. $30.78 (Nasdaq symbol GT; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (330-796-2122; www.goodyear.com; Shares outstanding: 268.9 million; Market cap: $8.2 billion; Dividend yield: 0.9%) is one of the world’s largest tire makers, with 52 plants in 22 countries. In the three months ended December 31, 2015, Goodyear’s revenue fell 6.7%, to $4.06 billion from $4.36 billion a year earlier. The rising U.S. dollar lowered the value of the company’s foreign sales (particularly in Europe and Brazil) by $339 million. Excluding one-time items, earnings rose 12.0%, to $257.0 million, or $0.93 a share. A year earlier, the company earned $166.0 million, or $0.59 a share....

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PFIZER INC. $32 (New York symbol PFE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 6.5 billion; Market cap: $208.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.0; Dividend yield: 3.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pfizer.com) is the world’s largest pharmaceutical company.

Pfizer gets about 45% of its revenue from 10 drugs, each of which generates over $1 billion in annual sales. They include Lipitor (for high cholesterol), Enbrel (rheumatoid arthritis), Lyrica (epilepsy), Celebrex (arthritis), Viagra (erectile dysfunction), Norvasc (hypertension), Prevnar (a pneumonia vaccine), Sutent (stomach cancer), Premarin (hormone replacement) and Zyvox (bacterial infections).

The company is also the world’s fifth-largest maker of overthe- counter drugs. Brands include Advil (pain relief), Centrum (vitamins) and Robitussin (cough syrup).
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BCE INC. $58 (Toronto symbol BCE; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 865.6 million; Market cap: $49.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 4.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bce.ca) is Canada’s largest telephone provider, with 6.7 million customers in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces. It also has 3.4 million high-speed Internet users and 2.7 million TV subscribers. In all, these operations supplied 56% of BCE’s revenue in 2015. The company also sells wireless services (32% of revenue) to 8.25 million cellphone users across Canada. The remaining 12% of BCE’s revenue comes from its Bell Media division, which owns CTV Television (30 stations), 34 specialty channels (including TSN, Discovery, Comedy and Space), pay TV services (including the Movie Network and HBO Canada) and 106 radio stations....

CAE INC. $14 (Toronto symbol CAE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 269.9 million; Market cap: $3.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.6; Dividend yield: 2.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cae.com) earned $59.4 million in its fiscal 2016 third quarter, which ended December 31, 2015. That’s up 14.0% from $52.1 million a year earlier. Earnings per share also jumped 10.0%, rising to $0.22 from $0.20, on more shares outstanding. Revenue gained 10.2%, to $616.3 million from $559.1 million. About 90% of the company’s revenue comes from foreign customers, so it’s benefiting from the lower Canadian dollar. Sales of flight simulators and pilottraining services to airlines (54% of total revenue) gained 3.9%. CAE sold nine simulators during the quarter, for a total of 39 in the first nine months of fiscal 2016. It expects its full-year total to exceed the 41 sold in fiscal 2015....

TELUS CORP. $40 (Toronto symbol T; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 599.9 million; Market cap: $24.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.9; Dividend yield: 4.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.telus.com) is Canada’s second-largest wireless telephone service provider, after Rogers Communications, with 8.5 million subscribers. Wireless now supplies 56% of Telus’s revenue and 66% of its earnings. The remaining 44% of revenue and 34% of earnings come from its wireline division, which serves 1.5 million residential phone customers in B.C., Alberta and eastern Quebec. This business also has 1.6 million high-speed Internet users and 1.0 million TV clients. The stock is down 11% from its July 2015 peak of $45. That’s partly due to Shaw Communications’ (Toronto symbol SJR.B) recent deal to pay $1.6 billion for wireless carrier Wind Mobile, which operates in Ontario, Alberta and B.C....

MANITOBA TELECOM SERVICES INC. $32 (Toronto symbol MBT; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 79.3 million; Market cap: $2.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; Dividend yield: 4.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mts.ca) recently completed the sale of its Allstream division to U.S.-based Zayo Group Holdings (New York symbol ZAYO). Prior to the deal, Allstream, which offers telephone, Internet and other communication services to businesses across Canada, supplied 40% of Manitoba Telecom’s revenue. The remaining 60% came from its MTS division, which has 1.3 million telephone and wireless customers in Manitoba. Manitoba Telecom received $420.0 million, net of transaction costs, for Allstream. The company will use $200.0 million to buy back roughly 8% of its outstanding shares. It will put a further $190.0 million to its total debt of $1.1 billion, which is equal to 44% of its market cap. The company will hang on to the remaining $30.0 million for now....

POTASH CORP. OF SASKATCHEWAN $21 (Toronto symbol POT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 836.5 million; Market cap: $17.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.2; Dividend yield: 6.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.potashcorp.com) earned $1.52 a share in 2015, down 16.5% from $1.82 in 2014 (all amounts except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars). Revenue declined 11.7%, to $6.3 billion from $7.1 billion. High global potash inventories have cut demand, while record North American harvests have hurt crop prices, leaving farmers with less to spend on fertilizers. In response, Potash Corp. has suspended production at its $2.2-billion (Canadian) potash mine in Picadilly, New Brunswick, which only started up in early 2015. It also cut its dividend by 34.2%; the new annual rate of $1.00 U.S. a share yields 6.6%....

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA $66 (Toronto symbol RY; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $99.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.9; Dividend yield: 4.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.rbc.com) is selling its RBC General Insurance subsidiary to Aviva Canada. This business mainly sells home and auto insurance. As part of the sale, Royal’s customers can also access all of Aviva’s insurance products for the next 15 years. The sale makes sense, as regulators prevent Canadian banks from selling insurance policies through their branches. That limits Royal’s ability to expand this business. However, the bank will continue to sell life and health insurance through separate offices and online....

SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $30 (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $42.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.5; Dividend yield: 3.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www. suncor.com) is Canada’s largest oil producer. It also operates four refineries and 1,500 Petro-Canada gas stations, which supply 63% of its revenue. The company produced an average of 577,800 barrels of oil equivalent a day in 2015, up 8.0% from 534,900 barrels in 2014. Suncor’s oil sands projects accounted for 80% of its output. However, Suncor lost $2.0 billion, or $1.38 a share, mainly because it wrote down the value of its reserves in response to the oil-price drop. It also wrote down its operations in Libya and some of its offshore projects. But without unusual items, Suncor earned $1.01 a share. In 2014, it earned $4.6 billion, or $3.15 a share....

IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $41 (Toronto symbol IMO; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Shares outstanding: 847.6 million; Market cap: $34.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.imperialoil.ca) gets about 90% of its crude oil from its Alberta oil sands operations, including its 25% stake in the Syncrude project. In addition, it has conventional oil and natural gas operations, also in Western Canada, and owns stakes in projects off the coast of Atlantic Canada. Imperial also owns three refineries, petrochemical plants and 1,700 gas stations, which operate under the Esso banner....

PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $0.91 (Toronto symbol PGF; Aggressive Growth and Income Portfolios, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 543.0 million; Market cap: $494.1 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; Dividend suspended in January 2016; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.pengrowth.com) has suspended its $0.01-a-share quarterly dividend in response to the sharp decline in oil prices. It will also reduce its capital spending to between $60 million to $70 million in 2016, from $184 million in 2015. The company has also laid off workers, which should save it $25 million in 2016, and aims to sell $600 million of less important properties. It will probably put these funds toward its $2.1-billion debt, which is now a high 4.3 times its depressed market cap. Pengrowth is a hold.

CENOVUS ENERGY INC. $14 (Toronto symbol CVE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 833.2 million; Market cap: $11.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.9; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cenovus.com) gets 35% of its revenue from its Western Canadian oil sands properties and conventional oil and gas wells. Chief among these assets are its 50%-owned Christina Lake and Foster Creek oil sands projects; ConocoPhilips (New York symbol COP) owns the remaining 50%. Refining supplies the remaining 65% of Cenovus’s revenue. The company ships its oil to its 50%-owned refineries in Illinois and Texas. Phillips 66 (New York symbol PSX) owns the other 50%. Low crude prices have prompted Cenovus to cut its capital spending by 26.5%, to about $1.25 billion in 2016 from $1.7 billion in 2015....