acquisition strategy

What is a spinoff company and how can it impact the value of your investment portfolio? When a company creates a spinoff, it hands out shares in that company to its shareholders, typically providing substantial benefits to investors in the process.

Stantec reported 19% higher revenue and 38% higher earnings as it targets key growth areas including climate change and digital innovation.

Finding stocks with growth potential that will fulfill their promise is not easy. But there are a range of tried and true factors to watch out for. Here they are:

Using a growth by acquisition strategy doesn’t always lead to a profitable outcome, but we share an instance where it worked among waste management stocks.

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The real secret to investment growth lies in hidden value and How to Find the True Growth Stocks shows how to use that knowledge with tech and other growth stocks.

A: No one can consistently predict currency movements, but we still feel that most investors should remain invested in U.S. stocks. Note that even if the U.S. dollar should fall against the Canadian dollar, your U.S. stocks can still appreciate in value even while the currency sags.

But addressing your question specifically, if you want to buy U.S....

A: Waste Connections Inc., $132.56, symbol WCN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 263.1 million; Market cap: $34.9 billion; www.wasteconnectionscanada.com), is the former Progressive Waste Solutions....

Building on successful acquisitions, growth stock CGI Group targets growth in booming areas of outsourcing, cloud computing and IT security.

A: Sandstorm Gold, $8.71, symbol SSL on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 178.8 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; www.sandstormgold.com), has 188 production streams and royalties on gold mining sites; about 20 of them are related to producing mines.

Among those active mines is Yamana Gold’s Cerro Moro in Argentina, First Majestic’s Santa Elena mine in Mexico, McEwen Mining’s Black Fox mine in Ontario, and Bonterra Resources’ Bachelor Lake mine in Quebec.

The company acquires its royalties through gold-purchase agreements....