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PIONEER NATURAL RESOURCES CO., $236.95, symbol PXD on New York, is a Texas-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company. It has extensive acreage in the Midland Basin in West Texas. This should support more than 20 years of future production.

In the quarter ended March 31, 2022, the company’s revenue increased 152.9%, to $6.2 billion from $2.4 billion a year earlier....
GARMIN LTD., $97.62, is a buy. The company (symbol GRMN on Nasdaq) makes GPS devices and software for five different markets: fitness, outdoors, auto, aviation, and marine.

In the three months ended June 25, 2022, Garmin’s overall revenue fell 6.5%, to $1.24 billion from $1.33 billion a year earlier....
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD., $100.97, Toronto symbol CP, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2022.

CP ships freight over a 23,700-kilometre rail network, mainly between Montreal and Vancouver. It also links to hubs in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.

The company is now in the process of merging with U.S.-based railway Kansas City Southern....
Rising interest rates and recession fears have hit these three technology stocks particularly hard in 2022, as investors worry a slowdown will prompt their clients to spend less on their products.


However, those kinds of cuts would be shortsighted of clients, as the products they buy from these companies make them more efficient....
We’ve generally stayed out of drug stocks for much of the two decades before 2020, but that changed in the last year or two. In fact, we now expect to see many great investment opportunities in drug stocks throughout the 2020s. You could say this is related to COVID-19, but it was going to happen anyway, due to regulatory and research developments that were already underway....
Adding the best healthcare sector stocks to your portfolio can lead to profits over time, especially when the company offers a broad set of essential services or products.
A: Akamai Technologies Inc., $92.32, symbol AKAM on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 160.3 million; Market cap: $14.9 billion; www.akamai.com), provides services for the delivery of content (video streaming) and business processes over the Internet.

The company operates one of the world’s largest and most widely used on-demand computing platforms, with more than 325,000 servers and 1,435 networks in 135 countries....
SOUTHERN COPPER CORP., $48.07, symbol SCCO on New York, is the fifth-largest copper producer in the world with operations in both Mexico and Peru, it also produces molybdenum, silver, zinc, lead and gold. The company is owned 88.9% by Mexican conglomerate Grupo Mexico.

Between 2024 and 2027, Southern Copper plans to spend $9.2 billion to significantly increase its copper production....
SUNCOR ENERGY INC., $39.78, Toronto symbol SU, remains a buy.

The company is Canada’s largest integrated oil firm, with major projects in the Alberta oil sands. Suncor also operates four refineries (three in Canada and one in Colorado), along with 1,875 Petro-Canada gas stations.

This week, Suncor announced a new deal with activist investment firm Elliott Management, which owns 3.4% of the company’s shares.

Under this agreement, Suncor appointed three of Elliott’s representatives to its now 13-member board of directors....
A: Republic Services Inc., $126.75, symbol RSG on New York (Shares outstanding: 315.9 million; Market cap: $40.8 billion; www.republicservices.com), is a leading U.S. waste management business....