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A: Rockwell Automation Inc., $306.46, symbol ROK on New York (Shares outstanding: 114.6 million; Market cap: $35.1 billion www.rockwellautomation.com), provides industrial automation hardware and software products.

The company’s Intelligent Devices segment accounts for 45% of sales, with its Software and Control business generating 32%, and its Lifecycle Services business contributing the remaining 23%....

A: Lundin Mining Corporation, $10.55, symbol LUN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 773.4 million; Market cap: $8.4 billion; www.lundinmining.com), is a Toronto-based producer of copper, zinc, gold, and nickel....

MINISO GROUP HOLDING (ADR), $19.64, symbol MNSO on New York, is a fast-growing retailer that opened its first store in China in 2013. It had 6,115 stores in its global network on September 30, 2023, including more than 3,802 in China. The company itself operates just 231 of the stores, with the rest managed by franchisees.

Miniso aims to attract shoppers with a variety of design-led lifestyle products....

BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, $63.32, Toronto symbol BNS, remains a buy.

Bank of Nova Scotia last raised your quarterly dividend with the July 2023 payment. Investors now receive $1.06 a share, up 2.9% from $1.03. The new annual rate of $4.24 yields a high 6.7%.

In the past few years, Bank of Nova Scotia has narrowed its international focus to four countries in Latin America—Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile....

ALPHABET INC., Nasdaq symbols GOOG $142.80 [class C: non-voting] and GOOGL $141.51 [class A: one vote per share], is your #1 Aggressive buy for 2023.

The company is the parent of Google, the world’s leading Internet search engine—it handles over 80% of global search requests....

ACI WORLDWIDE INC., $30.31, is a buy. Through the stock (symbol ACIW on Nasdaq), investors tap this leading provider of software for processing transactions. That includes credit cards, debit cards, automated teller machines, point-of-sale terminals and interbank systems....

Pfizer’s shares are down 45% in the past year due to lower demand for its COVID-19 treatments as the pandemic eases. However, new products from its acquisition of Seagen and its high research spending, generally, should spur long-term growth and your dividends.


PFIZER INC....

Bank of Montreal, along with other bank stocks, has suffered in the past year as investors worried rising interest rates would hurt borrowing demand and spur a wave of loan writedowns. However, banking regulators have toughened lending standards and mortgage stress-test levels in prior years....

TERADATA CORP. $43 is still a hold. The company (New York symbol TDC; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 97.8 million; Market cap: $4.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.teradata.com) makes computers and software to capture and store large amounts of data for its clients—individual businesses....

This month, we’re adding Danaher to our Aggressive Growth Portfolio. This maker of specialized measuring equipment and tools is a long-time recommendation of our TSI Spinoffs and Takeovers newsletter, which focuses on spinoffs and their former parent companies.


Danaher has completed three spinoffs since July 2016....