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ADT keeps signing up new security customers at the same time it retains more and more of its existing ones. The company’s expanded services help drive that growth. Those products include Wi-Fi-enabled security cameras and automated home solutions. ADT’s outlook is even brighter because of its new smart-home partnership with Google parent Alphabet....

Corteva shares offer investors a number of pluses: Not only is the company at the forefront of key agricultural trends, the stock is a spinoff. Over the years, we’ve found that spinoffs are about as close as you can get to a sure thing in investing. It’s one key reason why we think Corteva has further gains ahead for investors....

MAGNET FORENSICS INC. $44 is a hold. The company (Toronto symbol MAGT; Manufacturing sector; 41.2 million; Market cap: $1.8 billion; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Highest; www.magnetforensics.com) makes digital investigation software that helps recover evidence from cloud services, mobile phones, computers and other digital devices....

A: Worthington Industries Inc., $54.71, symbol WOR on New York (Shares outstanding: 49.7 million; Market cap: $2.8 billion; Manufacturing sector; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.worthingtonindustries.com), is an industrial manufacturing company that provides value-added steel processing as well as consumer, building and energy products.

The company currently has four operating segments: Steel Processing (75% of sales), Consumer Products (12%), Building Products (10%), and Sustainable Energy Solutions (3%).

Steel Processing focuses on value-added processing, laser welding solutions, and laminations for the rapidly growing electrical steel market....

For 2023, we once again chose CGI Inc. as the #1 Aggressive Stock of the Year for our flagship newsletter, The Successful Investor.

This is the seventh year in a row that we’ve picked CGI—Canada’s largest provider of computer outsourcing services.

Investors who were quick to act on our advice have not been disappointed: the stock is now up over 123% since we first highlighted it as a top pick for 2016....

UTZ BRANDS INC., $16.64, symbol UTZ on New York, is a Pennsylvania-based maker of salty snacks. Its brands include Utz Original potato chips, On the Border Chips & Dips, Zapp’s, Good Health, Boulder Canyon, Tortiyahs, and others.

Founded in 1921, Utz began trading on the New York exchange in June 2020.

Rather than list through an IPO, the company undertook a reverse merger with Collier Creek Holdings....

WAJAX CORP., $24.93, is a buy. Through their shares, investors benefit from the company’s (symbol WJX on Toronto) sales and servicing of cranes, forklifts and other heavy equipment. Wajax also provides related parts and systems such as ball bearings, hoses, diesel engines and transmissions.

The company’s customers are spread across the resources, construction, manufacturing and transportation industries.

In the quarter ended December 31, 2022, overall revenue climbed 34.4%, to $541.3 million from $402.8 million a year earlier....

TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, $83.77, Toronto symbol TD, is a buy.

The lender raised your quarterly dividend with the January 2023 payment by 7.9%. Investors now receive $0.96 a share instead of $0.89. The new annual rate of $3.84 yields a high 4.6%.

In March 2022, TD agreed to acquire U.S....

SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $47 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.44 billion; Market cap: $67.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 4.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.suncor.com) is Canada’s largest integrated oil firm, with major projects in the Alberta oil sands....

A: Tractor Supply Co., $229.41, symbol TSCO on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 110.1 million; Market cap: $25.2 billion; Consumer sector; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.tractorsupply.com) is the largest “rural lifestyle” retailer in the U.S....