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These top foodmakers continue to adjust their portfolios, including launching new products, as well buying and selling various brands. These moves should spur their long-term earnings growth and cut their risk. Even so, we see only two of the three as buys for you right now.


GENERAL MILLS INC....
Here’s Part One of the most-recent letter I sent to our Portfolio Management clients in November 2024:

Note: The views of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (better known as RFK Jr.) make up a large part of references in this letter to the quality of the food, health and medical industries in the U.S....
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PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., $164.41, New York symbol PG, is a buy.

The company is one of the world’s largest makers of household and personal-care goods. Major brands include Tide (laundry detergent), Pampers (diapers), Gillette (razors), Crest (toothpaste) and Vicks (cold remedies).

In its fiscal 2025 second quarter, ended December 31, 2024, Procter’s sales rose 2.1%, to $21.88 billion from $21.44 billion a year earlier....
LOBLAW COMPANIES LTD., $186.54, Toronto symbol L, is a buy.

The company operates 1,113 supermarkets under several banners, including Loblaws, Zehrs, Provigo, Real Canadian Superstore and No Frills. It also operates 1,354 associate-owned Shoppers Drug Mart locations.

Loblaw is now selling its 42 Wellwise by Shoppers outlets to Verillium Health Care....
For 2025, we have selected Honeywell as your #1 Spinoff Buy.

Following a long series of acquisitions over the past few decades, the company is now a major conglomerate with many businesses spread across a variety of industries. That makes Honeywell a prime candidate for a breakup to simplify its operations and unlock the value of those businesses.

The company agrees and recently announced the spinoff of one of its smaller businesses....
ACI Worldwide and Broadridge have winning business models, especially in today’s expanding financial markets. We believe that will lead to strong growth in future years. Both are hitting new highs, but we still see them as buys.


ACI WORLDWIDE, $52.88, is a buy. The firm (Nasdaq symbol ACIW; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (Shares outstanding: 104.9 million; Market cap: $5.6 billion; No dividends paid) is the leading software provider for processing transactions by credit cards, debit cards, automated teller machines, point-of-sale terminals and interbank systems....
Shopify offers merchants of all sizes Internet-based software to design, set up and manage e-commerce stores across multiple sales channels. It also handles digital payments and shipping.


SHOPIFY, $153.03, remains a buy. The company (Toronto symbol SHOP; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.shopify.ca; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $197.0 billion; No dividends paid) is now reporting its purchase of two important website domains from EMERGE Commerce Ltd....

Intact Financial hit an all-time high in December 2024—and while the shares have dropped a bit lately, they’re still up a spectacular 501% since we first recommended them at $42.95 in our April 2010 issue. We think this Power Buy is poised to keep moving even higher for you, our subscribers.


INTACT FINANCIAL, $258.07, is a Power Buy. The insurer (Toronto symbol IFC; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.intactfc.com; Shares outstanding: 178.4 million; Market cap: $45.7 billion; Dividend yield: 1.9%) is Canada’s largest provider of property and casualty coverage: it insures more than five million individuals and businesses....