AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. $44 – New York symbol A

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. $44 (New York symbol A; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 347.9 million; Market cap: $15.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 1.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www. agilent.com) makes testing systems that help electronics companies improve their products. It… Read More

Updates on TELUS, ENCANA CORP., and IMPERIAL OIL

TELUS $64.23 (Toronto symbol T.A; Shares outstanding: 324.9 million; Market cap: $20.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.8%; www.telus.com) has received shareholder approval for its plan to convert its 151 million non-voting class A shares into regular common shares (with one vote each)… Read More

TELUS CORP – Toronto symbols T $63 and T.A $62

TELUS CORP. (Toronto symbols T $63 and T.A $62; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 325.8 million; Market cap: $20.4 billion; Priceto- sales ratio: 1.9; Dividend yield: 3.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.telus.com) continues to expand its wireless business. Its 7.4 million subscribers across… Read More

Mobile leader keeps on growing

Over the past 10 years, Telus has spent over $16.5 billion on upgrades to its telecommunication networks. Thanks to these investments, wireless subscribers jumped to 7.4 million from 2.6 million, while high-speed Internet users soared to 1.2 million from 215,000. These gains have helped it… Read More

Pat, Would you have an opinion on Gippsland Resources, traded on the Australian stock exchange? It has a tantalum deposit in Egypt. Thanks.

Gippsland Resources, $0.007, symbol GIP on the Australian exchange (Shares outstanding: 975.2 million; Market cap: $6.8 million Australian, www.gippslandltd.com), is focused on developing its 50%-owned Abu Dabbab-Nuweibi and Nuweibi tantalum/tin projects in Egypt. The Egyptian government owns the other 50%.

Rust-resistant tantalum is used to make… Read More

PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $8.96 – Toronto symbol PGF

PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $8.96 (Toronto symbol PGF; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 360.3 million; Market cap: $3.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.1; Dividend yield: 9.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.pengrowth.com) has a long history of using acquisitions to expand, which adds risk. However, these purchases… Read More

We like this merger

PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $8.96 (Toronto symbol PGF; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 360.3 million; Market cap: $3.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.1; Dividend yield: 9.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.pengrowth.com) has a long history of using acquisitions to expand, which adds risk. However, these purchases… Read More