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WEIGHT WATCHERS INTERNATIONAL $23.51 (New York symbol WTW; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (212-589-2700; www.weightwatchers.com; Shares outstanding: 64.0 million; Market cap: $1.6 billion; No dividends paid) continues to increase its membership: the number of active subscribers stood at 3.6 million on April 1, 2017....

KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC. $38 (New York symbol KEYS; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 183.0 million; Market cap: $7.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.keysight.com) makes devices for testing electronic equipment.


In April 2017, the company paid $1.6 billion for California-based Ixia....

AMAZON.COM $899.20 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 477.2 million; Market cap: $432.0 billion; No dividends paid) has bought Dubai-based Internet retailer Souq.com for a reported $700 million.


Souq.com is the best-known name in the Middle East’s online shopping market....

ACI WORLDWIDE $21.33 (Nasdaq symbol ACIW; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (402390-7600; www.aciworldwide.com; Shares outstanding: 117.3 million; Market cap: $2.5 billion; No dividends paid) makes software for processing transactions by credit cards, debit cards, automated teller machines, point-of-sale terminals and interbank systems....

MITEL NETWORKS $9.22 (Toronto symbol MNW; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (613-592-2122; www.mitel. ca; Shares outstanding: 122.0 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; No dividends paid) makes technology that integrates landlines and mobile phones. The company also offers callcentre and videoconferencing products.


In the three months ended December 31, 2016, Mitel’s revenue fell 6.2%, to $259.8 million from $277.0 million a year earlier (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S....

BLACKBERRY LTD. $10 (Toronto symbol BB; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 530.5 million; Market cap: $5.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.2; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.blackberry.com) recently quit developing new smartphones as part of its plan to focus on the company’s more-promising communications software operations.


For its fiscal 2017 fourth quarter, ended February 28, 2017, Blackberry’s revenue fell 38.4%, to $286 million from $464 million a year earlier (all amounts except share price and market cap in U.S....

PENGROWTH ENERGY $1.37 (Toronto symbol PGF; Shares outstanding: 547.4 million; Market cap: $750.4 million; TSINetwork Rating: Average; No dividends paid; www.pengrowth. com) has agreed to sell part of its Swan Hills properties in northern Alberta for $180 million....

ALPHABET INC. (Nasdaq symbols GOOG $831 [class C: non-voting] and GOOGL $850 [class A: one vote per share]; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 691.4 million; Market cap: $574.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 6.4; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.abc.xyz) is the parent company of Google’s Internet search business (still called Google) and other operations (called “Other Bets”)....

Higher interest rates, and plans by the U.S. Federal Reserve to further raise them, have spurred big gains for U.S. bank stocks. They’ve also lifted the outlook for other Finance-sector companies.


We continue to recommend investors buy non-bank stocks as a part of their Finance-sector holdings....

IDEXX LABORATORIES INC. $155 (Nasdaq symbol IDXX; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 87.9 million; Market cap: $13.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 7.7; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.idexx.com) gets about 85% of its revenue from equipment that veterinarians use to detect diseases in pets....