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BCE INC., $47.56, Toronto symbol BCE, remains your #1 Income Buy for 2024.

The company is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider. It has 1.92 million residential customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces....

The underlying growth trends for healthcare remain strong as the global population grows older and emerging economies become wealthier.


Meanwhile, new technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) will serve to boost the already-strong prospects of healthcare stocks by improving the management of patient diagnostics, administrative processes, and drug discoveries....

Fair Isaac is a Power Buy for our subscribers thanks to its gains of 97.4% over the last year and a whopping 12,788.2% since we first recommended it.

Most successful investors hold a mix of stocks (or ETFs that hold them) in their portfolios. Indeed, one key component of a well-diversified portfolio is growth stocks. Note, however, that it’s very easy to confuse growth stocks with momentum stocks. Like growth stocks, momentum stocks often move up faster than the market averages....

TRISURA GROUP LTD., $40.49, symbol TSU on Toronto, took its current form on June 22, 2017, when Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (now Brookfield Corp.) spun off its specialty insurance business as Trisura. Investors received one Trisura share for every 170 Brookfield shares they held.

Trisura provides specialty insurance and services not available through traditional insurers....

The major Canadian and U.S. stock markets, while still subject to volatility, continue to offer attractive returns for investors—especially if you buy the top stocks. All in all, we think that if you can afford to stay in the market for several years or longer, now is a good time for new buying....

BEDFORD METALS CORP., $2.18, symbol BFM on Toronto Venture Exchange, is a mineral exploration company based in Vancouver.

The company has two main projects in development: The Margurete gold project, a 687-hectare property 200 kilometres northwest of Vancouver; and the Ubiquity Lake uranium project, covering 1,382 hectares and located in the Athabasca Basin in Northern Saskatchewan.

Bedford continues to pursue further opportunities in the uranium sector, again targeting the promising Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan.

The Athabasca Basin is known for hosting some of the world’s highest-grade uranium deposits....

Here’s the text of the most-recent letter I sent to our Portfolio Management clients in March:

“Guesswork plays a role in a lot of human decision-making, including decisions on investments.

For a while after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel last year, the stock market reaction didn’t seem to make sense....

Like GE (see page 41), in 2019 industrial conglomerate DowDuPont broke itself into three new “pure-play” firms—DuPont, Dow and Corteva (see box). We still like their long-term prospects, and see all three as buys.


DUPONT DE NEMOURS INC. $78 is a buy. The company (New York symbol DD; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 430.0 million; Market cap: $33.5 billion; Dividend yield: 1.9%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.dupont.com) makes chemicals and other materials for manufacturers in the electronics, transportation, building and construction, and healthcare industries.


DuPont continues to sell less-important businesses as it simplifies its operations....

The major Canadian and U.S. stock markets, while still subject to volatility, continue to offer attractive returns for investors—especially if you buy the top stocks. All in all, we think that if you can afford to stay in the market for several years or longer, now is a good time for new buying....