Imperial Oil Ltd.

IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $31.75, is a buy for safety-conscious investors. The stock (Toronto symbol IMO; Shares outstanding: 764.2 million; Market cap: $23.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 2.8%; www.imperialoil.ca) lets you tap Canada’s third-largest publicly traded oil producer, after Suncor (No....

Finning International began paying dividends in 1970. At current prices, the stock is now in the middle of the wide range between $15 and $35 that it has stayed in for the past 10 years. While in that range, it doubled its dividend, although a sluggish economy and weak commodity prices held back its earnings....

IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $35 is still a buy for investors. The integrated oil producer (Toronto symbol IMO; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios; Shares outstanding: 752.9 million; Market cap: $26.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; Dividend yield: 2.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.imperialoil.ca) likely spent between $1.8 billion and $1.9 billion on exploration and upgrades to its existing operations in 2019....

IMPERIAL OIL LTD., $32.38, is a buy for safety-conscious investors. The stock (Toronto symbol IMO; Shares o/s: 764.2 million; Market cap: $24.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Divd. yield: 2.7%; www.imperialoil.ca) lets you tap Canada’s third-largest publicly traded oil producer, after Suncor (No....

Alimentation Couche-Tard has rewarded our subscribers with big gains over the years. We first recommended it in our December 2008 issue at $15.50. Since then, the stock has split 3-for-1 and 2-for-1. That takes our cost down to $2.58 a share—which gives you a scintillating 1,518.2% gain!


All the while we have recommended the stock, we’ve pointed out that growth by acquisition is risky (see box this page)....

A: The Goldman Sachs JUST U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF, $44.89, symbol JUST on New York (Units outstanding: 3.1 million; Market cap: $139.2 million; www.gsam.com), started up June 7, 2018, launched by prominent hedge fund manager and billionaire philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones.

The ETF’s MER is a low 0.20%, and it yields 1.9%.

Jones’s charitable foundation, Just Capital, conducts regular polling to determine the American public’s most important concerns as they relate to business behaviour....

Great changes may soon come to the market in cannabis stocks.

We first mentioned the cannabis stock boom in the June 12, 2018, Inner Circle, in a p.s. to a frontpage report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) stocks. In it we said,

“AI investments are more common in the U.S....

In October 2018, Honeywell International Inc. spun off two of its smaller operations—Garrett Motion and Resideo Technologies.

Honeywell is up about 20% since the spinoffs. However, the two new firms have moved lower, which is not unusual for new spinoffs with little earnings history or broker attention....

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives finally voted to formalize an impeachment process for President Trump … and the market went up, which seems to have surprised a lot of people.

Generally, it’s a good sign when a long-feared threat like the Trump impeachment vote occurs, and stock prices rise in response....

Here’s a special report from our research team on the October 21, 2019, Canadian Federal election. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals lost their majority but held on to a minority government with 157 seats (170 are needed for a majority). The Liberals failed to win any seats in Alberta or Saskatchewan.

The Conservatives won a total of 121 seats and the NDP, 24....