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Texas Roadhouse reported 23.5% higher revenues and 59.9% higher earnings as it continues opening new locations and boosting its digital sales capabilities.

CONAGRA BRANDS INC., $26.68, New York symbol CAG, is still a buy for long-term gains.

Through your shares, you tap the maker of some of North America’s most popular food brands. They include Chef Boyardee canned pasta, Hunt’s tomato sauce, Birds Eye frozen meals, Orville Redenbacher popcorn and Reddi-wip whipped cream.

The company reported lower-than-expected sales and earnings for its latest quarter....

Veeva Systems is reporting stronger revenue and earnings as it maintains high R&D spending and a very large cash balance.

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, $17.28, is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 297.2 million; Market cap: $5.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 6.7%; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 186 shopping centres and other properties across Canada, including eight projects under development.


The Hudson’s Bay Company, which operates 96 department stores in seven provinces, has begun to liquidate most of its stores, and it still aims to keep six of them going.


As a result, HBC is set to sell most stores or the leases associated with rented ones.


Through a joint venture, RioCan co-owns seven Hudson’s Bay stores....

Both these Canadian insurance stocks provide investors with growth prospects as well as current high dividend yields. We see each as a buy.


MANULIFE FINANCIAL, $46.35, is a buy. This safety-conscious stock (Toronto symbol MFC; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $78.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.8%; www.manulife.ca) represents one of Canada’s largest life insurers....

iShares Canadian Select Dividend Index ETF offers you a high yield from 30 top dividend payers selected using growth and sustainability criteria.

A: Moody’s Corp., $468.87, symbol MCO on New York, (Shares outstanding: 179.9 million; Market cap: $83.8 billion; www.moodys.com), provides risk assessment information, analytics tools, and solutions to businesses worldwide....

Four times a year, we send our latest Quarterly Letter to our portfolio management clients. One way or another, members of our Inner Circle eventually receive the benefits of these quarterly letters, after we’ve sent them out to our portfolio management clients. We may update or revise our Quarterly Letters before we send them out to Inner Circle members or a wider or different audience.

On occasion, however, we send a portion or portions of the next client letter out early, to Inner Circle Members as well as our portfolio management clients....

MERCK & CO. INC., $89.23, is a buy. The drugmaker (symbol MRK on New York) is a pharmaceutical leader in oncology, acute-care and animal health drugs as well as vaccines.

The company is now paying up to $2 billion for the rights to Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co.’s experimental heart drug....