investment
An investment is an asset or property acquired to generate income or gain appreciation. Appreciation is the increase in the value of an asset over time. It requires the outlay of a resource today, like time, effort, and money, for a greater payoff in the future or for generating a profit.
An investment involves using capital in the present to increase an asset’s value over time.
Investments may include bonds, stocks, real estate, or alternative investments.
Investments can be diversified to reduce risk, though this may reduce the amount of earning potential.
In business contexts, investments are financial; however, consider how some people spend time to make higher incomes in the future (i.e. invest in a college education).
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ALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD, $52.30, symbol ATD.B on Toronto, has agreed to buy the Premium 7 chain in Estonia for an undisclosed amount.
The purchase comprises 23 fuel stations—11 full-service, with convenience stores; and 12 self-service.
With the transaction, Couche-Tard’s network in Estonia will grow by 40% and will total 77 company-operated stores and fuel stations....
ALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD, $52.30, symbol ATD.B on Toronto, has agreed to buy the Premium 7 chain in Estonia for an undisclosed amount.
The purchase comprises 23 fuel stations—11 full-service, with convenience stores; and 12 self-service.
With the transaction, Couche-Tard’s network in Estonia will grow by 40% and will total 77 company-operated stores and fuel stations....
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. $153 (New York symbol IBM, Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 960.0 million; Market cap: $146.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.8; Dividend yield: 3.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ibm.com) began operating in 1911, and is now one of the world’s largest computer companies with operations in over 175 countries....
Using bonds for retirement income has often been standard investing advice for the last 50 years—but we think it’s bad advice.
IBM has a long history of breaking free of declining technologies. In 2004, it sold its personal computer operations as falling prices hurt the profitability of this business. More recently, it sold its less-profitable server and computer chip businesses.
The company continues to aggressively expand into faster-growing fields such as cloud computing— storing and managing data on the Internet....
The company continues to aggressively expand into faster-growing fields such as cloud computing— storing and managing data on the Internet....
Canadian dividend stocks can produce as much as a third of your total return over your investing lifetime.
Linamar Corp. is now ready to capitalize on a shift to lighter-weight cars with the purchase of aluminum-parts maker Montupet for $1.2 billion.
On the whole, investors have underestimated Canada’s top bank stocks for as long as I’ve been in the investment business. As a result, these stocks have often traded at attractive share prices. Because they were growing, and cheaper in many respects than other stocks, they gave conservative Canadian investors a near-ideal combination of pluses: above-average dividend yields and records; low-to-moderate ratios of per share price-to-earnings; and above-average long-term capital gains....
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