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Twilio Inc.’s profitability improved significantly as cost-cutting measures take effect under a new CEO inspired by activist investing.
GARMIN LTD., $224.71, is a buy. The company (symbol GRMN on Nasdaq) makes GPS devices and software for five different markets: fitness, outdoors, auto, aviation, and marine.

The stock rose almost 7% this week to a new all-time high, after the company reported improved results in the latest quarter.

In the three months ended December 31, 2024, Garmin’s overall revenue climbed 22.9%, to $1.62 billion from $1.48 billion a year earlier.

Sales in the marine segment rose 5%....
DUTCH BROS INC., $76.10, symbol BROS on New York, is an Oregon-based coffee chain with 982 locations in 18 states. Some 670 of those locations are company-owned; the rest are franchised outlets.

The stock surged this week after reporting its latest results.

Brothers Travis and Dane Boersma quit dairy farming in 1992 to set up a single espresso pushcart, with a stereo, by the railroad tracks in Grants Pass, Oregon....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, $19.41, Toronto symbol REI.UN, is a top pick for 2025.

The REIT owns all or part of 178 shopping centres and mixed-use properties with a net leasable area of 32.2 million square feet. Its occupancy rate is a high 98.0%.

RioCan cut its monthly distribution by 33.3% to $0.96 a unit (on an annual basis) in February 2021 as retailers shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic....

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is an example of an investment idea that could boost your investment returns, or, more likely, end up costing you money. All in all, we think that the biggest, surest gains from AI will come from investing in established businesses that are already profitable and growing, and that can gain all the more by applying AI to their operations.


Here are two companies that are already profitably taking advantage of AI, and they should be among the leaders in the push to extend AI’s use:


FAIR ISAAC CORP., $1,755.26, is a buy. The company (New York symbol FICO; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.fairisaac.com; Shares outstanding: 24.4 million; Market cap: $42.9 billion; No divd.) is best known for its FICO Scores software....
A: If you take account of your own financial and personal circumstances and temperament, and if you invest as we advise (diversifying across most if not all of the five main economic sectors, while confining your investments mainly to well-established companies), you will automatically buy some growth stocks and some value stocks; you will also automatically buy some small-company stocks and some big-company stocks....
North West Company reports rising revenues while offering a solid yield, a fair valuation and plenty of good fundamentals.
Capstone Copper is supported by a positive long-term outlook for the red metal as it forecasts significant production increases from high capex spending.

You Can See Our Exchange-Traded Funds Portfolio For March 2025 Here.


ETFs in brief

Exchange-traded funds are set up to mirror the performance of a stock-market index or sub-index....