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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When you know what to look for with these 3 financial ratios, you improve your chances of uncovering the best value stocks. Price-earnings ratios, Price-to-book-value ratios, Price-cash flow ratios.
Top 20 Dividend Trust, $10.75, symbol TTY.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 8.0 million; Market cap: $86.0 million; www.scotiamanagedcompanies.com), invests in an equally weighted portfolio made up of the 20 highest-yielding stocks in the S&P/TSX 60 Index. The trust has an MER of 0.88% and yields 6.5%. Top 20 Dividend Trust first sold units to the public at $10 and began trading on the Toronto exchange in June 2012. Many of the top-yielding stocks in the S&P/TSX 60 Index are former oil and gas royalty trusts. Seven of the trust’s 20 holdings are oil and gas stocks, including ARC Resources, Canadian Oil Sands, Crescent Point Energy, Encana Corp., Enerplus Corp., Husky Energy and Penn West Petroleum. Together, they make up a high 35% of the trust’s portfolio....
Plazacorp Retail Properties Ltd., $4.24, symbol PLZ on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 87.7 million; Market cap: $372.0 million; www.plaza.ca), owns strip malls and enclosed shopping malls across Canada. Plazacorp owns interests in 347 properties, which together contain 6.6 million square feet of leasable area. On July 2, 2013, the company’s shares moved from the TSX Venture Exchange to the Toronto exchange. In June 2013, Plazacorp completed its acquisition of KEYreit, which held 228 retail properties, mainly in western Canada. The company paid $121.9 million in cash ($62.1 million) and shares ($59.8 million) in shares for KEYreit....
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company NV, $77.85, symbol CBI on New York (Shares outstanding: 107.5 million; Market cap: $8.4 billion; www.cbi.com), is one of the world’s leading engineering and construction companies. It specializes in projects in the energy, petrochemical and natural resource industries. Netherlands-based Chicago Bridge was founded in 1889. The company’s projects include oil and gas processing plants, liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, nuclear containment systems, offshore structures, bulk liquid terminals and water storage and treatment facilities. Chicago Bridge also provides a range of maintenance and repair services. Customers include Shell, ExxonMobil, PetroChina, Chevron, Rosneft, BP, ConocoPhillips and Saudi Aramco. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is Chicago Bridge’s biggest shareholder, with an 8.9% interest....
Oil prices have soared from around $18 U.S. a barrel in 1993 to close to $100 U.S. today. However, new drilling technologies have made it easier to extract oil from hard-to-reach deposits, such as oil sands and shale rock formations. Rising production from these sources could hurt oil prices in the same way the shale gas boom has depressed natural gas prices....
CGI GROUP INC., $39.61, Toronto symbol GIB.A, hit a new all-time high of $41.47 this week after it reported better-than-expected quarterly results. The company is Canada’s largest provider of computer outsourcing services. It helps its clients automate certain routine functions, like accounting and buying supplies. That makes companies more efficient and lets them focus on their main businesses. On August 20, 2012, CGI completed its $2.7-billion purchase of Logica plc, a U.K.-based firm that offers computer outsourcing services in 36 countries....
Many investors look at real estate investment trusts (REITs) as proxies for bonds. Instead, we view REITs as companies that own and manage real estate.
When you invest in a REIT, the most important thing to look at is the quality of its holdings. This includes locations, tenants and expansion opportunities....
When you invest in a REIT, the most important thing to look at is the quality of its holdings. This includes locations, tenants and expansion opportunities....
Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific advice on stocks as well as questions on investment strategy and the economy. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. While we reserve our buy-hold-sell advice for Inner Circle members, these excerpts provide a great deal of information and analysis on stocks we’ve covered for members of Pat’s Inner Circle....
We continue to recommend that all investors aim to own two or more of Canada’s big five banks. In addition, conservative investors should diversify their Finance-sector holdings with Great-West and IGM. Investors who can accept more risk may also want to consider Home Capital (see box).
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