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Stanley and Newell have a long history of making new businesses they purchase more profitable. That cuts their risk of using acquisitions to expand.


STANLEY BLACK & DECKER INC. $127 (New York symbol SWK; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 153.9 million; Market cap: $19.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.7; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.stanleyblackanddecker.com) is one of the world’s largest makers of hand and power tools for consumers....
CANON INC. ADRs $29 (New York symbol CAJ; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; ADRs outstanding: 1.1 billion; Market cap: $31.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 4.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.canon....
CEDAR FAIR L.P. $68 (New York symbol FUN; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Units outstanding: 56.1 million; Market cap: $3.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.0; Dividend yield: 5.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www. cedarfair.com) owns 11 amusement parks, four water parks (one indoor) and five hotels.


For 2016, Cedar Fair reported record-high revenue of $1.29 billion....
DIEBOLD NIXDORF INC. $30 (New York symbol DBD; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 75.1 million; Market cap: $2.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.dieboldnixdorf.com) took its current form in August 2016 when it acquired Germany’s Wincor Nixdorf AG for $1.4 billion in cash and shares.


The purchase made Diebold the world’s largest maker of automated teller machines (ATMs); over 90 of the world’s top 100 financial institutions use its services.


The new operations also greatly expanded the company’s overseas business....
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. $80 (New York symbol MSI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 166.1 million; Market cap: $13.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.motorolasolutions.com) makes radios for police and fire vehicles....
Dear client:


BCE continues to invest heavily in its networks. Those improvements have helped the company attract more high-speed Internet customers. They’ve also helped BCE add more wireless subscribers as an increasing number of Canadian households give up their landlines.


The company’s upcoming $3.9 billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom will further expand BCE’s wireless business as well as its geographic reach and earnings....
Dear client,


J.P. Morgan has jumped 16% in the past three months, while Wells Fargo is up 12%.


Those gains are partly because the new Trump administration has pledged to reduce some of the previous administration’s banking regulations....
Dear client:


BCE continues to invest heavily in its networks. Those improvements have helped the company attract more high-speed Internet customers. They’ve also helped BCE add more wireless subscribers as an increasing number of Canadian households give up their landlines.


The company’s upcoming $3.9 billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom will further expand BCE’s wireless business as well as its geographic reach and earnings....
U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to renegotiate the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), along with the possibility of new tariffs, could hurt cross-border traffic for Canada’s two main railways. However, it seems Trump is mainly concerned about U.S. trade with Mexico rather than Canada.


We’ll continue to monitor the NAFTA situation....
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA $79 (Toronto symbol BNS; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $94.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.0; Dividend yield: 3.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.scotiabank.com) continues to expand its Internet and mobile banking operations....