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ALPHABET INC. remains your #1 Aggressive buy for 2020. The holding company (Nasdaq symbols GOOG $1,415 [class C: non-voting] and GOOGL $1,409 [class A: one vote per share]; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 687.3 million; Market cap: $972.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.8; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.abc.xyz) owns Google’s Internet search business as well as smaller businesses focused on home thermostats, self-driving cars and other technologies.


Alphabet invested in American Well Corp....

KONTOOR BRANDS INC. $25 is still a buy for aggressive investors. The stock (New York symbol KTB; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 56.9 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; Dividend suspended; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.kontoorbrands.com) gives you a stake in this denim apparel maker and its increasingly popular “heritage” brands....

DUN & BRADSTREET HOLDINGS INC. $25 (www.dnb.com) is a buy. The company is a global provider of information and data analytics. Operating since 1841, it has more than 135,000 clients, including 90% of the Fortune 500. These customers access Dun & Bradstreet’s comprehensive information and data on more than 360 million global businesses.


Dun & Bradstreet was a Wall Street Stock Forecaster recommendation until early 2019....

TORSTAR CORP. $0.74 is a hold. The company (Toronto symbol TS.B; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 81.4 million; Market cap: $60.2 million; Takeover Target Rating: Highest; No dividend paid; www.torstar.com) publishes The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper by circulation....

TEGNA INC. $10 is still a buy. The company (New York symbol TGNA; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 215.8 million; Market cap: $2.2 billion; Dividend yield: 2.7%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.tegna.com) owns 62 TV and four radio stations in 51 markets....

A: Canadian Natural Resources, $40.63, symbol CNQ on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $49.0 billion; www.cnrl.com), operates in Western Canada, where its 100%-owned Horizon Oil Sands Project is located; the North Sea; and off the coast of West Africa....

A: Tourmaline Oil, $14.41, symbol TOU on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 272.1 million; Market cap: $4.0 billion; www.tourmalineoil.com), is a Canadian oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production company with properties concentrated in central Alberta and northeast B.C.

In the three months ended September 30, 2019, Tourmaline’s daily output averaged 289,578 barrels of oil equivalent (81% gas and 19% oil), up 13.9% from 254,185 a year earlier....

A: Etsy Inc., $50.00, symbol ETSY on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 120.2 million; Market cap: $6.1 billion; www.etsy.com), provides an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of unique and creative goods. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

The platform generates revenue primarily from listing fees of $0.20 per item and a final value sales fee of 5%....

A: The Vanguard Conservative ETF Portfolio, $26.60, symbol VCNS on Toronto, holds roughly 40% of its assets in Vanguard stock ETFs and 60% in bond ETFs. This $117.8 million ETF started up on January 25, 2018, and has a low 0.22% MER. The ETF yields 2.3%.

The Vanguard Balanced ETF Portfolio, $26.84, symbol VBAL on Toronto, has the opposite proportions to the Vanguard Conservative ETF Portfolio....

A: Lundin Gold, $8.73, symbol LUG on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 222.8 million; Market cap: $1.9 billion; www.lundingold.com), is headquartered in Vancouver and owns the Fruta del Norte gold project in southeast Ecuador.

The company aims to begin commercial production at its newly completed Fruta del Norte mine in the second quarter of 2020....