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THOMSON REUTERS CORP. $88 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol TRI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares o/s: 501.1 million; Market cap: $44.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 7.6; Dividend yield: 2.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.thomsonreuters.com) now aims to drive investor returns with its focus on selling specialized information to professionals in the legal, and tax and accounting fields.


It also owns the Reuters news service, but sold 55% of its Financial & Risk business (now called Refinitiv) on October 1, 2018, to a consortium led by Blackstone Group LP (New York symbol BX)....
PENGROWTH ENERGY $0.25 (Toronto symbol PGF; Shares outstanding: 547.4 million; Market cap: $145.6 million; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; No dividends paid; www.pengrowth.com) has two main properties: its Lindbergh oil sands project in Alberta, and its Groundbirch natural gas property in northeastern B.C.

Pengrowth produced an average of 22,707 barrels a day (81% oil and liquids, 19% natural gas) in the three months ended June 30, 2019....
Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Group is one of the world’s largest investment management companies. In all, it administers over $5.3 trillion U.S., spread across 415 mutual funds and ETFs.


Generally speaking, Canadians are blocked from buying mutual funds that are registered in the U.S....
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What is Pat’s commentary for the week of August 7, 2019
A: Sandstorm Gold, $8.71, symbol SSL on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 178.8 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; www.sandstormgold.com), has 188 production streams and royalties on gold mining sites; about 20 of them are related to producing mines.

Among those active mines is Yamana Gold’s Cerro Moro in Argentina, First Majestic’s Santa Elena mine in Mexico, McEwen Mining’s Black Fox mine in Ontario, and Bonterra Resources’ Bachelor Lake mine in Quebec.

The company acquires its royalties through gold-purchase agreements....
What is Pat’s commentary for the week of July 30, 2019
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