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Once again, one of our buys has attracted a highly profitable acquisition bid—just the latest of many big takeover gains for us over the last few years.


MENTOR GRAPHICS (formerly symbol MENT on Nasdaq) makes systems to improve the design of electronic products and speed up their development.


Siemens AG of Germany has now completed its all-cash takeover of Mentor in a friendly $37.25-a-share bid....






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BLACKBERRY LTD., $11.52, Toronto symbol BB, provides wireless communication services, mainly to businesses and government agencies.


The stock jumped 12% this week after an arbitrator awarded the company $814.9 million U.S....
A key element of our investment advice is to spread your money across most if not all the five economic sectors: Finance; Utilities; Consumer Goods & Services; Resources & Commodities; and Manufacturing & Industry. That way, you avoid overloading yourself with stocks that are about to slump simply because of industry conditions or changes in investor fashion.


Generally speaking, stocks in the Resources & Commodities sector and the Manufacturing & Industry sector expose you to above-average volatility....
A key element of our investment advice is to spread your money across most if not all the five economic sectors: Finance; Utilities; Consumer Goods & Services; Resources & Commodities; and Manufacturing & Industry. That way, you avoid overloading yourself with stocks that are about to slump simply because of industry conditions or changes in investor fashion.


Generally speaking, stocks in the Resources & Commodities sector and the Manufacturing & Industry sector expose you to above-average volatility....
A: Altius Minerals Corp., $12.39, symbol ALS on Toronto, (Shares outstanding: 43.3 million; Market cap: $541.7 million; www.altiusminerals.com), owns a portfolio of royalty interests in 15 operating mines in Canada and one in Brazil....
A: Aimia Inc., $9.26, symbol AIM on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 152.3 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; www.aimia.com), is a recommendation of our Stock Pickers Digest newsletter.


The company owns and operates Aeroplan, Canada’s largest loyalty program....
ALARMFORCE INDUSTRIES $10.75 (Toronto symbol AF; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (1-800-267-2001; www.alarmforce. com; Shares outstanding: 11.6 million; Market cap: $124.4 million; Dividend yield: 1.7%) sells two-way voice alarm and monitoring services to homeowners in Canada and the U.S.


For the latest fiscal year, ended October 31, 2016, the company’s sales rose 2.1%, to $56.4 million from $55.2 million a year earlier....
METRO INC. $40 (Toronto symbol MRU; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 230.7 million; Market cap: $9.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 1.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.metro.ca) operates 600 grocery stores and 250 drugstores, in Quebec and Ontario.


In its fiscal 2017 first quarter, ended December 17, 2016, Metro earned $131.8 million....
We have lots of attractive long-term buys among the stocks we cover, and we’re positive on the long-term outlook for stocks. We feel just as strongly about the need to diversify.


That’s why we’ve chosen three top picks for 2017 from our Stock Pickers Digest recommendations....
These penny stock definitions will give you insights into the risks and rewards of penny stocks