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Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific advice and stock picks 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. This week an Inner Circle member asked us about a Canadian stock whose products came into sharper focus following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Flyht Aerospace Solutions makes a number of products, but the two attracting the most attention are devices that collect and stream flight data and could have shed light on the fate of the Malaysian airliner as it disappeared. Pat examines the company’s business and assesses its prospects for growth in a highly competitive market. ...
Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific advice on stock picks 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....
Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific stock picks 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. Last week we had a question from an Inner Circle members about one of the rare pharmaceutical stocks in Canada. Valeant Pharmaceuticals was purchased in 2010 by Biovail, then Canada’s largest pharmaceutical firm, and the new company adopted the Valeant name. The company has an aggressive policy of growing by acquisition—it made over a dozen in 2012 alone—and Pat examines several of its recent acquisitions and assesses the overall risks and rewards of this growth strategy. ...
Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific stock picks 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....
Pat McKeough responds to many requests for advice on specific stock picks and other questions on investment and the economy from the members of his Inner Circle. 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. This week, an Inner Circle member asked about a stock that has risen sharply this year. AutoCanada’s franchise car dealerships have profited from robust car sales and the company continues to expand. Pat looks at whether AutoCanada can sustain its growth and also measures the risk of its growth-by-acquisition strategy....
METRO INC. (Toronto symbol MRU; www.metro.ca) has moved up sharply in the past few months. That’s mainly because it is taking steps to unlock some of its hidden value, including selling some of its investments....
Most investor sayings and clichés have at least a hint of truth. But they can still lead you to make good or bad investment decisions, depending on how you apply them. For instance, you’ll sometimes hear investors say that you shouldn’t fall in love with your stocks. This seems to make sense. You should keep an open mind on your investments, rather than falling in love with them and holding them forever, despite any adverse changes in their business or the field in which they operate. However, investors sometimes use this tidbit of advice as a justification for selling a stock that has shot up unexpectedly. It’s easy to jump to the conclusion that unexpected strength in a stock won’t last. Friends, brokers and cable-TV commentators may advise you to “take some money off the table” —that is, sell all or part of your market-beating stock pick. They may justify this advice by informing you that “you never go broke taking a profit”, and that you can always “buy it back on a dip”....
Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a beginning or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific advice and insights, such as how we pick our top stocks. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investing strategy, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Here are 5 more ways in which our exclusive ratings system helps investors make stock selections with a much better chance of success.”...
We constantly reevaluate our stock picks, to single out those with the best ratio of low risk and strong potential. These three no longer pass this test, and we now see them as sells. WEYERHAEUSER CO. $28 (New York symbol WY; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 537.8 million; Market cap: $15.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.weyerhaeuser.com) is a leading maker of forest products, including paper and packaging. The stock is up 48% since the start of 2012. That’s mainly because of signs that the U.S. housing market is starting to recover, which should spur lumber demand. However, paper prices remain depressed....