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A: When a company splits its shares, it is simply cutting itself up into a different number of pieces, without changing its fundamental value. It simply wants its stock to trade in a price-per-share range that seems reasonable to investors.
Mechanics of a split: If a stock’s price rises much beyond $50 a share in Canada (or $100 a share in the U.S.), some investors may shun it since it seems expensive....
Mechanics of a split: If a stock’s price rises much beyond $50 a share in Canada (or $100 a share in the U.S.), some investors may shun it since it seems expensive....
A: Aecon Group Inc., $18.79, symbol ARE on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 60.8 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; www.aecon.com), is one of Canada’s largest construction companies....
A: Morneau Shepell Inc., $33.06, symbol MSI on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 64.6 million; Market cap: $2.1 billion; www.morneaushepell.com), is the largest Canadian firm providing human resource consulting and outsourcing services....
A: Fastenal Company, $29.48, symbol FAST on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 573.4 million; Market cap: $17.1 billion; www.fastenal.com), is a leading wholesale distributor of industrial and construction supplies....
STARBUCKS CORP. $83 (Nasdaq symbol SBUX; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $99.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.0; Dividend yield: 1.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.starbucks.com) is a leading seller and roaster of specialty coffee....
Visa’s shares have soared 800% since we first recommended them in our December 2010 issue at $19 (adjusted for splits). We were originally drawn to the company’s unique business model, which lets it profit as more people use credit and debit cards instead of cheques and cash....
Luckin Coffee (ADR), symbol LK on Nasdaq, a recent Chinese coffee-shop chain new stock issue (also known as an IPO, short for initial public offering), seems to be tracing out a pattern that’s all-too-familiar to successful investors. It’s a pattern that leads us to follow a general rule of rarely recommending new issues.
The problem is that new stock issues only come to market when it’s a good time for the company and/or its insiders to sell....
The problem is that new stock issues only come to market when it’s a good time for the company and/or its insiders to sell....