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A: Paychex Inc., $82.22, symbol PAYX on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 359.3 million; Market cap: $29.9 billion; www.paychex.com), provides a range of human resources and payroll services, including accounting, salary deposits, and automatic tax payment and filing.
The company’s 670,000 clients are mostly small and medium-sized businesses (10 to 200 employees) throughout the U.S....
The company’s 670,000 clients are mostly small and medium-sized businesses (10 to 200 employees) throughout the U.S....
A: Stingray Group Inc., $7.11, symbol RAY.A on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 76.4 million; Market cap: $543.6 million; www.stingray.com), operates multi-platform music and video services such as audio television channels, radio channels, karaoke products, and music apps....
A: Sienna Senior Living Inc., $18.67, symbol SIA on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 66.1 million; Market cap: $1.3 billion; www.siennaliving.ca), is one of Canada’s largest operators of seniors’ housing and Ontario’s biggest licensed long-term-care provider....
We think foreign stocks can safely make up 10% of a conservative investor’s portfolio. One way is through exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with an overseas focus.
The best of those ETFs charge you very low management fees yet offer you well-diversified, tax-efficient portfolios of high-quality stocks.
Here’s a look at four international ETFs we see as suitable for new buying and two others we feel you should continue to hold.
ISHARES MSCI EMERGING MARKETS ETF, $42.92, is a buy for aggressive investors. The fund (New York symbol EEM; buy or sell through brokers) is designed to track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index; it gives investors access to some of the world’s fastest growing markets....
The best of those ETFs charge you very low management fees yet offer you well-diversified, tax-efficient portfolios of high-quality stocks.
Here’s a look at four international ETFs we see as suitable for new buying and two others we feel you should continue to hold.
ISHARES MSCI EMERGING MARKETS ETF, $42.92, is a buy for aggressive investors. The fund (New York symbol EEM; buy or sell through brokers) is designed to track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index; it gives investors access to some of the world’s fastest growing markets....
A: Empire Company Ltd., $34.70, symbol EMP.A on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 269.1 million; Market cap: $9.4 billion; www.empireco.ca), is a diversified Canadian-firm based in Stellarton, Nova Scotia....
A: WSP Global Inc., $80.95, symbol WSP on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 100.8 million; Market cap: $8.6 billion; www.wspgroup.com), is a professional services consulting firm....
A: Paycom Software, $196.84, symbol PAYC on New York (Shares outstanding: 58.5 billion; Market cap: $12.0 billion; www.paycom.com), is a provider of comprehensive, cloud-based payroll and human resource management software....
A: SmartCentres REIT, $32.31, symbol SRU.UN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 141.9 million; Market cap: $5.4 billion; www.smartcentres.com), has ownership interests in 152 mostly Walmart-anchored shopping centres with total leasable area of 34.0 million square feet across Canada....
A: Splunk Inc., $111.85, symbol SPLK on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 150.2 million; Market cap: $17.2 billion; www.splunk.com), makes software that lets organizations gain real-time operational intelligence through analysis of their data....
A: Roper Technologies Inc., $336.71, symbol ROP on New York (Shares outstanding: 103.8 million; Market cap: $35.1 billion; www.ropertech.com), develops software and engineered products through a number of its businesses for a variety of specialized markets....