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SNOWFLAKE INC., $208.18, symbol SNOW on New York, provides cloud-based data storage and analytics to more than 11,500 customers worldwide.

San Mateo, California-based Snowflake was founded in 2012 to help companies manage data they store in the cloud—the remote servers and software services that firms use to store and process vast amounts of information....
NORTH WEST COMPANY, $49.95, is a buy. The retailer (symbol NWC on Toronto) sells food, and everyday products and services through 230 stores. Those locations are mainly in northern communities across Canada and Alaska. Through your shares, you also tap the company’s operations in remote regions of Hawaii, the wider South Pacific and the Caribbean.

North West’s food offerings consist of perishable and non-perishable products including groceries, dairy, produce, meat, convenience foods, food service, home meal replacement, health and beauty aids, paper products and cleaning supplies....
WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY INC., $10.03, Nasdaq symbol WBD, remains a hold.

The company took its current form in April 2022 when AT&T Inc. (New York symbol T) merged its WarnerMedia business with Discovery Inc. AT&T investors received 0.241917 shares of WBD as a tax-free distribution for each share they owned.

The new firm is a leading producer of entertainment, sports and information programming....
ANDREW PELLER LTD. (class A shares) remains a buy for long-term gains.

The company, Toronto symbols ADW.A (non-voting) $5.02 and ADW.B $5.00, is Canada’s second-largest wine producer, after Arterra Wines.

In its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter, ended March 31, 2025, Peller’s sales fell 11.2%, to $75.5 million from $85.0 million a year earlier.

That decrease is largely because the year-earlier quarter included $5.8 million in support payments from the Ontario government; in fiscal 2025, the company recorded those payments throughout the year instead of reporting all in the final quarter like it did the previous year.

Thanks to a cost-cutting plan, losses in the quarter improved to $0.02 a share (or a total of $747,000) from $0.17 a share (or $6.9 million)....
Saudi Arabia is the second largest oil producer in the world, delivering around 12 million barrels of oil per day. That’s 13% of the world supply.


The country also holds the second-largest known oil reserves, measured at 267 billion barrels. That is the equivalent of 62 years of production at the current rate....
MAPLE LEAF FOODS INC. $28 is a hold. The company (Toronto symbol MFI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 124.0 million; Market cap: $3.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 3.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mapleleaffoods.com) sells fresh and prepared meats under the Maple Leaf and Schneider labels....
IGM Financial Inc. offers a high 5.1% payout along with rising assets under management.
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, $17.41, Toronto symbol REI.UN, is a top pick for 2025.

The REIT owns all or part of 177 shopping centres and other properties across Canada, including eight under development. Its occupancy rate is a high 98.0%.

RioCan cut its monthly distribution by 33.3% to $0.96 a unit (on an annual basis) in February 2021 as retailers shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
H&R REIT offers a high 5.6% yield as it transitions to a simplified growth-oriented portfolio centered on residential and industrial properties.