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NUTRIEN LTD. $79 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol NTR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 569.1 million; Market cap: $45.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; Dividend yield: 2.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.nutrien.com) is the world’s largest producer of agricultural fertilizers: it ships about 25 million tonnes annually.


Rising crop prices are prompting farmers to use more fertilizer to boost their yields....

Broadridge Financial is positioned to keep doing well during the pandemic. From March of last year, the stock has jumped to new all-time highs, and is now up 80.6%. Meantime, we think this Power Buy is poised to keep moving even higher.


BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS $146.75 (New York symbol BR; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.broadridge.com; Shares o/s: 115.8 million; Market cap: $17.1 billion; Dividend yield: 1.6%) serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing, and transaction clearing.


In its fiscal 2021 second quarter, ended December 31, 2020, revenue rose 8.9%, to $1.05 billion from $968.7 million a year earlier....

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Broadridge is far from a household name, except in households where most members work in the investment business. Since Automatic Data Processing (symbol ADP on Nasdaq) spun it off in 2007, the company has become a key provider of services to financial, brokerage and wealth management firms.

We added Broadridge to our recommendations in the February 2008 issue of Wall Street Stock Forecaster as a buy at $22 a share....

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A: Edwards Lifesciences, $83.54, symbol EW on New York (Shares outstanding: 621.7 million; Market cap: $51.6 billion; www.edwards.com) is focused on developing technologies and products that treat structural heart disease and critically ill patients....

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A: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., $217.80, symbol BRK.B on New York, recently bought 20.9 million shares of Barrick Gold, $38.65, symbol ABX on Toronto (and a recommendation of Power Growth Investor) for $563.5 million U.S. Berkshire Hathaway is now the miner’s 11th-largest shareholder.

At the same time, Buffett sold all of his shares in Restaurant Brands International, $55.80, symbol QSR on New York (and also a Power Growth Investor pick), the owner of fast-food restaurants Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes.

Berkshire also dumped its holdings in investment banker Goldman Sachs, $202.48, symbol GS on New York; at the same time it reduced its holdings in banks J.P....

A: HSBC Holdings plc (ADR), $24.62, symbol HSBC on New York (ADRs outstanding: 4.1 billion; Market cap: $104.1 billion; www.hsbc.com), is a U.K.-based bank and financial services company.

The bank is one of the more geographically diverse in the industry, with operations across 64 countries and territories around the world....