Updating your Aggressive stocks: Shawcor Ltd., Colliers International Group Inc. and SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.

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SHAWCOR LTD. $5.81 (www.shawcor.com) is still a buy, but only for highly aggressive investors. The stock has more than doubled in the past year, as rising oil prices continue to spur demand for the company’s pipeline coating services. ShawCor is also doing a good job cutting its debt: in the second quarter of 2021, it repaid $75 million of its loans. Its long-term debt was $359.2 million as of June 30, 2021, or 88% of its market cap. However, it also held cash of $140.0 million. ShawCor is a buy. COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC. $162 (www.colliers.com) is a buy. The company offers a range of real estate services, including helping clients buy and sell commercial real estate, arranging financing, and assessing properties for tax purposes. The stock is now up 60% since we first added it to our coverage in the April 2020 issue, and trades at 23.8 times the company’s projected 2021 earnings of $5.42 U.S. a share. That’s a reasonable multiple as businesses re-open and re-purpose…