Growth Stocks
Although growth stock picks can be highly volatile, they can make good long-term investments. They may be well-known stars or quiet gems, but they do share one common attribute—they are growing at a higher-than-average rate within their industry, or within the market as a whole, and could keep growing for years or decades.
And keep in mind that we focus on growth stocks, which have a good long-term history and favourable prospects. We downplay momentum stocks that tend to attract many investors simply because they are moving faster than the market averages, but are liable to fall sharply when their momentum fades.
There’s room for growth stock investing in your portfolio, but make sure you follow our TSI Network three-part Successful Investor strategy for your overall portfolio:
- Invest mainly in well-established companies;
- Spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; Utilities);
- Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.
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BOEING CO. $124 (New York symbol BA; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 743.4 million; Market cap: $92.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www....
WAL-MART STORES INC. $76 (New York symbol WMT; Conservative Growth Portfolio: Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 3.2 billion; Market cap: $243.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend yield: 2.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.walmart.com) will soon let customers trade in their used video games for a credit they can use to buy other merchandise....
IDEXX LABORATORIES INC. $122 (Nasdaq symbol IDXX; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 51.6 million; Market cap: $6.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.8; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www....
DIEBOLD INC. $39 (New York symbol DBD; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 64.3 million; Market cap: $2.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.9; Dividend yield: 2.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.diebold.com) is a leading maker of automated teller machines (ATMs)....
TOYOTA MOTOR CO. ADRs $111 (www.toyota.com) will pay a $1.2-billion fine after admitting that it deliberately misled consumers and regulators in 2009 and 2010 over a defect that would cause its cars to suddenly accelerate. The payment is equal to 10% of the $11.5 billion, or $7.24 per ADR, that Toyota earned in the year ended March 31, 2013....
SYMANTEC CORP., $18.20, Nasdaq symbol SYMC, fell 13% on Friday after it fired Steve Bennett, its president and CEO. The company said the decision resulted from an ongoing review and wasn’t in response to any single event. Symantec has appointed board member Michael Brown as its interim CEO. The company sells computer-security technology, including anti-virus and email-filtering software, to businesses and consumers. Symantec is in the midst of a major restructuring that mainly involves cutting jobs and streamlining its product lines and marketing operations. The plan should help the company expand its profit margin (operating income divided by revenue) to over 30.0% by 2017; in the current quarter, which ends March 31, 2014, Symantec expects its profit margin to range from 24.5% to 26.0%....
CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORP., $24.67, symbol CHK on New York, is preparing to spin off its oil-field services division into a separate, publicly traded company. The new firm would be called Seventy Seven Energy and would trade under the SSE symbol. Chesapeake would then hand out all of the new company’s shares to its shareholders in a tax-free transaction. The division, now called Chesapeake Oilfield, provides contract drilling, hydraulic fracturing, equipment rentals, trucking and other services. Combined, drilling and hydraulic fracturing supply over 75% of its revenue. Chesapeake Oilfield has around 71 active drilling rigs and nine fleets of pressure-pumping trucks for fracturing....
ALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD $91.36 (Toronto symbol ATD.B: TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (1-800-361-2612; www.couchetard. com; Shares outstanding: 179.4 million; Market cap: $17.3 billion; Dividend yield: 0.4%) grew from just 630 stores in Quebec in 1998 to 1,612 in 1999, mostly through the purchase of Silcorp Ltd....
LEON’S FURNITURE $15.75 (Toronto symbol LNF; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (416-243- 7880; www.leons.ca; Shares outstanding: 70.6 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; Div. yield: 2.5%) has steadily opened new stores, growing from 27 stores in 2003, to 75 today.
But the company more than quadrupled in size overnight with the March 28, 2013 purchase of its main rival, The Brick, for $700 million....
But the company more than quadrupled in size overnight with the March 28, 2013 purchase of its main rival, The Brick, for $700 million....
NEW GOLD $6.24 (Toronto symbol NGD; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (888-315-9715; www.newgold- .com; Shares outstanding: 503.3 million; Market cap: $3.1 billion; No dividends paid) has four mines: the Mesquite project in the U.S., Cerro San Pedro in Mexico, the Peak mine in Australia and the New Afton mine in B.C.
New Gold also owns 30% of the El Morro copper/ gold project in Chile, 100% of the Blackwater property in B.C....
New Gold also owns 30% of the El Morro copper/ gold project in Chile, 100% of the Blackwater property in B.C....