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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AMERIGO RESOURCES, $0.59, symbol ARG on Toronto, jumped over 11% this week after the company reported higher copper production in the latest quarter. The company processes copper and molybdenum from the waste rock from Chile’s El Teniente, the world’s largest copper mine. This contract runs through 2021. Amerigo has a further agreement to process material from the nearby Colihues tailings pond. Amerigo gets 94% of its revenue by processing copper. The remaining 6% comes from molybdenum....
We generally advise against investing in new issues, for one simple reason: new investments come to market when it’s a good time for the company or its insiders to sell, but that may not be a good time for you to buy. But after seven years as a public company, Aimia Inc., the former Groupe Aeroplan, has broadened its business foundation and strengthened its long-term prospects. AIMIA INC. $14.95 (Toronto symbol AIM; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (514-205-7315; www.aimia.com; Shares outstanding: 172.2 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; Dividend yield: 4.3%) got its start as Air Canada’s frequent-flyer program in 1984. In 2005, the airline created the Aeroplan Income Fund and began selling units to the public....
DOMINO’S PIZZA $41.20 (New York symbol DPZ; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (734-930-3030; www.dominos.com; Shares outstanding: 56.7 million; Market cap: $2.3 billion; No dividends paid) continues to benefit from its new pizza recipes, digital ordering and aggressive international expansion. The stock jumped over 7% on October 16, 2012, when the company reported higher earnings in the quarter ended September 9, 2012. Earnings per share jumped 22.2%, to $0.44 from $0.36 a year earlier. Same-store sales rose 3.3% in the U.S. and 5.0% internationally. Domino’s opened its 10,000th store in September. It now has 10,040 outlets in the U.S. and over 70 other countries. Franchisees run most of its stores....
WESTJET AIRLINES $18.00 (Toronto symbol WJA; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (1- 877-493-7853; www.westjet.com; Shares outstanding: 126.3 million; Market cap: $2.3 billion; Dividend yield: 1.8%) is now in the process of upgrading its interline agreement with British Airways to a full code-sharing arrangement. This will be WestJet’s eighth code-sharing deal. Code-sharing agreements let airlines sell seats on one another’s planes using the same two-digit code. In this case, the BA code will be used when travellers on British Airways flights to Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto connect to WestJet-operated flights to Ottawa, Edmonton and Victoria. Code-sharing agreements are especially valuable for attracting business passengers because they let customers seamlessly connect between flights and gain frequent flyer points for the entire distance travelled....
INTACT FINANCIAL CORP. $60 (Toronto symbol IFC; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (416-341-1464; www.intactfc.com; Shares outstanding: 129.6 million; Market cap: $7.8 billion; Dividend yield: 2.7%) is Canada’s largest provider of property and casualty insurance, based on premiums. Its brands include Intact Insurance, Canada BrokerLink, belairdirect and Grey Power. In the three months ended June 30, 2012, Intact’s revenue rose 47.8%, to $1.59 billion from $1.08 billion a year earlier. That was mainly due to the contribution from AXA Canada, which Intact bought from Parisbased ASX Group for $2.6 billion last year. AXA Canada is the country’s sixth-largest home, auto and commercial insurer. It also gives Intact a presence in Quebec, B.C. and Atlantic Canada....
FAIRFAX FINANCIAL HOLDINGS $362.94 (Toronto symbol FFH: TSINetwork Rating: Average) (416-367-2612; www.fairfax.ca; Shares outstanding: 19.9 million; Market cap: $7.2 billion; Dividend yield: 2.7%) mainly sells insurance and reinsurance, but it also manages investments, including a $3.8-billion stock portfolio. To protect these stock investments against a market drop, the company has insured its entire portfolio using derivatives. This strategy lowers the company’s losses if markets drop, but it also cuts sharply into share-price gains when markets go up. That means that if markets continue to rise—as we think they will—Fairfax’s derivatives will significantly hold back the company’s share price. Fairfax is now a sell.
CALIAN TECHNOLOGIES $20.50 (Toronto symbol CTY; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (613- 599-8600; www.calian.com; Shares outstanding: 7.7 million; Market cap: $157.9 million; Dividend yield: 5.5%) operates in two areas: the business and technology services division (which supplies 70% of Calian’s revenue) provides engineers, health care workers and other skilled professionals to clients on a contract basis. The systems engineering division (30% of revenue) sells hardware and software for testing, operating and managing satellite and other communication systems. In the three months ended June 30, 2012, Calian’s revenue rose 1.4%, to $59.3 million from $58.5 million a year earlier. Earnings rose slightly, to $3.48 million, or $0.45 a share, from $3.45 million, or $0.45 a share. Earlier this year, Calian bought Primacy Management Inc. of Burlington, Ontario, for $5.2 million. Since 2003, Primacy has been designing, building and managing in-store health clinics for Loblaw Companies (symbol L on Toronto). Primacy now operates 112 such clinics in Loblaw’s stores across Canada....
DOREL INDUSTRIES $35.39 (Toronto symbol DII.B; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (514-731-0000; www.dorel.com; Shares outstanding: 31.9 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; Dividend yield: 3.4%) has bought majority interests in two distributors of infant and children’s products in Colombia and Central America. Dorel is buying 70% of Best Brands Group SA in Panama and Baby Universe SAS in Colombia. Best Brands and Baby Universe had combined sales of $14 million last year. This purchase fits nicely with Dorel’s plan to focus on international expansion. The company will now use Best Brands and Baby Universe to sell more of its products throughout South America....
YAMANA GOLD $19.30 (Toronto symbol YRI; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (416-815-0220; www.- yamana.com; Shares outstanding: 751.3 million; Market cap: $14.5 billion; Dividend yield: 1.3%) owns seven operating gold mines in Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. It also holds a 12.5% stake in the Alumbrera copper/gold mine in Argentina, and has a number of other properties in advanced stages of development. In the quarter ended June 30, 2012, Yamana’s revenue fell 6.6%, to $535.7 million from $573.3 million a year earlier (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars). Gold production and prices rose, but prices for copper and silver, which are both significant byproducts of Yamana’s gold mining, dropped. Cash flow per share fell 27.3%, to $0.32 from $0.44. Yamana held a high cash balance of $698.9 million, or $0.93 a share, on June 30. Its $765.5 million of debt is just 5.5% of its market cap. The shares yield 1.3%....
IAMGOLD $15.89 (Toronto symbol IMG; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (1-888-464- 9999; www.iamgold.com; Shares outstanding: 376.1 million; Market cap: $6.0 billion; Dividend yield: 1.6%) owns interests in five mines, but also a number of promising exploration and development properties. Among its holdings is the Cote Lake gold project, located between Timmins and Sudbury. IAMGold acquired Cote Lake earlier this year, when it bought Trelawney Mining and Exploration for $608 million. Cote Lake held an estimated 6.9 million ounces of gold when IAMGold bought Trelawney. But IAMGold has just released drilling results that have further defined the deposit, and the estimate has now grown by 18.8%, to 8.2 million ounces. There’s also lots of room for more drilling to further expand the project’s reserves....