Topic: How To Invest

Pat: Can you give me your analysis of Marine Harvest and KP Tissue as conservative long-term investments? Thank you.

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Marine Harvest ASA (ADR), $13.25, symbol MHG on New York (ADRs outstanding: 450.1 million; Market cap: $6.1 billion; www.marineharvest.com), produces and sells farmed salmon and other fish products worldwide. The Norway-based company was founded in 1965. Marine Harvest’s largest market is Europe, which supplies 71% of its sales. North and South America account for 18% of sales, while 9% come from Asia. The company is one of the world’s largest fish suppliers and the No. 1 farmed salmon producer. It also sells trout and whitefish, but salmon is its most important product: in 2014, it produced 414,000 tons, giving it 27% of the global farmed-salmon market. In addition, Marine Harvest offers products like coated seafood, ready-to-eat meals, finger foods and smoked seafood. The company farms and processes fish in various locations, including Norway, Scotland, Canada, Chile, Ireland and the Faroe Islands. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, Marine Harvest’s revenue fell 15.9%, to $828.1 million from $984.8 million a..