A: We don’t publish targets for several reasons. One is that they draw too much attention to the least reliable part of the investment decision-making process—price. Price targets also spur investors to quit buying or even to sell our best picks way too early. After all, by definition, your best picks are those that did way better than you ever anticipated.

A: H.B. Fuller Company. $58.51, symbol FUL on New York (Shares outstanding: 54.1 million; Market cap: $3.2 billion; www.hbfuller.com), is a leading maker of adhesives, sealants, and other specialty chemical products. It has 7,500 employees worldwide.

Founded in 1887 and incorporated in Minnesota in 1915, the company sells its products in over 140 countries. Its sales operations span 35 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, India, the Middle East, and Africa.

Fuller’s core product is industrial adhesive. The company’s customers use its glues in the making of common consumer and industrial goods, including food and beverage containers, disposable diapers, medical products, windows, sportswear and footwear.

A: Group Dynamite Inc., $63.68, symbol GRGD on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 107.8 million; Market cap: $6.9 billion; www.groupedynamite.com), is a Montreal-based fashion retailer with two brands: Garage (220 stores) and Dynamite (79). Revenue is split about evenly between the U.S. and Canada.


The Garage chain of stores views its typical customer as someone in her early twenties and focused on fashion trends. Dynamite’s typical shopper is in her early thirties, is also fashion-conscious and looking for value.



On November 20, 2024, the company launched its IPO with a listing on the Toronto exchange. It sold subordinate voting shares at $21. The company got none of these proceeds—the funds went to sole owner and CEO Andre Lutfy.

A: ARC Resources, $26.75, symbol ARX on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 581.7 million; Market cap: $15.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.arcresources.com), produces natural gas as well as oil. Its average output of 364,705 barrels of oil equivalent per day is 62% natural gas and 38% oil.


ARC is an aggressive buyer of its own shares.



Notably, since launching its initial share buyback program in September 2021, the company has repurchased roughly 21% of the total number of shares outstanding.

VANECK VECTORS VIETNAM ETF, $18.04, is a buy for aggressive investors. This emerging-markets ETF (New York symbol VNM) taps the country’s leading firms as well as foreign firms that get a significant share of their revenue from this Southeast Asian nation. The fund started up in August 2009. Its MER is 0.68%.


Your top holdings include Vingroup (conglomerate), 9.0%; Vinhomes (real estate), 7.6%; Masan Group (food), 7.1%; Hoa Phat Group (iron and steel), 6.5%; Vix Securities, 5.6%; and SSI Securities, 5.5%. Other holdings include Vietnam Dairy at 5.1%.