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Cannabis Corner: These stocks are all poised for gains

First, the good news: widening cannabis legalization will eventually lead to some great business successes. The bad news is that only a few of the multitude of cannabis stocks today will pay off for investors.

Consumer cannabis demand is high, but growing and distributing it across multiple markets is more difficult....

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Growth Stocks

Amazon expands in robotics

AMAZON.COM INC., $142.10, is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.amazon.com; Shares o/s: 10.2 billion; Market cap: $1.5 trillion; No divds.) is now buying Roomba maker iRobot Corp. (symbol IRBT on Nasdaq) for $1.7 billion in cash.

iRobot has an estimated 75% of the U.S....

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Mining Stocks

MP Materials aims to counter China

China currently dominates rare-earth production due in part to higher labour costs and tighter environmental restrictions in the U.S. However, politicians and government officials in the U.S. are now trying to promote production in the U.S. MP Materials should benefit from that effort—and it already delivers 15% of global rare-earth market supply....

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Growth Stocks

Short-term challenges won’t derail Shopify

Despite its current challenges, Shopify’s long-term outlook remains sound. The company has been expanding its business in recent years to provide more services for merchants. It has developed point-of-sale hardware for retailers, launched a shopping app for its merchants to list products and created a network of fulfillment centres to ship orders for its business partners.

SHOPIFY INC., $48.13, remains a buy. The company (Toronto symbol SHOP; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.shopify.ca; Shares o/s: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $64.6 billion; No dividends paid) is now eliminating roughly 1,000 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce.

Shopify feels the layoffs are necessary as consumers resume old shopping habits and pull back from the online ordering that fuelled its recent rapid growth....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Disney tops Netflix

WALT DISNEY CO., $122.81, is a buy. The company (New York symbol DIS; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average) (www.disney.com; Shares o/s: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $227.6 billion; No dividend) reported 26.3% higher revenue in the three months ended July 2, 2022, to $21.5 billion from $17.0 billion a year earlier....

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Growth Stocks

ResMed expands in a lucrative niche

ResMed continues to prosper in its CPAP machine market but is also expanding quickly in out-of-hospital software solutions. These are aimed at letting healthcare agencies work more efficiently to provide individualized service to patients. This is a big growth area, and ResMed’s progress here bodes well for its share price and for its investors.

We still believe in this leader’s strong prospects and its outlook....

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Spinoffs

New firm attracts more clients

TELUS INTERNATIONAL (CDA) INC. $40 is a buy for aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol TIXT; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 266.0 million; Market cap: $10.6 billion; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Lowest; www.telusinternational.com) operates call centres on behalf of over 600 corporate clients in 28 countries....

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Spinoffs

Our stock updates help protect your gains

LEIDOS HOLDINGS INC. $101 is a buy. The company (New York symbol LDOS; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 136.5 million; Market cap: $13.8 billion; Dividend yield: 1.4%; Takeover Target Rating: Highest; www.leidos.com) took its current form in August 2016 when Lockheed Martin (New York symbol LMT) separated its Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business and then merged it with Leidos.

In 2021, the company paid $375 million in cash for Gibbs & Cox Inc., a Virginia-based full-service engineering and design firm specializing in naval ship design....

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Spinoffs

Split has created two quality buys

DuPont, formerly known as DowDuPont, took its current form on June 1, 2019, when it spun off some of its operations, including its agriculture business, as a separate firm called Corteva Inc. Shareholders received one Corteva share for every three DowDuPont shares they held.

DuPont is down slightly since the split....

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Spinoffs

3M focuses on industrial products

3M COMPANY $147 remains a buy. The diversified manufacturer (New York symbol MMM; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 569.6 million; Market cap: $83.7 billion; Dividend yield: 4.0%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.3m.com) now plans to spin off its Health Care division as a separate company....

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One of the ways a company can try to unlock its own hidden value is by creating a separate company out of a corporate subsidiary. The parent company can either sell stock in the new company to the public, or spin it off—hand the stock out to its own investors.

Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks make cash payouts that serve as a way for companies to share the wealth they’ve accumulated. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow and paid to the shareholders of the company. Typically, these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may be paid annually or even monthly as well.

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ETF is an acronym for exchange traded fund. These exchange traded funds are used to track indexes as closely as possible, since investors cannot actually buy an index outright.

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One of the sweetest and most profitable pleasures of successful investing is to buy high-quality “value stocks” (or stocks that are reasonably priced, if not cheap, in relation to its sales, earnings or assets), then hold on to them as mainstream investors recognize the value and push up the share price.

Blue Chip Stocks

Blue chip stocks are big, well-established, dividend-paying corporations with strong business prospects. These are companies that also have sound management that should be able to make the right moves to keep competing successfully in a changing marketplace.

Penny Stocks

A penny stock in general trades for under five dollars a share, and as the name implies, sometimes for pennies. Most of the time they’re young companies, or start-ups in speculative markets like mining or technology.

Growth Stocks

Growth stocks are companies that are likely to have sales and earnings growth well above market average. Frequently they pay few, if any, dividends. Instead they typically reinvest any extra cash flow to promote further growth. Chosen wisely—according to Pat McKeough’s advice—high-quality growth-oriented stocks can be worthwhile additions to most well-diversified portfolios.

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Mining Stocks

Mining stocks are investments in companies that produce or explore for minerals. Some of these minerals include uranium, coal, molybdenum (which is used in steelmaking), copper, silver and gold. They are affected by fluctuating commodity prices in addition to their own business and operating risks.

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Energy Stocks

What are energy stocks?

Businesses that work in the extraction, refining and delivery of energy sources such as natural gas, oil, uranium and coal, are considered energy stocks.