Stocks & ETFunds

Increases in earnings can be seen as a positive sign that a business is healthy and growing. The companies on our list today have seen their EPS grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 80% since reporting in fiscal year 2013.

The zinc price is up more than 70% year to date and the zinc juniors on our list today have all have seen at least a 26% climb in stock value since we last wrote about zinc on October 18, 2016.

The TSX energy stocks on our list today were all able to increase their Net Asset Value (NAV) by an average of 34% over the last fiscal year and, with positive net working capital over the past 12 months to handle their day to day operations, they could be in a position to focus on raising capital for exploration purposes.

Biotech ETFs were initially among the biggest winners of Donald Trump’s surprise election win last month, but the early euphoria has now turned to a massive sell-off once again. From a technical, fundamental, and political standpoint, it’s probably safe to say that biotech is back out of vogue, and investors should tread very carefully here as we approach the end of the year.

Machine learning and 3D printing are two technologies that are quickly growing and becoming more widespread. To take advantage of this trend, we suggest investors take a look at these three penny stocks that operate within one of these spaces.

A dividend stock investor would naturally assume that with the stock market so strong during the past three months that it would be difficult to find solid paying dividend stocks at reasonable prices. However, in perusing through the list of our top ranked dividend stocks, several candidates emerge as good value even as the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hitting all-time price highs. The fact is that there are still a bountiful amount of dividend gems to be ferreted out by smart investors.

The value of stocks with low betas (close to 0) will remain relatively stable throughout the upswings and downturns that the market may experience day to day, week to week, or month to month. The TSX stocks on our list today all have low five-year historic betas but have seen growth this year, and have positive net income.

With $500 billion to $1 trillion in potential infrastructure spending planned by the incoming Trump administration, the price of copper has risen along with the 4 Canadian copper stocks on our list.

With President-elect Donald Trump saying throughout his campaign that he would “absolutely approve” the Keystone XL pipeline and would ask the companies to resubmit their applications. Should the pipeline be approved, the TSX pipeline-related stocks on our list could benefit from such a development.

With October in the books, our job is to figure out whether the month’s bearish action is the final shakeout before a year-end rally or the beginning of a bigger drawdown. Here are three charts that are scaring the bejesus out of investors as we enter November: