Sectors Review and Best Stocks for 2024 – Part 2NewsletterWe continue our year-end review and share our best stock ideas for the following sectors: healthcare, industrials, information technology, materials, REITs and utilities. I also added a extended note on renewables.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corp (LIFZF) Stock CardMarket: USLabrador Iron Ore Royalty Corporation is a Canada-based investment company. The Company holds interests in the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC), which is a North American producer and exporter of iron ore pellets and high-grade concentrate. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Hollinger Hanna Limited (Hollinger-Hanna), holds an approximately 15.10% equity interest in IOC. It holds an approximately 15.10% equity interest in IOC and receives approximately 7% gross overriding royalty and a 10% per ton commission on all iron ore products produced, sold, and shipped by IOC. IOC operates mine, concentrator and pellet plant at Labrador City, Newfoundland, and Labrador. The IOC mines and produces iron ore pellets and concentrates at its facilities in Labrador City, Newfoundland, and Labrador. The Company holds mining leases and mining licenses covering approximately 18,200 hectares of land near Labrador City.
National Oilwell Varco Inc (NOV) Stock CardMarket: USNOV Inc. is an independent equipment and technology provider to the global energy industry. The Company’s segments include Energy Equipment, and Energy Products and Services. Its Energy Products and Services segment provides a variety of technologies used primarily to perform drilling and well completion operations and offers services that optimize their performance. Its Energy Products and Services segment designs, manufactures, rents, and sells equipment and products for drilling, intervention, completion, and production activities, including drill bits, downhole tools, premium drill pipe, drilling fluids, managed pressure drilling, integral and weld-on connectors for conductor strings and surface casing, completion tools, and artificial lift systems. Its Energy Equipment segment manufactures and supports the capital equipment and integrated systems needed for oil and gas exploration and production, both onshore and offshore, as well as for other marine-based and industrial markets.
Savaria (SIS.TO) Stock CardMarket: CASavaria Corporation is a Canada-based company engaged in the accessibility industry. The Company provides accessibility solutions for the physically challenged to increase their comfort, their mobility and their independence. Its segments include Accessibility and Patient Care. It designs, manufactures, distributes and installs accessibility equipment, such as stairlifts for straight and curved stairs, vertical and inclined wheelchair lifts and elevators for home and commercial use. It also manufactures and markets a comprehensive selection of pressure management products for the medical market, medical beds for the long-term care market, as well as an extensive line of medical equipment and solutions for the safe handling of patients, including ceiling lifts and slings. It operates a sales network of dealers worldwide and direct sales offices in North America, Europe (United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland and Czech Republic), Australia and China.
BRP INC (DOO.TO) Stock CardMarket: CABRP Inc. is a Canada-based company that specializes in powersports products, propulsion systems and boats. Its segments include Powersports and Marine. Powersports segment comprises Year-Round Products (all-terrain vehicles, side-by-side vehicles and three-wheeled vehicles), Seasonal Products (snowmobiles, personal watercraft and pontoons) and Powersports PA&A and OEM Engines (parts, accessories and apparel (PA&A), engines for karts and recreational aircraft, Pinion gearboxes and other services). Marine segment consists of boats, pontoons, jet boat and outboard engines and related PA&A and other services. Its brands include Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Sea-Doo watercraft and pontoons, Can-Am on and off-road vehicles, Alumacraft and Quintrex boats, Manitou pontoons and Rotax marine propulsion systems and Rotax engines for karts and recreational aircraft. It is developing electric models for its existing product lines and exploring new low voltage and human assisted product categories.
Exxon Mobil (XOM) Stock CardMarket: USExxon Mobil Corporation is an international energy and petrochemical company. Its primary businesses include exploration for, and production of, crude oil and natural gas; manufacturing, transport and sale of crude oil, natural gas, petroleum products, petrochemicals, and a variety of specialty products; and pursuit of lower-emission business opportunities including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, lower-emission fuels and lithium. The Upstream segment explores for and produces crude oil and natural gas. The Energy Products, Chemical Products and Specialty Products segments manufacture and sell petroleum products and petrochemicals. Energy Products include fuels, aromatics, and catalysts and licensing. Its Chemical Products consist of olefins, polyolefins, and intermediates. Its Specialty Products include finished lubricants, synthetics, and elastomers and resins. It also focuses on net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its operated unconventional operations in the Permian Basin.
Quebecor (QBR.B.TO) Stock CardMarket: CAQuebecor Inc. is an integrated communications company. Its Telecommunications segment offers Internet access, television distribution, mobile and wireline telephony, business solutions and over-the-top video services in Canada. Its Media segment includes the operation of an over-the-air television network and specialty television services, the operation of soundstage and equipment rental and postproduction services for the film and television industries, the printing, publishing and distribution of daily newspapers, the operation of news and entertainment digital platforms, the publishing and distribution of magazines, the production and distribution of audiovisual content, and others. Its Sports and Entertainment segment encompass the operation and management of the Videotron Centre in Quebec City, show production, sporting and cultural event management, the publishing and distribution of books, the production of music and the operation of a Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League team.
Parker Hannifin (PH) Stock CardMarket: USParker-Hannifin Corporation specializes in motion and control technologies. The Company designs, manufactures, and provides aftermarket support for highly engineered solutions. Its segments include Diversified Industrial and Aerospace Systems. Diversified Industrial Segment, which is an aggregation of several business units, sells highly engineered differentiated products to both original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and distributors who serve the aftermarket replacement markets. This segment serves various markets, including aerospace & defense, off-highway, in-plant & industrial equipment, energy, transportation and HVAC & refrigeration. Aerospace Systems Segment sells highly engineered, differentiated airframe and engine components and systems to OEMs and aftermarket parts and maintenance directly to end users primarily in the commercial aerospace and defense market verticals. Its products include active & passive vibration control, avionics, flight control systems and others.
Brunswick Corp (BC) Stock CardMarket: USBrunswick Corporation designs, manufactures and markets recreational marine products, including marine propulsion products and boats, as well as parts and accessories for the marine and RV markets. Its segments include Propulsion, Engine Parts and Accessories (Engine P&A), Navico Group and Boat. The Propulsion segment designs, manufactures and sells engines, controls, rigging, and propellers globally. The Engine P&A segment sells products such as engine parts and consumables including oils and lubricants, electrical products, boat parts and systems, and also includes its marine parts and accessories distribution businesses. The Navico Group segment designs, develops, manufactures, and markets products and systems for the marine and RV, specialty vehicle markets. The Boat segment consists of the Brunswick Boat Group (Boat Group), which manufactures and distributes recreational boats, and Business Acceleration. Its boat brands include Boston Whaler, Lund, Sea Ray and Bayliner.
Donaldson Co Inc (DCI) Stock CardMarket: USDonaldson Company, Inc. provides technology-led filtration products and solutions, serving a range of industries and advanced markets. The Company operates in three segments: Mobile Solutions, Industrial Products, and Life Sciences. The Mobile Solutions segment consists of the Off-Road, On-Road and Aftermarket business units. Its products include replacement filters for both air and liquid filtration applications as well as exhaust and emissions. The Industrial Solutions segment consists of the Industrial Filtration Solutions (IFS) and Aerospace and Defense business units. The products under IFS business units include dust, fume and mist collectors and air filtration systems for gas turbines. The Life Sciences segment consists of micro-environment gas and liquid filtration for food, beverage and industrial processes, bioprocessing equipment. The Company also offers biomanufacturing solutions for cell and gene therapy research, development, and commercial manufacturing.
Finning International (FTT.TO) Stock CardMarket: CAFinning International Inc. is a Canada-based caterpillar dealer. The Company provides caterpillar equipment, parts, services, and performance solutions in Western Canada, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The Company’s segments include Canada, South America, UK & Ireland, and Other. It sells, rents and provides parts and services for equipment and engines to customers in various industries, including mining, construction, petroleum, forestry and a wide range of power systems applications. With its inventory of new, used, and rental equipment, it can deliver the solution to meet client’s needs. Its products include Excavators, Dozers, Skid Steers and Compact Track Loaders, Articulated Trucks, Wheel Loaders, Motor Graders, and others. It provides rental solutions for all client’s construction, landscaping and snow removal needs at daily, weekly and long-term rates. Its services include fuel solutions, rebuilds, rentals, repair services and others.
Qualcomm (QCOM) Stock CardMarket: USQualcomm Incorporated is engaged in the development and commercialization of foundational technologies for the wireless industry, including third generation (3G), fourth generation (4G) and fifth generation (5G) wireless connectivity, and high-performance and low-power computing, including on-device artificial intelligence. Its segments include Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL) and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives. QCT develops and supplies integrated circuits and system software based on 3G/4G/5G and other technologies, including radio frequency front-end, digital cockpit and advanced driver assistance and automated driving, Internet of things including consumer electronic devices, industrial devices and edge networking products. QTL grants licenses or otherwise provides rights to use portions of its intellectual property portfolio that includes certain patent rights essential to and/or useful in the manufacture and sale of certain wireless products.
Unum Group (UNM) Stock CardMarket: USUnum Group is a provider of workplace benefits and services. The Company provides financial protection benefits in the United States and the United Kingdom (UK). Its products include disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision, and other related services. The Company has three segments: Unum US, Unum International, and Colonial Life. Its Unum US segment comprises group disability, group life and accidental death and dismemberment, and supplemental and voluntary lines of business. Its Unum International segment includes its operations in the UK and Poland. Unum UK's business includes insurance for group long-term disability, group life, and supplemental lines of business which include dental, individual disability, and others. Unum Poland's business includes insurance for individual and group life with accident and health riders. Its Colonial Life segment includes accident, sickness, and disability products, life products, and cancer and critical illness products.
Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPD) Stock CardMarket: USEnterprise Products Partners L.P. provides midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, petrochemicals and refined products. Its NGL Pipelines & Services segment includes natural gas processing and related NGL marketing activities, NGL pipelines, NGL fractionation facilities, NGL and related product storage facilities and NGL marine terminals. Its Crude Oil Pipelines & Services segment includes crude oil pipelines, crude oil storage and marine terminals and related crude oil marketing activities. Its Natural Gas Pipelines & Services segment includes natural gas pipeline systems that provide for the gathering, treating and transportation of natural gas. Its Petrochemical & Refined Products Services segment includes propylene production facilities, butane isomerization complex and related deisobutanizer operations and others. It also owns 20% interest in Whitethorn and has two NGL fractionators located in Mont Belvieu, Texas.
AltaGas Ltd (ALA.TO) Stock CardMarket: CAAltaGas Ltd. is a Canada-based energy infrastructure company that connects natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) to domestic and global markets. The Company’s segments include Utilities and Midstream. Its Utilities segment owns and operates franchised, rate-regulated natural gas distribution and storage utilities, which includes four utilities that operate across five United States jurisdictions. It Utilities segment also includes storage facilities and contracts for interstate natural gas transportation and storage services, as well as the affiliated retail energy marketing business. Its Midstream segment includes global exports, which includes its two LPG export terminals; natural gas gathering and extraction, and fractionation and liquids handling. Its Midstream segment also consists of natural gas and NGL marketing business, domestic logistics, trucking and rail terminals, and liquid storage capability. Its subsidiaries include Wrangler 1 LLC, WGL Holdings, Inc. and others.
Canadian Western Bank (CWB.TO) Stock CardMarket: CACanadian Western Bank (CWB) is a Canada-based full-service bank. CWB provides full-service business and personal banking, specialized financing, comprehensive wealth management offerings, and trust services. It offers specialty business banking services for small-and medium-sized companies with a focus on general commercial, equipment financing, construction financing, commercial real estate financing, real estate construction and project financing and equipment financing and leasing. It also provides full-service personal banking options, including chequing and savings accounts, loans, mortgages and investment products. Its banking services include online banking, ATM banking, creditor insurance, resources for seniors and order cheques online. Its CWB Business Advantage Account and CWB Business Unlimited Account offer solutions for day-to-day banking and 24/7 online access. CWB has its operations in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Manitoba and others.
Jamieson Wellness Inc (JWEL.TO) Stock CardMarket: CAJamieson Wellness Inc. is a Canada-based company engaged in the manufacturing, development, distribution, sales and marketing of branded and customer branded health products for humans, including vitamins, herbal and mineral nutritional supplements. Its Jamieson brand is available in more than 50 countries globally. It offers a variety of vitamins, minerals and supplements (VMS) products to consumers with its youtheory, Progressive, Smart Solutions, Iron Vegan and Precision brands. Its product portfolio is specifically curated to help maintain overall health with daily multivitamins for all age groups, letter vitamins, digestive, heart health and immune support formulas. It offers a variety of products to support women’s hormone health and beauty from within, and proteins and other sports nutrition products. It provides vitamins through gummies, chewable tablets, powders, sprays and more. Its manufacturing facilities are in Windsor, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario and Irvine, California.
Richelieu Hardware (RCH.TO) Stock CardMarket: CARichelieu Hardware Ltd is an importer, manufacturer and distributor of specialty hardware and complementary products. The Company’s products are targeted to an extensive customer base of kitchen and bathroom cabinet, storage and closet, home furnishing and office furniture manufacturers, residential and commercial woodworkers, door and window, and hardware retailers including renovation superstores. It offers customers a mix of high-end products sourced from manufacturers worldwide. Its product selection consists of over 130,000 different items targeted to a base of more than 110,000 customers who are served by 115 centers in North America -50 distribution centers in Canada, 62 in the United States and three manufacturing plants in Canada, specifically, Les Industries Cedan Inc., Menuiserie des Pins Ltee and USIMM/UNIGRAV, which manufacture a variety of veneer sheets and edge banding products, a broad selection of decorative moldings and components for the window and door industry.
TMX Group (X.TO) Stock CardMarket: CATMX Group Limited operates global markets and builds digital communities and analytic solutions that facilitate the funding, growth and success of businesses, traders, and investors. The Company’s segments include Global Solutions, Insights & Analytics; Capital Formation; Derivatives Trading & Clearing, and Equities and Fixed Income Trading & Clearing. The Global Solutions, Insights & Analytics segment delivers equities and index data, as well as integrated data sets for the proprietary and third-party analytics to help clients in making trading and investment decisions. Its Capital Formation segment includes operations in Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, equity market and TSX Trust. Its Derivatives Trading & Clearing segment includes operations in Montreal Exchange and Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation. The Equities and Fixed Income Trading & Clearing segment engages in the trading operations of Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, and TSX Alpha Exchange.
Dover (DOV) Stock CardMarket: USDover Corporation is a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider. Its Engineered Products segment provides a range of equipment, components, software, solutions and services to the vehicle aftermarket, waste handling, and aerospace and defense. Its Clean Energy & Fueling segment provides components, equipment, and software solutions and services. It also designs, manufactures, and supplies vacuum-insulated piping systems for a variety of liquefied gases like nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other industrial gases. Its Imaging & Identification segment supplies precision marking and coding, product traceability, brand protection and digital textile printing equipment. Its Pumps & Process Solutions segment manufactures specialty pumps and flow meters, fluid transfer connectors, highly engineered precision components, instruments and digital controls. Its Climate & Sustainability Technologies segment is a provider of energy-efficient equipment, components and parts.