Canadian railroad Canadian Pacific(CP) has seen its stock soar in the past five years by over 157% based on just price growth (excluding dividends). The NYSE-listed stock closed at over $371.00 today. With most of the major railroad stocks trading in triple digit dollar range, CP decided to split the stock. Last week Canadian Pacific …
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The Periodic Table of Annual Returns in Canadian Dollars from 2010 to 2020 is shown below. In 2020 the TSX index returned 5.6% compared to 16.1% for the S&P 500 in Canadian Dollar terms. Click to enlarge Credits: Many thanks to Norbert Schlenker at Libra Investment Management for collecting the data that this calculator uses. Original …
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As we head into the first trading day for 2021 I was reviewing the top companies in Canada and what I found surprised me. The Most Valuable Company in Canada based on Market Capitalization is the e-Commerce platform provider Shopify Inc(SHOP). Unlike the US, the tech industry is tiny in Canada and not many tech …
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The Canadian equity market is highly concentrated. Just four sectors – financials, materials, industrial and energy account for about 70% of the market. As with investors in any other country it is wise for Canadian investors to not hold all their assets in the domestic stocks and instead diversify across other sectors in foreign countries. …
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