Top Canadian Stocks To Invest In Right Now


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Much of the focus of cannabis investors has been centered on Canada and California. This makes sense given that they are the two largest recreational (or soon to be) cannabis markets in the world. However, one publicly traded company with US-centric cannabis operations has taken a different approach. iAnthus Capital is listed in Canada on the CSE (OTCQB:ITHUF), but is headquartered in New York and incorporated in Delaware. Unlike other Canadian-listed cannabis companies, most of which are aiming to get in on the highly competitive green-rush in California and Canada, iAnthus has set its sights on becoming the dominant player on the U.S. East Coast.


iAnthus’s strategy centers around building a portfolio of vertically integrated cannabis assets in markets that have significant barriers to entry, i.e., a limited number of licenses. While the Canadian and California markets are both larger than any other single state market in the US, they have low barriers to entry and, as a result, have a significantly higher ratio of growers and operators to consumers. This, combined with the fact that California and Canada are both renowned for their cannabis growing expertise, has led to fears of an ultra-competitive environment where most profits will be competed away as companies fight for market share. The east coast markets where iAnthus’s core assets are located, on the other hand, have a limited number of competitors, and when combined, add up to a population size significantly larger than either California or Canada.

Top Canadian Stocks To Invest In Right Now: PPL Corporation(PPL)


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Paul Ausick]

    PPL Corp. (NYSE: PPL) posted a 52-week low of $32.48 after closing Monday at $33.97. The 52-week high is $40.20. Volume was about 5.9 million, nearly a third higher than the daily average of around 3.9 million shares. The electric utility company had no specific news.

  • [By Paul Ausick]

    PPL Corp. (NYSE: PPL) dropped about 1.7% Tuesday to post a new 52-week low of $30.44 after closing at $30.95 on Friday. Volume was around 4.1 million about 10% below the daily average of around 4.6 million. The company had no specific news.

  • [By Paul Ausick]

    PPL Corp. (NYSE: PPL) posted a 52-week low of $30.74 after closing Tuesday at $30.76. The 52-week high is $40.20. Volume was about 3.2 million, about 25% below the daily average of around 4.5 million shares. The electric utility company had no specific news.

  • [By Paul Ausick]

    PPL Corp. (NYSE: PPL) posted a 52-week low of $31.11 after closing Wednesday at $31.59. The 52-week high is $40.20. Volume was about 9.6 million, more than double the daily average of around 4.2 million shares. The electric utility company had no specific news.

  • [By Paul Ausick]

    PPL Corp. (NYSE: PPL) posted a 52-week low of $31.53 after closing Tuesday at $32.42. The 52-week high is $40.20. Volume was about 15.5 million, more than three times the daily average of around 4 million shares. The electric utility company took a downgrade on Tuesday and the fallout continues to drop.

  • [By Paul Ausick]

    PPL Corp. (NYSE: PPL) posted a 52-week low of $30.81 after closing Friday at $31.13. The 52-week high is $40.20. Volume was about 3.5 million, about 25% below the daily average of around 4.5 million shares. The electric utility company had no specific news.

Top Canadian Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Silver Wheaton Corp(SLW)


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Rich Duprey]

    Silver Wheaton (NYSE:SLW), of course, is a streamer like Sandstorm and Franco, but it is the largest in the precious-metals industry, and arguably the best-known, because its business model came to define what streaming is. Although it is known primarily for its silver contracts, Silver Wheaton also has sizable gold production that makes it worth your attention.

Top Canadian Stocks To Invest In Right Now: 3M Company(MMM)


Advisors’ Opinion:

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    The Caterpillar news was followed by 3M (MMM) , which lowered full-year guidance, sending its shares down 6.8%. Lockheed Martin (LMT) then delivered blowout earnings, but mentioned that its cash flow might be challenged. Shares fell 6.1%.

  • [By Ben Levisohn]

    Second, how will the Dow get to that big magic number? Well, the six biggest stock weightings in the DJIA are: Goldman Sachs (GS), 3M (MMM), International Business Machines (IBM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), and Boeing (BA). What you will notice looking at a day like yesterday is that tech led the way sector wise. If the Dow is going to outperform, we need mega caps to outperform. We need those six stocks to outperform. So we need a day where financials and industrials outperform to get there. Given the trends in sector leadership, that is bound to happen…We are one Trump tweet talking about how yuuuuuuge Goldman Sachs is away from 20k.

  • [By Chris Lange]

    3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) reported its first-quarter earnings results before the markets opened on Tuesday. The company posted $2.50 in earnings per share (EPS) on $8.28 billion in revenue, which compares with consensus estimates of $2.52 in EPS on revenue of $8.26 billion. In the same period of last year, 3M said it had EPS of $2.16 and $7.68 billion in revenue.

  • [By Keith Fitz-Gerald]

    First, the Dow dropped below 19,800 points with two stocks – The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) and 3M Company (NYSE:MMM) – experiencing a $3.26 billion selloff alone. Big banking stocks including Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) and JPMorgan Chase and Co. (NYSE:JPM) sold off far more severely than the S&P 500 itself. Tech stocks were more or less unscathed, with the exception of Alphabet Inc. (NasdaqGS:GOOG), which received a 2.55% buzzcut of $26 per share.

Top Canadian Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc(VRX)


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Sean Williams]

    Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals (NYSE:VRX), an embattled drug developer whose primary method of growth over the past couple of years has been via acquisitions and price hikes on its therapies, surged as much as 15% on Thursday for their third consecutive day of strong gains. The stock was up a more modest 9% as of the closing bell.

  • [By Ben Levisohn]

    Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (VRX) has jumped 4.3% to $11.68 after activist investor ValueAct bought three million shares of the beaten-down specialty pharmaceutical company.

  • [By Stark Merrifield]

    Bill Ackman: Fifty-year-old Ackmans career began in 1992 when he and fellow Harvard graduate David P. Berkowtiz founded the investment firm Gotham Partners. The firms high-profile bid for Rockefeller Center in New York caused investors to flock to the firm, growing it to $500 million in assets. Then in 2004, with $54 million in personal funding, Ackman started Pershing Square Capital Management. Through Pershing, Ackman bought significant shares in companies like Wendys Co. (Nasdaq: WEN), Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT), Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. (NYSE: CMG), and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (NYSE: VRX). Today, Ackman is worth $1.4 billion and is No. 256 on the Forbes 400.

  • [By Vikram Nagarkar]

    Shares of Nvidia (NSDQ:NVDA) tumbled nearly 7% yesterday, after a bearish call by famed short seller Citron Research, which said that “NVDA Belongs At $90”. Citron, headed by Andrew Left, has built a reputation for “unleashing eye-catching claims against companies that send their shares tanking”, asAntoine Gara ofForbes puts it. Citron’s claims have in the past unleashed the markets’ wrath on stocks like Valeant (NYSE:VRX) and Facebook (NSDQ:FB), among others, and the impact on Nvidia seems to have been no different.

  • [By Ashley Moore]

    The current rally of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (NYSE: VRX) is being driven by two things. While investors are viewing these two catalysts as bullish, they are really just temporary solutions.

  • [By Virendra Singh Chauhan]

    Nvidia corporation stock shook off the bad performance from the last week, with a nearly 3% gain in the first trading session of this week. If you are wondering whether or not NVIDIA stock has turned the corner, a recent tweet from NVIDIA bear Andrew Left offers some answers. In late December, Citron’s Andrew Left issued a bearish NVDA call, calling a $90 bottom on the stock. Well, the famed short seller of Valeant (NYSE:VRX) fame, recently disclosed that he had covered its short position on NVIDIA. Given that Citron had originally called for a $90 price target, it appears likely that Citron thinks NVDA stock has bottomed out $10 above its original target.

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