New Products Should Expand Profits

GENNUM CORP. $10 (Toronto symbol GND; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 35.8 million; Market cap: $358.0 million; SI Rating: Above average) recently sold its hearing aid and headset operations to focus on making its core video equipment for broadcasters.

Gennum also plans… Read More

Gennum Corp. $9.81 – Toronto symbol GND

GENNUM CORP. $9.81 (Toronto symbol GND) earned $0.10 a share from ongoing operations in its third fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2007, down 16.7% from $0.12 a year earlier. Sales rose slightly, to $28.6 million from $28.4 million. That’s despite the stronger Canadian dollar, which… Read More

Sale of Headset Division Improves Outlook

GENNUM CORP. $10 (Toronto symbol GND; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 35.8 million; Market cap: $358.0 million; SI Rating: Above average) has agreed to sell its struggling consumer headset product business to Swedish-based CellPoint Connect.

Gennum will receive cash and CellPoint stock… Read More

Two Struggling Techs: 1 Buy, 1 Hold

MDS INC. $22 (Toronto symbol MDS; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 122.5 million; Market cap: $2.7 billion; SI Rating: Average) operates in three medical -related fields: contract drug research, analytical devices and medical isotopes.

The company now spends about 2% of its revenue on… Read More

Gennum Corp. $12 – Toronto symbol GND

GENNUM CORP. $12 (Toronto symbol GND; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 35.8 million; Market cap: $429.6 million; SI Rating: Above average) makes chips and other equipment that let broadcasters store, manipulate and transport video signals without losing picture quality.

Video products supply… Read More

Cut Your Aggressive Risk With These Three

Our approach to investing focuses on high-quality companies with long histories of rising sales and earnings. From there, we classify stocks as “Conservative” or “Aggressive” depending on a variety of factors, such as the prospects of the industry it operates in and its ability to… Read More

Updating our Aggressive stocks

FPI LTD. $7.85 (Toronto symbol FPL) earned $0.25 a share in the third quarter of 2006 compared with a loss of $0.35 a year earlier, thanks to cost controls and the extra earnings from recent acquisitions. However, sales fell 15.4%, to $174.5 million from… Read More