New alliances are lifting PayPal

PAYPAL HOLDINGS INC. $77 is a buy, but only for highly aggressive investors. The company (Nasdaq symbol PYPL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.05 billion; Market cap: $80.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.7; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.paypal.com) processes online transactions on millions of… Read More

Here’s a low-cost ETF for exposure to top Canadian stocks

TD CANADIAN EQUITY INDEX ETF $26.59 (Toronto symbol TTP; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Conservative; Market cap: $1.9 billion) invests in large and medium-sized publicly listed Canadian companies.
The ETF aims to track the Solactive Canada Broad Market Index.
The fund currently holds 276 stocks; the largest segment weighting is allocated… Read More

Growth ETFs add portfolio diversification

Most successful investors hold a mix of stocks (or ETFs that hold them) in their portfolios. Indeed, one key component of a well-diversified portfolio is growth stocks. Note, however, that it’s very easy to confuse growth stocks with momentum stocks. Like growth stocks, momentum stocks… Read More

Shopify teams up with Amazon

SHOPIFY, $76.74, remains a buy. The company (Toronto symbol SHOP; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.shopify.ca; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $100.4 billion; No dividends paid) has announced a deal with Amazon.com that will let U.S. merchants who use Amazon’s fulfillment network add Buy with Prime to their Shopify… Read More

Shopify sells a unit

SHOPIFY, $89.91, remains a buy. The company (Toronto symbol SHOP; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.shopify.ca; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $113.3 billion; No dividends paid) has now completed the sale of its former Shopify Logistics business to Flexport, a global logistics platform. Meanwhile,Flexport will become the preferred logistics… Read More