Jason Boudrias's List: Investing-Strategies

• I issued a “buy” recommendation on auto parts maker Linamar Corporation in April 2009 at $2.20,
• That pushed the share price up to $8.24 a share, for a gain of 274.5%.
• A year after my original recommendation, it hit $19.64. That’s a gain of 792.7%!
• You’ll find answers to these questions (and several more that may not have occurred to you) in Volume 5 of the Investor’s Guide, The Uses and Abuses of P/E Ratios.

• Readers of The Successful Investor have made incredible profits over the years from companies that have hidden assets. For example…

    
   
  • Teranet Income Fund soared 31% in one month on a takeover bid after the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System recognized the value of its exclusive license from the Ontario government to operate the government’s land registry.
   
  • Canadian Tire tripled in price as its investments in technology and new-format stores began to pay off.
   
  • Canadian Pacific doubled when it started to liquidate its real estate holdings, freeing up more than a billion dollars, cutting its debt and allowing it to focus on its core businesses.
   
  • Alcan, a Canadian aluminum producer, soared 68.7% in just 2 months when Rio Tinto Ltd. made a successful takeover bid for the company after recognizing it had access to cheap electricity, a key component in aluminum production, at a time of soaring energy prices.
• Exclusive Special Report #5: 5 Essential Resource Stocks for Conservative Investors. In this report, I name 5 natural resource-related companies that I see as bargains waiting to explode as emerging market demand heats up.

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