Nutrien Earnings: Increasing Sequential Fertilizer Performance
Editor’s Note: This analysis was originally published as a stock note by Morningstar Equity Research. Nutrien NTR reported sequentially improving first-quarter potash results versus the fourth quarter of 2024, as higher prices drove profit growth. Yet shares were down 4% at the time of writing, as the market reacted to weaker first-quarter results putting consensus […]
3 Dividend Stocks to Consider in May 2025
David Harrell: Hi, I’m David Harrell, editor of the Morningstar DividendInvestor newsletter. In this monthly series, we take a look at the dividend prospects of three stocks that are popular with income investors. 3 Dividend Stocks for May 2025 Brown-Forman BF.BChevron CVXRealty Income O Brown-Forman, producer of bourbons and whiskeys, including Jack Daniel’s, is a […]
MABC Identifies Opportunities for British Columbia as a Key Player in Global Critical Minerals Markets
MABC CEO Michael Goehring delivers keynote address at the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade event on Tuesday. Photo credit: Matt Brock. British Columbia hosts massive, untapped mineral reserves that offer the province a generational opportunity to compete as a key player in global critical minerals markets, Mining Association of British Columbia CEO Michael Goehring told the audience at […]
Palantir Earnings: Deepening Engagement with the US Government
Editor’s Note: This analysis was originally published as a stock note by Morningstar Equity Research. Palantir PLTR shares are down 9% in after-hours trading despite the firm beating both management’s guidance and FactSet analyst expectations on revenue by 3%. Contribution margins, an efficiency metric, reached an all-time high of 61%. Revenue growth was 39% and […]
Kinross Gold Reports Impressive Earnings Boosted by Gold Prices…
What We Thought of Kinross Gold’s Earnings Kinross’s K 2025 first-quarter adjusted net profit after tax of USD 360 million, or USD 0.30 per share, is triple the same quarter last year—38% higher realized gold prices more than offset 3% lower attributable gold equivalent ounce, or GEO, volumes and increased unit cash costs. Why it […]
Top-Performing ETFs for Canadian Investors
Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are often low-cost instruments for investors to track popular indexes or leverage experienced manager choices in an attempt to beat the market. The best ones serve as building blocks for a portfolio, and unlike open-end mutual funds, all ETFs are traded throughout the day on an exchange. In April 2025, the […]
After Earnings: Should You Buy, Sell, or Hold META Stock?
Meta Platforms META released its first-quarter earnings report on April 30. Here’s Morningstar’s take on Meta’s earnings and stock. Meta kicked off fiscal 2025 with strong financial results and a better-than-expected outlook for second-quarter sales, as ad spending on the firm’s platform remains solid. On the profitability front, Meta’s operating margins expanded 360 basis points […]
Revival Gold Targets Mercur and Beartrack-Arnett as Key Drivers in a Tight Gold Market
Revival Gold’s Mercur gold project in Utah. Credit: Revival Gold Revival Gold’s (TSXV: RVG, US-OTC: RVLGF) Mercur project in Utah offers a quicker route to first gold than the more developed Beartrack-Arnett property in Idaho, CEO Hugh Agro said. “It’s about stacking the deck in our favour,” Agro told The Northern Miner Monday in an […]
Implications of Carney’s Victory for the Bank of Canada
With Mark Carney, a two-time former central banker, assuming office as prime minister of Canada, the country is poised for a strong fiscal stimulus, which analysts say could potentially reduce the urgency for the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates. The fiscal push “will take the onus off the central bank to cut as […]
Performance Analysis of Canada’s Largest ETFs
Each month, we check in on the performance of the largest Canadian stock, bond, and active exchange-traded funds. The Morningstar US Market Index fell 4.59% during April and is up 12.12% over the past year. The Morningstar US Core Bond Index fell 3.64% last month and is up 8.60% over the past year. In the […]