Standout Stocks Profiles

Air Canada is Canada's largest airline, serving nearly 50 million passengers each year, together with its low-cost subbrand, Rouge, and contracts for regional connection flights into its network. Air Canada is a sixth-freedom airline, which flies many passengers on long-haul trips to and from the US with a layover in Canada.

IGM Financial is a leading nonbank Canadian wealth and asset management company. Power Corporation of Canada, which also holds a majority stake in Great-West Life co, has a majority stake (62%) in IGM. The company has two main operating segments, wealth management and asset management. As of December 2025, IGM's wealth management unit had CAD 159 billion in assets under advisement, or AUA, while the firm's asset management unit had CAD 151 billion in third-party assets under management, or AUM.

Magna International prides itself on an entrepreneurial culture and a corporate constitution that outlines the distribution of profits to various stakeholders. This automotive supplier's product groups include exteriors, interiors, seating, roof systems, body and chassis, powertrain, vision and electronic systems, closure systems, electric vehicle systems, tooling and engineering, and contract vehicle assembly. In 2025, 48.6% of Magna's USD 42 billion of revenue came from North America, while Europe accounted for approximately 38% and Asia the remainder. The firm's top six customers constituted 75.9% of revenue, with the top three being GM, Mercedes, and Ford. GM was the largest contributor at 15.6%. Magna was founded in 1957, has about 144,000 employees, and is based in Aurora, Ontario.

Gibson Energy Inc is an oil infrastructure company engaged in the storage, optimization, processing, and gathering of liquids and refined products, as well as waterborne vessel loading. The company's reportable segments are: Infrastructure and Marketing. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Marketing segment, which is involved in the purchasing, selling, storing, and optimizing of hydrocarbon products (such as crude oil, natural gas liquids, road asphalt, etc.) and marketing its refined products. The Marketing segment sources the majority of its hydrocarbon products from Western Canada as well as the Permian Basin and markets those products throughout Canada and the United States. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from Canada.

Power Corp. of Canada is a holding company with controlling interests in Great-West Lifeco (one of the big three Canadian life insurers), IGM Financial (Canada's largest nonbank asset manager), and other alternative asset management platforms (Sagard and Power Sustainable). The company also has minority interests in Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, a holding company with interests in European firms.

Secure Waste Infrastructure Corp operates in waste management and energy infrastructure business. The company operates in two segments: Waste Management, and Energy Infrastructure. The activities of the company include buying and selling crude oil and natural gas liquid products, capturing location, and other related activities. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Waste Management segment which includes a network of waste processing facilities, produced water pipelines, industrial landfills, and others. Energy Infrastructure includes a network of crude oil gathering pipelines, terminals, and storage facilities.

EQB Inc operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger BankTM. It serves Canadians through two business lines, Personal Banking and Business Banking. The company differentiates by providing a host of challenger bank deposit services, alternative single-family lending, reverse mortgage lending, insurance lending, Specialized finance, Commercial finance group, Equipment financing, credit union services and trust services.

Cenovus Energy Inc is a Canadian integrated energy group. The group's upstream operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta; thermal and conventional crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGLs) projects across Western Canada; crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador; and natural gas and NGLs production offshore China and Indonesia. Its downstream operations include upgrading and refining operations in Canada and the U.S., and commercial fuel operations across Canada. The group's reportable segments are: Oil Sands, Conventional, Offshore, Canadian Refining, U.S Refining, and Corporate and Eliminations. Maximum revenue is generated from its Oil Sands segment. Geographically, the group derives maximum revenue from the U.S., followed by Canada and China.

Linamar Corp is a diversified world-wide manufacturing company of engineered products. The company's Industrial segment operates the Skyjack and MacDon brands, It manufactures products for the Aerial Work Platform and Agricultural industries, respectively. The Mobility segment features vertically integrated operations to combine expertise in light metal casting, forging, machining and assembly of components and systems for electric and traditional vehicle applications.

Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas. Its target is the drilling and acquisition of repeatable and predictable long-life resource plays in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Its oil & gas properties include Cardium Oil, Viking Oil, and Penny Barons Oil.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP is a Bermuda exempted limited partnership that owns and operates quality, long-life assets that generate stable cash flows, by virtue of barriers to entry or other characteristics that tend to appreciate in value over time. It focuses on acquiring infrastructure assets that have low maintenance capital costs and high barriers to entry. The company's operating segments consist of: Utilities, Transport, Midstream, Data and Corporate. Geographically, it generates maximum revenue from USA and also has a presence in Australia, Colombia, United Kingdom, Brazil, India, France, Germany, Canada, and Other.

Manulife Financial is one of the Big Three Canadian life insurers. The firm provides life insurance, annuities, asset management, and wealth management products to individuals and group customers in Canada, the United States, and Asia. The Canadian business segment contributes approximately 21% of 2025 adjusted earnings. The Asia segment operates across 12 countries and contributes around 38% of earnings, with a significant presence in Hong Kong and Singapore. The US business, which primarily operates under the John Hancock brand, contributes about 16% of earnings. Manulife's global asset and wealth management business contributes approximately 25% of its earnings and had around CAD 1.1 trillion in assets under management and administration as of the end of 2025.

iA Financial Corp Inc is an insurance and wealth management group based in Canada. It offers various life and health insurance products, savings and retirement plans, mutual funds, securities, loans, auto and home insurance, creditor insurance, replacement insurance, replacement warranties, extended warranties, and other ancillary products for dealer services and other financial products and services. The company's products and services are offered on both an individual and group basis and extend throughout Canada and the United States. Its operating segments are: Insurance, Canada; Wealth Management; U.S. Operations; Investment; and Corporate. Maximum revenue is generated from the Insurance, Canada segment.

Great-West Lifeco is one of the Big Three Canadian life insurers. The firm's Canadian business contributed around 31% of its 2025 adjusted earnings. The firm generates a further 29% of adjusted earnings from the United States, attributable to its recordkeeping business, Empower, and its US life insurance business. Great-West Lifeco also offers various products across European markets with a strong presence in the UK and Ireland, which collectively accounted for 20% of adjusted earnings, while the firm's reinsurance business accounts for the remainder. Great-West Lifeco had around CAD 3.5 trillion of assets under administration across its business segments at the end of December 2025.

Sun Life Financial is one of the Big Three Canadian life insurers. The Canadian business contributed around 35% of its 2025 adjusted earnings. In that segment, the firm provides health, life insurance, and annuity products to individual and group customers. Its US business is mostly group health and contributed about 17% of the firm's adjusted earnings in 2025. Sun Life also offers life insurance and wealth products in several Asian markets with a strong presence in Hong Kong and the Philippines. The Asia segment contributed around 18% of adjusted 2024 earnings. Its asset management business had around CAD 1.2 trillion total assets under management or administration at the end of 2025 and represents around 30% of the firm's earnings.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is Canada's fifth-largest bank with over CAD 1.1 trillion in assets at the end of fiscal 2025. It operates four business segments: Canadian retail and business banking, Canadian commercial banking and wealth management, US commercial banking and wealth management, and capital markets. It serves approximately 14 million personal banking and business customers, primarily in Canada and the US.

Atco Ltd is a Canada-based diversified company. The company's Structures & Logistics segment offers workforce and residential housing, modular facilities, construction, site support services, workforce lodging services, facility operations and maintenance, defense operations services, and disaster and emergency management services. The Neltume Ports segment includes the equity interest in Neltume Ports S.A., a port operator and developer based in South America. The Retail Energy segment provides electricity and natural gas retail sales and home maintenance solutions. Its Canadian Utilities Limited segment includes ATCO Energy Systems, ATCO EnPower, and ATCO Australia. It generates maximum revenue from the ATCO Energy Systems segment and earns maximum revenue from Canada.

Canadian Utilities Ltd, a subsidiary of holding company Atco, offers gas and electricity services. The company is engaged in segments that include ATCO Energy Systems, ATCO EnPower, ATCO Australia, and Corporate & Other. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, the firm mainly operates in Canada, Australia, and others. The company generates maximum revenue from Canada. Canadian Utilities launched a large venture called Atco Energy, which provides low-cost and sustainable energy solutions for Alberta.

National Bank of Canada is the sixth-largest bank in Canada. It is a diversified financial services company, offering personal and commercial banking, wealth management and capital markets services. The bank derives around 45% of its 2025 revenue from the province of Quebec, with additional operations in the rest of Canada and the United States. National Bank of Canada also owns ABA Bank, one of the largest commercial banks in Cambodia.

Primaris REIT is an unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust. Through its subsidiaries, it owns, develops, and operates a national retail portfolio focused on enclosed shopping centres located in secondary Canadian markets. Its property portfolio includes: Dufferin Mall, Cataraqui Centre, Stone Road Mall, Orchard Park, Kildonan Place, Halifax Shopping Centre, Marlborough Mall, and Devonshire Mall. The company generates a majority of its revenue from the Rent receivables.

Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd is a gold producer engaged in mining-related activities including exploration, processing, and reclamation. The company produces gold at the Eagle River Complex located near Wawa, Ontario from the Eagle River Underground, Kiena Complex, and Mishi Open Pit gold mines. The activities of the group function through Canada and it derives revenue from the sale of gold and silver bullion. The company operates in one segment which is the gold mining and related activities industry including exploration, extraction, processing and decommissioning.

Aya Gold & Silver Inc is a Canadian-based precious metals mining corporation active across the full mining life-cycle, from discovery and development through to production. It operates in Morocco. The company's flagship asset is the Zgounder Silver Mine, recognized for its rare, high-grade silver mineralization. The mine is located along the Anti-Atlas fault, one of North Africa's geologically rich and underexplored regions, known for hosting silver, gold, and base metal deposits. Aya also owns an 85% interest in the Boumadine polymetallic project, which is currently at the exploration and evaluation stage. It operates in single segment of mining industry and its products are precious metals ingots and concentrate which are refined or smelted into pure silver and sold to metal brokers.

NFI Group Inc is a bus manufacturer providing a comprehensive suite of mass transportation solutions under brands: New Flyer(heavy-duty transit buses), Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) (single and double-deck buses), Plaxton (motor coaches), MCI (motor coaches), ARBOC Specialty Vehicles, LLC (ARBOC) (low-floor cutaway and medium-duty buses) and NFI Parts (aftermarket parts sales). The company has two reportable segments which are the company's strategic business units: Manufacturing Operations and Aftermarket Operations. It generates majority revenue from Manufacturing Operations. Geographically, the company generates majority of its revenue from North America and rest from United Kingdom, Europe and Asia Pacific region.

Keyera Corp is a midstream energy business that operates out of Alberta. Its primary lines of business consist of the gathering and processing of natural gas in western Canada, the storage, transportation, and liquids blending for natural gas liquids and crude oil, and the marketing of natural gas liquids, iso-octane, and crude oil. The company operates in three reportable segments namely Gathering and Processing, Liquids Infrastructure and Marketing where Liquids Infrastructure is the key revenue segment.

AltaGas Ltd is a North American energy infrastructure company that connects customers and markets to energy sources. AltaGas has three reporting segments: Utilities, Midstream, and Corporate/Other. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Midstream segment, which operates a North American energy platform that moves natural gas and LPGs from the wellhead to markets. It exports propane and butane to Asia through its LPG terminals, and runs natural gas gathering, processing, fractionation, liquids handling, and storage infrastructure. The segment also includes its natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) marketing business, domestic logistics, trucking and rail terminals, and liquid and natural gas storage capability. Geographically, the firm derives its key revenue from the U.S.

Canadian National's railway spans Canada from coast to coast and extends through Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico. In 2025, CN generated CAD 17.7 billion in revenue by hauling intermodal containers (22% of consolidated revenue), petroleum and chemicals (21%), grain and fertilizers (23%), forest products (10%), metals and minerals (11%), automotive shipments (5%), and coal (5%). Other items constitute the remaining revenue.

Mullen Group Ltd is a logistics provider with a network of independently operated businesses providing a wide range of service offerings, including less-than-truckload, truckload, Specialized & Industrial Services, warehousing and logistics, U.S. and International Logistics, and Corporate. The segments of the company are Less-Than-Truckload, Logistics and Warehousing, Specialized and Industrial Services, U.S. and International Logistics, and Corporate segment. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the Less-Than-Truckload segment and geographical revenue from Canada. The company also provides a diverse set of specialized services related to the energy, mining, forestry, and construction industries in western Canada.

South Bow Corp is a energy infrastructure company. The company is engaged in constructing pipelines system safely transports liquids like crude oil, across Canadian provinces, U.S. states, and Gulf coasts. It has three reportable segments: Keystone Pipeline System, Marketing, and Intra-Alberta & Other. It derives maximum revenue from Keystone Pipeline System segment. The company's projects and pipelines include: Blackrod connection project; Grand Rapids Pipeline System; Marketlink Pipeline System; Keystone Pipeline System; Port Neches Link; and White Spruce Pipeline System.

Russel Metals Inc is a Canada-based metal distribution company. The company conducts business in Canada and the U.S. in three operating and reportable segments: Metals Service Centers, Energy Field Stores, and Steel Distributors. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Metals Service Centers segment, which carries an extensive line of metal products in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and specifications, including carbon hot rolled and cold finished steel, pipe and tubular products, stainless steel, aluminum, and other non-ferrous specialty metals. It purchases these products mainly from North American steel producers, processes, packages, and sells them to end users in accordance with their specific needs. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from Canada.

Pembina Pipeline is a midstream company serving the Canadian and North American (primarily Bakken) markets with an integrated product portfolio. Its operations include transmission pipelines, oil and gas gathering, fractionation, storage, and natural gas liquid exports. It also has a joint venture through the Cedar LNG export terminal.

Bird Construction Inc. is a construction company operating from coast to coast and servicing all Canada's markets. The group provides a comprehensive range of construction services, self-perform capabilities, and solutions to the industrial, buildings, and infrastructure markets. The Company uses a variety of contract delivery methods including construction management, cost reimbursable, integrated project delivery (IPD), alliance agreement, progressive design-build - target price, progressive design build, design-build finance, design-build, stipulated sum, unit price, and public private partnership (PPP) contract delivery methods.

Extendicare Inc is a senior care provider in Canada, focused on long-term care and home health care. The has three main business segments: Long-term Care (LTC), Home Health Care, and Managed Services. The Long-term Care segment, operating under the Extendicare brand, represents 53 owned homes in Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba. The Home Health Care segment, operating under the ParaMed brand, provides home health care services annually in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba and Nova Scotia. The Managed Services segment, operating under the Extendicare Assist and SGP Purchasing Partner Network brands, provides management, consulting and group purchasing services to other care providers across Canada. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the Long-term Care segment.

Bombardier designs, manufactures, markets, and provides parts and maintenance for its large, long-range Global and medium-to-large Challenger families of business jets. Most of the company's revenue is generated in North America, 60% of which is from customers in the US. It also has operations in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and other markets.