Scott Adams
Bio:

Scott Adams is the investment editor for Report On Business and Globe Investor. He has been a business journalist for more than 10 years, worked as an associate analyst on Bay Street and has been The Globe and Mail Investment Editor since spring 2007.

Latest Columns:

Materials stocks that are worth a second look

Yin Luo, quantitative strategist at Macquarie Securities, offers up a ranking of Canadian materials stocks that should do well in July

Dig deeper to find a company's ROE drivers

Get a start by finding companies with much higher recent ROEs compared with their average

To find profitable stocks, look at ROE

Find out what you discover when you compare current ROE values with average ROE of the past five years

Weeding out stocks with weak dividends

A high yield is no good for anyone if the dividend is about to be cut