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Share tips 2026: this week’s top stock picks
Share tips 2026: MoneyWeek’s roundup of the top stock picks this week – here’s what the experts think you should buy.
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1. Hays (LSE: HAS) Investors’ Chronicle The recruiter may be ready to benefit as the “most protracted staffing services downturn in living memory” eases. Permanent job placements more than halved between 2019 and 2026. But Hays has now started to exceed market expectations for the first time in four years – thanks to Germany, which generates 85% of the group’s net fees and has historically been one of its worst-performing regions, but whose recent infrastructure and energy spending has underpinned a recent surge in hiring. Hays has also been cutting costs and plans to continue increasing productivity. Even a modest recovery in hiring could quickly feed into earnings. 64p
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2. Brookfield (NYSE: BN) Barrons Toronto-based alternative-asset manager Brookfield has built one of the best investment management platforms in the world. Investors can buy it on the cheap now that the shares have fallen 20% to just 55% of the company’s asset value. This follows concerns over whether future returns can match historical ones, greater competition for deals, and higher interest rates. US hedge fund manager Bill Ackman says Brookfield trades at a “low multiple” given its “growth and business quality”. Brookfield’s best holdings include a 51% stake in industrial giant Westinghouse and a $325 million investment in SpaceX, which has quadrupled. $37
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3. Constellation Software (TSE: CSU) Wirtschaftswoche Fears that AI could make software firms redundant have led to a sell-off in the sector. In the case of Canada’s Constellation Software, however, the jitters are overblown. It doesn’t develop or distribute software itself, but instead buys small software companies and allows them to keep operating autonomously. It has bought 1,100 firms since its inception in 1995. Any cash the acquired firms don’t reinvest they pass on to Constellation, which thereby acquires more. The firms operate in highly specialised niches such as local-government or public-transport software; high switching costs for customers and proprietary data also shore up defences against AI. C$2,859
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