18.2 Fast-rising young tech stocks scare the bejesus out of value investors, and 2020 was filled with them. Shopify roared past Royal Bank of Canada to become the country’s most valuable publicly traded company, and recent IPOs such as Lightspeed, Docebo and Dye & Durham soared to multibillion-dollar market capitalizations despite little or no earnings. For a tech play that’s a lot less stressful, look to placid Regina and Information Services Corp. (ISC), a long-established company that has an intriguing mix of strong fundamentals. Those include government and private-sector clients, digital technology applied to solid traditional businesses, and a track record of steady earnings and stable growth.