Stocks

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific advice on the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can use it to increase your chances of making winning stock picks. …read more »

It pays to be skeptical of growth stocks that rely too heavily on acquisitions.

That’s because the buyer of something rarely knows as much about it as the seller. So it follows that if a company makes enough acquisitions, it might eventually buy something that has hidden problems. At some point, those problems will come out into the open and hurt …read more »

We’ve long recommended that all Canadian investors own two or more of the country’s big five bank stocks. That’s mainly because of their importance to Canada’s economy. As well, investors continue to underestimate them. As a result, they consistently trade at below-average price-to-earnings ratios.

(In the latest issue of The Successful Investor, we’ve published a special analysis of all five of …read more »

Members of our Inner Circle service often ask for our portfolio investing advice on stocks they are thinking of buying that we don’t cover in our newsletters. These companies range from the most speculative penny mines to large multinational corporations.

Many of these stocks fall into a grey area. Sometimes our advice is that they are “okay to hold,” but we …read more »

Hidden value is one of the key factors we look for when we’re picking high return investments to recommend in our investment advisories, including Wall Street Stock Forecaster, our newsletter that covers the U.S. stock market.

By hidden value, we mean valuable assets that are not getting the attention they deserve from investors. When a company’s assets are wholly or partially …read more »

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific advice on the fundamentals of successful investing and how to make better stock market picks. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a new fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it …read more »

Buying and selling stock options is different from regular stock transactions. You can make money in options investing, of course, but to be successful in this complex, often risky area, it’s crucial to have a firm grasp of how options investing works (and how to avoid the pitfalls that can expose you to serious risk).

How options investing works

An option …read more »

In the first quarter of 2010, Canada’s economy posted an annualized growth rate of 6.1%. That’s the fastest pace in more than a decade, and much stronger than the 5.8% that the Bank of Canada and consensus forecasts called for.

The sharply higher growth has added to investor concerns about inflation, and was part of the reason why the Bank of …read more »

Members of Pat McKeough’s Inner Circle enjoy a double benefit when it comes to taking advantage of our investment research. They get to address investment questions directly to me and my research associates; AND they get to see all other members’ questions, and our answers (of course, we eliminate any personal information).

Aside from specific investments (such as stocks, income …read more »

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific advice on the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a new fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away.

Today’s tip: “Time spent …read more »