How To Invest

Pat McKeough has been making investing for beginners simple—and profitable—by helping investors make big gains for more than 25 years. His advice to beginning investors is the same as it is for all investors: buy high-quality, mostly dividend paying stocks (or ETFs that hold these stocks) and evenly spread your investments over the five main economic sectors (Resources, Manufacturing, Finance, Utilities and Consumer). Pat also believes investors should avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight and focus on those with hidden or little-noticed assets.

In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.

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Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.

If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)

If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.

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Q: Thanks for all the good advice! It has kept me out of a couple of bad stocks. What do you think about Xylem Inc. (XYL)? Thanks again.

A: Xylem Inc., $98.05, symbol XYL on New York (Shares outstanding: 180.3 million; Market cap: $17.6 billion; Manufacturing & Industry sector; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.xylem.com), is a manufacturer of water technology and equipment for construction firms, utilities, farmers, food and beverage companies, and many others… Read More

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CALIAN GROUP LTD., $62.60, is a buy. The stock (symbol CGY on Toronto) lets investors tap the Ottawa-based company’s four main operating segments:

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Q: Thanks for all your advice over the last few years. What’s your recommendation on Worthington Industries? Thanks.

A: Worthington Industries Inc., $54.71, symbol WOR on New York (Shares outstanding: 49.7 million; Market cap: $2.8 billion; Manufacturing sector; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.worthingtonindustries.com), is an industrial manufacturing company that provides value-added steel processing as well as consumer, building and energy products.

The company currently… Read More