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Growth Stocks

Toromont Industries commands premium valuation on strong earnings outlook

Toromont Industries Ltd. should see continued earnings growth thanks to its leading market share and Canada’s plan to increase spending on infrastructure projects.

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Jim Bates

Mining Stocks

Barrick Mining Demonstrates Record Quarterly Earnings Generation

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Scott Clayton

Growth Stocks

Warner Music Group Opens Up New Revenue Streams By Leaning Into AI

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Scott Clayton

Energy Stocks

ARC Resources’ Shareholder Returns Surge With Dividends and Buybacks

ARC Resources keeps returning its cash flow to shareholders through a growing dividend and substantial share buybacks.

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Dividend Sustainability: Our Artemis-Backing Aerospace and Defense Picks

These aren’t space startups: discover 7 dividend-paying aerospace and defense contractors tied to NASA’s Artemis mission (from TSI’s latest Globe and Mail column).

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Scott Clayton

Value Stocks

Linamar Is Trading Cheap Despite Recent Results

Top pick Linamar Corp. is trading cheaply despite delivering higher sales and profits.

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Jim Bates

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Blue Chip Stocks

What Are the Most Profitable Stocks to Buy? Well, Here’s Where to Start Your Search.

What are the most profitable stocks to buy? Blue chip stocks are included in that group—and here are the key characteristics you need to target for maximum success

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Scott Clayton

How To Invest

How to Invest in DRIP Stocks to Add to Your Portfolio Returns

Learn how to invest in DRIP stocks more effectively by considering these qualities of the top dividend-paying shares—and how they fit into your long-term portfolio

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Scott Clayton

How To Invest

Pat: Please could you give me your recommendation on Bird Construction? Thank you.

Bird Construction Inc., $12.21, symbol BDT on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 42.5 million; Market cap: $515.3 million; www.bird.ca), focuses on projects in a number of markets, including industrial, commercial, institutional, civil construction and mining. The company began operating 96 years ago in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Today, it has offices in St. John’s, Halifax, Saint John, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. Bird’s industrial projects supplied 51% of its 2015 revenue, and include work in the petrochemical, oil sands, and wastewater-treatment sectors....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Hi Pat: Wanted to get your advice on Canfor Corp. Thank you.

Canfor Corp., $14.50, symbol CFP on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 132.8 million; Market cap: $1.9 billion; www.canfor.com), is a leading North American producer of softwood lumber. It has 5.8 billion board feet of annual capacity located across Western Canada and the Southeastern U.S. Lumber accounts for 70% of Canfor’s total sales. The remaining 30% comes from its 51.9% stake in Canfor Pulp Products Inc., symbol CFX on Toronto. This business makes pulp and paper products. The U.S. is the company’s largest market (53% of its 2015 revenue), followed by Asia (31%), Canada (12%), Europe (2%) and other countries (2%)....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Pat: Thanks for your ongoing advice. What do you think of Exchange Income Corp.? Thanks you.

Exchange Income Corp., $29.88, symbol EIF on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 27.6 million; Market cap: $820.1 million; www.exchangeincomecorp.ca), operates in two main areas: aviation and manufacturing. The aviation business (76% of its 2015 revenue) serves communities in Manitoba, Ontario and Nunavut through regional airlines. They include Perimeter Aviation, Keewatin Air, Calm Air International, Bearskin Lake Air Service, Custom Helicopters and Regional One. The manufacturing business (24% of revenue) includes WesTower Communications Canada (a maker and installer of wireless communication towers), Jasper Tank, Overlanders Manufacturing, Water Blast Manufacturing and Stainless Fabrication....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Six exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the major indexes

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) give you a low-cost, flexible alternative to mutual funds. Here are five ETFs we recommend and one to sell.

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Blue Chip Stocks

Blue chip stocks are big, well-established, dividend-paying corporations with strong business prospects. These are companies that also have sound management that should be able to make the right moves to keep competing successfully in a changing marketplace.

Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks make cash payouts that serve as a way for companies to share the wealth they’ve accumulated. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow and paid to the shareholders of the company. Typically, these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may be paid annually or even monthly as well.

Value Stocks

What are value stocks?

One of the sweetest and most profitable pleasures of successful investing is to buy high-quality “value stocks” (or stocks that are reasonably priced, if not cheap, in relation to its sales, earnings or assets), then hold on to them as mainstream investors recognize the value and push up the share price.

Growth Stocks

Growth stocks are companies that are likely to have sales and earnings growth well above market average. Frequently they pay few, if any, dividends. Instead they typically reinvest any extra cash flow to promote further growth. Chosen wisely—according to Pat McKeough’s advice—high-quality growth-oriented stocks can be worthwhile additions to most well-diversified portfolios.

ETFs

What are ETFs?

ETF is an acronym for exchange traded fund.. These exchange traded funds are used to track indexes as closely as possible, since investors cannot actually buy an index outright.

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.

Wealth Management

Wealth management is the practice of putting your savings to work so that it continues to grow over your lifetime and will also benefit your heirs. Wealth management encompasses many different areas of investing like long term investment planning and retirement planning.

AI Investing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is essentially the merging of today’s big computing with big data. This has resulted in breakthroughs in everything from creating machines to recognize faces with more accuracy than a human, to the development of chatbots able to collect, organize and simplify all the Internet has to say on any topic.

Spinoffs

One of the ways a company can try to unlock its own hidden value is by creating a separate company out of a corporate subsidiary. The parent company can either sell stock in the new company to the public, or spin it off—hand the stock out to its own investors.

Penny Stocks

A penny stock in general trades for under five dollars a share, and as the name implies, sometimes for pennies. Most of the time they’re young companies, or start-ups in speculative markets like mining or technology.

Mining Stocks

Mining stocks are investments in companies that produce or explore for minerals. Some of these minerals include uranium, coal, molybdenum (which is used in steelmaking), copper, silver and gold. They are affected by fluctuating commodity prices in addition to their own business and operating risks.

Energy Stocks

What are energy stocks?

Businesses that work in the extraction, refining and delivery of energy sources such as natural gas, oil, uranium and coal, are considered energy stocks.