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Dividend Durability: Stocks Attracting Activist Attention

Activist investors are circling: uncover dividend-paying companies with resilient payouts and strong fundamentals from TSI’s latest Globe and Mail feature.

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Scott Clayton

Dividend Stocks

Sun Life and Manulife Each Offers an Impressive Yield of 3.4% and 3.7%

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Jim Bates

Growth Stocks

Yum Brands is a Good Bet on Steady Unit Growth and Rising Profits

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Jim Bates

Mining Stocks

Nutrien Leans on Record Fertilizer Volumes

Nutrien Ltd. offers exposure to potash and nitrogen prices, a stable retail base and strong profitability.

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Jim Bates

Group Dynamite Inc. Rewards Investors with Strong Double-Digit Growth

Growth Stocks

Groupe Dynamite Inc. Rewards Investors with Strong Double-Digit Growth

Groupe Dynamite Inc. is a high‑quality specialty retailer with gains ahead.

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Pat McKeough

Mining Stocks

Teck Resources Will Gain From the Upcoming Merger

Teck Resources Ltd. is a solid bet on higher copper prices with its big merger winning approvals

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Jim Bates

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Mining Stocks

Investing in Rare Earth Metals for Maximum Gains

When investing in rare earth metals, you need to look at the unique geographical and political environment the mining company produces in.

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Scott Clayton

How To Invest

Stocks you’ll wish you bought before they jump will include attributes like these

There will always be stocks you’ll wish you bought, especially after you see their growth. Here’s what to look for so you won’t miss out.

4 min read

Scott Clayton

How To Invest

Pat: Could you give me your opinion of AltaGas? Thanks.

AltaGas Ltd., $32.59, symbol ALA on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 146.3 million; Market cap: $4.9 billion; www.altagas.ca), processes, transmits, stores and markets natural gas for producers; generates power from gas-fired, coal-fired, wind, biomass and hydroelectric plants; and operates natural gas utilities. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, AltaGas’s cash flow per share rose 19.0%, to $0.75 from $0.63 a year earlier. That’s mainly due to the January 2015 acquisition of three gas-fired power plants in the U.S. for $33.6 million. Revenue gained just 1.8%, to $452.2 million from $444.2 million. Low selling prices for its natural gas offset the extra revenue from its new operations. In November 2015, the company completed its purchase of three gas-fired power plants in northern California for $642 million U.S. These facilities have long-term contracts to sell their power to Pacific Gas & Electric, which cuts their risk. The purchase should increase AltaGas’s annual cash flow per share by 5%....

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Pat McKeough

Mining Stocks

An overview of Canadian diamond drilling and exploration for investors

Canadian diamond drilling and exploration entails a lot of risk—but the payoffs can be huge

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Pat McKeough

ETFs

Direxion iBillionaire Index ETF copies billionaire investors

The Direxion iBillionaire Index ETF tries to duplicate the success of billionaire investors, Warren Buffet, Carl Icahn

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Pat McKeough

Wealth Management

Retirement income planning for you and your spouse

Retirement income planning tips for when one spouse has lower income.

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Pat McKeough

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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.