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Growth Stocks

Urban Outfitters Powers Ahead on Double‑Digit Revenue Growth

Urban Outfitters Inc. offers both a growth and value proposition as it has multiple, diversified growth engines.

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Pat McKeough

Energy Stocks

Cenovus Energy’s Capital‑Efficient Growth Projects Drive Outlook for Rising Free Cash Flow

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Jim Bates

Dividend Stocks

Brookfield Renewable Partners Offers a 4.9% Yield With Plenty of Sector Momentum

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Scott Clayton

Growth Stocks

Restaurant Brands International Delivers 19.4% Earnings Growth

Restaurant Brands International’s winning business model supports a long runway forgrowth in sales and profits.

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Jim Bates

Dividend Stocks

3M Company Bets on Cost Cuts and Portfolio Focus to Unlock Value

3M Company reports rising earnings as it focuses on its core industrial, safety, and consumer businesses.

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Jim Bates

Growth Stocks

Savers Value Village Accelerates Amid the Value‑Shopping Boom

Savers Value Village Inc. is expanding to meet demand for its thrift goods while it improves profitability via mature stores and operational efficiencies.

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9 Myths About REITs That Can Cost Investors Money

Think REITs are safe, bond-like income investments? Learn the 9 biggest myths about Real Estate Investment Trusts in Canada, and what to check before you invest.

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Penny Stock vs. Regular Stock: What’s the Difference?

There are big differences in penny stock vs. regular stock investing—mostly centered around risk. Many “regular stocks” are blue-chip stocks.

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Scott Clayton

ETFs

Buying ETFs: Investing in a popular and low-fee innovation

Did you know that buying ETFs with a passive investing strategy can lead to much lower expense ratios?

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Pat McKeough

Blue Chip Stocks

The best Canadian bank to invest in will have these characteristics

Characteristics of the best Canadian bank to invest in: dividends, growth, and investment quality

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Growth Stocks: Sales slide for Stella-Jones Inc.

Pat McKeough recently replied to a member of his Inner Circle asking for an opinion on the niche lumber specialist. The company’ s seen earnings and sales slip on weak demand, but the it also faces another significant risk, says Pat....

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Pat McKeough

Energy Stocks

How to cut your risk in solar power stocks

Solar power stocks have come a long way, but they expose investors to unique risks.

The attraction of solar power stocks is obvious—it offers a source of clean, endlessly renewable energy that has the potential to replace fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas....

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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.