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What is the Best Way to Save for Retirement?

What is the best way to save for retirement? The answer depends on individual investors and the goals they have for retirement. However, starting your retirement investing early and utilizing proven strategies and investment types will help you save the most.

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

H.B. Fuller Company’s Earnings Rise With a Portfolio Shift

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Pat McKeough

Value Stocks

North West Company Offers 3.1% Yield While Expanding Its Private Label Offerings

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Jim Bates

Growth Stocks

Twilio Leans Into Profitability By Adding AI Capabilities

Twilio Inc. adds AI capabilities to stay ahead of rivals and win more strategic multi-year partnerships.

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Scott Clayton

Growth Stocks

FedEx’s Spinoff Plans Advance Amid Strong Quarterly Results

FedEx Corp. looks set to sustain its growth, and the spinoff of its Freight division will unlock shareholder value

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Jim Bates

Growth Stocks

Thomson Reuters’ Recurring Subscriptions and Software Margins Support Premium Valuation

Thomson Reuters Corp. offers a strong value proposition via continued price increases and recurring revenue growth across legal, tax, and corporate compliance customers.

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Jim Bates

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What Do Playing the Stock Market and Chess Have in Common?

Many investors like to use analogies from sports or the military to describe their investment approach, so they’ll often use the phrase playing the stock market.

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Pat McKeough

Blue Chip Stocks

Here’s How to Find Top Canadian Stocks to Buy for Superior Long‑Term Portfolio Returns

Your search for top Canadian stocks should focus on blue-chip stocks that pay sustainable dividends and meet our Successful Investor criteria

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Scott Clayton

Growth Stocks

BRIGGS & STRATTON CORP. $22

BRIGGS & STRATTON CORP. $22 (New York symbol BGG; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 43.3 million; Market cap: $952.6 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend yield: 2.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.briggsandstratton.com) makes lawn mower engines, portable power generators, pressure washers and snow blowers. Briggs recently lost a lawsuit accusing it of violating the patent of a rival lawn mower manufacturer. A judge has ordered it to pay $50 million in damages. To put that in context, Briggs earned $34.9 million, or $0.79 a share, in the nine months ended March 31, 2016. The company plans to appeal the ruling....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Savings will free up cash for buybacks

NCR CORP. $30 (New York symbol NCR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 123.9 million; Market cap: $3.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.ncr.com) makes automated teller machines, cash registers, self-serve checkouts and kiosks for theatres and arenas. In the quarter ended March 31, 2016, NCR’s revenue fell 2.2%, to $1.4 billion from $1.5 billion a year earlier. Lower sales of ATMs offset higher revenue from its software and services operations. If you factor out currency rates, revenue was flat. Earnings in the quarter fell 16.4%, to $61 million from $73 million. Due to fewer shares outstanding, earnings per share declined at a slower rate of 11.6%, to $0.38 from $0.43....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. $45

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. $45 (New York symbol A; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 328.0 million; Market cap: $14.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.6; Dividend yield: 1.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.agilent.com) makes specialized testing equipment, such as mass spectrometers, for medical research labs. In its fiscal 2016 second quarter, which ended April 30, 2016, the company earned $145 million. That’s up 12.4% from $129 million a year earlier. Per-share earnings gained 15.8%, to $0.44 from $0.38, on fewer shares outstanding. Revenue rose 5.8%, to $1.0 billion from $963 million. These gains reflect strong demand for Agilent’s products from food companies and pharmaceutical firms. The company is also benefiting from last year’s $235 million purchase of Seahorse Bioscience. This firm makes equipment that researchers use to measure the response of cells to new drugs....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Updating Genuine Parts Co., Fedex Corp. and Briggs & Stratton Corp.

GENUINE PARTS CO. $96 (New York symbol GPC; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 149.6 million; Market cap: $14.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.9; Dividend yield: 2.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.genpt.com) distributes replacement auto parts, industrial parts, office products and electrical equipment. The company is paying an undisclosed sum for The Safety Zone. This private firm makes and distributes a variety of safety products for the janitorial, food service and other industries. These include latex gloves, lab coats and gowns, ear plugs and safety glasses. The purchase will add $180 million to Genuine’s annual sales of $15.3 billion....

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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.