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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

Growth Stocks

Toromont Industries commands premium valuation on strong earnings outlook

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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

Warner Music Group Corp. is well-positioned for higher-margin catalog revenues, added streaming adoption, and new AI monetization opportunities.

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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

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Wealth Management

8 Retirement Investing Mistakes Canadian Investors Should Avoid

Learn the biggest investing for retirement mistakes Canadians over 45 make, plus safer ways to build steady income with stocks, ETFs, and REITs.

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Pat McKeough

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

Growth Stocks

COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL GROUP $58.39 - Toronto symbol CIG

COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL GROUP $58.39 (Toronto symbol CIG ; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (1-202-695-4200; www.colliers.com; Shares o/s: 36.7 million; Market cap: $2.2 billion; Divd. yield: 0.2%) is one of the world’s top three commercial real estate firms, offering a range of services in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Latin America. The company has 16,300 employees operating from 502 offices in 67 countries. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, Colliers’ revenue rose 12.8%, to $420.3 million from $372.6 million a year earlier (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars). If you exclude one-time items, the company’s earnings jumped 57.7%, to $20.0 million from $12.7 million. Per-share profits rose 48.6%, to $0.52 from $0.35, on more shares outstanding....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

FIRSTSERVICE CORP. $50.53 - Toronto symbol FSV

FIRSTSERVICE CORP. $50.53 (Toronto symbol FSV; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (416-960-9500; www.firstservice.com; Shares outstanding: 34.7 million; Market cap: $1.8 billion; Dividend yield: 1.1%) spun off its Colliers International subsidiary (see below) on June 2, 2015, when it handed out Colliers shares to its investors. Shareholders are only liable for capital gains taxes on the transaction when they sell their FirstService or Colliers shares. Now that the spinoff is complete, FirstService is carrying on with its residential property management and property-improvement businesses. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, the company’s revenue gained 12.0%, to $349.5 million from $312.0 million a year earlier (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars). If you set aside one-time items, earnings per share jumped 28.2%, to $0.50 from $0.39. The second and third quarters are FirstService’s busiest....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL $465.50 - New York symbol CMG

CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL $465.50 (New York symbol CMG; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (303-595-4000; www.chipotle.com; Shares outstanding: 31.2 million; Market cap: $14.6 billion; No dividends paid) continues to suffer as it copes with food-safety concerns at its restaurants. In October and November 2015, E. coli infections sickened 52 customers at Chipotle locations in nine states and forced the company to temporarily close some outlets. Recent norovirus outbreaks at restaurants in California and Massachusetts have added to the bad publicity. Norovirus, which causes stomach problems, is highly infectious, though not fatal. Chipotle now believes these problems cut its same-restaurant sales by 14.6% in the fourth quarter of 2015. It also expects to spend $14.0 million to $16.0 million to test and replace food and improve its food-safety procedures....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

ADOBE SYSTEMS INC. $87.94 - Nasdaq symbol ADBE

ADOBE SYSTEMS INC. $87.94 (Nasdaq symbol ADBE; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (408-536-6000; www.adobe.com; Shares outstanding: 498.8 million; Market cap: $44.4 billion; No dividends paid) makes software that lets computer users create, edit and share documents in the popular PDF format. Graphic designers also use its programs to create print publications and web pages. In its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter, which ended November 27, 2015, Adobe earned $0.62 a share, up 59.0% from $0.39 a year earlier. Revenue jumped 21.7%, to a record $1.31 billion from $1.07 billion. In the latest quarter, the company added 833,000 Creative Cloud subscribers (net of cancellations). This service now has 6.2 million users, up 78.6% from a year ago. Adobe is also seeing strong demand for its newer cloud-based offerings, including Document Cloud, which lets users create, manage and sign online documents for a monthly fee....

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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.