The fundamentals of investing are the same for newcomers as they are for established, successful investors. The challenge for everybody is to stick to what works and not let investment fads, the media limelight or bad advice from a broker or advisor steer you off course.

The five picks for December we outline in this report are derived from Pat McKeough’s four decades of investment experience. All five are favourite recommendations from our premium newsletters, including The Successful Investor, Wall Street Stock Forecaster and Power Growth Investor. We hope you enjoy and profit from this advice!

This report has certainly profited investors in the past: For example, just in September 2025 we featured Electronic Arts (New York symbol EA) as part of our 5 Long-term Stock Picks to Buy report. That company makes videogames for a variety of devices, including computers, consoles (such as the Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo Switch) and mobile devices.

In first recommending the stock as a buy, we predicted it would attract a lucrative takeover bid. That advice has proved to be very profitable for our investors. Under the terms of the takeover deal, the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF and Affinity Partners will pay the company’s stockholders $210 a share. That represented a 40.9% gain in the prior 52 weeks alone!

Now, here are 5 Best Stocks to Buy in December 2025:

Pembina Pipeline Corp. (Toronto symbol PPL; TSINetwork Rating: Average) operates pipelines that carry half of Alberta’s conventional oil and almost all of B.C.’s oil. Investors also gain exposure to the company’s facilities that extract, process and store natural gas.

In April 2024, Pembina closed the acquisition of its stakes in two joint ventures from its partner Enbridge (Toronto symbol ENB). Note—Enbridge is a recommendation of Successful Investor newsletter.

Pembina acquired an additional 50.0% of the Alliance Pipeline, which pumps natural gas from B.C. and Alberta to Chicago. It also bought 42.7% of the Aux Sable gas processing plant in Illinois. In all, Enbridge received $3.1 billion.

Pembina raised its dividend by 2.9% with the June 2025 payment. The current quarterly rate of $0.71 yields a high 5.3%.

Most of Pembina’s pipelines operate under long-term contracts. That helps lower the company’s risk in today’s uncertain economy. Meanwhile, Pembina’s investors tap a high, sustainable yield. That adds to the stock’s appeal and also supports its share price.

Pembina Pipeline is a buy.

Draftkings Inc. (Nasdaq symbol DKNG; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) currently provides sports betting in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, North Carolina, West Virginia, Wyoming, Ohio, Washington D.C., Missouri and Massachusetts. As well, it offers its online sportsbook and online casino products in Ontario.

Apart from sports betting, the company also lets customers pick athletes and build fantasy teams competing across a range of professional sports. Other offerings include a mobile app for playing casino games such as blackjack and roulette.

DraftKings is now entering into prediction markets with the acquisition of Railbird Technologies. Prediction markets offer users a way to place money on events including sports games without being subject to the same strict regulations as traditional sports betting.

Notably, DraftKings Predictions could open up new opportunities for the company in Texas and California, where online sports gambling isn’t legal. At the same time, the rise of prediction markets could incentivize those states and others to legalize betting and claim tax revenue from it, which would be a boost for DraftKings.

DraftKings keeps making the right moves to remain the dominant player in the expanding U.S. sports-betting market. Meanwhile, it holds $1.23 billion in cash, which will help it continue to add market share in the competitive sports betting landscape.

DraftKings is a buy for aggressive investors.

IBM Corp. (New York symbol IBM; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average) is one of the world’s largest computer companies with operations in over 175 countries.

IBM is now well into a multi-year transformation. This includes scaling up its cloud operations, which let users go online to access data files and computer applications stored on remote servers. The company is also expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings and cybersecurity capabilities.

Meanwhile, another big step in IBM’s transformation was its 2021 spinoff of Kyndryl (symbol KD on New York), the Managed Infrastructure Services unit of its Global Technology Services operations. This has let it focus on faster-growing businesses like cloud-computing and AI.

We think the stock still has gains ahead--and the company will maintain or further raise its current dividend, which already offers you a solid 2.2% yield.

IBM Corp. is a buy.

LEON’S FURNITURE LTD. (Toronto symbol LNF; TSINetwork Rating: Average) sells furniture and appliances through 299 stores, mainly under the Leon’s and The Brick banners.

Leon’s still plans to spin off its real estate holdings as a publicly traded real estate investment trust. However, it will wait until interest rates decline further before proceeding with the spinoff, as high rates tend to hurt investor demand for REITs. Regardless, Leon’s will retain majority interest in the REIT.

Meantime, as part of that plan to unlock the value of its real estate, Leon’s has also announced that it will re-develop 40 acres of its land in central Toronto. Under the proposal, the property will house its new corporate headquarters and a flagship retail store. Leon’s aims to build 4,000 residential housing units, including townhouses and apartment buildings.

With the September 2025 payment, the company raised your quarterly dividend by 20.0% to $0.24 a share from $0.20. The new annual rate of $0.96 yields a solid 3.4%. Moreover, the stock trades at just 12 times the $2.40 a share that the company should earn in 2026.

Leon’s is a buy for aggressive investors.

GARMIN LTD. (Nasdaq symbol GRMN; TSINetwork Rating: Average Risk) makes GPS (Global Positioning System) devices and software for five different markets: fitness, outdoors, auto, aviation, and marine.

Most of the company’s products feature high-resolution touchscreen displays. Most of them include added features like solar charging and voice assistants. With an active satellite subscription, users can access Garmin’s inReach satellite technology to send and receive messages, weather updates and navigation routes, plus they can track and share journeys online. As well, if necessary, users can trigger an SOS to get help from a 24/7 global emergency response centre.

Garmin’s balance sheet is very strong: it holds cash of $2.5 billion and has no debt. Meanwhile, the company’s high research spending promises a bright future. It spends 16% of its overall sales on research to stay ahead of industry competitors.

The company continues to successfully reconfigure its product line to meet constantly evolving consumer demand. This includes developing new devices in recent years as sales for automotive GPS products declined. Now, the company is well-positioned to prosper in high growth and emerging markets such as aviation, marine and outdoor.

Garmin raised its quarterly dividend by 20.0% with the June 2025 payment. The shares now yield 1.9%.

This all bodes well for its investors and the company’s stock price.

Garmin is a buy for aggressive investors.