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Mattr (formerly ShawCor) is making good progress with its two main industrial businesses as revenues and earnings are projected to grow significantly.

Vulcan Materials aggregates-led growth strategy continues to deliver results through strategic acquisitions in attractive markets.

IBM is well positioned for long-term growth thanks to its strategic acquisitions and AI focus.

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While Campbell’s Co. faces near-term challenges from shifting consumer preferences and potential tariff impacts, its strong brand portfolio, dividend income, and strategic initiatives provide a solid foundation for long-term investors. The recent acquisition of premium brands like Rao’s enhances the company’s growth profile, while cost savings programs should help protect margins.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Conagra Brands offers a high yield at 5.5% which should help offset concerns about lower revenue and earnings forecasts.

Russel Metals Inc. offers both a high yield of 4.4% and plenty of upside for investors.

Hillman Solutions is improving its operational strength and has growth potential, but the shares need a housing market rebound.

TSI reveals the leading oil and gas stocks offering stability, diversification, and sustainable dividends—in today’s volatile energy markets.

Devon Energy offers a solid yield and a consistent share buyback program as it keeps expanding to record production levels with more growth to come.

Leon’s Furniture is attractively priced as it continues to offer a solid yield and plenty of upside thanks to some promising real estate developments.

RioCan REIT offers a high 7.1% yield as it continues to expand and report high occupancy rates from a reliable suite of large, well-known and stable tenants.

The traditional bear market threshold is a 20% drop from a market peak. And although, in our view, looking at past market movements is no guide to what happens next, it’s interesting to note that stocks have always bounced back from market downturns.


The market disruption that started in mid-February of 2025, and continued in March and April, has seen declines for the U.S....