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.

Although growth stock picks can be highly volatile, they can make good long-term investments. They may be well-known stars or quiet gems, but they do share one common attribute—they are growing at a higher-than-average rate within their industry, or within the market as a whole, and could keep growing for years or decades.

And keep in mind that we focus on growth stocks, which have a good long-term history and favourable prospects. We downplay momentum stocks that tend to attract many investors simply because they are moving faster than the market averages, but are liable to fall sharply when their momentum fades.

There’s room for growth stock investing in your portfolio, but make sure you follow our TSI Network three-part Successful Investor strategy for your overall portfolio:

Invest mainly in well-established companies;
Spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; Utilities);
Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.

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North American focus brings stability

Kraft gets all of its sales from North America, which limits its risk....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Updating our Aggressive stocks

PETSMART INC. $73 (www.petsmart.com) reports that the uncertain economy is hurting demand for its pet products and services, like grooming. As a result, it now expects its same-store sales to rise 2.2% to 2.5% in the third quarter of fiscal 2014, which ends October 31, 2013....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, October 18, 2013

GOOGLE INC., $1,011.41, Nasdaq symbol GOOG, jumped 14% on Friday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue. In the three months ended September 30, 2013, earnings rose 23.3%, to $3.6 billion from $3.0 billion a year earlier. Due to more shares outstanding, earnings per share rose at a slower rate of 21.1%, to $10.74 from $8.87....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Stock Pickers Digest Hotline – Friday, October 18, 2013

BELLATRIX EXPLORATION LTD., $8.14, symbol BXE on Toronto, is buying Angle Energy (symbol NGL on Toronto) for $576 million in cash and shares. Angle currently produces 10,500 barrels of oil equivalent a day (58% oil and 42% natural gas) in Alberta. Bellatrix’s output is 22,500 barrels a day, so they will have combined daily production of 33,000 barrels. The purchase also increases Bellatrix’s inventory of drilling targets by 500, to over 2,000, and doubles its undeveloped land base to over 400,000 acres. The company now expects to end 2013 with production as high as 40,000 barrels a day, up from 30,000 to 31,000 before the Angle acquisition. It also expects Angle to immediately add to its cash flow per share....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Here’s our Pick of the Month

BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS $32.80 (New York symbol BR; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (201-714-3000; www.broadridge.com; Shares outstanding: 119.1 million; Market cap: $3.9 billion; Dividend yield: 2.6%) continues to hit all-time highs, but we think the stock still has room to rise.

Broadridge serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing and transaction clearing....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Aimia has room to rise

AIMIA INC. $18.30 (Toronto symbol AIM; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (514-205-7315; www.aimia.com; Shares outstanding: 172.6 million; Market cap: $3.2 billion; Dividend yield: 3.7%) has reached an agreement with TD Bank and CIBC to share its Aeroplan loyalty program.

TD Bank is now the primary credit card issuer for Aeroplan....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Profitable niches heighten their appeal

AASTRA TECHNOLOGIES $20.78 (Toronto symbol AAH; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (905-760- 4200; www.aastra.com; Shares outstanding: 11.8 million; Market cap: $245.1 million; Dividend yield: 3.9%) develops and markets products and systems for accessing communication networks, including the Internet....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Big new market for FICO

FAIR ISAAC CORP. $54.97 (New York symbol FICO; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (415- 472-2211; www.fairisaac.com; Shares outstanding: 35.2 million; Market cap: $1.9 billion; Dividend yield: 0.2%) will now sell its Falcon Fraud Manager payment-security system in Brazil through partner Total System Services (symbol TSS on New York).

Total has offered the Falcon software to its clients in other countries since 1998.

Total Systems manages several of Brazil’s most popular credit cards....

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.