How To Invest

In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.

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Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.

If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)

If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.

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A: Celestica Inc, $254.77, symbol CLS on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 115.0 million; Market cap: $31.0 billion; www.celestica.com), provides supply chain systems globally.


The company started out as a business unit of IBM, providing electronics manufacturing services, or EMS. In 1996, an investor group led by Onex Corp. bought the business unit. In 1998, Celestica then completed its initial public offering with listings on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. Onex sold its remaining interest in the company in 2023.
A: The decision about how to invest your dividends is a personal one.


For example, an investor who needs current income to live on would take their dividends in cash, and so on.



Overall, we think that DRIPs are OK to participate in. But here are a few things to keep in mind:
A: Gap Inc., $20.55, symbol GAP on New York (Shares outstanding: 373.1 million; Market cap: $7.8 billion; www.gapinc.com), sells clothes, accessories, and personal care products for women, men, and children. Its stores operate under the Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta brands.


Gap currently has 2,496 company-operated stores and about 1,004 franchise store locations. Company-operated stores are in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Taiwan. Gap also has franchise agreements to operate stores in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
A: Suncor Energy, $53.09, symbol SU on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $64.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.suncor.com) is still a buy.


The company is Canada’s largest integrated oil firm, with major projects in the Alberta oil sands. It also operates four refineries (three in Canada and one in Colorado), along with over 1,800 Petro-Canada gas stations.
A: Seabridge Gold Inc., $22.68, symbol SEA on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 100.5 million; Market cap: $2.3 billion; www.seabridgegold.com), explores for gold and copper in North America.


Seabridge’s largest asset is its 100%-owned Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell (KSM) gold/copper project—just 21 kilometres away from Barrick Mining’s Eskay Creek mine in northwestern B.C.



The company believes Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell (KSM) holds one of the world’s largest gold and copper resources. Current proven and probable reserves at KSM are estimated to exceed 47 million ounces of gold and 7 billion pounds of copper.
As of 12:00 p.m. EDT Tuesday, the price of an ounce of gold was sitting at $3,340 U.S. That represents a 35% rise from where it stood at the start of the year.


For established miners, the impressive rise is a significant incentive to lift output, where possible. For junior miners sitting on as-yet-untapped deposits, the price jump is even more of an incentive to speed toward production.