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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We designed our Portfolios to help you build the kind of portfolio we advocate. First, you should invest mainly in stocks from our “Average” or higher TSINetwork Ratings, which make up the bulk of the choices in our Portfolios.
A: Keyera Corp., $54.38, symbol KEY on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 229.3 million; Market cap: $12.5 billion; www.keyera.com), engages in the gathering and processing of natural gas; and the transportation, storage, and marketing of natural gas liquids in Canada and the U.S..

The company operates in the oil and gas industry between the upstream segment, which includes oil and gas exploration and production, and the downstream segment, which consists of the refining, distribution and retail marketing of end products.
A: Viking Holdings Ltd., $71.75, symbol VIK on New York (Shares outstanding: 446.1 million; Market cap: $32.0 billion; www.ir.viking.com), operates luxury river, ocean and expedition cruises.

The company was founded in 1997 by CEO Torstein Hagen. It started with four river ships in Europe. Hagen’s intent was to provide travel that was more destination-focused and culturally immersive. In 2015, Viking entered the luxury ocean market. Today, it’s also a global leader in experience-focused travelling.
A: The ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF, $65.23, symbol SDOG on New York (Units outstanding: 22.0 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; www.alpsfunds.com/exchange-traded-funds/sdog), is an ETF that applies the “Dogs of the Dow” approach on a sector-by-sector basis to the S&P 500.

The fund started up on June 29, 2012, and its MER is 0.36%. It yields 3.5%.

The Dogs of the Dow approach involves buying the highest-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It’s based on the idea that a high dividend yield is an indicator of an undervalued stock.
A: TC Energy Inc., $88.30, symbol TRP on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 1.04 billion; Market cap: $91.9 billion; www.tcenergy.com; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average) generates steady cash flow for investors through a 93,700-kilometre pipeline network that pumps natural gas from Alberta to eastern Canada and the U.S. It also owns gas pipelines in Mexico, and owns or invests in seven power plants in Canada and the U.S.

The company has raised its dividend each year between 2000 and 2023. However, in 2024, it cut the quarterly payment by 14.3% after the spinoff of its oil pipeline business as South Bow Corp. (Toronto symbol SOBO).
It goes without saying, but I think it bears repeating, that war can cut a wide swathe through the economy. That’s beyond the real, more-tangible toll it takes in human lives.

Today, April 7, may ultimately decide if the current crisis in the Middle East will wind down sooner rather than later. Regardless, its impact on the movement of ships may last even longer. That’s not only for oil tankers, but also freighters carrying other key commodities, including fertilizer, helium, sulphur and petrochemicals.

A significant share of each of those passes through the Strait of Hormuz to markets around the world.