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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ETFs trade on stock exchanges, just like stocks.
Private REITs tout that lack of transparency as a benefit—since it avoids the volatility and speculation of public markets.
On the other hand, staying private also cuts the likelihood that nosy outsiders and analysts will find out about and draw attention to hidden risks and problems that the REITs happen to suffer from.
The company operates through four main business units: Global Water (49% of revenue) serves customers in the water, food & beverage, paper, and textile-care fields; Global Institutional & Specialty (39%) sells its products to restaurants, hotels, schools and hospitals; Global Pest Elimination (8%) helps detect and eliminate pests; and Global Life Sciences (4%) makes pharmaceutical, personal care, infection and containment control systems.
The company’s products include Alpha InformatiX, which provides imaging, navigation and robotics for spine surgeries, 3D imaging, and spinal implants.
Founded in 1990, Alphatec underwent a transformation in 2018, replacing its executive management, most of its board, and a majority of its staff with spine experts focused on innovation and design.
The fund holds mostly high-quality companies, including AbbVie, Agnico Eagle Mines, CIBC, TC Energy, TD Bank, Enbridge, Manulife Financial and Bank of Nova Scotia.
Specifically, it owns the La Ronde, Canadian Malartic, Goldex, Maccassa, Detour Lake, Meliadine, Meadowbank and Hope Bay mines in Canada. Outside of this country, it holds the Fosterville mine in Australia, the Kittila mine in Finland, and the Pino Altos and La India mines in Mexico.
Agnico has made some key acquisitions to spur its output over the last few years.
With the April 2025 payment, the REIT raised your monthly distribution by 1.3%. Investors now receive $0.064167 a unit instead of $0.063333. The new annual rate of $0.77 yields a high 5.3%.