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Growth Stocks

High R&D spending keeps these two on top

PagerDuty and Twilio were well positioned to gain during the pandemic, but since early 2021 they have dropped along with many other tech/platform stocks. Still, we think both have room to rebound as they continue to experience strong and growing demand. Both are buys.

PAGERDUTY INC., $12.81, is a buy. The company (New York symbol PD; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (pagerduty.com; Shares o/s: 91.8 million; Market cap: $1.2 billion; No divd.) operates a platform that collects real-time data from software systems and devices and then notifies its IT customers of incidents that could harm operations.

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Blue Chip Stocks

These ‘AI buys’ should spur your returns

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an example of an investment idea that could boost your investment returns or, more likely, end up costing you money. All in all, we think that the biggest, surest gains from AI will come from investing in established businesses that are already profitable and growing, and that can gain all the more by applying AI to their operations.

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Growth Stocks

Disney’s ‘Zootopia 2' is a huge hit

WALT DISNEY CO., $110.63, is a buy. The company’s (New York symbol DIS; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average) (Shares o/s: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $199.3 billion; Dividend yield: 1.3%) just-released “Zootopia 2" movie earned $556 million globally over its opening weekend, the biggest debut ever for an animated film.

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Growth Stocks

Corteva’s spinoff will unlock investor value

Corteva took its current form when the old DowDuPont spun it off in 2019 as part of the three-way breakup of its operations. Since the spinoff, Corteva’s shares have jumped 147%!

Corteva now plans to split its seeds and chemical operations into two separate, publicly traded firms. We expect the plan will work out well for investors, as spinoffs help unlock value. It’s also possible that the two new firms could become attractive takeover targets. Corteva is a Power Buy.

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Dividend Stocks

Dream Office offers investors value plus a high yield

Dream Office remains focused on the best city for real estate in Canada. In fact, the downtown Toronto market now supplies 76% of rental revenue and accounts for 83% of the portfolio’s value.

DREAM OFFICE REIT, $17.19, is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol D.UN; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.dream.ca/office; Units o/s: 16.4 million; Market cap: $281.9 million; Dividend yield: 5.8%) owns 26 office properties including two under development.

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Growth Stocks

EXE hits new highs

EXTENDICARE INC., $21.99, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol EXE; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.extendicare.com; Shares outstanding: 94.5 million; Market cap: $2.1 billion; Dividend yield: 2.3%) keeps expanding its ParaMed Home Health Care unit—and that has spurred its shares to all-time highs.

ParaMed provides nursing care and other forms of assistance to clients who remain in their own homes.

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Dividend Stocks

AltaGas targets new growth areas

AltaGas has strong appeal for growth-focused investors: its regulated utilities provide steady cash flow to support the expansion of its midstream operations and the build-out of its liquefied petroleum gas facilities. Indeed, the future for this leader is increasingly bright as it continues its push into lucrative global markets. Altagas is a Power Buy.

ALTAGAS LTD., $41.21, is a buy. The utility (Toronto symbol ALA; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.altagas.ca; Shares outstanding: 311.1 million; Market cap: $12.6 billion; Dividend yield: 3.3%) processes, transports, stores and markets natural gas for producers. It also operates its own natural gas utilities and is a power generator, with gas-fired, coal-fired, wind, biomass and hydroelectric plants.

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Dividend Stocks

Here’s Our High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio for January 2026

You Can See Our High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio for January 2026 Here.

You can’t fake a record of dividends. That’s why we place a high value on a sustained history of dividend payments. When you’re looking for income-producing stocks, a high dividend yield should also be one of your most important investment considerations. But that shouldn’t come at the expense of sustainability.

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Dividend Stocks

Updating your Cyclical-Growth Payers: Intact Financial

INTACT FINANCIAL CORP. $281 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol IFC; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 177.7 million; Market cap: $49.9 billion; Dividend yield: 1.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.intactfc.com) is Canada’s largest property and casualty insurance provider.

With the March 2025 payment, Intact raised your quarterly dividend by 9.9%, to $1.33 from $1.21. The annual rate of $5.32 yields a solid 1.9%. The company has raised the annual dividend rate each year for the past 20 years since its initial public offering in December 2004.

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Dividend Stocks

Technology should spur RBC’s dividend

Royal Bank has gained over 30% in the past year, and the stock is hitting record highs. That’s mainly due to the bank’s 2024 acquisition of HSBC’s Canadian banking operations. Royal is also using new technology, like artificial intelligence, to fuel growth as well as its dividend.

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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.

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.

Wealth Management

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.