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BROMPTON LIFECO SPLIT CORP. $8.76 (Toronto symbol LCS; Shares outstanding: 7.2 million; Market cap: $63.1 million; Dividend yield: 10.3%; www.bromptongroup.com) holds shares of Canada’s four largest publicly listed life insurance companies .

These are Sun Life Financial, Manulife Financial, Great-West Lifeco and iA Financial....

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Dividend Stocks

New assets will fuel Emera’s growth

Emera recently scaled back its annual dividend increases as it allocates more of its cash to new growth projects. While that may hurt its appeal with income-seeking investors, the company’s new assets set it up for many more years of growth.

EMERA INC....

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How To Invest

Here’s our WSSF Conservative Growth Portfolio for July 2025

You Can See Our WSSF Conservative Growth Portfolio For July 2025 Here.

We designed our TSINetwork Ratings to give you an idea of the investment quality and risk in stocks we recommend, so you...

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Value Stocks

Updating your Conservative stocks: Gannett, Howmet Aerospace, Toyota Motor

GANNETT CO. INC. $3.45 (www.gannett.com) is a hold. The newspaper publisher continues to sell real estate and its less-important assets. That helped it pay down its debt by $74.5 million in the first quarter of 2025. While the company currently holds cash of $85.9 million, its current debt stands at $1.04 billion, which is a high 2.1 times its $505.2 million market cap. Gannett is a hold.

HOWMET AEROSPACE INC....

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Growth Stocks

Big investments cut this chipmaker’s risk

Texas Instruments’s plans to invest $60 billion to expand and upgrade its U.S. chipmaking facilities are underway. Those outlays will help its customers avoid new U.S. tariffs and spur its long-term profits. That will also let it continue to reward investors with rising dividends and share buybacks.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC....

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Value Stocks

Good quarter for State Street

STATE STREET CORP. $104 is a buy. The company (New York symbol STT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 288.5 million; Market cap: $30.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 2.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.statestreet.com) sells accounting and administrative services to operators of mutual funds and pension plans.

In the three months ended March 31, 2025, State Street’s fee revenue rose 4.7%, to $3.28 billion from $3.14 billion a year earlier....

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Value Stocks

Here are three key updates on your portfolio

TERADATA CORP. $22 is a hold. The company (New York symbol TDC; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 95.6 million; Market cap: $2.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.teradata.com) makes computers and software to capture and store large amounts of data for its clients—individual businesses....

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Growth Stocks

Sherwin expands in Brazil

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO. $344 is a hold. The company (New York symbol SHW; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares o/s: 250.6 million; Market cap: $86.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.8; Dividend yield: 0.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.sherwin-williams.com) is a leading maker of paints and varnishes.

Sherwin recently agreed to acquire the Brazilian decorative paints business of German chemical maker BASF....

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Value Stocks

Mixed results so far for the NCR split

On October 16, 2023, the old NCR Corp. (New York symbol NCR) split itself into two separate firms. Investors received one share of NCR Atleos (which makes ATMs) for every two NCR shares they held. The remaining firm changed its name to NCR Voyix.

Since the split, NCR Atleos is up 40%, while the former parent has dropped 25%....

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Growth Stocks

PepsiCo faces higher costs

PEPSICO INC. $128 is a hold. The company (Nasdaq symbol PEP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $179.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.9; Dividend yield: 4.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pepsico.com) recently completed its acquisition of the Poppi brand of low-calorie sodas....

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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.

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