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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, May 16, 2025

WALMART INC., $98.24, New York symbol WMT, remains a buy.

The company is the world’s biggest retailer, with 10,784 outlets in 19 countries.

Walmart reported strong-than-expected earnings for its latest quarter. However, concerns that upcoming price hikes in response to tariffs caused the stock to fall 5%.

In the fiscal 2026 first quarter, ended April 30, 2025, sales rose 2.5%, to $165.61 billion from $161.51 billion a year earlier....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, May 16, 2025

BCE INC., $30.11, Toronto symbol BCE, remains a buy for long-term gains and income.

The company is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider. It has 1.77 million residential customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, May 16, 2025

TELUS CORP., $22.07, Toronto symbol T, is your #1 Income Buy for 2025.

The company is Canada’s largest wireless carrier with 13.88 million subscribers (including non-cellphone devices such as tablets). It also sells landline phone, Internet and TV services in B.C., Alberta and eastern Quebec.

Starting in 2011, Telus began rewarding its shareholders with twice yearly dividend increases....

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Here’s our Spinoff Stock Portfolio for June 2025

You Can See Our Spinoff Stock Portfolio For June 2025 Here.

Why we like spinoffs so much
We think that spinoffs are the closest thing you can find to a sure thing for two main reasons:

1) The management of a parent company will only hand out shares in a subsidiary to its own investors if it’s all but certain that business, and the parent, will be better off after the spinoff.

2) Spinoffs involve a lot of work and legal fees....

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Tariffs have delayed this IPO

KLARNA HOLDING AB has filed paperwork with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering (IPO), but has not yet announced the number of shares to be offered and the price range. The shares will trade on the New York exchange under the symbol “KLAR.”

Based in Sweden, Klarna operates a buy-now-pay-later payment platform for online retailers....

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ANDLAUER HEALTHCARE GROUP INC. $54 is a hold. The company (Toronto symbol AND; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 39.2 million; Market cap: $2.1 billion; Dividend yield: 0.8%; Takeover Target Rating: Highest; www.andlauerhealthcare.com) provides supply chain services for a range of products....

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We still like Danaher’s prospects

Danaher has completed three separate spinoffs in the past few years: industrial-products maker Fortive Corp. (New York symbol FTV) in July 2016; dental equipment specialist Envista Holdings Corp. (New York symbol NVST) in September 2019; and water quality and product identification leader Veralto Corp....

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Parkland accepts takeover offer

PARKLAND CORP. $40 is a hold. The company (Toronto symbol PKI; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 174.4 million; Market cap: $7.0 billion; Dividend yield: 3.6%; Takeover Target Rating: Highest; www.parkland.ca) is a Calgary-based marketer, distributor, and refiner of fuel and petroleum products in Canada, the U.S....

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Settling with activists lifts their outlook

These two firms have reached new deals with activists, including giving them greater board representation. While that improves their outlook, we prefer Autodesk for your new buying.

HOWARD HUGHES HOLDINGS INC. $71 is a hold. The company (New York symbol HHH; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 50.4 million; Market cap: $3.6 billion; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.howardhughes.com) was originally part of billionaire businessman Howard Hughes’ real estate holdings....

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S&P Global looks pricey right now

S&P GLOBAL INC. $512 is hold. The company (New York symbol SPGI; Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 306.7 million; Market cap: $157.0 billion; Dividend yield: 0.8%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.spglobal.com) provides a wide variety of financial information products, including credit ratings, mainly to banks, insurance providers and other financial firms....

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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.

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.