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Here’s our CWA Safety-Conscious Stock Portfolio for May 2025

You Can See Our CWA Safety-Conscious Stock Portfolio For May 2025 Here.

We think investors will profit most—and with the least risk—by buying shares of well-established companies with strong business prospects and strong positions in healthy industries....

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Pat McKeough

Blue Chip Stocks

IBM is still a #1 pick

IBM, $241.82, is a #1 Buy for 2025. The company (New York symbol IBM; Shares outstanding: 929.4 million; Market cap: $222.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 2.8%; www.ibm.com) reported better-than-expected results for the first quarter of 2025....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

These safety-conscious stocks remain buys

BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, $68.98, is a buy. The lender (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $85.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.2%; www.scotiabank.com) will probably have to increase its loan-loss provisions as the current U.S....

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Energy Stocks

Imperial expands its output

IMPERIAL OIL LTD., $92.99, is a buy. The company’s (Toronto symbol IMO; Shares outstanding: 509.0 million; Market cap: $48.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 3.1%; www.imperialoil.ca) crude oil exports to the U.S. comply with the USMCA (U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement), so they remain exempt from U.S....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Our grocery leaders are hitting all-time highs

Both Loblaw and Metro have soared to all-time highs for our subscribers! Meanwhile, we think both stocks still have gains ahead. Indeed, both remain buys.

LOBLAW COMPANIES, $223.80, is a buy. The retailer (Toronto symbol L; Shares o/s: 299.0 million; Market cap: $65.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 0.9%; www.loblaw.ca) operates 1,106 supermarkets under several banners, including Loblaws, Zehrs, Provigo, Real Canadian Superstore and No Frills....

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Dividend Stocks

Enbridge ups its spending

ENBRIDGE, $64.47, is a buy. The firm’s (Toronto symbol ENB; Shares o/s: 2.2 billion; Market cap: $140.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.9%; www.enbridge.com) Mainline system, which transports crude from Western Canada to eastern Canada and northern U.S....

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Pat McKeough

ETFs

Japan sets you up for gains

ISHARES MSCI JAPAN INDEX FUND, $71.43, is a buy. The ETF (New York symbol EWJ; buy or sell through brokers; us.ishares.com) aims to mirror the return of the Morgan Stanley Capital International Japan Index.

Top holdings are Toyota, 4.8%; Sony Corp., 3.9%; Mitsubishi UFJ Financial, 3.7%; Hitachi (conglomerate), 3.1%; Nintendo (video games), 2.3%; Sumitomo Mitsui Financial, 2.3%; Keyence (sensors), 2.1%; and Recruit Holdings (human resources), 1.9%....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

RioCan raises its payout

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, $17.22, is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 297.2 million; Market cap: $5.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 6.7%; www.riocan.com) cut its monthly distribution by 33.3% to $0.96 a unit (on an annual basis) in February 2021 as retailers shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

This top REIT is a buy

CHOICE PROPERTIES REIT, $14.60, is a buy. Canada’s biggest REIT (Toronto symbol CHP.UN; Units ooutstanding: 723.8 million; Market cap: $10.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.3%; www.choicereit.ca) owns 705 retail, industrial, office space and residential properties with 67.2 million square feet of gross leasable area....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

High-yield leaders with growth ahead

Allied Properties REIT owns some of the best properties in Canada, with a concentration on its biggest cities. It offers a very high yield as well as long-term growth prospects. TC Energy is targeting major spending on new projects and upgrades over the next few year....

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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.