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TELUS, $21.22, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $31.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 7.6%; www.telus.com) is Canada’s largest wireless carrier. It also sells landline phone, Internet and TV services in B.C., Alberta and eastern Quebec.

Telus is now building new computer datacentres—one in Kamloops, B.C....

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CPKC will weather Trump’s tariffs

CPKC continues to realize the benefits of its 2023 acquisition of U.S. railway Kansas City Southern. Thanks to the related cost savings and improving efficiency, the company expects strong earnings gains in 2025. Meanwhile, we think CPKC is in a good position to withstand the negative impact of U.S....

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Q: Pat, what do you think of Amgen (AMGN), and is it a buy? Thank you.

A: Amgen Inc., $289.38, symbol AMGN on New York (Shares outstanding: 537.7 million; Market cap: $152.2 billion;

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Q: I see that shares of rare-earths company MP Materials are moving up. I think it’s in one of your newsletters. What’s your opinion on the stock going forward?

A: MP Materials Corp., $24.46, symbol MP on New York (Shares outstanding: 163.2 million; Market cap: $4.1 billion; www.mpmaterials.com), is the owner and operator of the Mountain Pass mine, the only significant rare-earth commercial mining and processing site in North America.

Rare-earth elements are used in a variety of modern devices and applications: magnets in small and large motors; glass additives and glass polishing compounds; rechargeable batteries; television and computer screens; lighting; X-ray machines; and lasers.

The stock is a recommendation of our Power Growth Investor newsletter....

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Q: I would be interested in your thoughts on Corning (GLW) in the U.S. Thanks.

A: Corning Inc., $44.47, symbol GLW on New York (Shares outstanding: 856.8 million; Market cap: $37.8 billion;

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Q: Pat, all the news affecting the market makes me wonder about what’s best—a bottom-up approach to picking stocks, or a top-down approach taking into account all that’s going on. What do you think?

A: Successful investors generally understand that you have two basic ways to make investment decisions. They also understand that it pays to know which of the two you are using at any given time.

Investment professionals call these two approaches “bottom-up” and “top-down.” Using the bottom-up approach, you focus on understanding what’s going on in the investment world....

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What is Pat’s commentary for the week of April 29, 2025

Our first member’s question is one we’ve received a couple of times in the last month. I think all members may be interested in our answer.

Really, that response is an extension of our three-part investment philosophy. You’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating given today’s market volatility:

1) Invest mainly in...

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of April 15, 2025

Our first member’s question is one we’ve received a couple of times in the last month. I think all members may be interested in our answer.

Really, that response is an extension of our three-part investment philosophy. You’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating given today’s market volatility:

1) Invest mainly in well-established,...

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, April 25, 2025

AT&T INC., $26.81, New York symbol T, is your #1 Income Buy for 2025.

The company is the largest wireless (cellphone) carrier in the U.S., with 117.96 million subscribers (excluding mobile devices such as tablets). It also has 14.11 million high-speed Internet users and provides traditional telephone services to consumers and businesses.

AT&T continues to benefit from its plan to focus solely on its main telecom businesses....

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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, April 25, 2025

PORTILLO’S INC., $10.73, symbol PTLO on Nasdaq, is a Chicago-based restaurant chain that got its start in 1963 when founder Dick Portillo opened the restaurant “The Dog House” in a small trailer. Today, the business has 94 restaurant locations in 10 U.S. states.

Portillo’s is best known for its Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, char-grilled burgers, fresh salads and “famous” chocolate cake....

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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.