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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, April 25, 2025

ELI LILLY AND COMPANY, $884.54, is a buy. The drugmaker (symbol LLY on New York) discovers, develops, manufactures and markets human pharmaceutical products.

Lilly’s shares took a big jump recently after the company said its experimental diabetes/weight loss pill met its goals in a pivotal Phase 3 study, helping diabetes patients lower blood sugar—and even reduce weight....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, April 25, 2025

TC ENERGY CORP., $68.86, Toronto symbol TRP, is a top pick for 2025.

The company owns a 93,300-kilometre pipeline network, which pumps natural gas from Alberta to eastern Canada and the U.S. It also has gas pipelines in Mexico, and it owns or invests in seven power plants in Canada and the U.S.

On October 1, 2024, TC completed the spinoff of its oil pipeline business as separate company South Bow Corp....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, April 25, 2025

FIRSTSERVICE CORP., $236.83, Toronto symbol FSV, is your #1 Aggressive Buy for 2025.

The company has two main businesses: FirstService Residential provides property management services, such as collecting monthly condominium maintenance fees, preparing financial statements, and providing on-site security and property cleaning/maintenance services; and FirstService Brands offers a wide variety of property management services through several franchised businesses, including Paul Davis Restoration, CertaPro Painters, California Closets, Post Home Inspectors, Floor Coverings International and College Pro Painters.

FirstService operates in a highly fragmented industry, so it tends to fuel its growth with acquisitions....

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Growth Stocks

Here’s our WSSF Aggressive Growth Portfolio for May 2025

You Can See Our WSSF Aggressive Growth Portfolio For May 2025 Here.

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

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Growth Stocks

Updating your Aggressive stocks: Tennant, Warner Bros. Discovery and Six Flags

TENNANT CO. $71 (www.tennantco.com) is a hold. The company makes industrial floor and street-cleaning equipment. Tennant continues to enhance its robotic cleaning equipment. It expects to increase sales of these products from $75 million in 2024 (about 6% of the total) to over $100 million in 2027....

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Growth Stocks

Walmart’s outlook remains bright

Walmart’s U.S. stores get about a third of their merchandise from China, Mexico and other countries. However, the company’s large size should make it easier to re-negotiate costs with its suppliers to offset the impact of new U.S. tariffs. Meantime, Walmart’s ongoing investments in its online and advertising businesses will take its earnings higher over the next few years.

WALMART INC....

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Growth Stocks

Microsoft slows AI spending

MICROSOFT CORP. $374 is a buy for aggressive investors. The world’s largest computer software maker (Nasdaq symbol MSFT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 7.4 billion; Market cap: $2.8 trillion; Price-to-sales ratio: 10.5; Dividend yield: 0.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.microsoft.com) announced plans to spend $80 billion on new datacentres in its 2025 fiscal year ending June 30, 2025....

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Value Stocks

eBay speeds up payment transfers

EBAY INC. $67 is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol EBAY; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 466.0 million; Market cap: $31.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.3; Dividend yield: 1.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ebay.com) operates e-commerce websites in over 190 countries, where sellers pay fees to auction items or offer them at fixed prices.

The company has formed a new alliance with online payment processor Checkout.com....

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Growth Stocks

Archer Daniels lowers its costs

ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. $48 is a hold. The company (New York symbol ADM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 480.2 million; Market cap: $23.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.3; Dividend yield: 4.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.adm.com) processes corn, wheat, soybeans, flax seed and other crops into a variety of food ingredients.

To offset its exposure to tariffs, the company now plans to cut 2% of its workforce....

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Dividend Stocks

Three more updates to protect your gains

SONY GROUP CORP. ADRs $25 is a hold. The Japanese conglomerate (New York symbol SONY; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; ADRs outstanding: 6.0 billion; Market cap: $150.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.5; Dividend yield: 0.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.sony.com) makes its PlayStation 5 video game consoles in China....

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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.