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VEREN INC., $9.54, is now a tender for investors. The company (Toronto symbol VRN; Shares o/s: 611.8 million; Market cap: $5.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.8%; www.vrn.com) has received a takeover offer from Whitecap Resources (symbol WCP on Toronto)....

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Dividend Stocks

Buy Power’s top assets at 24% off

Power Corp. offers you top-quality assets—all the more attractive given they come at a significant “holding company discount.” That’s the tendency for a holding company’s shares to trade for less than the value of its assets. In Power Corp’s case, it means investors can currently pick up shares at about a 24% discount....

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How To Invest

Q: What do you think about The Clorox Company? Thanks for all your great advice.

A: The Clorox Company, $147.40, symbol CLX on New York (Shares outstanding: 123.2 million; Market cap: $18.1 billion; www.thecloroxcompany.com), makes and markets consumer and professional products.

Clorox has operations in about 25 countries or territories and sells its products in more than 100 markets....

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How To Invest

Q: Pat, what do you think about the prospects for Darden Restaurants? It looks like it still has room to rise. Thank you.

A: Darden Restaurants Inc., $208.08, symbol DRI on New York (Shares outstanding: 117.1 million; Market cap: $24.3 billion; www.darden.com), is a full-service restaurant company.

Darden got its start in 1995, when General Mills Inc....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Q: Hi. I am wondering what your thoughts are on Moody’s Corp. (MCO)? Thank you.

A: Moody’s Corp., $468.87, symbol MCO on New York, (Shares outstanding: 179.9 million; Market cap: $83.8 billion; www.moodys.com), provides risk assessment information, analytics tools, and solutions to businesses worldwide....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of April 1, 2025

Four times a year, we send our latest Quarterly Letter to our portfolio management clients. One way or another, members of our Inner Circle eventually receive the benefits of these quarterly letters, after we’ve sent them out to our portfolio management clients. We may update or revise our Quarterly Letters before we send them out to Inner Circle members or a wider or different audience.

On occasion, however, we send a portion or portions of the next client letter out early, to Inner Circle Members as well as our portfolio management clients....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, March 28, 2025

MERCK & CO. INC., $89.23, is a buy. The drugmaker (symbol MRK on New York) is a pharmaceutical leader in oncology, acute-care and animal health drugs as well as vaccines.

The company is now paying up to $2 billion for the rights to Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co.’s experimental heart drug....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, March 28, 2025

KYNDRYL HOLDINGS INC., $31.32, New York symbol KD, is still a hold.

The company took its current form in November 2021 when International Business Machines Corp. (New York symbol IBM) spun off its legacy business of helping corporate and government clients manage their datacentres....

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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, March 28, 2025

SERVICENOW INC., $797.76, symbol NOW on New York, is a cloud-based software provider that aims to help companies manage their digital workflows. ServiceNow went public in 2012 at $18 a share.

On March 10, 2025, ServiceNow announced that it would acquire Moveworks, a California-based company that develops AI-driven assistants for large corporations....

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Pat McKeough

Value Stocks

Long-term trends still favour these two

These two stocks are down lately. That’s because they earn most of their income based on the value of the securities they manage for their clients, and the recent stock market volatility will probably hurt those asset values. Even so, both should continue to benefit as more investors approach retirement and turn to professional asset managers.

STATE STREET CORP....

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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.