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Here’s our Conservative Growth Portfolio for April 2025

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Value Stocks

Updates on your Conservative stocks: Finning International, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canadian National Railway

FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC. $40 (www.finning.com) is a buy. It sells and services Caterpillar-brand heavy equipment in Western Canada but also South America, the U.K. and Ireland. Its main customers are in the oil and gas, mining, forestry-products and construction industries....

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Mining Stocks

Nutrien will survive a tariff fight

The U.S. government has threatened to impose a 10% tariff on potash fertilizer imports from Canada, which now supplies 85% of its needs. U.S. potash reserves are also much smaller, so a prolonged tariff fight seems unlikely. Even if the tariffs remain in place and U.S....

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Value Stocks

New strategy will benefit investors

CANADIAN TIRE CORP. (class A non-voting) is a buy. The retailer (Toronto symbols CTC [voting] $223 and CTC.A [non-voting] $147; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares o/s: 55.6 million; Market cap: $8.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; Dividend yield: 4.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.canadiantire.ca) will spend $2 billion over the next four years on a new growth plan called True North, which includes new stores, better integration of its various chains and the closure of less-profitable outlets....

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Growth Stocks

Use our updates to enhance your portfolio

SAPUTO INC. $25 is still a hold. The company (Toronto symbol SAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 422.6 million; Market cap: $10.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.saputo.com) is Canada’s largest producer of dairy products....

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Value Stocks

Molson faces higher costs

MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. is a hold. The brewer (Toronto symbols TPX.A $92 and TPX.B $89; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 215.7 million; Market cap: $19.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.molsoncoors.com) makes most of its products in their local markets....

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Growth Stocks

‘Buy Canadian’ should boost their sales

Retaliatory tariffs by Canada would push up the prices of U.S.-made products. However, they would likely have little impact on these two supermarket operators, as consumers would probably switch to Canadian-made products, including their popular private-label brands.

LOBLAW COMPANIES LTD....

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Dividend Stocks

RioCan is a great pick for reliable income

Shopping mall operator RioCan REIT cut its monthly distribution by 33.3% in February 2021 as retailers shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the restrictions eased, the trust has resumed annual distribution increases. Investors should also benefit from RioCan’s high-quality tenants and rising cash flow.

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $19 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 300.5 million; Market cap: $5.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.5; Distribution yield: 6.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 178 shopping centres and mixed-use properties with a net leasable area of 32.2 million square feet....

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Growth Stocks

Acquisition fuelled earnings

RESTAURANT BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. $96 is a buy for aggressive investors. The fast-food operator (Toronto symbol QSR, Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares o/s: 452.0 million; Market cap: $43.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.7; Dividend yield: 3.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.rbi.com) has 31,525 fast-food outlets in over 100 countries....

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Dividend Stocks

First dividend hike after spinoff

TC ENERGY CORP. $67 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol TRP; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.04 billion; Market cap: $69.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; Dividend yield: 5.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.tcenergy.com) spun off its oil pipeline business as a separate company called South Bow Corp....

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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.