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

NVIDIA CORP., $124.91, Nasdaq symbol NVDA, is your #1 Aggressive Buy for 2025.

The company is a leading designer of 3D-capable video chips; they make video games run more smoothly and appear more lifelike. Nvidia has also adapted its chips for other applications, including artificial intelligence (AI), datacentres and self-driving cars.

In its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter, ended January 26, 2025, Nvidia’s revenue soared 77.9%, to $39.33 billion from $22.10 billion a year earlier....

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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, February 28, 2025

BIRKENSTOCK HOLDING LIMITED, $49.48, symbol BIRK on New York, is an iconic German footwear maker whose history dates back to 1774. The first Birkenstock sandal was created by Karl Birkenstock in 1963. Karl was the great-great-grandson of founder Johann Adam Birkenstock.

California dressmaker Margo Fraser brought the sandals to the U.S....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, February 28, 2025

INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY INC., $13.60, Toronto symbol INE, is a hold.

The company operates 42 hydroelectric plants, 35 wind farms, 9 solar fields, and three battery energy storage facilities, in Canada, the U.S., Chile and France.

For 2024, Innergex reduced its dividend payout ratio to between 30% and 50% of its free cash flow (operating cash flow less capital expenditures) to provide maximum financial flexibility for investments in new projects.

As a result, the company cut its annual dividend rate by 50.0% to $0.36 a share, which yields 2.6%....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, February 28, 2025

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, $170.98, Toronto symbol RY, is a buy.

The bank continues to benefit from its March 2024 purchase of the Canadian operations of U.K.-based HSBC Holdings plc (New York symbol HSBC) for $15.5 billion.

HSBC operates 130 branches that mainly cater to businesses in industries that trade and bank internationally....

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Dividend Stocks

Here’s our WSSF Income-Seeking Portfolio for March 2025

You Can See Our WSSF Income-Seeking Portfolio For March 2025 Here.

This month, we are updating our WSSF Portfolio for Income-Seeking Investors.

This portfolio is a good starting point for investors who need income....

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Growth Stocks

Updating your Income stocks: 3M, Snap-On and Quaker Chemical

3M COMPANY $147 (www.3m.com) is a buy. It makes a wide variety of industrial and consumer products, including Post-it notes, Scotch tape, Scotch-Brite cleaning products, Scotchguard fabric protection and Thinsulate insulation. In the three months ended December 31, 2024, rose 2.2%, to $5.81 billion from $5.68 billion a year earlier....

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Mining Stocks

Tap into rising gold prices with Newmont

Gold has shot up nearly 50% in the past year to just under $3,000 an ounce. The metal could move even higher if the Trump administration imposes new tariffs, which could fuel inflation. We feel the best way for investors to add gold exposure is with high-quality producers like Newmont.

NEWMONT CORP....

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Growth Stocks

Lower costs will spur Otis’s earnings

OTIS WORLDWIDE CORP. $99 is a buy. The company (New York symbol OTIS; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 400.6 million; Market cap: $39.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.8; Dividend yield: 1.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.otis.com) is the world’s largest maker of elevators and escalators.

Otis’s revenue in the three months ended December 31, 2024, rose 2.3%, to $3.68 billion from $3.62 billion a year earlier....

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Value Stocks

Use these updates to enhance your returns

MOLSON COORS BEVERAGE CO. $62 is a hold. The beer brewer (New York symbol TAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 206.0 million; Market cap: $12.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.molsoncoors.com) has acquired the rights to produce, market and sell Fever-Tree products in the U.S....

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Rising profits lift Embecta’s outlook

EMBECTA CORP. $14 is still a buy for long-term gains. The company (Nasdaq symbol EMBC; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 58.1 million; Market cap: $813.4 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 4.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.embecta.com) makes a variety of medical devices, including stents, catheters, needles and surgical tools.

In November 2024, the company decided to stop developing a new disposable insulin patch pump system due to the high costs required to bring this product to market....

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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.