Topics

How To Invest

The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, February 7, 2025

THOMSON REUTERS CORP., $252.31, Toronto symbol TRI, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2025.

The company sells specialized information (mainly through electronic channels) to professionals in the legal, and tax and accounting fields. It also owns the Reuters news service.

Thanks to improving demand for its legal and tax information products, revenue in the quarter ended December 31, 2024, rose 5.2%, to $1.91 billion from $1.82 billion a year earlier (all amounts except share price in U.S....

9 min read

Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Here’s our CWA Safety-Conscious Stock Portfolio for February 2025

You Can See Our CWA Safety-Conscious Stock Portfolio For February 2025 Here.

We think investors will profit most—and with the least risk—by buying shares of well-established companies with strong business prospects and strong positions in healthy industries....

1 min read

Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

AQN sharpens its focus

ALGONQUIN POWER & UTILITIES, $6.53, is a buy. The utility (Toronto symbol AQN; Shares o/s: 767.2 million; Market cap: $4.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Yield: 4.0%; www.algonquinpower.com) has now completed the sale of its 42.2% ownership stake in Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure plc for $1.08 billion (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S....

1 min read

Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Key updates on your safety-conscious stocks

LOBLAW COMPANIES, $179.93, is a buy. The retailer (Toronto symbol L; Shares outstanding: 301.7 million; Market cap: $54.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.1%; www.loblaw.ca) is now selling its 42 Wellwise by Shoppers outlets to Verillium Health Care....

2 min read

Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Big moves for Primaris

PRIMARIS REIT, $14.85, is a buy. The trust (Toronto symbol PMZ.UN; Units outstanding: 103.3 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Yield: 5.8; www.primarisreit.com) owns 38 enclosed and open air shopping malls in Canada, totalling 15.0 million square feet....

1 min read

Pat McKeough

Blue Chip Stocks

Two buys for your safety-conscious gains

CPKC and Metro are leading competitors in their respective markets. You can expect that to lower your risk if the economy should weaken. We see both stocks as buys.

CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY, $111.87, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CP; shares o/s: 933.3 million; Market cap: $102.9 billion; Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 0.7%) took its current form in April 2023 when it acquired U.S.-based railway Kansas City Southern (KCS) for $31 billion U.S.

The new CPKC ships freight over a 32,190-kilometre rail network....

2 min read

Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Enbridge adds solar

ENBRIDGE, $63.00, is a buy. The firm (Toronto symbol ENB; Shares o/s: 2.2 billion; Market cap: $136.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.0%; www.enbridge.com) operates pipelines that pump oil and natural gas from Western Canada eastward as well as to the U.S....

1 min read

Pat McKeough

ETFs

Hold off on this ETF

ISHARES S&P/TSX REIT INDEX ETF, $15.02, is a hold. The ETF (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) lets investors tap all 16 Canadian real estate investment trusts in the S&P/TSX REIT Index....

1 min read

Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Innergex keeps growing

INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY, $7.23, is a buy. The power generator (Toronto symbol INE; Shares o/s: 203.1 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Yield: 5.0%; www.innergex.com) reduced its dividend payout in 2024 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 still gives you a high 5.0% yield.

Innergex continues to develop new projects....

1 min read

Pat McKeough

ETFs

Six low-fee global ETFs: 4 buys, 2 holds

Most top global markets have rebounded since their big drop at the outbreak of the pandemic. Going forward, we think the outlook remains positive for quality stocks. One way to profit from that—while cutting your risk—is to invest in top ETFs.

Here’s a look at four international funds that we believe are well suited to new buying....

7 min read

Pat McKeough

Testimonials

The cornerstones of Pat’s strategy–value, diversification and timelines–make his newsletter, The Successful Investor, highly profitable while minimizing risk. His advice is no-nonsense, down-to-earth and based on solid research. You’ll know what to invest in and what to avoid.

Chuck Chakrapani, PhD
Investors Association of Canada
The older I get the better dividends look. For retirees and would-be retirees who want to sleep at night, I can’t think of a better source of information on reliable growing dividend income than Pat McKeough’s newsletter, Dividend Advisor.

Jonathan Chevreau
Financial Post Columnist
As a manager of more than $500 million in mutual funds, I have access to the best brokerage research available in this country. But I still take time to read Pat McKeough’s premium newsletters

John Sartz
I appreciate the 25 years of above market returns I received by following your advice. at least 95% of my investment decisions were based on TSI recommendations.

Chuck J.
Subscriber since 1996. Inner Circle Member Since 2006
The newsletters I receive in Inner Circle Pro are fantastic! I have been following Pat’s advice for years and everything he has said has been amazing. His commentaries are brilliant, insightful, educational, rational and balanced. My returns are almost double the TSE and I have referred many of my friends who have switched over to your services.

Walter H.
Inner Circle Pro subscriber

Browse Premium Topics

Cannabis

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.