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PEMBINA PIPELINE, $52.33, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol PPL; Shares outstanding: 580.5 million; Market cap: $30.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.3%; www.pembina.com) now owns 60% of Pembina Gas Infrastructure Inc....

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Dividend Stocks

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BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE PARTNERS L.P., $31.92, is a buy. The partnership (Toronto symbol BEP.UN; Units outstanding: 646.0 million; Market cap: $20.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.7%; www.bep.brookfield.com) cuts risk by selling power from its plants under long-term contracts....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Tap the power of your 2025 top picks

We have singled out these two stocks and one ETF as your #1 buys for 2025. Each offers investors long-term growth prospects at a reasonable price. We feel all three are poised to deliver big gains for our readers, not only this year but for many years to come.

IBM, $263.30, is a #1 Buy for 2025. The company (New York symbol IBM; Shares outstanding: 924.6 million; Market cap: $244.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 2.5%; www.ibm.com) is one of the world’s largest computer firms, with operations in over 175 countries.

IBM has four main divisions: Software (44% of revenue in the latest quarter) provides a variety of software programs that help businesses operate their cloud computing and AI applications; Consulting (35%), through over 16,000 consultants, helps businesses design, install and run their computer systems; Infrastructure (20%) makes and installs mainframe computers for large organizations that process huge volumes of transactions; and Financing (1%) provides loans to businesses that purchase IBM’s mainframes and services.

IBM often buys other companies to enhance its expertise....

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How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of February 4, 2025

Unlike the United States, which has more than 4,000 domestic banks, Canada has just 35. Of that total, the top six (Royal Bank, TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, CIBC and National Bank) control over 90% of this country’s banking assets.

That high amount of control makes it hard for the big banks to expand inside Canada....

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, January 31, 2025

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC., $597.75, is a buy. The stock (symbol TMO on New York) lets you tap a leading manufacturer of scientific instruments, laboratory equipment, diagnostic consumables, and life science reagents.

The shares are now up 83.5% for our subscribers since we first recommended the stock in the May 2020 issue of Power Growth Investor at $325.83 a share....

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How To Invest

Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, January 31, 2025

VISA INC., $341.80, New York symbol V, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2025.

The company operates the world’s largest electronic-payments network. It processes credit, debit, prepaid and commercial transactions in over 200 countries.

Visa is not a lender—it earns fees from processing transactions....

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How To Invest

Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, January 31, 2025

SMITHFIELD FOODS INC., $21.50, symbol SFD on Nasdaq, launched its IPO and began trading on Nasdaq this week.

Chinese owner WH Group priced the shares at $20 each for their initial public offering. It had originally aimed to offer shares at $23 to $27 apiece.

Smithfield was a public company until it was acquired in 2013 for $5 billion by WH Group....

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How To Invest

Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, January 31, 2025

TC ENERGY INC., $65.49, Toronto symbol TRP, is a top pick for 2025.

On October 1, 2024, TC completed the spinoff of its oil pipeline business as separate company South Bow Corp. (Toronto symbol SOBO). Investors received 0.2 of a South Bow share for every TC share they held....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, January 31, 2025

CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY LTD., $115.50, Toronto symbol CP, is still a buy.

The company took its current form in April 2023 when it acquired U.S.-based railway Kansas City Southern (KCS).

CP paid $31 billion U.S. in cash and shares for KCS....

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Dividend Stocks

Here’s our Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio for February 2025

You Can See Our Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio for February 2025 Here.

You can’t fake a record of dividends....

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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.