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These green energy dividends are sustainable

Note that these two green energy producers have cut their dividends as they adjust their portfolios to focus on more-promising assets. Still, their lower dividend rates are also much more sustainable, which cuts your risk.

ALGONQUIN POWER & UTILITIES CORP....

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Dividend Stocks

A Yield to Caution

BROWN-FORMAN CORP. $33 (New York symbol BF.B; Shares outstanding: 484.5 million; Market cap: $16.0 billion; Dividend yield: 2.7%; www.brown-forman.com) makes and sells alcoholic beverages. The most important and iconic brand in its portfolio is Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey.

The company raised its dividend by 3.9% in January 2025....

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Here’s our WSSF Aggressive Growth Portfolio for February 2025

You Can See Our WSSF Aggressive Growth Portfolio For February 2025 Here.

We designed our TSINetwork Ratings to give you an idea of the investment qualit...

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Three ways to pad your 2025 returns

For 2025, we’ve selected TC Energy, Cisco Systems and RioCan REIT as our top three picks for dividend investors.

All three offer investors high, sustainable dividend yields. Their high-quality businesses will also let them keep raising their dividends for years to come....

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Growth Stocks

Updating your Aggressive stocks: Apa, Six Flags Entertainment and Keysight Technologies

APA CORP. $23 (www.apacorp.com) is a hold. The company produces oil and natural gas in the U.S., Egypt and the U.K. In April 2024, APA acquired Callon Petroleum Company (New York symbol CPE) in an all-stock merger worth $4.5 billion....

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Growth Stocks

Turnaround plan will push this stock higher

Starbucks’ shares have gained 45% since it named Brian Niccol as its new CEO in August 2024. Investors expect his experience turning around Chipotle Mexican Grill after a food safety crisis will help the company attract more customers and spur its earnings. In fact, it now looks like his new growth plan is starting to pay off.

STARBUCKS CORP....

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Growth Stocks

Chipmaker has long-term appeal

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC. $180 is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol TXN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 913.0 million; Market cap: $164.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 10.6; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.ti.com) is a leading maker of analog chips, which convert inputs like touch and sound into electronic signals that computers can understand.

In the quarter ended December 31, 2024, revenue fell 1.7%, to $4.01 billion from $4.08 billion a year earlier....

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Growth Stocks

Three more updates to protect your gains

ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. $52 is a hold. The company (New York symbol ADM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 494.4 million; Market cap: $25.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.3; Dividend yield: 3.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.adm.com) processes corn, wheat, soybeans, flax seed and other crops into a variety of food ingredients such as flour, oils and sweeteners.

Archer will now restate its results for 2023, as well as the first two quarters of 2024....

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Growth Stocks

Boeing reports higher loss

BOEING CO. $174 remains a hold. The aircraft maker (New York symbol BA; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 613.9 million; Market cap: $106.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.7; Dividend suspended in June 2020; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.boeing.com) delivered 57 commercial jetliners in the fourth quarter of 2024, down from 157 a year earlier....

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Growth Stocks

These two look extra risky after big gains

On April 2, 2024, the old General Electric spun off its power equipment business as GE Vernova. Investors received one share of the new firm for every four GE shares they held. Each stock is up sharply since the split, but both are now very expensive in relation to their earnings....

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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