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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, January 10, 2025

THOMSON REUTERS CORP., $223.89, Toronto symbol TRI, is a buy.

The company sells specialized information and software to the legal, tax and accounting fields. It also owns the Reuters news service.

Thomson last increased your quarterly dividend by 10.2% with the March 2024 payment....

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, January 10, 2025

CINTAS CORP., $189.30, Nasdaq symbol CTAS, remains a buy for aggressive investors.

Cintas designs and makes uniforms, then sells them to businesses, mainly in North America. It also offers related products and services such as office-cleaning and first-aid kits.

The company has offered to acquire UniFirst Corp....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, January 10, 2025

BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, $74.10, Toronto symbol BNS, is still a buy.

The bank recently announced that it was shifting its business away from poorly performing Latin American markets. As a result, it now plans to earmark 90% of its capital to its main markets of Canada, the U.S....

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ETFs

Here’s our CWA ETF Portfolio for January 2025

You Can See Our CWA ETF Portfolio For January 2025 Here.

Index funds are mutual funds that invest so as to match market-index performance....

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Dividend Stocks

Enbridge raises its dividend

ENBRIDGE, $63.30, 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) recently completed its acquisition of three regulated gas utility firms—they serve roughly 3 million customers in Ohio, North Carolina, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming—from Dominion Energy....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Stay on top of your stocks with our updates: Newmont, Cenovus and IBM

NEWMONT CORP., $39.13, remains a buy for long-term growth and as a hedge against inflation. The company (New York symbol NEM; Shares outstanding: 1.1 billion; Market cap: $43.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 2.6%; www.newmont.com) continues to make progress with its plan to sell six of its less-important mines....

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Growth Stocks

CPKC targets hydrogen

CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY, $109.63, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CP; shares outstanding: 933.3 million; Market cap: $103.4 billion; Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 0.7%) ships freight over a 32,190-kilometre rail network....

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Dividend Stocks

TC Energy is a buy but hold South Bow

TC Energy has completed the spinoff of its oil pipeline business as South Bow. Investors received 0.2 of a South Bow share for every TC share they held. They’re not liable for capital gains taxes until they sell their new shares.

The split lets TC Energy better focus on its natural gas pipelines and power plants....

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ETFs

Buy into Vietnam’s pluses

VANECK VECTORS VIETNAM ETF, $11.37, is a buy for aggressive investors. This emerging-markets ETF (New York symbol VNM) taps the leading Vietnamese firms as well as foreign firms that get a significant share of their revenue from this Southeast Asian nation....

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ETFs

Tap Taiwan’s bright future

ISHARES MSCI TAIWAN INDEX FUND, $52.49 is a buy for aggressive investors. The ETF (New York symbol EWT; buy or sell through brokers) gives you direct exposure to some of the top public companies of this East Asian powerhouse economy.

The fund’s largest holding is Taiwan Semiconductor at 23.% of assets....

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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.