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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, December 20, 2024

MERCK & CO. INC., $98.05, is a buy. The drugmaker (symbol MRK on New York) is a pharmaceutical leader in oncology, acute-care and animal health drugs as well as vaccines.

Merck is now making a foray into the lucrative obesity market. The company has announced that it is licensing global rights to an investigational oral GLP-1 receptor, HS-10535, from Chinese biotech Hansoh Pharma.

For the exclusive global rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize this pre-clinical candidate, Merck will make an upfront payment of $112 million to Hansoh Pharma, with Hansoh also being entitled to receive up to $1.9 billion in milestone payments and royalties on sales....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, December 20, 2024

CANADIAN TIRE CORP., $153.58, Toronto symbol CTC.A, is a top pick for 2024.

The company operates 502 Canadian Tire stores, which sell automotive parts and services, and household and sporting goods; franchisees run most of the locations. The company’s other operations also enrich its outlook....

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, December 20, 2024

PFIZER INC., $26.37, New York symbol PFE, is your #1 Income Buy for 2024.

The company is one of the world’s largest makers of prescription drugs. Its top-selling brands include Enbrel (arthritis), Ibrance (breast cancer) and Prevnar (pneumonia).

With the March 2025 payment, Pfizer will raise your quarterly dividend by 2.4%....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, December 20, 2024

IMPERIAL OIL LTD., $88.61, Toronto symbol IMO, is a buy.

This company gets over 90% of its production from oil sands operations in Alberta. Imperial also has conventional oil and natural gas operations in the West and holds stakes in offshore projects in Atlantic Canada.

Its other operations include three refineries (one in Alberta, two in Ontario) and a petrochemical plant in Sarnia, Ontario.

Imperial now plans to spend between $1.9 billion and $2.1 billion on capital upgrades and exploration in 2025....

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How To Invest

Here’s our High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio for January 2025

You Can See Our High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio for January 2025 Here.

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

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Dividend Stocks

Updating Our High-Growth Payers: Pembina Pipeline Corp.

PEMBINA PIPELINE CORP. $52 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol PPL; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio; Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 580.5 million; Market cap: $30.2 billion; Dividend yield: 5.3%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.pembina.com) operates pipelines that carry half of Alberta’s conventional oil and almost all of B.C.’s oil.

The company has paid dividends continuously since 1997....

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Dividend Stocks

Why slowing dividend growth is good news

To conserve cash for new projects, Emera has slowed the pace of its planned dividend hikes. However, the new policy will make the payment more sustainable. At the same time, the company’s new projects will spur its growth.

EMERA INC. $54 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol EMA; Income-Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 292.8 million; Market cap: $15.8 billion; Dividend yield: 5.4%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.emera.com) owns 100% of Nova Scotia Power, that province’s main electricity supplier....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Here’s our WSSF Conservative Growth Portfolio for January 2025

You Can See Our WSSF Conservative Growth Portfolio For January 2025 Here.

We designed our TSINetwork Ratings to give you an idea of the investment quality and risk in stocks we recomm...

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Dividend Stocks

Nutrien lifts its potash forecast

NUTRIEN LTD. $65 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol NTR; Cyclical-Growth Payer Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 493.4 million; Market cap: $32.1 billion; Dividend yield: 4.8%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.nutrien.com) is the world’s largest producer of agricultural fertilizers.

With the April 2024 payment, the company raised your quarterly dividend by 1.9%....

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Mining Stocks

Updating your Conservative stocks: Sony, Canon, and BHP Group

SONY GROUP CORP. ADRs $21 (www.sony.com) is a hold. For the fiscal 2025 second quarter, ended September 30, 2024, the Japanese conglomerate reported a sales rise of 6.3%, to $20.18 billion from $18.98 billion a year earlier. That’s largely due to stronger demand for its PlayStation video gaming products....

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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.