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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, December 13, 2024

VSE CORP., $108.21, symbol VSEC on Nasdaq, provides aftermarket distribution and repair services through its two operating segments: Aviation (74% of revenue) and Fleet (26%).

The Aviation unit provides aftermarket parts, distribution and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services....

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, December 13, 2024

NORTH WEST COMPANY, $48.01, is a buy. The retailer (symbol NWC on Toronto) sells food, and everyday products and services through 227 stores. Those locations are mainly in northern communities across Canada and Alaska. Through your shares, you also tap the company’s operations in remote regions of Hawaii, the wider South Pacific and the Caribbean.

North West’s food offerings consist of perishable and non-perishable products including groceries, dairy, produce, meat, convenience foods, food service, home meal replacement, health and beauty aids, paper products and cleaning supplies....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, December 13, 2024

TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, $75.87, Toronto symbol TD, remains a buy for patient, income-seeking investors.

With the January 2025 payment, TD will raise your quarterly dividend by 2.9%. Investors will then receive $1.05 a share instead of $1.02....

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, December 13, 2024

MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL INC., $61.93, Nasdaq symbol MDLZ, is a buy.

The company makes cookies and crackers (Oreo, Ritz), chocolate bars (Cadbury, Toblerone), candy (Clorets, Sour Patch Kids) and Halls cough drops.

This week, Mondelez announced a new plan to buy back up to $9 billion of its common shares by December 31, 2027....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, December 13, 2024

SUNCOR ENERGY INC., $52.37, Toronto symbol SU, is a buy.

The company is Canada’s largest integrated oil firm, with major projects in the Alberta oil sands. It also operates four refineries (three in Canada and one in Colorado), along with over 1,800 Petro-Canada gas stations.

Suncor now expects to spend between $6.1 billion and $6.3 billion on exploration and upgrades in 2025....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Here’s our Conservative Growth Portfolio for January 2025

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

We designed our Portfolios to help you build the kind of portfolio we advocate....

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Dividend Stocks

Updates on your Conservative stocks: BCE, Teck Resources and CPKC

BCE INC. $37 (www.bce.ca) remains a buy. The telecom provider is now paying $3.65 billion U.S. for Ziply Fiber, which sells high-speed Internet access and telephone services through a fibre-optic network to residential and business customers in four northwestern U.S states....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Better efficiency will offset tariff threat

CN’s shares are down about 18% from their recent peak of $181 in March 2024. That’s partly due to threats by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to impose a 25% tariff on imports from Canada, which would hurt the company’s freight volumes. However, tariffs would also hurt the U.S....

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Dividend Stocks

Fortis plans more dividend hikes

FORTIS INC. $61 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol FTS; Conservative & Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 495.2 million; Market cap: $30.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.7; Dividend yield: 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.fortisinc.com) is the main supplier of electrical power in Newfoundland and PEI....

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Growth Stocks

Use our updates to enhance your portfolio

COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC. $210 is a buy for aggressive investors. This company (Toronto symbol CIGI; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 50.4 million; Market cap: $10.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.6; Dividend yield: 0.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.colliers.com) offers a range of services, including helping clients buy and sell commercial real estate, arranging financing, and assessing properties for tax purposes.

Colliers tends to use acquisitions to enhance its market share and spur its long-term growth....

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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.