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Thomson Reuters has soared 160% for our subscribers in the past five years. That’s mainly because it sold its financial information business and used the proceeds to reward investors. The company is now adding artificial intelligence features to its legal and tax information products, which sets its up for even more gains in the next few years.

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Growth Stocks

Acquisition lifts RBI’s sales

RESTAURANT BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. $95 is a buy for aggressive investors. The fast-food operator (Toronto symbol QSR, Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 450.8 million; Market cap: $42.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.9; Dividend yield: 3.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.rbi.com) has 31,525 outlets in over 100 countries, comprised of Burger King, Tim Hortons (coffee and donuts), Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (fried chicken) and Firehouse Subs locations.

In May 2024, the company acquired the remaining 85% of Carrols Restaurant Group (Nasdaq symbol TAST) that it didn’t already own for $974 million, which included $431 million of Carrols debt (all amounts except share price and market cap in U.S....

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Growth Stocks

Here are key updates on your holdings

SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $55 is a buy. Canada’s largest integrated oil producer (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $71.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.3: Dividend yield: 4.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.suncor.com) is now raising your quarterly dividend by 4.6%....

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Dividend Stocks

RioCan slows new condo projects

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $19 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 300.4 million; Market cap: $5.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.9; Distribution yield: 5.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 186 shopping centres and other properties across Canada, including eight projects under development....

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Value Stocks

Narrower focus helps both of these leaders

Insurer Great-West Lifeco and mutual funds provider IGM Financial continue to benefit from their recent moves to focus on their core businesses. We still like both, but prefer IGM for your new buying.

GREAT-WEST LIFECO INC. $48 is a hold. The insurer (Toronto symbol GWO; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; shares outstanding: 931.2 million; Market cap: $44.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 4.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is Canada’s second-largest life insurer, after Manulife Financial....

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Mining Stocks

Nutrien’s long-term outlook is still bright

Nutrien’s shares are down over 50% from their April 2022 peak following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which caused a big spike in potash prices. However, potash supplies and prices later declined. Even so, the company’s stands to gain from a rising global population and the need for more and better food....

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Dividend Stocks

Enbridge gains from its new assets

ENBRIDGE INC. $60 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol ENB; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 2.2 billion; Market cap: $132.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.6; Dividend yield: 6.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.enbridge.com) operates pipelines that pump oil and natural gas from Western Canada to eastern Canada and the U.S....

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Dividend Stocks

Telus raises your dividend

TELUS CORP. $22 is a buy. The telecom provider (Toronto symbol T; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $33.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.6; Dividend yield: 7.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.telus.com) has 13.61 million wireless subscribers across Canada....

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Value Stocks

Good time to add these top retailers

Consumer confidence is starting to rebound now that inflation is easing and interest rates are falling.

That’s good news for these leading retailers. They should also benefit as supply chains normalize after the COVID-19 disruptions. Moreover, all three continue to trade at attractive multiples to their projected earnings and are increasing their dividends.

LOBLAW COMPANIES LTD....

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Growth Stocks

CAE winds down legacy deals

CAE INC. $30 is still a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CAE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 318.6 million; Market cap: $9.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.0; Dividend suspended in March 2020; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cae.com) is a leading maker of flight simulators for commercial and military aircraft....

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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.