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PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. $169 is a buy. The consumer products giant (New York symbol PG; Income-Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 2.35 billion; Market cap: $397.2 billion; Dividend yield: 2.4%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.pg.com) raised your quarterly dividend by 7.0% with the May 2024 payment....

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Dividend Stocks

High R&D fuels their gains and your income

Tech stocks are highly cyclical, which adds risk. They are also vulnerable to rapidly changing technology and trends. That’s why it’s best to stick with market leaders like these two, which have the ability to finance big investments in research and development—and pay dependable dividends!

MICROSOFT CORP....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

These niche retailers offer solid yields

Here are two retailers that continue to pay investors regular dividends with above-average yields. Their leading positions in niche markets continue to spur their earnings, and that gives them more room to keep raising your dividends.

NORTH WEST COMPANY $45 is a buy. This retailer (Toronto symbol NWC; High-Growth Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 47.6 million; Market cap: $2.1 billion; Dividend yield: 3.5%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.northwest.ca) sells food and everyday products and services at 227 stores, mainly in northern communities across Canada, as well as in Alaska, the South Pacific and the Caribbean.

With the October 2023 payment, North West raised your quarterly dividend by 2.6%....

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Dividend Stocks

Here’s a sustainable 5.6% yield

BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE PARTNERS L.P. $34 is a buy. The partnership (Toronto symbol BEP.UN; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Units outstanding: 659.2 million; Market cap: $22.4 billion; Distribution yield: 5.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.bep.brookfield.com) owns 237 hydroelectric generating stations, 183 wind farms, 225 solar facilities, and 6,964 distributed generation and energy storage sites.

With the March 2024 payment, Brookfield raised the quarterly distribution by 5.2%....

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Dividend Stocks

Trimming their payouts have cut your risk

These green energy producers are cutting your dividends as they focus on their more-profitable operations. Those moves, however, should stabilize their long-term cash flows and make their current payments more sustainable.

ALGONQUIN POWER & UTILITIES CORP....

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Dividend Stocks

A Yield to Caution

TD 1ST PREFERRED CLASS A SERIES 1 $24.54 (Toronto symbol TD.PF.A) is a preferred share issue from TD Bank (Toronto symbol TD).

The TD Series 1 Preferred yields 3.8%. That’s lower than the 5.1% offered by the bank’s common shares.

Note, though, that preferred shares behave more like long-term fixed-income instruments than they do short-term instruments....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

We expect another 51 years of annual dividend hikes from Walmart

Walmart’s shares are up about 44% in the past year, as the retail giant continues to draw cost-conscious consumers to its stores and websites.

We expect the stock will keep rising in the next few years, thanks to Walmart’s strong attention to efficiency....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Diageo feels consumer cost-cutting

DIAGEO PLC ADR $133 is a hold. The company (New York symbol DEO; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; ADRs outstanding: 560.0 million; Market cap: $74.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.7; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.diageo.com) is a leading maker of premium alcoholic beverages.

In its 2024 fiscal year, ended June 30, 2024, Diageo’s sales fell 1.4%, to $20.27 billion from $20.56 billion a year earlier....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Solventum needs time to match 3M’s appeal

On April 1, 2024, 3M spun off its Health Care business as an independent firm called Solventum. Shareholders received one share of Solventum for every four 3M shares they held. 3M still owns 19.9% of Solventum, but plans to sell those shares over the next five years....

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Mining Stocks

Tap into rising gold prices

NEWMONT CORP. $52 is a buy for long-term growth and as a hedge against inflation. The company (New York symbol NEM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.15 billion; Market cap: $59.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.6; Dividend yield: 1.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.newmont.com) acquired rival Newcrest Mining Ltd....

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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.

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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.

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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.