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What is Pat’s commentary for the week of August 7, 2024

We believe that virtually all investors should have some gold exposure, if only because inflation remains a risk for the long term. High-quality gold producers are your most practical choice. That’s because these stocks let you profit from increases in the price of gold, without the costs for storage and insurance that come with gold coin and bullion investment....

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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, August 2, 2024

SLEEP COUNTRY CANADA HOLDINGS INC., $34.92, symbol ZZZ on Toronto, is Canada’s dominant specialty mattress retailer. The company operates 307 stores nationwide, along with 18 distribution centres. Its product offerings include mattress sets and sleep-related accessories such as bed frames, pillows, mattress pads, sheets, duvets, headboards, footboards and platforms.

Stephen Gunn, Christine Magee and Gord Lownds founded Sleep Country in Vancouver in 1994....

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, August 2, 2024

GARMIN LTD., $168.52, is a buy. The company (symbol GRMN on Nasdaq) makes GPS devices and software for five different markets: fitness, outdoors, auto, aviation, and marine.

In the three months ended June 29, 2024, Garmin’s overall revenue rose 14.1%, to $1.51 billion from $1.32 billion a year earlier.

Sales in the marine segment rose 26%....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, August 2, 2024

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO., $155.73, Toronto symbol CNR, remains a buy for long-term gains.

CN operates Canada’s largest railway. Its 30,250-kilometre network stretches across the country. It also travels down through the U.S. Midwest, connecting Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

The company last raised your quarterly dividend with the March 2024 payment....

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, August 2, 2024

MCDONALD’S CORP., $276.69, New York symbol MCD, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2024.

The company is the world’s largest fast-food chain with over 42,000 restaurants in 119 countries. It serves a wide variety of food but is best known for its hamburgers and french fries.

McDonald’s has increased its selling prices in response to rising labour and other operating costs....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, August 2, 2024

CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY LTD., $109.26, Toronto symbol CP, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2024.

The company took its current form in April 2023 when it acquired U.S.-based railway Kansas City Southern.

CP paid $31 billion U.S....

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Here’s our CWA Safety-Conscious Stock Portfolio for August 2024

You Can See Our CWA Safety-Conscious Stock Portfolio For August 2024 Here.

We think investors will profit most—and with the least risk—by buying shares of well-established companies with strong business prospects and strong positions in healthy industries....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Loblaw settles bread lawsuit

LOBLAW COMPANIES, $170.25, is a buy. The retailer (Toronto symbol L; Shares outstanding: 305.9 million; Market cap: $51.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.2%; www.loblaw.ca) and its parent company George Weston Ltd....

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Dividend Stocks

These safety-conscious stocks remain buys

CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY, $115.78, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CP; shares outstanding: 932.7 million; Market cap: $106.1 billion; Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 0.7%) ships freight over a 32,190-kilometre rail network....

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Dividend Stocks

H&R sharpens its focus

H&R REIT, $9.61, is a buy. Through your units in this REIT (Toronto symbol HR.UN; Units outstanding: 262.0 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 6.2%; www.hr-reit.com) you tap income from 382 residential, industrial, office and retail properties in Canada and the U.S....

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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.