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Q: Hope you are enjoying the summer weather—it will be winter before we know it! What do you think about the Vanguard FTSE Developed All Cap Ex North America Index ETF (symbol VIU on Toronto)? Thanks.

A: Vanguard FTSE Developed All Cap ex North America Index ETF, $34.74, symbol VIU on Toronto (Units outstanding: 128.8 million; Market cap: $4.5 billion; vanguard.ca), tracks the FTSE Developed All Cap ex North America Index....

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Q: Hey, Pat. Thanks for all the good advice! It has kept me out of a couple of bad stocks. What do you think about Sprouts Farmers Market? Thanks again.

A: Sprouts Farmers Market Inc., $96.02, symbol SFM on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 100.5 million; Market cap: $8.5 billion; www.sprouts.com), is one of the largest specialty retailers of fresh, natural and organic food in the U.S....

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Q: Can I get TSI’s take on K92 Mining as a stock to consider adding to my holdings? Thanks.

A: K92 Mining Inc., $7.67, symbol KNT on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 236.7 million; Market cap: $1.8 billion; www.k92mining.com), produces gold, copper and silver at its Kainantu gold mine in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea....

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Q: I really enjoy your Inner Circle emails. Can I get your opinion on Ingersoll Rand? Thanks.

A: Ingersoll Rand Inc., $98.60, symbol IR on New York, (Shares outstanding: 403.4 million; Market cap: $39.8 billion; www.ingersollrand.com), offers a broad range of air, gas, liquid, and solid flow technologies, providing services and solutions to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability.

The company manufactures one of the broadest and most complete ranges of compressors, pump, vacuum and blower products in its markets....

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Q: Would you please give us your opinion about FOREX trading. Thank you very much.

A: Dealing in foreign currency futures or options can make sense for a business that is forced to take on unacceptable currency risk. Futures or options let the business pass off that risk to speculators who wish to accept it. That’s the textbook explanation for the existence of futures or options.

Textbooks often fail to mention that most speculators who succumb to the lure of futures and options trading wind up losing money....

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What is Pat’s commentary for the week of July 30th, 2024

“FOREX trading” is something our members ask about from time to time. Our first question below has a longer-than-usual explanation that ties it in with similar items you’ll find in the “trading-masquerading-as-investing” bin.

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, July 26, 2024

ALPHABET INC., Nasdaq symbols GOOG $168.68 [class C: non-voting] and GOOGL $167.00 [class A: one vote per share], is your #1 Aggressive buy for 2024.

The company is the parent of Google, the world’s leading Internet search engine—it handles over 80% of global search requests....

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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, July 26, 2024

C3.AI Inc., $27.73, symbol AI on New York, makes software for corporations to speed up their deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

The company was founded in 2009 by Thomas Siebel. Prior to founding C3.ai, he created Siebel Systems in 1993....

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, July 26, 2024

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP., $74.92, is a buy. The company (symbol BSX on New York) develops and markets medical devices used in minimally invasive procedures. Its products are used for angioplasty (blood vessel repair), blood clot filtration, cardiac rhythm management, catheter-aided ultrasound imaging, and many other surgical procedures....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, July 26, 2024

CHOICE PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, $14.21, is a top pick for 2024.

Choice is Canada’s biggest REIT, with 702 retail, industrial and residential properties totalling 65.9 million square feet of gross leasable area. Its occupancy rate is a high 98.0%....

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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.