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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, July 26, 2024

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO., $159.60, 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 stock fell 4% this week after the company reported lower-than-expected quarterly results....

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Dividend Stocks

Here’s our Conservative Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio for August 2024

You Can See Our Conservative Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio for August 2024 Here.

You can’t fake a record of dividends....

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Dividend Stocks

Updating your Conservative-Growth Payers: Power Corp. of Canada

POWER CORP. OF CANADA $39 is a buy. The conglomerate (Toronto symbol POW; Conservative-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 649.2 million; Market cap: $25.3 billion; Dividend yield: 5.8%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.powercorporation.com) holds controlling stakes in Canadian financial services firms Great-West Lifeco (insurance) and IGM Financial (mutual funds)....

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Dividend Stocks

AbbVie’s new drugs will spur your dividend

Sales of drug maker AbbVie’s main product, Humira, have suffered lately due to competition from generic versions. However, recent acquisitions have strengthened the pharmaceutical giant’s development portfolio; that bodes well for more dividend increases.

ABBVIE INC....

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Dividend Stocks

PepsiCo faces two challenges

PEPSICO INC. $168 is a hold. The company (Nasdaq symbol PEP; Conservative-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $235.2 billion; Dividend yield: 3.2%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.pepsico.com) is the world’s second-largest soft-drink maker after Coca-Cola....

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Dividend Stocks

Use these key updates to build your returns

CALIAN GROUP LTD. $56 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CGY; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 11.9 million; Market cap: $666.4 million; Dividend yield: 2.0%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.calian.com) provides business services to the healthcare, defence, security, aerospace, engineering, agriculture and technology industries.

Calian pays a quarterly dividend of $0.28 a share; the annual rate of $1.12 yields 2.0%....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

High R&D will boost Gen Digital

GEN DIGITAL INC. $25 is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol GEN; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares o/s: 626.1 million; Market cap: $15.7 billion; Dividend yield: 2.0%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Average; www.gendigital.com) owns several security-related consumer brands, including Norton, LifeLock, and Avast, in addition to Avira, AVG, and CCleaner.

The company last raised your quarterly dividend by 66.7% in December 2019....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Lower rates are good news for these banks

It now looks like the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut its benchmark interest rate in the next few months. Lower rates would ease the pressure on borrowers looking to renew mortgages and other loans at these two leading U.S. banks. They will also have to pay out less to attract depositors....

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Dividend Stocks

Fast-food giants continue to expand in China

Even though China’s economic growth as slowed lately, these two fast-food giants continue to expand in that country. We feel these investments will ultimately pay off, which will let them keep raising their dividends.

STARBUCKS CORP. $75 is a buy for aggressive investors. The company (Nasdaq symbol SBUX; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 1.13 billion; Market cap: $84.8 billion; Dividend yield: 3.0%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.starbucks.com) is a leading seller and roaster of specialty coffee....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Solid purchase for Broadridge

BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS INC. $203 is a buy. The company (New York symbol BR; High-Growth Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 118.2 million; Market cap: $24.0 billion; Dividend yield: 1.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.broadridge.com) is best known for processing and distributing proxies and regulatory filings....

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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.