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These REITs offer growth and high income

While higher interest rates have increased the appeal of bonds and hurt REITs in the past year, Choice Properties and RioCan remain excellent ways for investors to earn income. We see both as buys.

CHOICE PROPERTIES REIT, $12.95, is a buy. Canada’s biggest REIT (Toronto symbol CHP.UN; Units o/s: 327.9 million; Market cap: $9.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.9%; www.choicereit.ca) owns 705 retail, industrial, office space and residential properties with 66.1 million square feet of gross leasable area....

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ETFs

This solar ETF is a buy

INVESCO SOLAR ETF, $48.53, is a buy for aggressive investors. The ETF (New York symbol TAN; buy or sell through brokers) tracks solar-related companies (including technology firms and utilities) listed on global exchanges.

Its top holdings are First Solar (China; solar panels) at 16.0%; Enphase Energy (U.S.; home solar systems), 9.3%; NEXTracker Inc....

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ETFs

Here are two top ETFs for your foreign gains

Generally speaking, Canadians are blocked from buying mutual funds that are registered in the U.S. unless those funds are also registered with provincial securities commissions. (Moreover, some Canadian mutual funds are only available in a limited number of provinces.)

Investors in this country can, however, buy exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, listed on U.S....

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Blue Chip Stocks

TD moving forward

TD BANK, $76.62, is a #1 Buy for 2024. The lender (Toronto symbol TD; Shares o/s: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $134.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.3%; www.td.com) cancelled its deal to acquire First Horizon Corporation (New York symbol FHN) for $13.4 billion U.S....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Scotiabank remains a Big Five buy

We’ve long said that the top five Canadian banks tend to leapfrog each other in investment desirability. That’s why we suggest that most Canadians own two or even three of them—including Bank of Nova Scotia. Its cheap price, prospects for growth and its high yield make it a buy.

BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, $64.99, is a buy. The lender (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $79.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.5%; www.scotiabank.com) is Canada’s third-largest bank.

Due to current economic uncertainty as a result of relatively high interest rates and inflation, Bank of Nova Scotia set aside $1.01 billion to cover future loan losses in its fiscal 2024 second quarter, ended April 30, 2024....

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How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of June 4, 2024

High-quality utility stocks, with their high dividend yields and steady or rising income streams, tend to be sensitive to interest rate increases. TC Energy is no exception. The rise in interest rates in the past couple of years helped push its share price down nearly 30%.

The outlook for interest rates is still uncertain, but TC now offers an attractive buying opportunity, starting with its sustainable dividend yield of 7.4%....

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How To Invest

Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, May 31, 2024

BEDFORD METALS CORP., $2.18, symbol BFM on Toronto Venture Exchange, is a mineral exploration company based in Vancouver.

The company has two main projects in development: The Margurete gold project, a 687-hectare property 200 kilometres northwest of Vancouver; and the Ubiquity Lake uranium project, covering 1,382 hectares and located in the Athabasca Basin in Northern Saskatchewan.

Bedford continues to pursue further opportunities in the uranium sector, again targeting the promising Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan.

The Athabasca Basin is known for hosting some of the world’s highest-grade uranium deposits....

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How To Invest

Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, May 31, 2024

MERCK & CO. INC., $125.54, is a buy. The drugmaker (symbol MRK on New York) is a pharmaceutical leader in oncology, acute-care and animal health drugs as well as vaccines.

Merck has just agreed to acquire privately held biotech EyeBio for as much as $3 billion....

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How To Invest

Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, May 31, 2024

TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, $76.20, Toronto symbol TD, is still a buy.

With the January 2024 payment, TD raised your quarterly dividend by 6.3%. Investors now receive $1.02 a share instead of $0.96. The new annual rate of $4.08 yields a solid 5.4%.

The lender recently set aside $615 million (or $450 million U.S.) for fines it expects to pay due to lapses in its anti-money laundering processes at its U.S....

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How To Invest

Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, May 31, 2024

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC., $194.99, Nasdaq symbol TXN, is still a buy.

The company is a leading maker of analog chips. Its products convert inputs, like touch, sound and pressure, into electronic signals that computers can understand.

Texas Instruments is now building a new facility in Sherman, Texas, to house as many as four new chipmaking plants....

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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.