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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, May 31, 2024

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, $148.98, Toronto symbol RY, is a buy.

On March 28, 2024, Royal completed its purchase of the Canadian operations of U.K.-based HSBC Holdings plc (New York symbol HSBC) for $15.5 billion.

HSBC operates 130 branches that mainly cater to businesses in industries that trade and bank internationally....

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How To Invest

Here’s our WSSF Income-Seeking Portfolio for June 2024

You Can See Our WSSF Income-Seeking Portfolio For June 2024 Here.

This month, we are updating our WSSF Portfolio for Income-Seeking Investors.

This portfolio is a good starting point for investors who need income....

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Dividend Stocks

Updating your Income stocks: AT&T, Verizon & Quaker

AT&T INC. $17 (www.att.com) is a buy. In the quarter ended March 31, 2024, the telecom giant added 389,000 new cellphone subscribers under long-term contracts (net of cancellations)....

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Growth Stocks

Yum Brands can keep moving higher

Yum Brands’ shares have doubled from their pandemic lows. That’s mainly because it continues to expand its popular online ordering platforms and home delivery services. The company also continues to open new outlets. Moreover, franchisees operate most of these stores, which cuts Yum’s costs and lets it focus on improving its prospects with new menu items and marketing initiatives.

YUM! BRANDS INC....

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Mining Stocks

Newmont sharpens its focus

NEWMONT CORP. $42 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: $48.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.0; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.newmont.com) acquired rival Newcrest Mining Ltd....

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Growth Stocks

Use these updates to enhance your returns: Teradata, Sherwin-Williams & Sony

TERADATA CORP. $32 is still a hold. The company (New York symbol TDC; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 96.7 million; Market cap: $3.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.8; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.teradata.com) makes computers and software to capture and store large amounts of data for its clients—individual businesses....

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Growth Stocks

Quality problems weigh on Boeing

BOEING CO. $172 remains a hold. The aircraft maker (New York symbol BA; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 613.9 million; Market cap: $105.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend suspended in June 2020; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.boeing.com) delivered 83 commercial jetliners in the first quarter of 2024, down from 130 a year earlier....

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Dividend Stocks

Alliant is the better pick for a rebound

These two utilities stocks are down this past year, as high interest rates hurt investors’ demand for high-yielding dividend stocks. While both stand to gain as it looks like rates will come down later this year, we feel Alliant is the better choice for your new buying due to its lower reliance on coal....

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Growth Stocks

This spinoff needs to cut its debt

WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY INC. $7.66 is still a hold. The company (Nasdaq symbol WBD; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 2.4 billion; Market cap: $18.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.wbd.com) took its current form in April 2022 when AT&T merged its WarnerMedia business with Discovery Inc....

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Value Stocks

Stick with the former parent for now

As investors prefer “pure-play” firms that focus on a single businesses, more companies are turning to spinoffs as a way to boost their value. For example, on April 1, 2024, 3M spun off its Health Care division as an independent firm called Solventum. Shareholders received one share of Solventum for every four shares they held....

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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.