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Distribution hikes are a sign of confidence

These two REITs focus mainly on retail shopping malls, which adds risk. However, their high-quality properties continue to attract new tenants and help retain existing ones. As a result, both REITs recently raised their distributions.

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $18 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Units outstanding: 300.5 million; Market cap: $5.4 billion; Dividend yield: 6.2%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 188 shopping centres and other properties across Canada, including nine under development, three of which are 100% owned, while the other six are co-owned....

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Dividend Stocks

A Yield to Caution: Automotive Properties REIT

AUTOMOTIVE PROPERTIES REIT $10 (Toronto symbol APR.UN; Units outstanding: 39.7 million; Market cap: $397.0 million; Dividend yield: 8.0%; www.automotivereit.ca) is a real estate investment trust that owns 77 commercial properties across cities in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, B.C....

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Dividend Stocks

Our top REIT pick for 2024: Choice Properties REIT

In May 2018, Choice Properties REIT acquired Canadian REIT (old symbol REF.UN) for $1.85 billion in cash and 182.8 million units. The merger helped diversify its operations with 209 industrial and office properties.

Choice has since sold its office properties to focus on retail stores and warehouses....

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How To Invest

Here’s our WSSF Aggressive Growth Portfolio for May 2024

You Can See Our WSSF Aggressive-Growth Portfolio For May Here.

We designed our TSINetwork Ratings to give you an idea of the investment quality and risk in s...

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Value Stocks

Updating our Aggressive stocks: Gen Digital, Tennant & Molson Coors

GEN DIGITAL INC. $21 (www.gendigital.com) is a buy. The company is the parent company for several cybersecurity-related brands including Norton, LifeLock, and Avast....

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Growth Stocks

Spinoff will unlock Baxter’s value

Medical device maker Baxter will soon spin off its kidney care business as a separate firm. That should help unlock some of its value, in part because the stock market finds it easier to value “pure-play” firms that focus on a single business. Longer-term, the new Baxter should also benefit from an aging population and the shift to tele-medicine.

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC....

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Value Stocks

Nordstrom is now a takeover target

NORDSTROM INC. $19 remains a hold. The company (New York symbol JWN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 160.1 million; Market cap: $3.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.2; Dividend yield: 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.nordstrom.com) owns and operates 359 department stores in the U.S....

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Growth Stocks

Three more updates to protect your returns

NEWELL BRANDS INC. $7.04 remains a hold. The company (Nasdaq symbol NWL; Aggressive Growth and Income Portfolios, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 414.3 million; Market cap: $2.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; Dividend yield: 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.newellbrands.com) makes a wide range of consumer and household products such as PaperMate pens, Elmer’s glue, Rubbermaid food containers, Graco baby strollers, Coleman camping gear and Oster kitchen appliances.

Under a new restructuring plan, Newell is shifting its focus to its most-profitable 25 brands and top 10 countries, which represent about 90% of sales....

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Growth Stocks

R&D improves FICO scores

FAIR ISAAC CORP. $1,193 remains a buy for highly aggressive investors. The company (New York symbol FICO; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 24.9 million; Market cap: $29.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 19.4; Dividend suspended June 2017; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.fico.com) spends a high 11% on developing new products.

Thanks to those investments, the company recently launched its FICO Score 10 T scoring model....

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Value Stocks

Top banks still attractive after recent gains

J.P. Morgan’s shares are up 12% since the start of 2024, while Wells Fargo has gained 24%. That’s largely because higher interest rates have increased their revenue. At the same time, loan provisions remain low in relation to their loan portfolios. Moreover, both stocks continue to trade at attractive multiples to their earnings.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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