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In the past few years, IBM has shifted its focus to its more-profitable cloud computing, consulting and mainframe businesses. It now gets over 75% of its revenue from software and consulting services. The shift has paid off, with the stock recently hitting an all-time high....

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Q: Hello. I would be interested in your thoughts on Hudbay Minerals on Toronto. Thanks.

A: Hudbay Minerals Inc., $9.63, symbol HBM on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 497.8 million; Market cap: $3.3 billion; www.hudbayminerals.com), is a Canadian mining company with properties in the U.S....

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Q: Pat, I have followed your recommendations for years and have built a good portfolio on them. I have a question. What do you think of Canadian Apartment Properties REIT’s prospects going forward? Thank you.

A: Canadian Apartment Properties REIT, $45.10, symbol CAR.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 167.6 million; Market cap: $7.8 billion; www.capreit.ca) owns multi-unit residential properties, including apartments, townhomes and manufactured home communities (trailer parks)....

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Q: May I have your recommendation for Sysco Corp. on New York? Thanks.

A: Sysco Corp., $80.59, symbol SYY on New York (Shares outstanding: 497.8 million; Market cap: $40.1 billion; www.sysco.com), is a global leader in food distribution. It operates 334 distribution facilities worldwide, serving approximately 725,000 customer locations.

Those include restaurants, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, schools and colleges, hotels and motels, industrial caterers and other similar venues where foodservice products are served....

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What is Pat’s commentary for the week of April 2, 2024

A subscriber recently wrote to ask about bitcoin:

“Pat, I know you’ve never been fond of bitcoin, but could it be that now is a good time to buy? It seems to be moving into the mainstream. I believe bitcoin is already legal tender in a handful of countries....

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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Thursday, March 28, 2024

FIVE BELOW INC., $181.38, symbol FIVE on Nasdaq, is a retailer that offers a broad range of merchandise for teen and pre-teen customers. Most of its products are priced between $1 and $5. However, in recent years, it has added merchandise priced above $5 through its Five Below and Beyond format....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Thursday, March 28, 2024

J.P. MORGAN CHASE & CO., $200.30, New York symbol JPM, is a buy.

Morgan is the largest banking firm in the U.S., with total assets of $3.89 trillion as of December 31, 2023.

With the April 2024 payment, Morgan will increase your quarterly dividend by 9.5%, to $1.15 a share from $1.05....

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Thursday, March 28, 2024

GARMIN LTD., $148.87, is a buy. The company (symbol GRMN on Nasdaq) makes GPS devices and software for five different markets: fitness, outdoors, auto, aviation, and marine.

As part of its marketing efforts, Garmin forms a Marine Team of professional anglers each year....

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Thursday, March 28, 2024

MCDONALD’S CORP., $281.95, New York symbol MCD, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2024.

The company is the world’s largest fast-food chain with over 40,000 restaurants in 119 countries. It serves a wide variety of food but is best known for its hamburgers and french fries.

McDonald’s has formed a new, exclusive alliance with Krispy Kreme Inc....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Thursday, March 28, 2024

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, $136.62, Toronto symbol RY, is a buy.

The bank expects to complete its $13.5-billion purchase of the Canadian operations of U.K.-based HSBC Holdings plc (New York symbol HSBC) next week. To put that amount in context, Royal’s market cap (the total value of all outstanding shares) is $191.1 billion.

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

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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.

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.