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CAE recently agreed to sell its healthcare business, which makes medical-simulators and mannequins for training health professionals. That will let it better focus on its main flight simulator and pilot-training operations, particularly as the global air travel industry will need 1.3 million new pilots, aircraft maintenance technicians and cabin crew over the next 10 years....

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Growth Stocks

Thomson keeps rewarding investors

THOMSON REUTERS CORP. $178 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol TRI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 455.3 million; Market cap: $81.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 8.7; Dividend yield: 1.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.thomsonreuters.com) continues to wind down its indirect stake in financial information provider Refinitiv....

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Energy Stocks

Here are key updates on your holdings

SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $43 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares o/s: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $55.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1: Dividend yield: 4.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.suncor.com) recently announced a new strategy under which it will focus on its core oil sands projects in Alberta and improve its efficiency.

Under that plan, Suncor has now agreed to buy French oil producer TotalEnergies SE’s remaining Canadian operations, including its 31.23% stake in Alberta’s Fort Hills oil sands project, for $1.47 billion....

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Growth Stocks

This transformation is paying off

SHAWCOR LTD. $15 remains a buy for aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol MATR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 70.5 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend suspended in March 2020; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mattr.com) is now selling most of its pipeline coating business to Tenaris S.A....

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Value Stocks

Infrastructure spending will spur these two

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments in Canada and elsewhere continue to invest in new public works projects such as roads, mass transit systems and hospitals. Those investments are fuelling strong orders for these two dealers of heavy construction equipment as well as demand for their maintenance and repair services.

FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Royal Bank’s outlook remains bright

Royal Bank’s shares are down roughly 17% from their recent peak of $140 in February 2023. That’s mainly due to fears that higher interest rates will hurt new loan demand and lead to more writedowns of its current loans.

However, banking regulators have toughened lending standards and mortgage stress-test levels in the past few years....

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Blue Chip Stocks

CN invests in Nova Scotia

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO. $152 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CNR; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 655.6 million; Market cap: $99.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 6.0; Dividend yield: 2.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.cn.ca) operates Canada’s largest railway....

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Dividend Stocks

Telus raises your dividend

TELUS CORP. $24 is still your #1 Income Buy for 2023. The company (Toronto symbol T; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $33.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.8; Dividend yield: 6.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.telus.com) is Canada’s second-largest wireless carrier after BCE....

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Mining Stocks

Three more high-quality Resource buys

We continue to recommend all investors maintain some exposure to the Resources sector—typically about 20% of your total portfolio. That’s mainly because resource stocks act as a hedge against inflation.

To further cut your risk, investors should stick with producers, such as the three we analyze below, with large reserves and low-cost operations....

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Dividend Stocks

BCE cuts capital spending

BCE INC. $53 is a buy. Canada’s largest provider of telecommunication services (Toronto symbol BCE; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 912.3 million; Market cap: $48.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.0; Dividend yield: 7.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bce.ca) plans to cut its capital spending in response to a decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that forces it to open its high-speed Internet systems in Ontario and Quebec to smaller competitors.

Since 2020, BCE has spent $18 billion on upgrades to its fibre-optic Internet and wireless networks....

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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.

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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.