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What is Pat’s commentary for the week of October 17, 2023

Visa has been a terrific performer for our subscribers since we first recommended the stock at $19 (adjusted for share splits) in the December 2010 issue of Wall Street Stock Forecaster.

The company first sold shares to the public at $11 a share in March 2008....

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Growth Stocks

Navigating the AI Investment Hype: A Balanced Approach

Distinguishing Genuine AI Investment Opportunities from Broker/Media Spotlight - Keep reading for the full article.

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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, October 13, 2023

BLACKBERRY LIMITED, $4.73, symbol BB on Toronto, is a Waterloo-based provider of cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT) software. The company was formerly known as Research and Motion and got its current name from its BlackBerry smartphone. In January 2022, the company stopped servicing its smartphones.

On May 1, 2023, BlackBerry announced that its board of directors was initiating a strategic review of its various businesses to find possible ways to enhance shareholder value at the money-losing company....

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, October 13, 2023

AMERIGO RESOURCES LTD., $1.24, is a buy for aggressive investors. The company, symbol ARG on Toronto, processes copper and molybdenum from the waste rock of the El Teniente mine in Chile. That site is the world’s largest copper operation. Amerigo also has other deals to process material at the nearby Colihues and Cauquenes tailings ponds.

It currently gets 94% of its revenue from processing copper....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, October 13, 2023

SUNCOR ENERGY INC., $46.74, Toronto symbol SU, is a buy.

The company is Canada’s largest integrated oil firm, with major projects in the Alberta oil sands. It also operates four refineries (three in Canada and one in Colorado), along with 1,875 Petro-Canada gas stations.

With the December 2022 payment, Suncor raised your quarterly dividend by 10.6%, to $0.52 a share from $0.47....

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, October 13, 2023

NEWMONT CORP., $39.43, New York symbol NEM, remains a buy for your long-term growth and as a hedge against inflation.

The company is the world’s largest gold miner, with major mines in North America, South America, Australia, and Africa. In addition to gold, it also produces copper, silver, lead and zinc.

Newmont has re-opened its Penasquito mine in Mexico after the union representing its workers agreed to a new four-year contract....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, October 13, 2023

NUTRIEN LTD., $82.52, Toronto symbol NTR, is still a buy for the Resources portion of your portfolio.

The company is the world’s largest producer of agricultural fertilizers. It took its current form on January 1, 2018, when Agrium Inc. (old symbol AGU) merged with rival Potash Corp....

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Value Stocks

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IGM FINANCIAL INC. $34 is a buy. The mutual fund seller’s (Toronto symbol IGM; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 237.8 million; Market cap: $8.1 billion; Price-to-Sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 6.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.igmfinancial.com) fee income rises and falls with the value of the mutual funds and other securities it manages.

Thanks to rebounding stock markets, IGM’s assets under management (and advisement) rose 9.9%, to $261.7 billion as of September 30, 2023, from $238.1 billion a year earlier....

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Growth Stocks

High interest rates could hurt orders

BOMBARDIER INC. is a hold. The company (Toronto symbols BBD.A $50 and BBD.B $50; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 95.3 million; Market cap: $4.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend suspended in February 2015; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.bombardier.com) now focuses solely on making private luxury and business jet planes following the January 2021 sale of its passenger railcar business to France’s Alstom SA....

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Energy Stocks

Cenovus continues to cut debt

CENOVUS ENERGY INC. $28 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CVE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.9 billion; Market cap: $53.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.9; Dividend yield 2.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cenovus.com) is now Canada’s third-largest producer of oil and natural gas after Canadian Natural Resources and Suncor....

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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.