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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, August 25, 2023

BLOOMIN’ BRANDS INC., $26.75, symbol BLMN on Nasdaq, owns and franchises more than 1,475 restaurants in 47 states and 13 countries. Its restaurant brands include Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s Italian Grill and Bonefish Grill. The Tampa Bay, Florida-based company owns about 80% of those restaurants, with the rest franchised.

On August 18, 2023, activist investor Starboard Value filed documents with the U.S....

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, August 25, 2023

THE TJX COMPANIES, $88.82, is still a buy. The business (symbol TJX on New York) is a leading off-price retailer of clothing, accessories and home fashions. Off-price retailers purchase merchandise at below-wholesale prices and charge less than retail prices.

Through their shares, investors tap a network of stores....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, August 25, 2023

SUNCOR ENERGY INC., $44.77, 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, August 25, 2023

NVIDIA CORP., $460.18, Nasdaq symbol NVDA, remains a buy, but only for highly aggressive investors.

The company is a leading designer of 3D-capable video chips; they make video games run more smoothly and appear more lifelike. Nvidia has also adapted its chips for other applications, including artificial intelligence (AI), datacentres and self-driving cars.

The stock gained 8% this week after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results but also increased its forecast revenue for the current quarter....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, August 25, 2023

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, $121.02, Toronto symbol RY, is a buy.

The bank continues to benefit from higher interest income on its loans due to higher interest rates. As well, it cut the number of full-time employees by 1% in the latest quarter, and it plans to further reduce headcount by 1% to 2% in the current quarter.

In its 2023 third quarter, ended July 31, 2023, Royal’s earnings before unusual items rose 11.4%, to $2.84 a share (or a total of $3.96 billion) from $2.55 a share (or $3.56 billion) a year earlier....

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Here’s our WSSF Income-Seeking Portfolio for September 2023

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

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

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Dividend Stocks

Updating your Income stocks: Alliant Energy, Ameren & Ceder Fair

ALLIANT ENERGY CORP. $51 (www.alliantenergy.com) is a buy. The company sells power and natural gas to 1.4 million clients in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota....

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Dividend Stocks

Verizon’s dividend still looks safe

Shares of Verizon are down 17% since the start of 2023, mainly because income-seeking investors are shifting to bonds, which offer similar yields. The possibility that the company will have to replace those old telephone lines with lead sheathing have also hurt the stock....

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Growth Stocks

Becton moves beyond COVID

BECTON DICKINSON & CO. $277 is a buy. The company (New York symbol BDX; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 283.9 million; Market cap: $78.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.2; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bd.com) makes a variety of medical devices, including stents, catheters, needles, incontinence devices and surgical tools.

In its fiscal 2023 third quarter, ended June 30, 2023, Becton’s revenue rose 5.1%, to $4.88 billion from $4.64 billion a year earlier....

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Value Stocks

Use these updates to enhance your returns

DUN & BRADSTREET HOLDINGS INC. $11 remains a buy. The company (New York symbol DNB; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 439.2 million; Market cap: $4.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.0; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.dnb.com) is a global provider of information and data analytics....

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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.