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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, November 21, 2025

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Growth Stocks

Long-time readers know that we aim to keep you informed of important news about the stocks we cover. That means highlighting developments and plans that promise to bolster investor gains. Here are two buys that stand out this month:

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC., $573.79, is a buy. The company (New York symbol TMO; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.thermofisher.com; Shares outstanding: 375.7 million; Market cap: $215.6 billion; Dividend yield: 0.3%) has agreed to acquire Clario Holdings, a leading provider of endpoint data solutions for clinical trials. The purchase price is $8.875 billion in cash at closing plus potential additional earnout and other payments in the future. Those are tied to performance.

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Growth Stocks

This stock offers limited prospects

You should remain wary of stocks that attract broker/media attention because of high-profile products or services, and their business models. Here’s a closer look at one stock with risks that prospective investors should take into consideration:

WAYFAIR INC., $97.94, (New York symbol W; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.wayfair.com; Shares outstanding: 130.3 million; Market cap: $12.8 billion; No dividends paid) is one of the world’s largest online destinations for home furnishings. Through its e-commerce platform, the company offers furniture, décor, housewares and home improvement products.

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Growth Stocks

Here’s our Power Recommendation Portfolio for December 2025

Understanding our recommendations: Power Buy—These stocks are our top choices for new buying now. We feel each currently offers the best combination of fundamentals (earnings, sales, cash flow and so on) plus external factors (industry trends and the current share price) to give it a chance of above-average gains. Buy—high-quality stocks with strong growth prospects. However, they are likely to grow at a slower rate than our Power Buys. Sell—these are stocks that no longer inspire our confidence. As Power Growth Investor focuses on maximizing profits for aggressive investors, we prefer to sell poorly performing stocks instead of holding them and waiting for a rebound.

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Growth Stocks

Buy these two healthcare pacesetters: ResMed and Boston Scientific

The pandemic presented both of these firms with unique challenges. However, each remained profitable and is well positioned to keep prospering as the economy continues to rebound. Trends now underway—as well as the strong position of these firms in key markets—will power their gains. Both are buys.

RESMED INC., $244.99, is a buy. The company (New York symbol RMD; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.resmed.com; Shares outstanding: 146.0 million; Market cap: $35.8 billion; Dividend yield: 1.0%) helps investors tap the growing market for medical devices used to treat sleep apnea. ResMed’s CPAP (nasal continuous positive airway pressure) devices are also used to treat patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as other respiratory conditions.

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Dividend Stocks

Wajax offers improving prospects—plus a high yield

Wajax investors benefit from the company’s (symbol WJX on Toronto) sales and servicing of cranes, forklifts and other heavy equipment. Wajax also provides related parts and systems such as ball bearings, hoses, diesel engines and transmissions.

WAJAX CORP., $26.95, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol WJX; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.wajax.ca; Shares outstanding: 21.8 million; Market cap: $586.1 million; Dividend yield: 5.2%) has customers spread across the resources, construction, manufacturing and transportation industries.

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Growth Stocks

Calian plans to sharpen its focus

CALIAN GROUP, $48.57, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CGY; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (calian.com; Shares outstanding: 11.3 million; Market cap: $551.0 million; Dividend yield: 2.3%) now plans to sell parts of its business and also seek new board members.

That’s after it entered into a co-operation agreement with 5%-shareholder Plantro Ltd. Planto has been pressuring Calian to sell its underperforming IT and cyber solutions division, which includes its two U.S. offices.

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Growth Stocks

Tap the prospects of these two leaders

Garmin is a leader in GPS devices and software for a range of markets. ADT keeps signing up new security customers at the same time it retains more and more of its existing ones. The company’s expanded services help drive that growth. We think both stocks are attractive buys.

GARMIN LTD., $189.62, is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol GRMN; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (Shares outstanding: 192.3 million; Market cap: $36.5 billion; Dividend yield: 1.9%) makes GPS devices and software for five different markets: fitness, outdoors, auto, aviation, and marine.

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These ‘AI buys’ should spur your returns

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an example of an investment idea that could boost your investment returns, or, more likely, end up costing you money. All in all, we think that the biggest, surest gains from AI will come from investing in established businesses that are already profitable and growing, and that can gain all the more by applying AI to their operations.

Here are two companies that are already profitably taking advantage of AI, and they should be among the leaders in the push to extend AI’s use.

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Growth Stocks

Chipotle should see lower beef prices

CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL, $31.00, is a buy. The company (New York symbol CMG; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.chipotle.com; Shares outstanding: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $41.0 billion; No dividends paid.) continues to be hurt by high beef prices, especially for its smoked brisket. However, prices may now be entering a downward trend.

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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.