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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, January 16, 2026

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, January 16, 2026

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Dividend Stocks

BCE’s capital spending set to rise

BCE INC. $34 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol BCE; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 932.5 million; Market cap: $31.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.1; Dividend yield: 5.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bce.ca) purchased Ziply Fiber in August 2025, which offers high-speed Internet access and telephone services through a fibre-optic network in Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. BCE paid $3.65 billion U.S. in cash ($5.04 billion Canadian) for this business. It also assumed $2.65 billion (Canadian) of Ziply’s debt.

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How To Invest

Here’s our Aggressive Growth Portfolio for February 2026

You Can See our Aggressive Growth Portfolio for February 2026 Here.

We designed our Portfolios to help you build the kind of portfolio we advocate. First, you should invest mainly in stocks from our “Average” or higher TSINetwork Ratings, which make up the bulk of the choices in our Portfolios.

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Growth Stocks

Updating your Aggressive stocks: Toromont, Colliers, AtkinsRealis

TOROMONT INDUSTRIES LTD. $171 (www.toromont.com) is a buy. The company distributes bulldozers, backhoe loaders and drills, mainly in eastern Canada and the U.S. It also makes refrigeration systems. The stock has gained 50% in the past year as new infrastructure projects in Ontario and Quebec are spurring demand for Toromont’s heavy equipment. The stock trades at 25.0 times the projected 2026 earnings of $6.84 a share; that’s an acceptable p/e in light of the company’s strong reputation and high market share. Toromont is a buy.

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Dividend Stocks

Slower dividend growth will spur Emera

Emera has reduced the pace of its dividend increases to help pay for new projects. While that may disappoint income-seeking investors, these new assets should drive its earnings, stock price and dividend over the next few years.

EMERA INC. $67 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol EMA; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 295.9 million; Market cap: $19.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 4.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.emera.com) owns 100% of Nova Scotia Power, that province’s main electricity supplier. It also holds 100% of Teco Energy, which supplies electricity and natural gas to 1.3 million customers in Tampa Bay, Florida.

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Growth Stocks

Quality data should lift Thomson

THOMSON REUTERS CORP. $177 is a buy for long-term gains. The company (Toronto symbol TRI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 450.5 million; Market cap: $79.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 7.7; Dividend yield: 1.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.thomsonreuters.com) sells specialized information (mainly through electronic channels) to professionals in the legal, and tax and accounting fields. It also owns the Reuters news service.

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Dividend Stocks

Use our updates to enhance your portfolio: Andrew Peller, Bombardier and Finning

ANDREW PELLER LTD. (class A) remains a buy for long-term gains and income. The company (Toronto symbols ADW.A $5.32 and ADW.B $7.00; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 43.3 million; Market cap: $305.6 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend yield: 4.6%; www.andrewpeller.com) is Canada’s second-largest wine producer after Arterra Wines.

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Energy Stocks

We still like these oil sands producers

The capture of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro by the U.S. and the Trump administration’s plan to increase oil production in that country initially hurt the stock prices of Canadian producers including Suncor and Cenovus. That’s mainly because higher production would weigh on crude prices and could displace Canadian oil at refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. However, it will take years to ramp up Venezuelan production. The situation could also spur the building of new pipelines to deliver Canadian crude to non-U.S. markets.

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Growth Stocks

CGI deal widens its global exposure

CGI INC. $131 is a buy for aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol GIB.A; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 217.2 million; Market cap: $28.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.9; Dividend yield: 0.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cgi.com) is Canada’s largest provider of computer outsourcing services. It helps its clients automate certain routine functions like accounting and buying supplies. That makes companies more efficient and lets them focus on their main businesses.

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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.