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Growth Stocks

You should remain wary of stocks that attract broker/media praise for their high-profile products and their business models. Here’s an example of a stock to avoid:

SPIN MASTER CORP., $33.31, (Toronto symbol TOY; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.spinmaster.com; Shares o/s: 32.3 million; Market cap: $3.4 billion; Dividend yield: 0.7%) designs and markets children’s toys, games and puzzles....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Travel rebound will keep spurring these two

The coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of most vacation plans. However, the reopening of the economy has spurred strong demand for travel—and both Wyndham, and Travel + Leisure should benefit from that surge. We see each as a buy.

WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, $71.33, is suitable for your new buying. The company (New York symbol WH; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.wyndhamhotels.com; Shares o/s: 88.3 million; Market cap: $6.4 billion; Dividend yield: 1.8%) is the world’s largest hotel franchiser, with 836,000 rooms spread across 9,100 hotels in more than 95 countries....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Here are updates on two of your buys

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

CALIAN GROUP, $66.52, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CGY; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (calian.com; Shares outstanding: 11.6 million; Market cap: $759.5 million; Dividend yield: 1.7%) lets investors benefit from its four operating segments: Advanced Technologies; Health; Learning; and Information Technology & Cyber Solutions.

Ottawa-based Calian’s focus on secure Canadian government contracts continues to pay off in a big way.

In the three months ended September 30, 2022, revenue rose 25.8%, to a record $160.6 million from $127.6 million a year earlier....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Disney appoints a new (old) CEO

WALT DISNEY CO., $94.15, is a buy. The company (New York symbol DIS; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average) (www.disney.com; Shares o/s: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $172.7 billion; No dividend) has replaced its chief executive Bob Chapek with Robert Iger, the former chairman and CEO who left the company at the end of last year....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Corteva expands into natural crop protection

Corteva’s outlook remains positive, along with its industry fundamentals. Those bright prospects are supported by rising long-term demand for agricultural products. In addition, farmers will continue to seek improved crop quality and higher yields, which ought to increase demand for Corteva’s seed and crop protection markets. It’s a Power Buy.

CORTEVA INC., $61.70, is a buy. The company (www.corteva.com; New York symbol CTVA; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (Shares o/s: 714.5 million; Market cap: $44.8 billion; Dividend yield: 1.0%) has now agreed to buy biologicals firm Stoller Group for $1.2 billion to accelerate its expansion into the growing market for nature-based crop protection products.

Stoller is a privately held, Houston-based company with operations and sales in more than 60 countries and $400 million in annual revenue....

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Two tech leaders ready to rebound: PagerDuty Inc. and Twilio Inc.

PagerDuty and Twilio were well positioned to gain during the pandemic—but since mid-2021 have dropped along with most other tech/platform stocks. Still, we think both have room to rebound as their services continue to experience strong—and growing —demand. Both are buys.

PAGERDUTY INC., $26.07, is a buy. The company (New York symbol PD; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.pagerduty.com; Shares outstanding: 90.0 million; Market cap: $2.3 billion; No dividends paid) operates a platform that collects real-time data from software systems and devices and then notifies its IT customers of any incident that could harm their operations.

For the three months ended October 31, 2022, revenue rose 31.3%, to $94.2 million from $71.8 million a year earlier....

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How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of December 13, 2022

This week we present a Spotlight Report on a stock that has already spun off some profitable spinoffs and may do more in the future.

Danaher is a great example of how a company can unlock value for shareholders by “spinning off” businesses....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, December 9, 2022

UIPATH INC., $12.95, symbol PATH on New York, offers a robotic automation platform that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to help reduce the amount of manual work done by a company’s employees.

UiPath’s platform automates work by emulating human behaviour....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, December 9, 2022

ALTAGAS LTD., $24.50, is still a buy. The company (symbol ALA on Toronto) processes, transports, stores and markets natural gas for producers. It also operates natural gas utilities and is a power generator, with gas-fired, coal-fired, wind, biomass and hydroelectric plants.

Almost all of AltaGas’ assets are now in the U.S....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, December 9, 2022

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, $130.91, Toronto symbol RY, is a buy.

The bank is raising its quarterly dividend by 3.1%. Starting with the February 2023 payment, investors will receive $1.32 a share instead of $1.28. The new annual rate of $5.28 yields a solid 4.0%.

Royal has also agreed to pay $13.5 billion in cash for the Canadian operations of U.K.-based HSBC Holdings plc (New York symbol HSBC)....

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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.

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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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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.