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GREAT-WEST LIFECO, $31.54, is still a hold. The company (Toronto symbol GWO; shares o/s: 931.8 million; Market cap: $29.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 6.2%; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is Canada’s second-largest life insurer, after Manulife Financial.

The company also sells reinsurance policies....

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Dividend Stocks

Bright prospects for both parent and spinoff

The market plunge at the start of the COVID-19 crisis lowered the unit price of most REITs. That’s because the pandemic forced many businesses—and REIT tenants—to temporarily close. However, the pandemic has waned, and rental markets are recovering. That will let these two REITs maintain, or even raise, their current high distributions.

H&R REIT, $11.21, is a buy. Through your units in this REIT (Toronto symbol HR.UN; Units o/s: 266.3 million; Market cap: $3.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.9%; www.hr-reit.com) you tap income from 416 properties: 27 office buildings, 286 retail developments, 71 industrial buildings and 24 residential properties....

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Dividend Stocks

IBM gains in the cloud

IBM, $138.51, is still a buy. Last year, the company (New York symbol IBM; Shares outstanding: 904.1 million; Market cap: $109.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.8%) spun off Kyndryl Holdings Inc. (New York symbol KD)....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

BCE offers growth—and a 6% yield

BCE is a high-quality telecom, and its businesses were well-prepared to withstand COVID-19 slowdowns. Longer term, its newly launched ultrafast 5G wireless networks will provide strong growth and boost cash flow to pay for dividend increases.

BCE INC., $61.50, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares outstanding: 911.9 million; Market cap: $56.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.0%) is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider....

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How To Invest

Q: Pat, is B2Gold a stock to purchase? Thanks.

A: B2Gold Corp., $4.33, symbol BTO on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 1.1 billion; Market cap: $4.4 billion; www.b2gold.com), owns three mines: the Otjikoto mine in Namibia; the Masbate mine in the Philippines; and the Feloka mine in Mali.

The company also has 50% interest in the Gramalote project in Colombia and an 81% interest in the Kiaka project in Burkina Faso....

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How To Invest

Q: Cryoport looks like an interesting healthcare play. What does TSI think about the stock? Thanks.

A: Cryoport Inc., $27.60, symbol CYRX on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 48.5 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; www.cryoport.com), is a provider of temperature-controlled supply chain solutions for the biopharmaceutical, IVF and surrogacy, and animal-health markets worldwide....

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How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of November 1, 2022

A key aspect of our Successful Investor approach is looking for stocks with hidden or underappreciated assets. Those assets include, for example, undervalued real estate holdings as well as the high research spending of technology companies.

Hidden assets also come in the form of businesses that a company can sell or spin off to unlock value for investors....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, October 28, 2022

MCDONALD’S CORP., $274.52, New York symbol MCD, is a buy.

The company is the world’s largest fast-food chain with 40,000 restaurants in 119 countries. It serves a wide variety of food but is best known for its hamburgers and french fries. Franchisees own roughly 95% of those outlets.

McDonald’s has raised its annual dividend rate each year since 1976....

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, October 28, 2022

WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS INC., $76.16, New York symbol WH, is a buy. The company is the world’s largest hotel franchiser, with 836,000 rooms spread across 9,100 hotels in 95 countries. Its portfolio of 23 brands includes Super 8, Days Inn, Ramada, La Quinta and Wyndham....

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How To Invest

Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, October 28, 2022

CUMMINS INC., $244.78, symbol CMI on New York, designs, manufactures, distributes and services diesel, natural gas, electric, hybrid powertrains, and powertrain-related components, including control & fuel systems, automated transmissions, batteries, electrified power systems, hydrogen production, and fuel cell systems.

Cummins serves customers in 190 countries through 500 company-owned and independent distributors and through 9,000 dealers.

In August 2022, the company completed the acquisition of Meritor Inc....

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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.

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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.