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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC. $163 is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol TXN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 923.6 million; Market cap: $150.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 7.7; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.ti.com) is a top maker of analog chips, which convert inputs like touch, sound and pressure into electronic signals that computers can understand.

Starting with the November 2022 payment, investors will get a 7.8% boost to their quarterly dividend....

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Dividend Stocks

Pfizer ready for post-COVID gains

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has generated big gains for investors. While demand is now fading as the pandemic eases, new booster shots that target the Omicron variant should continue to spur its profits.

The company is using its higher earnings to buy smaller drugmakers....

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Q: Pat, what is your opinion of Canadian General Investments (CGI)? Thank you.

A: Canadian General Investments Ltd., $29.00, symbol CGI on Toronto (Units outstanding: 20.3 million; Market cap: $601.8 million; www.mmainvestments.com), is a closed-end fund that mainly invests in shares of Canadian companies that it sees as average or above-average in quality.

Established in 1930, it is one of the oldest closed-end investment companies in North America....

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How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of September 27, 2022

In 2013, foodmaker Conagra acquired a leading maker of generic branded foods, often produced for foodstores to put their own labels on. However, generic brands have little customer loyalty, and the purchase failed to meet expectations.

The company later sold this business under a new strategy to focus on its better-known and more-profitable branded products....

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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, September 23, 2022

TAMARACK VALLEY ENERGY LTD., $3.54, symbol TVE on Toronto, is an oil and gas exploration and production firm in Western Canada. The company focuses on Alberta and Saskatchewan, and its output is 74% oil and 26% gas.

On September 12, 2022, the company announced it would pay $1.4 billion in cash and stock to acquire Deltastream Energy Corp....

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, September 23, 2022

WARNER MUSIC GROUP CORP., $25.04, is a buy. The company’s shares (symbol WMG on New York) began trading on June 3, 2020, following an IPO.

Warner Music is one of the world’s leading music entertainment companies. Its record labels include Atlantic Records, Warner Records, and Elektra Records....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, September 23, 2022

MICROSOFT CORP., $237.92, Nasdaq symbol MSFT, remains a buy.

Through their shares, investors directly tap the world’s largest software company. Its Windows operating system powers 85% of the world’s personal computers.

Microsoft plans to raise your quarterly dividend by 9.7% with the December 2022 payment, to $0.68 a share from $0.62....

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, September 23, 2022

NCR CORP., $20.85, New York symbol NCR, is a buy, but only for aggressive investors.

The company makes automated teller machines (ATMs), cash registers, self-serve checkouts and kiosks for theatres and arenas.

The stock dropped over 20% after private-equity firm Veritas Capital dropped its plan to buy the company....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, September 23, 2022

TECK RESOURCES LTD., $39.63, Toronto symbol TECK.B, remains a buy for investors seeking long-term gains from the Resources sector of their portfolio.

The company is a leading producer of metallurgical coal, a key ingredient in steelmaking. It also produces copper and zinc....

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Growth Stocks

Smart strategies will keep them thriving

With COVID-19, shares of Texas Roadhouse and Chipotle dropped alongside the market. But both food chains used smart strategies to support their businesses during the pandemic. Now, as the economy normalizes, we think each is well-positioned to capitalize on its popular offerings to attract dine-in, pick-up and takeout customers....

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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.