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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, August 5, 2022

LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, or LABCORP., $254.67, symbol LH on New York, provides comprehensive clinical laboratory services from locations throughout North America. It also offers drug development services such as research and clinical trial management.

Labcorp employs nearly 75,000 people at its base in Burlington, North Carolina, and across the U.S.

On July 28, 2022, the company announced that its board of directors had approved the spin-off of its Clinical Development business....

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, August 5, 2022

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO., $164.33, Toronto symbol CNR, remains a buy.

CN operates Canada’s largest railway. Its 32,200-kilometre network stretches across the country. It also travels down through the U.S. Midwest, connecting Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

With the March 2022 payment, CN raised its quarterly dividend by 19.1%....

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, August 5, 2022

PAYPAL HOLDINGS INC., $95.32, Nasdaq symbol PYPL, remains a buy, but only for highly aggressive investors.

The company lets investors tap the fast-growing field of online transaction processing, including purchases made through the auction websites of its former parent company, eBay (see below).

The stock jumped 10% this week after PayPal announced a new agreement with activist investment firm Elliott Investment Management, which owns $2 billion of the company’s stock (about 2% of PayPal’s $111.3 billion market cap).

The activist will support PayPal’s current restructuring plan, which involves focusing on building transaction volumes to generate higher profits, rather than focusing on adding new users....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, August 5, 2022

TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, $83.44, Toronto symbol TD, is a buy.

The bank has agreed to acquire U.S.-based investment banking firm Cowen Inc. (Nasdaq symbol COWN). Founded in 1918, Cowen provides a wide range of services to corporate clients, including brokerage, stock and bond underwriting, initial public offerings and advice on mergers and acquisitions.

TD will pay $1.3 billion U.S....

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Blue Chip Stocks

IBM prospers in the cloud

IBM, $132.34, is still a buy. The company (New York symbol IBM; Shares o/s: 903.2 million; Market cap: $119.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.0%) is one of the world’s largest computing firms, with operations in over 175 countries.

IBM’s revenue in the three months ended June 30, 2022, rose 9.3%, to $15.54 billion from $14.22 billion a year earlier....

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Energy Stocks

These safety-conscious stocks remain buys

OVINTIV INC., $60.20, is a buy. The energy producer (Toronto symbol OVV; Shares outstanding: 258.1 million; Market cap: $16.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 2.1%) operates three core properties: Montney (B.C.), Anadarko (Oklahoma) and Permian (Texas)....

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Energy Stocks

IMO focuses on core assets

IMPERIAL OIL LTD., $56.91, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol IMO; Shares outstanding: 636.7 million; Market cap: $37.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 2.4%; www.imperialoil.ca) is Canada’s third-largest publicly traded oil company after Canadian Natural Resources (No....

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Dividend Stocks

Two telecoms for safety-conscious investors

Here are two of our top safety-conscious utility recommendations. Both have strong growth plans in place; that should boost their cash flow to pay for dividend increases and, at the same time, spur their share prices.

BCE INC., $63.64, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares o/s: 911.8 million; Market cap: $58.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Divd....

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Growth Stocks

Metro invests to cut costs

METRO INC., $70.14, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol MRU; Shares o/s: 239.9 million; Market cap: $16.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.6%; www.metro.ca) operates 950 grocery stores and 650 drugstores, in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick.

Metro has now opened its new $400 million distribution centre in Toronto that uses automated equipment to handle fresh and frozen foods....

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ETFs

Japan sets you up for gains

ISHARES MSCI JAPAN INDEX FUND, $55.67 is a buy. The ETF (New York symbol EWJ; buy or sell through brokers; us.ishares.com) tries to match the return of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Japan Index.

The fund’s top holdings include Toyota, 5.4%; Sony Corp., 3.3%; Keyence (sensors), 2.5%; Mitsubishi UFJ Financial, 2.1%; Recruit Holdings (human resources), 1.7%; Tokyo Electron (computer chips), 1.6%; KDDI (telecom), 1.6%; Softbank, 1.5%; and Shin Etsu Chemical, 1.5%....

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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.