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Growth Stocks

INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC. $121 is a buy. The company (New York symbol IFF; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 254.8 million; Market cap: $30.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; Dividend yield: 2.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.iff.com) merged with the nutrition and biosciences business of DuPont (New York symbol DD) in February 2021....

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Growth Stocks

Look for these aggressive picks to rebound

China is now easing its latest round of COVID-19 lockdowns. That should help fast-food operators Starbucks and Yum China rebound, particularly as their strong brands and expanding digital platforms remain popular with younger customers.

STARBUCKS CORP....

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Value Stocks

Test data could cut lawsuit risk

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. ADRs $21 is a buy. The company (New York symbol PHG; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; ADRs outstanding: 870.2 million; Market cap: $18.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 4.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.philips.com) makes industrial health-care products, including X-ray scanners and ultrasound systems, along with consumer goods such as electric shavers and electric toothbrushes.

The stock has dropped 44% since the start of 2022, mainly due to the recall of 5.5 million sleep apnea and ventilator machines over concerns that a type of foam used in the devices could degrade and release harmful particles....

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Blue Chip Stocks

EVs will help Walmart go green

WALMART INC. $127 is a buy. The retailer (New York symbol WMT; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 2.8 billion; Market cap: $355.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.walmart.com) is buying 4,500 all-electric delivery vans from Canoo Inc....

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Growth Stocks

These three techs help clients cut their costs

Rising interest rates and recession fears have hit these three technology stocks particularly hard in 2022, as investors worry a slowdown will prompt their clients to spend less on their products.

However, those kinds of cuts would be shortsighted of clients, as the products they buy from these companies make them more efficient....

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Blue Chip Stocks

3M aims to unlock value

3M COMPANY $139 remains a buy. The diversified manufacturer (New York symbol MMM; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 569.6 million; Market cap: $79.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 4.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.3m.com) now plans to spin off its Health Care division as a separate company....

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Growth Stocks

This pure-play stock is a solid pick

Investors tend to prefer “pure-play” firms as easier to analyze than companies with many businesses. A good example is the April 2020 merger our long-time favourite United Technologies with rival Raytheon to form Raytheon Technologies. It also spun off its building equipment businesses, which let Raytheon focus solely on its aerospace operations.

Despite the shutdown of air travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the stock has gained 81% since the merger....

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Dividend Stocks

Top pharmaceutical stocks to buy to power your portfolio returns

We’ve generally stayed out of drug stocks for much of the two decades before 2020, but that changed in the last year or two. In fact, we now expect to see many great investment opportunities in drug stocks throughout the 2020s. You could say this is related to COVID-19, but it was going to happen anyway, due to regulatory and research developments that were already underway....

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Dividend Stocks

Updating your Conservative-Growth Payers: Power Corp.

POWER CORP. $34 is a buy. The conglomerate (Toronto symbol POW; Conservative-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 616.2 million; Market cap: $21.0 billion; Dividend yield: 5.8%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.powercorporation.com) is a holding company with a diversified list of businesses....

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Dividend Stocks

Activist pressure should boost your income

Suncor recently agreed to a new deal with activist investor Elliott Management. That could lead to the sale or spinoff of its gas stations. Even with a sale, it’s likely the company would return any cash from the deal to investors through higher dividends and share buybacks.

SUNCOR ENERGY INC....

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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.