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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, February 11, 2022

BCE INC., $66.66, Toronto symbol BCE, is a buy.

The company is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider. It also provides wireless services and high-speed Internet access, in addition to owning TV and radio stations.

BCE has raised its dividend rate each year since 2008....

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, February 11, 2022

PFIZER INC., $50.78, New York symbol PFE, is your #1 Income Buy for 2022.

The company is one of the world’s largest makers of prescription drugs. Its top-selling brands include Lyrica (epilepsy), Celebrex and Enbrel (arthritis), and Prevnar (pneumonia).

Pfizer has increased its dividend rate each year since 2011....

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, February 11, 2022

TWILIO INC., $190.88, symbol TWLO on Nasdaq, is a buy. The company offers a key service to software developers who create mobile apps. Specifically, its own software is used to connect apps to essential functions elsewhere on a device, including dealing with phone calls and messaging.

The stock soared almost 20% after the company reported strong results in the latest quarter.

In the quarter ended December 31, 2021, revenue jumped 53.8%, to $842.7 million from $548.1 million....

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, February 11, 2022

TELUS CORP., $31.57, Toronto symbol T, is a buy.

The company is Canada’s second-largest wireless carrier with 11.42 million users, just behind BCE’s Bell Mobility (with 11.71 million users) and ahead of Rogers Communications (11.30 million users)....

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Dividend Stocks

Updating your Income stocks: CIBC, RBC & Emera

CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE $165 (www.cibc.com) is a buy. The bank increased your quarterly dividend by 10.3% with the January 2022 payment. The new annual rate of $6.44 yields a high 3.9%. Based on CIBC’s projected earnings for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2022, of $14.58 a share, the new dividend rate represents a payout rate of 44%....

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Value Stocks

Even more value ahead for Leon’s investors

Leon’s shares fell below $12 in March 2020 as COVID-19 forced the retailer to close stores and suspend its dividend. The stock has doubled since then. Still, we feel it can go higher as the pandemic continues to spur consumers to upgrade their home offices and living spaces, particularly through Leon’s e-commerce channels.

LEON’S FURNITURE LTD....

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Value Stocks

Finning gains as lockdowns end

FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC. $37 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol FTT; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 157.7 million; Market cap: $5.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.finning.com) sells and services Caterpillar-brand heavy equipment in Western Canada but also Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, the U.K....

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Growth Stocks

Here are key updates on your holdings

COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC. $197 remains a buy for aggressive investors. This company (Toronto symbol CIGI; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 42.7 million; Market cap: $8.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.7; Dividend yield: 0.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.colliers.com) offers a range of services, including helping clients buy and sell commercial real estate, arranging financing, and assessing properties for tax purposes.

Readers continue to benefit from our April 2020 decision to add Colliers to our Successful Investor coverage....

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Growth Stocks

Better efficiency spurs its earnings

TOROMONT INDUSTRIES LTD. $112 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol TIH; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 82.4 million; Market cap: $9.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.toromont.com) distributes a broad range of industrial equipment (such as bulldozers, backhoe loaders and drills), including Caterpillar machinery, in eastern Canada and the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S....

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Dividend Stocks

Two picks for reliable annual dividend hikes

Canadian Utilities and its parent ATCO have some of the longest track records among Canadian stocks for annual dividend increases. That’s because each taps the same high-quality utilities. ATCO also offers you a way to buy those assets at a discount.

CANADIAN UTILITIES LTD....

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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.