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What is Pat’s commentary for the week of August 19, 2025

As of 12:00 p.m. EDT Tuesday, the price of an ounce of gold was sitting at $3,340 U.S. That represents a 35% rise from where it stood at the start of the year.

For established miners, the impressive rise is a significant incentive to lift output, where possible. For junior miners sitting on as-yet-untapped deposits, the price jump is even more of an incentive to speed toward production.

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Mining Stocks

Nutrien lifts potash forecast

NUTRIEN LTD. $78 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol NTR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 485.9 million; Market cap: $37.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 3.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.nutrien.com) is the world’s largest producer of agricultural fertilizers, including potash, nitrogen and phosphate.

Potash sales volumes in the three months ended June 30, 2025, rose 12.0% to 3.99 million tonnes. That’s due to stronger demand in North America. Selling prices also improved 17.0%.

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Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday August 15, 2025

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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, August 15, 2025

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Spinoffs & Takeovers Hotline – Friday, August 15, 2025

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Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, August 15, 2025

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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, August 15, 2025

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Energy Stocks

Refineries lift IMO’s cash flow

IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $95 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol IMO; Conservative and Income Growth Portfolios, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 509.0 million; Market cap: $48.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.0; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.imperialoil.ca) gets over 90% of its production from oil sands operations in Alberta. Its other operations include three refineries (one in Alberta, two in Ontario) and a petrochemical plant in Sarnia, Ontario. U.S.-based ExxonMobil (New York symbol XOM) owns 69.6% of Imperial.

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Dividend Stocks

Enbridge’s assets offset tariff threat

So far, the new U.S. tariffs on imports of Canadian energy have had little impact on Enbridge. That’s mainly because the tariffs are paid by oil and gas producers, not pipeline operators. Despite the uncertainty, the company’s volumes remain strong.

Another plus for investors is that Enbridge gets 98% of its gross earnings from its regulated operations or take-or-pay contracts. Its recent acquisition of U.S. gas distribution utilities also cuts your risk.

Enbridge now expects those new assets will increase its cash flow by 5% annually after 2026. That will let the company keep raising your dividend, as it has each year for the past 30 years.

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Growth Stocks

Colliers is less risky than it appears

Colliers is up 12% since the start of 2025, partly because recent acquisitions are fuelling its earnings. While using acquisitions to grow add risk, the company targets smaller firms that are easier to absorb. Despite its recent rise, the stock remains attractive in relation to its earnings, particularly as it gets more that 70% of its revenue from long-term service contracts.

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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.