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CANADIAN UTILITIES LTD. (Toronto symbols CU [class A non-voting] $57 and CU.X [class B voting] $57; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 125.9 million; Market cap: $7.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.6; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.canadian-utilities.com) earned $166 million in the three months ended March 31, 2011. That’s up 7.8% from $154 million a year earlier. Earnings …read more »
CANADIAN UTILITIES LTD. (Toronto symbols CU (class A non-voting) $50 and CU.X (class B voting) $50; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 125.8 million; Market cap: $6.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.canadian-utilities.com) distributes electricity and natural gas in Alberta. It also operates a total of 20 power plants in Canada, Australia, and the …read more »
In light of today’s low interest rates, we continue to recommend that income-seeking investors buy high-quality utility stocks instead of bonds.
These five utilities’ dividend yields have come down lately, but that’s because their stock prices are rising, not because they are cutting their payouts. In fact, all five have been raising their dividends, and their steady cash flows will …read more »
CANADIAN UTILITIES LTD. (Toronto symbols CU (class A non-voting) $37 and CU.X (class B voting) $36; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 125.6 million; Market cap: $4.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.7; SI Rating: Above Average) earned $73.5 million, or $0.59 a share, in the three months ended June 30, 2009. That’s a 3.8% rise from the $70.8 million, or $0.56 …read more »
Green stocks have a lot of conceptual and emotional appeal, but may offer limited investment potential. Investments in environmental or green stocks may need a long time to move from the research or concept stage to profitability in the face of high initial costs and uncertain government subsidies. So they may not be profitable for investors.
It’s hard to set …read more »
The Successful Investor value investing approach follows the basic model set by the old-fashioned Graham/Dodd approach. Basically, it tries to identify well-financed companies that are well-established in their businesses and have a history of earnings and dividends. They are likely to survive any economic setback that comes along, and thrive anew when prosperity returns, as it inevitably does.
When we recommend …read more »
Wind power stocks include companies that make components for wind turbines and those that use wind turbines to generate power.
Although publicly traded wind companies are considered green stocks, wind power does draw some objections from environmental groups. It also faces some challenging technical problems.
Concept has appeal, but wind power is imperfect
One of the key problems with wind power is that …read more »
A few years ago, many investors valued drug stocks the way they value the top software makers, bidding them up to 30 or more times earnings. However, drug stocks are riskier than investors generally realize.
Because of that, while drug stocks can show fantastic profits, it might be more appropriate to value drug makers the way you value companies that are …read more »
We’ve got four key Successful Investor investing for beginners tips that will help you profit from stock investing with less risk.
No matter how widely or narrowly you cast your information net, some of your investments will disappoint you. But that won’t matter if you apply these three tips. That’s because your near-inevitable gains will overwhelm your all-but-unavoidable losses.
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We advise against a so-called “sector rotation” approach to investing; this is when you try to hop from sector to sector. We also advise against practicing a top-down sector rotation style; underweighting or overweighting sectors of the stock market depending on a forecast of the stage of the economic cycle, or other factors.
Few sector rotation strategies succeed over long periods, …read more »
