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.

Dividends can produce as much as a third of your total return over long periods, and you can even retire on dividends.

There are 4 key stock dividend dates that are involved with dividend payments:

1- The Declaration Date is several weeks in advance of a dividend payment—it’s when company’s board of directors sets the amount and timing of the proposed payment.

2- The Payable Date is the date set by the board on which the dividend will actually be paid out to shareholders.

3- The Record Date is for shareholders who hold the stock before the payable date and receive the dividend payment. That date is set any number of weeks before the payable date.

4-The Ex-Dividend Date is two business days before the record date and it’s when the shares begin to trade without their dividend. If you buy stocks one day or more before their ex-dividend date, you will still get the dividend. That’s when a stock is said to trade cum-dividend. If you buy on the ex-dividend date or later, you won’t get the dividend. The ex-dividend date is in place to allow pending stock trades to settle.

We think very highly of stocks that have been paying dividends for five or more years, at TSI Network. Many of these stocks fit in well with our three-part Successful Investor philosophy:

1- Invest mainly in well-established companies;

2- Spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities);

3- Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.

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FORDING CANADIAN COAL TRUST $76 - Toronto symbol FDG.UN
FORDING CANADIAN COAL TRUST $76 (Toronto symbol FDG.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Units outstanding:148.7 million; Market cap: $11.3 billion; SI Rating: Average) is a major producer of metallurgical coal, a key ingredient in steelmaking. Coal prices have shot up in the past year, due to strong demand from steelmakers in Asia and flooding at coal mines in Australia. That helped push up Fording’s units to a new high of $98 in June 2008....
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PENGROWTH ENERGY TRUST $18 Toronto symbol PGF.UN
PENGROWTH ENERGY TRUST $18 (Toronto symbol PGF.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Units outstanding: 247.9 million;Market cap: $4.5 billion; SI Rating: Average) owns oil and natural gas properties in Alberta and B.C. Pengrowth prefers to focus on mature, proven properties that provide it with steady cash flows. At current production rates, Pengrowth’s reserves should last 10 years. The trust tends to replenish its reserves with acquisitions instead of exploration. However, it typically pays with new units, which...
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Canadian Income Trusts
One of our recommended Canadian income trusts is BELL ALIANT REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS INCOME FUND $28 (Toronto symbol BA.UN; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Units outstanding: 127 million; Market cap: $3.7 billion; SI Rating: Above average). Bell Aliant is the main provider of telephone services in Atlantic Canada. It also serves rural areas of Ontario and Quebec. BCE Inc. controls about 45% of Bell Aliant. As part of the deal that created the fund in July 2006, Bell Aliant transferred most of its wireless operations to BCE. Without these operations, Bell Aliant has focused on its other growth areas, such as high-speed Internet access. In the first quarter of 2008, a 14.6% rise in high-speed Internet subscribers helped expand Bell Aliant’s overall Internet revenue by 9.8% from a year earlier. Part of that increase was from the recent purchase of the publicly owned telephone system in Kenora, Ontario. Internet services now account for 11% of Bell Aliant’s total revenue....
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MANITOBA TELECOM SERVICES INC. $41 - Toronto symbol MBT
MANITOBA TELECOM SERVICES INC. $41 (Toronto symbol MBT; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 64.6 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; SI Rating: Average) is Manitoba’s main provider of regular and wireless phone services, with over 90% of the market. The company also owns Allstream, which provides communication services to businesses across Canada. Allstream accounts for 60% of Manitoba Tel’s revenue, but just 40% of its profit. The company recently dissolved a partnership it formed with the Canada Pension Plan Investment...
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TELUS CORP. Toronto symbols T $42 and T.A $40
TELUS CORP. (Toronto symbols T $42 and T.A $40; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 321.4 million; Market cap: $13.2 billion; SI Rating: Above average) provides telephone service in Alberta, British Columbia and parts of Quebec. It also operates a nationwide wireless network. The wireless division now supplies close to half of Telus’s revenue. Ottawa now aims to increase competition in the wireless industry. In its current auction of wireless frequencies (called ‘spectrum’ in the industry), the federal government has set aside 40% for new companies....
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MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. Toronto symbols TPX.A $56 and TPX.B $54
MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. (Toronto symbols TPX.A $56 and TPX.B $54; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 181.5 million; Market cap: $10.0 billion; SI Rating: Average) is the world’s fifth-largest brewer by volume....
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HART STORES INC. $2.21 Toronto symbol HIS
HART STORES INC. $2.21 (Toronto symbol HIS; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 13.6 million; Market cap: $30.1 million; SI Rating: Speculative) operates 80 midsized department stores in Eastern Canada. It plans to expand to 100 stores in the next few years. Hart prefers to focus on smaller cities that larger retailers tend to avoid. It also emphasizes convenience and customer service. That helps Hart attract shoppers away from big-box style competitors. Many of the goods Hart sells come from overseas suppliers. While the rising Canadian dollar makes imported goods cheaper, Hart had to cut its selling prices to stay competitive. Consequently, sales in the fiscal year ended February 2, 2008 fell 2.9%, to $161.6 million from $166.4 million in the prior fiscal year. Same-store sales fell 4.2%. Earnings per share fell 16.7%, to $0.25 a share from $0.30. The stock now trades at 7.4 times Hart’s forecast earnings of $0.30 a share. The $0.10 dividend still appears safe, and yields 4.5%....
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THOMSON REUTERS CORP. $35 Toronto symbol TRI
THOMSON REUTERS CORP. $35 now trades under the symbol “TRI”. It plans to resume regular share buybacks following the recent merger of The Thomson Corp. and Reuters Group plc. The company aims to repurchase 2% of its shares. Buy.
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MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. $57 Toronto symbols TPX.A TPX.B
MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. $57 has won U.S. regulatory approval for its joint venture with rival brewer SABMiller plc. Called MillerCoors, this new company will own Molson Coors’ and Miller’s operations in the United States and Puerto Rico. Molson Coors will own 42% of the new company....
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BCE INC. $35 Toronto symbol BCE
BCE INC. $35 has delayed declaring its second-quarter dividend of $0.365 a share. The company is currently appealing a ruling by the Quebec Court of Appeal in favour of BCE’s bondholders that could threaten the company’s $42.75-a-share privatization plan. The case will go to the Supreme Court of Canada on June 17, 2008....
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