How To Invest
In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.
Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.
If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)
If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.
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GREAT-WEST LIFECO $32.20 (Toronto symbol GWO; Shares outstanding: 999.5 million; Market cap: $32.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 3.8%; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is Canada’s largest insurance company. It also offers mutual funds and wealth management. Power Financial owns 68.1% of Great-West.
Excluding costs to integrate Irish Life, Great-West’s earnings per share rose 7.3% in the three months ended September 30, 2013, to $0.59 from $0.55 a year earlier. The company ended the quarter with $705.1 billion of assets under administration.
Earnings at the Canadian division (which supplies 56% of the total) rose 18.6%, as higher sales of personal insurance offset lower demand for group policies. The value of the assets this business administers also rose, which increased its wealth management fee income.
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Excluding costs to integrate Irish Life, Great-West’s earnings per share rose 7.3% in the three months ended September 30, 2013, to $0.59 from $0.55 a year earlier. The company ended the quarter with $705.1 billion of assets under administration.
Earnings at the Canadian division (which supplies 56% of the total) rose 18.6%, as higher sales of personal insurance offset lower demand for group policies. The value of the assets this business administers also rose, which increased its wealth management fee income.
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AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. (New York symbol AXP, www.americanexpress.com) gets most of its revenue from the fees it charges merchants who accept its charge cards (which have no pre-set spending limit and must be paid in full each month) and credit cards (which can carry a balance)....
Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific stock advice as well as questions on investment strategy and the economy. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. While we reserve our buy-hold-sell advice for Inner Circle members, these excerpts provide a great deal of information and analysis on stocks we’ve covered for members of Pat’s Inner Circle....
CAE INC. (Toronto symbol CAE; www.cae.com) is the world’s leading maker of flight simulators for commercial airlines, with 70% of the market. It also makes simulators for military clients. The company began training pilots for its customers in 2001 and now has over 100 flight schools in 30 countries....
Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific stock picks as well as questions on investment strategy and the economy. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. While we reserve our buy-hold-sell advice for Inner Circle members, these excerpts provide a great deal of information and analysis on stocks we’ve covered for members of Pat’s Inner Circle....
Canadian aerospace and transportation giant Bombardier is counting on the sales of its CSeries business jets to spur its growth. In September we reported on the new jet’s first successful test flight: click here to see the article. Here is our latest report on Bombardier’s progress from The Successful Investor. ...
C.R. BARD INC. (New York symbol BCR; www.crbard.com) makes vascular products, such as stents and catheters (29% of its 2012 sales); oncology products that detect and treat various types of cancer (27%); urology products, such as drainage and incontinence devices (26%); and surgical tools and other products (18%). The company mainly makes single-use, disposable products, so customers must continually buy new ones. This continued demand for supplies helped Bard’s sales rise 20.6%, from $2.5 billion in 2008 to $3.0 billion in 2012. Earnings improved by 24.1%, from $455.4 million in 2008 to $565.3 million in 2012. The company is an aggressive buyer of its own stock. This cuts its total shares outstanding, so per-share earnings jumped 48.0%, from $4.44 to $6.57....
Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific stock tips as well as questions on investment strategy and the economy. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. While we reserve our buy-hold-sell advice for Inner Circle members, these excerpts provide a great deal of information and analysis on stocks we’ve covered for members of Pat’s Inner Circle....
PENGROWTH ENERGY $6.57 (Toronto symbol PGF; Shares outstanding: 517.7 million; Market cap: $3.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 7.3%; www.pengrowth.com) has gained over 31% since early July 2013. That’s mainly because the company has successfully completed its plan to sell some of its less important oil and gas properties in Western Canada.
The cash from these sales will help Pengrowth speed up the development of its Lindbergh oil sands project in Alberta. As well, the company’s monthly dividend of $0.04 a share still seems safe and has a 7.3% annualized yield.
Pengrowth is a buy.
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The cash from these sales will help Pengrowth speed up the development of its Lindbergh oil sands project in Alberta. As well, the company’s monthly dividend of $0.04 a share still seems safe and has a 7.3% annualized yield.
Pengrowth is a buy.
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ISHARES CDN REIT SECTOR INDEX FUND $15.46 (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) holds the 15 Canadian real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index. The weight of each REIT is limited to 25% of the ETF’s value.
iShares CDN REIT’s expenses are 0.60% of its assets. The fund yields 5.0%.
The ETF’s largest holding is RioCan REIT at 19.5%, followed by H&R REIT (14.9%), Dundee REIT (8.0%), Canadian REIT (7.4%), Calloway REIT (6.7%), Allied Prop. REIT (5.9%), Boardwalk REIT (5.8%), Canadian Apt, REIT (5.7%), Cominar REIT (5.6%), Artis REIT (4.7%), Chartwell REIT (4.6%), Granite REIT (4.4%), Dundee Intl. REIT (2.3%), Northern Property REIT (2.3%) and Crombie REIT (1.8%).
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iShares CDN REIT’s expenses are 0.60% of its assets. The fund yields 5.0%.
The ETF’s largest holding is RioCan REIT at 19.5%, followed by H&R REIT (14.9%), Dundee REIT (8.0%), Canadian REIT (7.4%), Calloway REIT (6.7%), Allied Prop. REIT (5.9%), Boardwalk REIT (5.8%), Canadian Apt, REIT (5.7%), Cominar REIT (5.6%), Artis REIT (4.7%), Chartwell REIT (4.6%), Granite REIT (4.4%), Dundee Intl. REIT (2.3%), Northern Property REIT (2.3%) and Crombie REIT (1.8%).
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