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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TRANSCANADA CORP. $41.29 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 704.0 million; Market cap: $29.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.1%; www.transcanada.com) is working to reroute its Keystone XL pipeline after the U.S. State Department rejected the company’s plan to cross environmentally sensitive areas in Nebraska. If approved, the pipeline could begin operating in 2014.
This setback may force TransCanada to write off the $1.9 billion U.S. that it has already spent on Keystone XL. Still, any writeoff would not hurt TransCanada’s ability to invest in other projects or prevent it from raising its $1.68 dividend, which yields 4.1%.
TransCanada is a buy.
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This setback may force TransCanada to write off the $1.9 billion U.S. that it has already spent on Keystone XL. Still, any writeoff would not hurt TransCanada’s ability to invest in other projects or prevent it from raising its $1.68 dividend, which yields 4.1%.
TransCanada is a buy.
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VERESEN $15.15 (Toronto symbol VSN; Shares
outstanding: 169.8 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 6.6%) owns and operates energy pipelines and processing plants. Its major holding is its 50% stake in the Alliance gas pipeline, which runs 3,000 kilometres from Fort St. John, B.C., to Chicago. Enbridge owns the other 50%.
To diversify its operations and grow beyond Canada, Veresen has successfully expanded its power generation business. It now owns hydroelectric plants in New York State and B.C.; natural gas-fired plants in Ontario, California and Colorado; and waste heat plants in B.C. and Saskatchewan.
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outstanding: 169.8 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 6.6%) owns and operates energy pipelines and processing plants. Its major holding is its 50% stake in the Alliance gas pipeline, which runs 3,000 kilometres from Fort St. John, B.C., to Chicago. Enbridge owns the other 50%.
To diversify its operations and grow beyond Canada, Veresen has successfully expanded its power generation business. It now owns hydroelectric plants in New York State and B.C.; natural gas-fired plants in Ontario, California and Colorado; and waste heat plants in B.C. and Saskatchewan.
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BELL ALIANT INC. $28 (Toronto symbol BA: Shares outstanding: 227.8 million; Market cap: $6.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Yield: 6.8%; www.aliant.ca) sells telephone and Internet services to 2.8 million customers in Atlantic Canada, as well as rural parts of Ontario and Quebec. The company also sells wireless services through an alliance with BCE, which owns 43.8% of Bell Aliant.
We’re lowering Bell Aliant’s TSINetwork Rating to Average from Above Average. It’s still prominent in its industry, with a record of steady profits and dividends, and its balance sheet remains strong. But it faces rising competition across all of its businesses. In addition, many of its phone customers are switching to wireless devices—owning a telephone land line is becoming less and less of a habitual behaviour for many Canadians.
Bell Aliant is still a buy.
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We’re lowering Bell Aliant’s TSINetwork Rating to Average from Above Average. It’s still prominent in its industry, with a record of steady profits and dividends, and its balance sheet remains strong. But it faces rising competition across all of its businesses. In addition, many of its phone customers are switching to wireless devices—owning a telephone land line is becoming less and less of a habitual behaviour for many Canadians.
Bell Aliant is still a buy.
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PEMBINA PIPELINE CORP. $27.59 (Toronto symbol PPL; Shares outstanding: 167.3 million; Market cap: $4.6 billion; TSI Network Rating: Average; Yield: 5.7%; www.pembina.com) is buying rival Provident Energy for $3.2 billion.
The Provident purchase diversifies Pembina’s operations and should immediately add to its cash flow. As a result, the company is raising its monthly dividend by 3.8%, to $0.135 from $0.13. The shares now yield 5.7%.
We’re raising Pembina’s TSINetwork Rating to Average from Extra Risk.
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The Provident purchase diversifies Pembina’s operations and should immediately add to its cash flow. As a result, the company is raising its monthly dividend by 3.8%, to $0.135 from $0.13. The shares now yield 5.7%.
We’re raising Pembina’s TSINetwork Rating to Average from Extra Risk.
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PENN WEST PETROLEUM $21.63 (Toronto symbol PWT; Shares outstanding: 469.4 million; Market cap: $10.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.0%; www.pennwest.com) has raised its production by over 56% over the last five years. It is now one of North America’s largest oil and gas producers.
The company has made big investments in its operations in order to boost its production. Even so, its $2.9 billion of long-term debt is a reasonable 28.4% of its market cap. It has also lowered its debt from $3.5 billion at the start of 2010.
Penn West converted from a trust to a corporation on January 1, 2011. However, it has $7.0 billion of tax pools that it is using to offset the new tax. That’s letting it maintain its $1.08-a-share annual payout, which yields 5.0%. As well, the payout (like all dividends paid by converted trusts) is now eligible for the dividend tax credit if you hold your shares outside an RRSP.
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The company has made big investments in its operations in order to boost its production. Even so, its $2.9 billion of long-term debt is a reasonable 28.4% of its market cap. It has also lowered its debt from $3.5 billion at the start of 2010.
Penn West converted from a trust to a corporation on January 1, 2011. However, it has $7.0 billion of tax pools that it is using to offset the new tax. That’s letting it maintain its $1.08-a-share annual payout, which yields 5.0%. As well, the payout (like all dividends paid by converted trusts) is now eligible for the dividend tax credit if you hold your shares outside an RRSP.
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PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $9.98 (Toronto symbol PGF; Shares outstanding: 329.3 million; Market cap: $3.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 8.4%; www.pengrowth.com) has improved its dividend
reinvestment plan (DRIP).
The company is now giving investors who are enrolled in the plan two options: they can reinvest their dividends in additional shares at a 5% discount to the market price, or they can receive a premium cash dividend equal to 102% of the regular dividend. Right now, Pengrowth pays monthly dividends of $0.07 a share. The annual rate of $0.84 yields 8.4%. The annual premium dividend rate of $0.86 yields 8.6%.
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reinvestment plan (DRIP).
The company is now giving investors who are enrolled in the plan two options: they can reinvest their dividends in additional shares at a 5% discount to the market price, or they can receive a premium cash dividend equal to 102% of the regular dividend. Right now, Pengrowth pays monthly dividends of $0.07 a share. The annual rate of $0.84 yields 8.4%. The annual premium dividend rate of $0.86 yields 8.6%.
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BONAVISTA ENERGY $23.49 (Toronto symbol BNP; Shares outstanding: 162.5 million; Market cap: $3.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Divd. yield: 6.1%; www.bonavistaenergy.com) explores for oil and natural gas in Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C. It converted from an income trust to a dividend paying stock on December 31, 2010.
Bonavista produces an average of 71,636 barrels of oil equivalent per day, weighted 62% to gas and 38% to oil.
In the quarter ended September 30, 2011, Bonavista’s cash flow per share rose 6.3%, to $0.84 from $0.79.
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Bonavista produces an average of 71,636 barrels of oil equivalent per day, weighted 62% to gas and 38% to oil.
In the quarter ended September 30, 2011, Bonavista’s cash flow per share rose 6.3%, to $0.84 from $0.79.
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PEYTO EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT CORP. $18.87 (Toronto symbol PEY; Shares outstanding: 133.1 million; Market cap: $2.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 3.8%; www.peyto.com) produces and explores for oil and natural gas in Alberta. In response to Ottawa’s income trust tax, Peyto converted from a trust to a dividend paying stock on December 31, 2010.
Peyto’s average daily production of 36,390 barrels of oil equivalent (including natural gas) is 89% gas and 11% oil.
In the three months ended September 30, 2011, Peyto’s cash flow rose 34.8%, to $0.62 a unit from $0.46 a year earlier. The shares trade at 7.1 times the company’s forecast 2012 cash flow of $2.65 a share. Peyto’s long-term debt of $490 million is a low 19.6% of its $2.5-billion market cap.
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Peyto’s average daily production of 36,390 barrels of oil equivalent (including natural gas) is 89% gas and 11% oil.
In the three months ended September 30, 2011, Peyto’s cash flow rose 34.8%, to $0.62 a unit from $0.46 a year earlier. The shares trade at 7.1 times the company’s forecast 2012 cash flow of $2.65 a share. Peyto’s long-term debt of $490 million is a low 19.6% of its $2.5-billion market cap.
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ISHARES CDN REIT SECTOR INDEX FUND $15.72 (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) holds the 13 Canadian real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index. The weight of any one REIT is limited to 25% of the ETF’s value.
iShares CDN REIT’s expenses are just 0.55% of its assets. The fund yields 4.7%.
As mentioned, RioCan REIT is the fund’s largest holding, at 23.9%, followed by H&R REIT (13.1%), Canadian REIT (8.5%), Calloway REIT (8.2%), Dundee REIT (7.0%), Boardwalk REIT (6.9%), Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (6.5%), Primaris Retail REIT (5.8%), Allied Properties REIT (4.4%), Cominar REIT (4.4%), Chartwell Seniors Housing REIT (4.3%), Artis REIT (4.3%) and Extendicare REIT (2.3%).
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iShares CDN REIT’s expenses are just 0.55% of its assets. The fund yields 4.7%.
As mentioned, RioCan REIT is the fund’s largest holding, at 23.9%, followed by H&R REIT (13.1%), Canadian REIT (8.5%), Calloway REIT (8.2%), Dundee REIT (7.0%), Boardwalk REIT (6.9%), Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (6.5%), Primaris Retail REIT (5.8%), Allied Properties REIT (4.4%), Cominar REIT (4.4%), Chartwell Seniors Housing REIT (4.3%), Artis REIT (4.3%) and Extendicare REIT (2.3%).
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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $25.79 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 267.0 million; Market cap: $6.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.4%; www.riocan.com) is Canada’s largest REIT. It has interests in 331 shopping malls in Canada, including 10 under development. These properties contain over 91 million square feet of leasable area.
RioCan also owns stakes in 38 malls in the U.S. through joint ventures. In addition, it owns 14% of Cedar Shopping Centers, a U.S. REIT whose malls are mainly in the northeastern U.S.
In the three months ended September 30, 2011, revenue rose 15.1%, to $236 million from $205 million a year earlier. Cash flow per unit rose 5.7%, to $0.37 from $0.35. RioCan’s units yield 5.4%.
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RioCan also owns stakes in 38 malls in the U.S. through joint ventures. In addition, it owns 14% of Cedar Shopping Centers, a U.S. REIT whose malls are mainly in the northeastern U.S.
In the three months ended September 30, 2011, revenue rose 15.1%, to $236 million from $205 million a year earlier. Cash flow per unit rose 5.7%, to $0.37 from $0.35. RioCan’s units yield 5.4%.
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