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It is important to note that some types of investments provide more security than others. Investors seeking safe investment options should look for well-established companies with hidden assets among other key characteristics.
Sun Life Financial Inc. and Manulife Financial Corp. each offers a combination of solid earnings growth, ongoing share repurchases, and impressive dividend yields.
Top pick Yum Brands Inc. gives you sales growth, steady EPS growth, and a solid dividend
Nutrien Ltd. offers exposure to potash and nitrogen prices, a stable retail base and strong profitability.
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Tax shelters in Canada aim to reduce or eliminate your tax liability, they are great ways for Canadian investors to cut their tax bills.
In some ways, stock buyback benefits are better than dividends. In particular, they give you a tax-deferral option that you don’t get with cash dividends.
Ten Peaks Coffee Co. Inc., $10.49, symbol TPK on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 9.0 million; Market cap: $89.0 million; www.tenpeakscoffee.ca), owns the Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company, a Burnaby, B.C.-based firm that removes caffeine from coffee beans. Ten Peaks also owns and operates Seaforth Supply Chain Solutions, a coffee-handling and storage business in Vancouver. The company’s proprietary Swiss Water Process is a chemical-free way to remove caffeine from coffee. That’s in contrast to most other methods, which use chemicals like methylene chloride and ethyl acetate....
Trican Well Service, $0.51, symbol TCW on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 148.9 million; Market cap: $70.7 million; www.tricanwellservice.com), provides specialized products, equipment and services that are used during the exploration, drilling and development of oil and gas reserves. Calgary-based Trican operates in Canada, the U.S., Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Saudi Arabia and Norway. Falling oil and gas prices have cut drilling activity in Canada and the U.S. by about 50% in the past year. That lowered Trican’s revenue by 52.7% in the third quarter of 2015, to $325.5 million from $688.5 million a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, it lost $53.6 million, or $0.36 a share, compared to a profit of $36.2 million, or $0.24 a share....
Solar technology continues to advance, but one key drawback to investing in it is that it is still heavily dependent on government subsidies. Many of these subsidies seem likely to continue, at least for now, in China, Japan and the U.S., and that’s fuelling demand from utilities for large-scale solar plants. However, solar subsidies have lost support in many countries, including Germany and Spain. Meanwhile, low prices for oil, natural gas and coal make solar power less cost-competitive. We haven’t found any solar stocks we recommend as buys. However, here’s a look at a leading solar ETF:...
How to invest in stocks: keep a steady course and avoid the temptation to “take money off the table.”