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iShares Canadian Select Dividend Index ETF offers high, tax-efficient dividend income plus capital gains potential.
Top pick Stantec Inc.’s climate solutions and digital technologies drive its prospects as it projects 15-18% annual earnings expansions for years to come.
Yum Brands Inc. reported 8.5% higher earnings despite a small revenue dip as it doubles down on technology with a significant push towards digital sales channels.
Sun Life Financial and Manulife Financial offer 4.8% and 4.5% yields while trading at very reasonable multiples of forecast earnings.
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Top-quality stocks tend to lose less of their value in market setbacks. They also tend to bounce back nicely when conditions improve. These are the kinds of stocks we continue to recommend in our newsletters and other services.
To build a portfolio of those stocks—and to show the best long-term results, Pat McKeough still thinks you should stick with his three-part program:
- Hold mostly high-quality, dividend-paying stocks.
- Spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors: Manufacturing & Industry, Resources & Commodities, Consumer, Finance and Utilities.
- Downplay or stay out of stocks in the broker/media limelight.
Meantime, investors who “bargain shop” for stocks explain that they are simply looking to buy stocks like a smart consumer would buy a car....
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