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AUTOMOTIVE PROPERTIES REIT $11 (Toronto symbol APR.UN; Units outstanding: 49.2 million; Market cap: $541.2 million; Dividend yield: 7.3%; www.automotivereit.ca) is a real estate investment trust that owns 79 commercial properties across cities in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, B.C....
Axon Enterprise reported 31% higher revenues and 29% higher earnings but the stock is priced at a very high valuation of 129 times forecast earnings.
We continue to recommend that investors diversify their Finance sector holdings beyond the major banks.


Here are three non-bank firms we recommend. Their commitment to developing new products will let them keep dominating their niche markets....
Intact Financial Corp. keeps growing revenue and profits while increasing its dividend payout for the twentieth consecutive year.
AT&T INC., $27.42, New York symbol T, is your #1 Income Buy for 2025.

The company is the largest wireless (cellphone) carrier in the U.S., with 117.96 million subscribers (excluding mobile devices such as tablets). It also has 14.11 million high-speed Internet users and provides traditional telephone services to consumers and businesses.

AT&T continues to benefit from its plan to focus solely on its main telecom businesses....
K-BRO LINEN INC., $34.87, symbol KBL on Toronto, is the largest owner and operator of laundry and linen processing facilities in Canada. K-Bro operates across Canada and the U.K. and provides a range of linen services to healthcare institutions, hotels and other commercial accounts that include the processing, management and distribution of general linen and operating room linen.

K-Bro currently operates 11 processing facilities and two distribution centres under two distinctive brands, including K-Bro Linen Systems Inc....
CISCO SYSTEMS INC., $63.11, Nasdaq symbol CSCO, is a top pick for 2025.

Through their shares, investors tap a global producer of hardware and software that links and manages computer networks.

With the April 2025 payment, Cisco raised your quarterly dividend by 2.5%....
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, $92.91, Toronto symbol TD, remains a buy for patient, income-seeking investors.

The bank recently settled charges over lapses in the anti-money laundering processes at its U.S. retail banking operations. As a result, it paid a fine of $3.09 billion U.S.

The settlement also imposed an asset cap on TD’s U.S....
A: Amphenol Corp., $87.00, symbol APH on New York (Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $104.4 billion; www.amphenol.com), is one of the world’s largest makers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems....
Extendicare Inc. offers both a 3.5% yield and impressive growth results with higher revenue and much higher cash flow per share.