Stable income trusts with growth ahead

BELL ALIANT REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS INCOME FUND $28.28 (Toronto symbol BA.UN: Units outstanding: 127.3 million; Market cap: $3.6 billion; SI Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 10.3%) has over 3.1 million telephone customers in Atlantic Canada and rural parts of Ontario and Quebec. BCE owns 44.1% of… Read More

Lower costs will help Bell Aliant compete

BELL ALIANT REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS INCOME FUND $27 (Toronto symbol BA.UN; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Units outstanding: 127.2 million; Market cap: $3.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; SI Rating: Above Average) will cut 5% of its workforce as part of a plan to lower its costs… Read More

Bell Aliant plans an upgrade

BELL ALIANT REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS INCOME FUND $26.30 (Toronto symbol BA.UN: SI Rating: Above Average) plans to spend $60 million to convert its network, which connects 70,000 homes and businesses in Saint John and Fredericton, New Brunswick, to fibre-optic cable.

Switching to fibre-optic cable will allow for… Read More

Well positioned for 2011 tax changes

BELL ALIANT REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS INCOME FUND $26.60 (Toronto symbol BA.UN: SI Rating: Above Average) has over 3.1 million telephone customers in Atlantic Canada and rural parts of Ontario and Quebec. BCE owns 44.1% of Bell Aliant.

In the three months ended March 31, 2009, the fund’s… Read More