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Finding top Canadian companies that offer investing value is an important part of a successful investment portfolio. Learn the qualities of value stocks to look for now.

Savvy investors use value investing resources to look for investments—but they look beyond them at the whole picture

Finding top stocks that give dividends will be a lot easier when you follow our three-part Successful Investor approach. Here’s our advice:

Stocks with high dividends are typically sought-after investments, however, a high dividend yield is not always a good thing and can be a signal of problems to come

Cash has been a poor performer for the past 20 years, not even keeping pace with the low rate of inflation. Almost every asset class has done much better. But some cash can be useful when equity markets turn down—it can provide investors the opportunity to buy stocks at lower prices and it offers a buffer for investors that regularly extract money from their portfolios to cover expenses.


Lastly, cash returns may rise as central bankers ramp up their fight against inflation....

A: We generally feel that most investors should hold the bulk of their investment portfolios in conservative securities from well-established companies. This means holding a total of 15 to 25 well-established, dividend-paying stocks, chosen mainly from our “Average” or higher ratings, and spreading your holdings out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors.

However, some investors choose to add more aggressive or speculative stocks to their holdings in their pursuit of bigger, faster gains....

Many investors spend way too much time trying to analyze the market outlook for stocks, based on little more than recent stock-price trends. They generally fall in one of two camps.

Momentum investors: These investors like to buy stocks that have been going up for some time....

Here’s the text of my latest letter to our Portfolio Management clients, sent in July:

Dear Client:

“If I could offer one piece of advice to young people thinking about their future, it would be this: Don’t preconceive. Find out what the opportunities are.”—Thomas Sowell

Dr....

As stock prices rise, investors can easily lose sight of the value of dividends. That’s because a yearly 3% or 4% dividend barely seems worth mentioning next to possible yearly capital gains of 10%, 20% or more.


But dividends are far more reliable that capital gains....

If you’ve ever wondered “what are dividend stocks?” We have the answer for you.