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These two REITs have recently completed multi-year restructuring plans that shifted their focus to much more promising properties. Moreover, both have held your distributions steady during their restructuring, and we feel they’re poised to add to your income following the current COVID-19 crisis.


H&R REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $8.46 is a buy. Through your units in this REIT (Toronto symbol HR.UN; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Units outstanding: 286.7 million; Market cap: $2.4 billion; Dividend yield: 16.3%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.hr-reit.com) you tap income from 455 properties: 33 office buildings, 311 retail developments, 87 industrial buildings and 24 residential properties....
Stock prices have dropped sharply in anticipation of a much wider spread of the coronavirus, and the deep economic setback that could result from its spread. That could happen—no one can predict the future. However, most sharp market downturns are temporary. Due to modern medicine and technology, the coronavirus impact is unlikely to get so big that it brings on a long-lasting stock-market decline.


Our advice is that if your stock holdings made sense for you a few weeks ago, in light of your investment goals, financial circumstances and temperament, then you should hang on to them.


You should also continue to follow our three-pronged Successful Investor strategy: Invest mainly in established companies; spread your money out across the five main economic sectors; and downplay or avoid stocks that are in the broker/media limelight.


But most important—with yields on many stocks currently so much higher than before the COVID-19 tumult and with many companies cutting their dividends—income investors need to pay close attention to our Dividend Sustainability Ratings.


In this, your latest issue of Dividend Advisor, you’ll also find several high-yielding stocks we recommend for new buying....
We designed our Dividend Sustainability Rating to help our readers zero in on companies that can continue to pay you dividends (or even raise them) during economic downturns.


The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has already forced many firms to cut or suspend their dividends....
A: Real Matters Inc., $11.85, symbol REAL on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 84.9 million; Market cap: $957.7 million; www.realmatters.com), provides technology and network management solutions to the mortgage lending and insurance industries in Canada and the U.S....
A: Dream Industrial REIT, $7.98, symbol DIR.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 152.2 million; Market cap: $1.2 billion; www.dreamindustrialreit.ca), offers investors a portfolio of industrial properties in North America and Europe.

The REIT, originally named Dundee Industrial REIT, first sold units to the public and began trading in October 2012 at $10 per unit....
A: Activision Blizzard Inc. $54.43, symbol ATVI on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 769.2 million; Market cap: $43.4 billion; www.activisionblizzard.com), is a video game company founded in July 2008 through the merger of Activision, Inc....
Note--this is part of a continuing Inner Circle Spotlight Report: The Successful Investor Guide to Bear Market Investing




Like a lot of beginning investors, I took an early interest in “market lore”—rules for making money in the stock market. These rules aim to tell you how to spot good stocks to buy, good times to buy or sell them, how much to pay, etc....
Long-time readers know that we are constantly evaluating the stocks we recommend to see if they should remain in the Power Growth Investor newsletter.


Although most stocks have dropped in the current market downturn, we feel top-quality shares will be among the first to rebound....

Most cannabis producers continue to struggle with a number of challenges....
In March 2019, activist investment firm Sachem Head Capital Management announced that it had acquired 8.9% of Eagle Materials. It now owns around 7% of the company.


Sachem originally pushed the company to sell its fracking sands business, which has struggled in recent years as oil producers opt instead to use brown sand from suppliers close to their wells....