dividend

A dividend is a cash payout that serves as a way for companies to share the profits they’ve accumulated through their operations. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow paid to the shareholders of the company. Commonly these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may also be paid annually or even monthly as well. A dividend can produce as much as a quarter of your total return over long periods. Some good companies reinvest profits instead of paying a dividend. But fraudulent and failing companies hardly ever pay a dividend. So if you only buy stocks that pay dividends, you’ll automatically stay out of almost all the market’s worst stocks. For a true measure of stability, focus on companies that have maintained or raised their dividends during recessions and stock market downturns. These firms leave themselves enough room to handle periods of earnings volatility. By continually rewarding investors, and retaining enough cash to finance their businesses, they provide an attractive mix of safety, income and growth. Dividends are an important contributor to your long-term gains, and dividend-paying stocks tend to expose you to less risk than non-dividend-payers. That’s why the majority of your stocks should be dividend-payers at all times. As you get older and closer to retirement, you should raise the proportion of dividend-paying stocks in your portfolio, to cut risk and improve the stability of your investment results. To maximize your investment returns with the least risk, follow TSI Network and use our three-part Successful Investor strategy:

  1. Invest mainly in well-established companies;
  2. Spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; Utilities);
  3. Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.

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Imperial Oil recently traded near its all-time high, before falling back with the market downturn. Even so, for our subscribers, that still translates into a whopping 1,406.6% gain since we first recommended the stock as a buy in April 1995!

Nonetheless, we think Imperial can go even higher....
Leon’s Furniture is attractively priced as it continues to offer a solid yield and plenty of upside thanks to some promising real estate developments.
COREWEAVE INC., $43.75, symbol CRWV on Nasdaq, rents out AI servers.

CoreWeave operates a network of 32 data centres that house the chips and equipment the company rents out to clients, who in turn create and deploy their AI systems.

The company started up in 2016 as a crypto mining firm....
PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., $166.91, New York symbol PG, is a buy.

The company is one of the world’s largest makers of household and personal-care goods. Major brands include Tide (laundry detergent), Pampers (diapers), Gillette (razors), Crest (toothpaste) and Vicks (cold remedies).

Procter will now raise your quarterly dividend by 5.0%....
WALMART INC., $92.80, New York symbol WMT, is still a buy.

The company is the world’s biggest retailer, with 10,771 outlets in 19 countries.

Walmart feels it is in a strong position to handle new U.S. tariffs on imported goods globally....
NORTH WEST COMPANY, $52.38, is a buy. The retailer (symbol NWC on Toronto) sells food, and everyday products and services through 230 stores. Those locations are mainly in northern communities across Canada and Alaska. Through your shares, you also tap the company’s operations in remote regions of Hawaii, the wider South Pacific and the Caribbean.

North West’s food offerings consist of perishable and non-perishable products including groceries, dairy, produce, meat, convenience foods, food service, home meal replacement, health and beauty aids, paper products and cleaning supplies....
SOUTH BOW CORP., $32.31, Toronto symbol SOBO, is a hold.

On October 1, 2024, TC Energy Corp. (Toronto symbol TRP) completed the spinoff of its oil pipeline business as separate company South Bow. Investors received 0.2 of a South Bow share for every TC share they held....
Germany was the only country in the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy nations to suffer an economic contraction in both 2023 and 2024. One reason was the country’s “debt brake.” In place since 2009, it sharply limits the government’s ability to borrow and run economy-stimulating deficits.


However, newly elect German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now secured backing to remove the debt brake and pave the way for a massive increase in state borrowing.


This will spur a boom in defence and security spending as well as 500 million euros ($545 billion U.S.) in infrastructure investment....
A key rule of our three-part Successful Investor strategy is to spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities).

This has two main benefits: a) It keeps you from investing too heavily in any industry or sector that is headed into a period of big losses; and b) By spreading your investments out more widely, it also improves your chances of latching onto a market superstar—a stock that will wind up producing two or five or 10 times more profit than average.

ISHARES S&P/TSX GLOBAL BASE METALS ETF $16.86 (Toronto symbol XBM; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Aggressive; Market cap: $230.9 million) tracks the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index....
Fluor Corp. will be more resistant to market volatility in the future with a shift to better contracts as it reports higher revenues