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:
- Invest mainly in well-established companies;
- Spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; Utilities);
- Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.
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The shares of aerospace equipment maker RTX are up 65% since dropping to $69 in October 2023 on the news of a defective jet engine recall. The share price jump is largely because the company significantly expanded its capacity to handle these repairs, which has helped it speed up that work.
We feel the stock still has plenty of room to move higher in 2025, as the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East spur demand for its military equipment, particularly the Patriot surface-to-air missile system....
ALCON, $85.54, is a buy. The firm (New York symbol ALC; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.alcon.com; Shares outstanding: 499.7 million; Market cap: $42.3 billion; Dividend yield 0.3%) is the world’s biggest eye-care company....
EXTENDICARE INC., $10.12, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol EXE; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.extendicare.com; Shares outstanding: 83.5 million; Market cap: $848.9 million; Dividend yield: 4.7%) has now entered into an agreement with Revera Inc....
PAGERDUTY INC., $19.60, is a buy. The company (New York symbol PD; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (pagerduty.com; Shares o/s: 90.2 million; Market cap: $1.8 billion; No divd.) operates a platform that collects real-time data from software systems and devices and then notifies its IT customers of incidents that could harm operations.
For the three months ended October 31, 2024, revenue rose 6.4%, to $118.9 million from $108.7 million a year earlier....
CALIAN GROUP, $47.73, is a buy. The stock (Toronto symbol CGY; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (calian.com; Shares outstanding: 11.8 million; Market cap: $555.0 million; Dividend yield: 2.4%) lets investors tap the Ottawa-based company’s four main operating segments:
Advanced Technologies offers products and engineering services for the space, communications, nuclear, agriculture, defence and government sectors....
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SHOPIFY, $170.88, remains a buy. The company (Toronto symbol SHOP; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.shopify.ca; Shares outstanding: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $213.6 billion; No dividends paid) offers merchants of all sizes Internet-based software to design, set up and manage e-commerce stores across multiple sales channels....
Sharp is headquartered in Germany, with operations in the U.S....