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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MAPLE LEAF FOODS INC....
TELUS INTERNATIONAL (CDA) INC. $5.68 remains a buy, but only for aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol TIXT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 275.0 million; Market cap: $1.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.telusinternational.com) now operates as Telus Digital Experience....
CENOVUS ENERGY INC. $22 is a buy. Canada’s third-largest oil producer (Toronto symbol CVE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $39.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield 3.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cenovus.com) expects to spend between $4.5 billion and $5.0 billion in 2024 on exploration and upgrades.
Those investments will lift the company’s full-year output to between 785,000 and 810,000 barrels a day (its oil sands projects in Alberta account for 76% of that total)....
You can further cut your risk by sticking with high-quality aggressive stocks such as the three we analyze below....
Finning supplies Caterpillar heavy equipment and support services to resources companies, so its revenues tend to move up and down with commodity prices.
To offset that cyclical risk, the company typically signs long-term support contracts when it sells new equipment, which gives its predictable revenue streams....
So far, the split has produced mixed results—Victoria’s Secret is now up roughly 14%, but its former parent has dropped 40%.
Consumers continue to cut back on discretionary purchases as they cope with elevated prices and interest rates....
Becton spun off its diabetes products business as embecta in 2022. Since then, the former parent is down 14%, while the new company has dropped 54%. However, both firms are taking steps that we expect to spur their earnings.
BECTON DICKINSON & CO....