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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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With the February 2025 payment, the bank will raise your quarterly dividend by 2.6%, to $1.59 a share from $1.55. The new annual rate of $6.36 yields a high 4.3%. Bank of Montreal also announced a new plan to buy back up to 20 million of its common shares (2.7% of the total outstanding).
On February 1, 2023, the bank completed its acquisition of Bank of the West from France’s BNP Paribas for $13.8 billion U.S
Bank of the West provides a variety of retail and commercial banking services to over 1.8 million customers in 24 U.S....
The stock fell 15% this week after the computer chip maker announced that Pat Gelsinger has retired as its chief executive officer and as a director.
Chief financial officer David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus, general manager of Intel’s client computing group, will serve as interim co-CEOs.
Under Gelsinger, Intel began a multi-year plan in 2021 to improve its technical expertise and expand its ability to make chips for other companies....
The bank recently settled charges over lapses in the anti-money laundering processes at its U.S. retail banking operations. As a result, it paid a fine of $3.09 billion U.S.
The settlement also imposed an asset cap on TD’s U.S....
A strategy such as selecting stocks with a long history of uninterrupted dividend growth—as represented by the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats—has resulted in gains of 11.8% per year over the past 30 years; this compares to 10.9% for the S&P 500 Index....
JPMorgan US Equity Premium Income Active ETF $26.61 (Toronto symbol JEPI) invests in the shares of U.S....
Dividend-paying companies have done well over the longer term, although the recent performance of this group lagged the main market indexes. That’s because higher interest rates on fixed-income investments made their dividends less attractive to income investors....
Financial Services make up 19% of the portfolio, followed by Industrials (18%), Healthcare (12%), Technology (11%), and Consumer Discretionary (11%)....
