great-west lifeco

GREAT-WEST LIFECO $34.15 (Toronto symbol GWO; shares outstanding: 998.6 million; Market cap: $33.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.5%; www.greatwestlifeco.com) will now purchase an undisclosed stake in the Irish operations of Invesco Ltd....

POWER CORP. $29.36 (Toronto symbol POW; Shares outstanding: 414.4 million; Market cap: $13.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.9%; www.powercorporation.com) is a holding company with a diversified list of businesses. It holds its financial assets through its 65.6%-owned Power Financial.


In the quarter ended December 31, 2017, Power Corp.’s earnings per share rose 1.1%, to $0.90 from $0.89 a year earlier.


Power Financial’s assets include 67.6% interest in insurer Great-West Lifeco and 61.5% of mutual-fund provider IGM Financial.


Through its 50% stake in Parjointco, Power Financial also holds 55.5% of Swiss-listed Pargesa Holdings SA....

ENBRIDGE INC. $39 (Toronto symbol ENB; Income-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.65 billion; Market cap: $64.4 billion; Dividend yield: 6.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.enbridge.com) operates pipelines that pump oil and natural gas from Western Canada to eastern Canada and the U.S....

GREAT-WEST LIFECO INC. $34 (Toronto symbol GWO; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; shares outstanding: 988.7 million; Market cap: $33.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 4.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is Canada’s second-largest insurance company, after Manulife Financial (Toronto symbol MFC)....

GREAT-WEST LIFECO $33.86 (Toronto symbol GWO; shares outstanding: 998.7 million; Market cap: $33.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.6%; www. greatwestlifeco.com) is making its first move into the U.S....

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $230.40 (Toronto symbol CP; shares ooutstanding: 147.7 million; Market cap: $33.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.0%; www.cpr.ca) ships freight over a 22,000-kilometre rail network between Montreal and Vancouver, with links to hubs in the U.S.

The company has agreed to repurchase up to 755,000 of its shares from two separate private sellers at a discount to the market price....

GREAT-WEST LIFECO INC. $35 (Toronto symbol GWO; Conservative-Growth Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 989.2 million; Market cap: $34.6 billion; Dividend Yield: 4.2%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is Canada’s second-largest insurance company, after Manulife Financial (Toronto symbol MFC)....

SUN LIFE FINANCIAL INC. $52 (Toronto symbol SLF; Conservative- Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 612.0 million; Market cap: $31.8 billion; Dividend yield: 3.5%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.sunlife.ca) originally began operating as The Sun Insurance Company of Montreal in 1865....

PRECISION DRILLING CORP. $3.37 (Toronto symbol PD; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resource sector; Shares outstanding: 293.2 million; Market cap: $985.1 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.9; Dividend suspended in March 2016; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.precisiondrilling....

POWER CORP. $32.83 (Toronto symbol POW; Shares outstanding: 414.4 million; Market cap: $15.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.4%; www.powercorporation. com) is a holding company with a diversified list of businesses. It holds its financial assets through its 65.6%-owned Power Financial.

In the quarter ended September 30, 2017, Power Corp.’s earnings per share rose 24.6%, to $0.81 from $0.65 a year earlier.

Power Financial’s assets include 67.6% interest in insurer Great-West Lifeco and 61.5% of mutual-fund provider IGM Financial.

Through its 50% stake in Parjointco, Power Financial also holds 55.5% of Swiss-listed Pargesa Holdings SA....