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A: VanEck Vectors Social Sentiment ETF, $14.14, symbol BUZZ on New York (Units outstanding: 4.1 million; Market cap: $58.0 million; www.vaneck.com), holds 75 stocks, each with a market cap of $5 billion or more; each of these stocks also generates social media attention.

The fund tracks the BUZZ NextGen AI U.S....

Most of our readers are familiar with our three-part Successful Investor investment strategy, which goes like this:

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

Rule #3 would also apply to investment ideas that are getting a lot of media attention....

You can see our Income-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio for March 2023 here.

You can’t fake a record of dividends....

ANDREW PELLER LTD. $5.01 (A shares) remains a buy. Canada’s second-largest winemaker (Toronto symbol ADW.A; Conservative Growth Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 43.1 million; Market cap: $215.9 million; Dividend yield: 4.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.andrewpeller.com) last raised your quarterly dividend by 10% with the July 2021 payment....

Top insurers Manulife and Sun Life recently rewarded investors with sizeable dividend hikes. That’s partly due to the contributions of recent acquisitions. We feel these purchases will continue to pay off. Moreover, both stocks trade at attractive multiples to their projected earnings.


MANULIFE FINANCIAL CORP....

Thanks to the re-opening of offices and shopping malls with the end of COVID-19 restrictions, these two REITs are rewarding investors with higher distributions.


ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $28 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Units outstanding: 128.0 million; Market cap: $3.6 billion; Distribution yield: 6.4%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.alliedreit.com) owns 200 office buildings and 13 properties under development, mainly in major Canadian cities.


Starting with the January 2023 payment, Allied raised its monthly distribution by 2.9%....

GANNETT CO. INC. $2.58 remains a hold. The company (New York symbol GCI; Conservative-Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector: Shares outstanding: 146.1 million; Market cap: $376.9 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.1; Dividend suspended in 2020; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.gannett.com) merged with GateHouse Media, and its parent company New Media Investment Group Inc....

Investing in the best Canadian stocks to buy right now will lead you towards dividend-paying blue chips, bank stocks, and more

Drugmaker Eli Lilly has two potentially huge blockbuster drugs on the horizon—one for obesity, the other for Alzheimer’s. But even without these two, the company’s future is bright given the strength of its existing roster of drugs plus new drugs in its pipeline.

The stock is up 108.4% since we first recommended it in our June 2020 issue of Power Growth Investor at $157.19....

ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS INC., $125.97, symbol ZBH on New York, manufactures orthopedic reconstructive implants and surgical equipment for orthopedic surgeries. Zimmer has the largest market share for reconstructive implants in the U.S.

In March 2022, the company spun off its Spine and Dental businesses as ZimVie Inc....