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Investors often ask, “When do I sell?” There is no simple, fits-on-a-t-shirt answer. But there are several things that should not, in and of themselves, prompt you to sell.



  • Weak quarterly earnings report: One quarter of weak profit may simply be a normal fluctuation....
ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $48 (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Cyclical-Growth Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 109.1 million; Market cap: $5.2 billion; Dividend yield: 3.3%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.alliedreit.com) owns 147 office buildings, mainly in major Canadian cities....
We continue to recommend that investors broaden their U.S. Finance holdings beyond big banks such as J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo.


Top finance stocks outside of banks include the three stocks we analyze below. Each is a leader in its industry and continues to invest in its business to maintain its market share.


Broadridge and State Street are best suited to aggressive investors, although we see all of three as buys.


AMERICAN EXPRESS CO....
PFIZER INC. $39 (New York symbol PFE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 5.6 billion; Market cap: $218.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.1; Dividend yield: 3.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pfizer.com) has acquired 15% of Vivet Therapeutics for $51 million.


Based in France, privately held Vivet is developing a treatment for Wilson disease, a liver disorder that causes copper to build up in the body....
YUM! BRANDS INC. $103 (New York symbol YUM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 305.9 million; Market cap: $31.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.6; Dividend yield: 1.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.yum.com) operates 48,000 restaurants in over 140 countries....
Do blue chip stocks pay dividends? The top blue chips mostly do, and many have a long history of rewarding shareholders with those payments.
A: NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT, $11.40, symbol NWH.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 117.2 million; Market cap: $1.3 billion; www.nwhreit.com), owns and operates a portfolio of medical office buildings (54%) as well as hospital and healthcare facilities (46%).

NorthWest is Canada’s largest non-government owner and operator of medical office buildings and has been steadily increasing its international exposure....
Our Spinoffs, Takeovers and Special Situations newsletter focuses on the three types of investment opportunities in its name. Huntsman and Danaher were two of our earliest recommendations in the Spinoffs area. Each had just completed a spinoff of a smaller business.

In July 2016, Danaher handed out 100% the shares in its Fortive subsidiary to its own shareholders, as a special dividend....
The best lithium mining companies to invest in will meet key criteria, including operating in stable environments and having both sound balance sheets and realistic valuations
BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS $113.25 (New York symbol BR; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (201-714-3000; www.broadridge.com; Shares o/s: 115.7 million; Market cap: $13.0 billion; Dividend yield: 1.7%) serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing and transaction clearing.


In its fiscal 2019 second quarter, ended December 31, 2018, revenue fell 5.9%, to $953.4 million from $1.01 billion a year earlier....