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Many of you avoid smaller firms such as these three (including Leon’s—see box) due to their higher risk and lower liquidity. However, each of the three small caps on this page is a leader in its niche market. That helps protect your dividends.


CALIAN GROUP LTD....

Newell and General Mills have adopted new strategies in light of weaker demand for their main products. We believe that will ultimately lift earnings and protect your current dividend income. Restructuring has already handed investors in one of those companies a 20% gain this year....

Canada’s top insurance firms remain great choices for investors seeking reliable dividends. They’re also a great way for you to tap into fast-growing Asian demand for insurance and wealth management services.


SUN LIFE FINANCIAL INC. $61 is also a buy. The stock (Toronto symbol SLF; Conservative-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 587.6 million; Market cap: $35.8 billion; Dividend yield: 3.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.sunlife.ca) lets investors tap Canada’s third-largest life insurance company by market cap, behind Manulife Financial (No....

NORTONLIFELOCK INC., $25, is a buy for investors. The company (Nasdaq symbol NLOK; High-Growth Divd. Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares o/s: 623.3 million; Market cap: $15.6 billion; Divd. yield: 2.0%; Divd. Sustainability Rating: Average; www.nortonlifelock.com) has now changed its name from Symantec (old symbol SYMC) following the sale of its Enterprise Security business to Broadcom for $10.7 billion....

High dividend yields can be a red flag for investors. Those impressive values often indicate that the current payment may be in danger. However, our exclusive Dividend Sustainability Rating helps investors avoid unpleasant surprises. Here are two high-yielding stocks that we still have immense confidence in....

Welcome to your latest issue of Dividend Advisor.


This month, we highlight several attractive, high-yield stocks we recommend to you as buys. They include Extendicare, which offers you a high 6.0% yield while serving the rapidly growing senior-care market....

TC Energy (TransCanada’s new name) is now developing a whopping $30.3 billion in new pipelines and other projects—all of them set to add considerable value for investors. You should expect the company to complete $10 billion of that work by the end of 2019. The remainder will come by 2023....

A: Stryker Corporation, $206.97, symbol SYK on New York (Shares outstanding: 373.1 million; Market cap: $76.8 billion; www.stryker.com), is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies....

A: The Goldman Sachs JUST U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF, $44.89, symbol JUST on New York (Units outstanding: 3.1 million; Market cap: $139.2 million; www.gsam.com), started up June 7, 2018, launched by prominent hedge fund manager and billionaire philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones.

The ETF’s MER is a low 0.20%, and it yields 1.9%.

Jones’s charitable foundation, Just Capital, conducts regular polling to determine the American public’s most important concerns as they relate to business behaviour....

A: Smartsheet Inc., $44.60, symbol SMAR on New York (Shares outstanding: 87.4 million; Market cap: $5.0 billion; www.smartsheet.com), provides cloud-based software for teams and organizations to plan, capture, manage, automate, and report on their work.

Smartsheet first sold shares to the public in April 2018 at $15 a share.

The company operates in a competitive market and continues to lose money; it will likely report a loss of $0.55 a share in 2020....