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Learning when to sell dividend-paying stocks will help you keep your best-performing stocks even longer, so you don’t miss out on future gains.
A: BlackRock Inc., $921.04, symbol BLK on New York (Shares outstanding: 152.2 million; Market cap: $140.8 billion; www.blackrock.com), is one of the world’s largest publicly traded investment management firms.

The company manages $9.5 trillion of assets on behalf of institutions and individuals through a variety of equity, fixed-income, cash-management, alternative-investment and advisory products.

BlackRock’s global ETF (exchange-traded fund) and stock-index investing business accounts for 63% of its overall assets under management (AUM)....
J.P. MORGAN CHASE & CO. $161 is a buy. The bank (New York symbol JPM; Conservative-Growth Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 3.1 billion; Market cap: $499.1 billion; Dividend yield: 2.5%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.jpmorganchase.com) recently passed the U.S....
As stock prices rise, investors can easily lose sight of the value of dividends. That’s because a yearly 3% or 4% dividend barely seems worth mentioning next to possible yearly capital gains of 10%, 20% or more.


But dividends are far more reliable that capital gains....

INTRODUCTION: EXERCISE CAUTION WITH IPOS


There have been a lot of high-profile initial public offerings, or IPOs, over the last couple of years. Prominent names include Airbnb, DoorDash, Snowflake, Lightspeed POS and Zoom Video, as well as Uber and Lyft....

The success of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout is letting more businesses re-open. Consumers also continue to repay their loans on time. As a result, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has increased the minimum capitalization ratio (CET1, or Common Equity Tier 1) for Canada’s banks to 10.5%....
If you’ve ever wondered “what are dividend stocks?” We have the answer for you.
Here’s the text of my latest letter to our Portfolio Management clients, sent in May:

“We’ve often written about an attractive market pattern that has paid off for us over the years. This pattern emerges when the following two factors come together to create what we’ve called a “double-barrelled buying opportunity”:
  1. Investors generally are fearful and have low expectations for stock-market performance; and
  2. There’s a lot of hidden value in the stock market—that is, value that is not widely recognized by investors.

These two factors work together to improve your chances of making money in the stock market....
Learn how to evaluate a stock before buying so you make picks that you can feel confident in as part of a sound long-term portfolio. Here’s what you need to know
Lately I’ve seen a number of favourable media comments about “the value trade”—brokerese for “now that techs are taking a breather, it’s time to sell some of your tech stocks and buy some value stocks.”

The term “value stocks” refers to stocks that have below-average P/E ratios and other statistical measures and indicators that appeal to investors who are in search of investment bargains....