Updates on your Conservative stocks: Great-West Lifeco, Loblaw, & Teck Resources

GREAT-WEST LIFECO INC. $33 (www.greatwestlifeco.com) is a hold. The company is Canada’s second-largest life insurer, after Manulife Financial. Canada’s banking regulator—the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions—has lifted the restrictions on capital distributions placed on banks and insurers due to COVID-19 uncertainty. As a result, Great-West now… Read More

Three key updates to spur your success

SAPUTO INC. $30 is a hold. The company (Toronto symbol SAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 414.4 million; Market cap: $12.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.9; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.saputo.com) is Canada’s largest producer of dairy products. It also operates dairies in the U.S.,… Read More

A Yield to Caution

WESTSHORE TERMINALS INVESTMENT CORP. $27 (Toronto symbol WTE; Shares outstanding: 63.3 million; Market cap: $1.7 billion; Dividend yield: 3.7%; www.westshore.com) operates a coal storage and loading terminal at Roberts Bank, B.C.
Westshore ships both metallurgical coal (for steelmaking) and thermal coal (for power plants). Teck Resources is its… Read More