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5 cell-tower stocks for sustainable dividends and growth potential within the evolving telecom landscape.
Stanley Black & Decker Inc. offers you a high 4.5% yield while the stock is cheap at just 14.3 times forecast earnings.
A few years ago, supermarket operator Loblaw and its parent company George Weston re-organized their various businesses. That left Loblaw to focus on its main retail operations and to better compete with rivals Walmart and Costco.

Investors tend to prefer “pure-play” businesses that operate in a single industry and that can be easily analyzed....
McDonald’s continues to exhibit the resilience and adaptability that has made it a fast-food industry leader for decades – it remains an excellent defensive choice.
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FASTENAL COMPANY, $78.60, symbol FAST on Nasdaq, is a leading wholesale distributor of industrial and construction supplies. It draws almost all its clients from the construction and manufacturing industries.

Those construction customers include general, electrical, plumbing, sheet-metal, and road contractors....
LOBLAW COMPANIES LTD., $218.17, Toronto symbol L, is a buy.

The company operates 1,089 supermarkets under several banners, including Loblaws, Zehrs, Provigo, Real Canadian Superstore and No Frills.

In March 2014, it purchased the Shoppers Drug Mart chain for $12.3 billion in cash and shares....
Mexico’s ties with the U.S. are very important for the country—and here are two critical aspects of that relationship.


First, Mexico exports over $500 billion worth of goods every year to the U.S. That is more than 80% of the country’s total exports and the equivalent of 28% of its gross domestic product (GDP)....
Tesla Yield Shares Purpose ETF $17.40 (CBOE symbol YTSL) invests in Tesla shares, sells call options against the investment, and employs debt to further boost returns. Foreign currency exposure is hedged back to the Canadian dollar.


The ETF launched in December 2022, holds $152.4 million of assets, and charges a very high MER of 1.81%.


The ETF combines a covered call strategy (covering around 50% of its Tesla holdings) with leverage (debt) to generate monthly income, while aiming to preserve some of the growth potential of the underlying stocks.


Since its inception, the ETF’s unit price has declined by 1.6%; however, as the fund paid large dividends derived from its covered call income, the total return was 58.2%....
Uncertainty over new tariffs will probably force Canada’s big banks to set aside more funds for the potential growth in bad loans. However, each of the Big 5 remains well capitalized, which will help to absorb any credit losses.


ROYAL BANK OF CANADA $166 is a buy. The bank (Toronto symbol RY; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $232.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.9; Dividend yield: 3.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.rbc.com) continues to benefit from its March 2024 acquisition of the Canadian operations of U.K.-based HSBC Holdings plc (New York symbol HSBC) for $15.5 billion.


So far, eliminating overlapping operations has cut $524 million from Royal’s annual costs....