Dividends can produce as much as a third of your total return over long periods, and you can even retire on dividends.
There are 4 key stock dividend dates that are involved with dividend payments:
1- The Declaration Date is several weeks in advance of a dividend payment—it’s when company’s board of directors sets the amount and timing of the proposed payment.
2- The Payable Date is the date set by the board on which the dividend will actually be paid out to shareholders.
3- The Record Date is for shareholders who hold the stock before the payable date and receive the dividend payment. That date is set any number of weeks before the payable date.
4-The Ex-Dividend Date is two business days before the record date and it’s when the shares begin to trade without their dividend. If you buy stocks one day or more before their ex-dividend date, you will still get the dividend. That’s when a stock is said to trade cum-dividend. If you buy on the ex-dividend date or later, you won’t get the dividend. The ex-dividend date is in place to allow pending stock trades to settle.
We think very highly of stocks that have been paying dividends for five or more years, at TSI Network. Many of these stocks fit in well with our three-part Successful Investor philosophy:
1- Invest mainly in well-established companies;
2- Spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities);
3- Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.
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BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, $111.40, is a buy. The lender (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $136.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.1%; www.scotiabank.com) continues to benefit from its shifting focus away from Latin America to its main North American operations.
MANULIFE FINANCIAL, $53.03, is a buy. This safety-conscious stock (Toronto symbol MFC; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $88.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.5%; www.manulife.ca) represents one of Canada’s largest life insurers. It’s also a leading insurer in Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, and the Philippines. On March 31, 2026, the insurer had $1.71 trillion in assets under administration.
CAPITAL POWER CORP., $72.03, is a buy. The Edmonton-based company (Toronto symbol CPX; Shares o/s: 156.5 million; Market cap: $11.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 3.8%; www.capitalpower.com) is a major power producer in Canada and the U.S. with 12 gigawatts of generation capacity across 35 facilities. Its portfolio includes natural gas, renewables, and battery energy storage solutions.