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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KKR and Apollo will contribute a total of $2.7 billion. In exchange, they will receive a 29% in the expanded Westcoast pipeline network. Enbridge also has the option to buy back that stake between the 7th and 14th year.
Valhalla North is a 33-kilometre pipeline that pumps natural gas from Grande Prairie, Alberta, to the company’s main NGTL pipeline system. Berland River is a 30-megawatt electric powered compressor station near Edson, Alberta.
BCE INC., $32.35, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares outstanding: 932.5 million; Market cap: $30.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 5.4%) purchased Ziply Fiber in August 2025, which offers high-speed Internet access and telephone services through a fibre-optic network to residential and business customers in Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
Enbridge has agreed to buy the Orla and Wink North oil gathering systems and a 50% stake in the Delaware Crossing system from Salt Creek Midstream.
CHOICE PROPERTIES REIT, $15.17, is a buy. Canada’s biggest REIT (Toronto symbol CHP.UN; Units o/s: 723.8 million; Market cap: $11.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.2%; www.choicereit.ca) owns 699 properties, for a total of 68.6 million square feet of retail, industrial, mixed-use and residential space.
Under that plan, the bank transferred its banking operations in Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama to banking firm Davivienda. Although it received a 20% stake in Davivienda—with its 24.6 million clients in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Panama, as well as Miami, Florida—the sale concentrated Scotia’s operations on its core markets.
You can’t fake a record of dividends. That’s why we place a high value on a sustained history of dividend payments. When you’re looking for income-producing stocks, a high dividend yield should also be one of your most important investment considerations. But that shouldn’t come at the expense of sustainability.
Our exclusive TSI Dividend Sustainability Rating System uses eight factors to determine a company’s ability to maintain its current dividend, and increase the payment over time.
As a leading maker of ethanol from corn, Archer Daniels stands to benefit from the U.S. government’s proposal to increase the amount of ethanol that oil refiners must add to their fuels. Under the new regulations, renewable fuel volumes are set to jump 61% in 2026 compared to 2025.
RTX CORP. $212 is a buy. The company (New York symbol RTX; Conservative-Growth Payer Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $275.6 billion; Dividend yield: 1.4%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.rtx.com) took its current form in 2020 through the merger of United Technologies and Raytheon.