Packaging focus cuts your risk

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TRANSCONTINENTAL INC. $19 is still a buy. Canada’s largest commercial printing company (Toronto symbol TCL.A; Cyclical-Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 77.1 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; Dividend yield: 4.7%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.tctranscontinental.com) last raised your dividend with the April 2020 payment. Investors now receive $0.225 a share, up 2.3% from $0.22. The new annual rate of $0.90 yields a high 4.7%. The stock is down 12% since the start of 2021, mainly due to concerns that rising costs for plastic resins, a key ingredient, will squeeze its profit margins. As well, the government wage subsidies it received during the height of the pandemic are ending. Even so, the company will continue to benefit from its shift to food packaging, which is less cyclical than its traditional printing business. Packaging now supplies 55% of its revenue. Transcontinental is a buy. buy…