Tap 48 years of rising dividends

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FORTIS INC. $56 is your #1 Income Buy for 2021. The company (Toronto symbol FTS; Conservative & Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 471.2 million; Market cap: $26.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.9; Dividend yield 3.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.fortisinc.com) has raised its dividend each year for the past 48 years. That includes a 5.9% increase starting with the December 2021 quarterly payment. As a result, investors will receive $0.535 a share instead of $0.505. The new annual rate of $2.14 yields 3.8%. Fortis is also a partner in the Wataynikaneyap Transmission Power Project, which will connect 16 remote First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario to the province’s main electricity grid. That will let those communities eliminate their inefficient diesel generators. Ontario’s power regulators have now approved Wataynikaneyap’s initial power rates. That will give it total revenue of $41.5 million when it begins operating in 2022. Fortis is your #1 Income Buy for 2021. 2021…