Your high yield comes with a warning

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CEDAR FAIR L.P., $56, is a buy. The partnership (New York symbol FUN; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Units o/s: 56.7 million; Market cap: $3.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.1; Divd. yield: 6.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cedarfair.com) give investors exposure to 11 amusement parks and five water parks (one of them indoors). You also tap its hotels (2,300 rooms) and 600 luxury RV sites. With the December 2019 payment, investors get a small 1.1% increase in the quarterly distribution, to $0.935 a unit from $0.925. Still, the new annual rate of $3.74 yields you a very high 6.7%. Canadian investors are subject to a U.S. withholding tax of roughly 35% on income from Cedar Fair or other Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). They often can, however, claim Canadian tax credits offsetting part of that. Note—we don’t recommend MLPs for your RRSP or RRIF. Cedar Fair is suitable for your new buying: it trades at a reasonable 15.9 times its projected 2020 earnings of $3.52 a unit. unit…