Dividend Stocks

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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Dividend Stocks Library Archive
AUTOMOTIVE PROPERTIES REIT $13.50 (Toronto symbol APR.UN; Units outstanding: 39.1 million; Market cap: $527.9 million; Dividend yield: 5.9%; www.automotivereit.ca) is a real estate investment trust that owns 66 commercial properties across cities in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, B.C....
We only added U.S.-based drugmaker AbbVie to our Dividend Advisor coverage in March 2021, but the shares are already up 10%.


The company’s massive purchase of rival drugmaker Allergan in 2020 adds risk. However, the deal gave AbbVie a much broader array of products, as well as a much deeper pipeline of new drugs in development.


In fact, AbbVie is so confident in its future prospects that it just announced an 8.5% hike to your dividend....
AMEREN CORP. $86 (www.ameren.com) is a hold. Ameren’s revenue in the third quarter of 2021 rose 11.2%, to $1.81 billion from $1.63 billion a year earlier. That’s mainly due to higher power rates and warmer-than-usual summer weather....
Long-time readers know that we keep you informed of important news about the stocks we cover. That means highlighting developments and plans that promise to brighten prospects for their investors. Here are two buys that stand out this month:


RUSSEL METALS, $35.50, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol RUS; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.russelmetals.com; Shares outstanding: 62.7 million; Market cap: $2.2 billion; Dividend yield: 4.3%) is one of North America’s largest metal distributors: the company (symbol RUS on Toronto) serves 33,000 clients at 48 locations in Canada and 16 others in the U.S.


Russel’s revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2021, jumped 80.2%, to $1.11 billion from $614.9 million a year earlier....
Alberta’s high COVID-19 infection rates and Ottawa’s plans to cut emissions at the province’s oil producers could hurt electricity sales at Canadian Utilities and its parent company ATCO. However, recent investments in renewable power projects help cut that risk....
FORTIS INC. $57 is your #1 Income Buy for 2021. The company (Toronto symbol FTS; Conservative & Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 472.9 million; Market cap: $27.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.9; Dividend yield 3.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.fortisinc.com) is the main supplier of electrical power in Newfoundland and PEI....
H&R REIT, $17.09, is a buy. The trust (Toronto symbol HR.UN; Units outstanding: 286.9 million; Market cap: $4.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.0%; www.hr-reit.com) has announced a plan to spin off or sell its retail and office properties in a bid to better focus on its residential and industrial segments.


H&R will spin off its Primaris properties, including all of its enclosed shopping malls, to a new publicly traded REIT that it will create with the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan.


Immediately following the spinoff, H&R unitholders will own a 74% stake in Primaris, while HOOPP will own 26%.


H&R also says it will sell $600 million of its grocery-anchored and essential services retail properties, its $470-million equity interest in Echo Realty LP, and $2.3 billion in office properties....
LOBLAW COMPANIES, $93.97, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol L; Shares outstanding: 335.6 million; Market cap: $31.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.6%; www.loblaw.ca) operates 1,096 supermarkets under several banners, including Loblaws, Zehrs, Provigo, Real Canadian Superstore and No Frills.


In March 2014, it purchased the Shoppers Drug Mart chain for $12.3 billion in cash and shares....
The market plunge at the start of the COVID-19 crisis lowered prices for most REITs. That’s because the pandemic forced many businesses to temporarily close. However, vaccines should see the economy increasingly normalize in the next several months. That will let these two REITs maintain their current distributions, or even raise them.


CHOICE PROPERTIES REIT, $15.18, is a buy. Canada’s biggest REIT (Toronto symbol CHP.UN; Units outstanding: 722.7 million; Market cap: $10.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.9%; www.choicereit.ca) creates value for investors through its 730 properties, with a total of 66.2 million square feet of retail, industrial and office space....
ENBRIDGE $52.23 is a #1 Buy for 2021. The firm (Toronto symbol ENB; Shares o/s: 2.0 billion; Market cap: $105.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.4%; www.enbridge.com) has agreed to buy 2 billion cubic feet of renewable natural gas (RNG) annually from U.S.-based Vanguard Renewables.


Vanguard makes RNG using the gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter, such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage and food waste....