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
ALGONQUIN POWER & UTILITIES CORP. $14 (Toronto symbol AQN; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 473.9 million; Market cap: $6.6 billion; Dividend yield: 4.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.algonquinpower.com) operates through two main businesses: The Generation Group produces and sells electricity from 35 clean energy facilities across North America; and the Distribution Group provides regulated electricity, natural gas, water distribution and wastewater collection services.


The company last increased its quarterly dividend with the July 2018 payment....
Some investors rely on technical analysis (basically, chart reading) when they choose stocks. This seems simpler than researching a company’s fundamentals.


That analysis just zeroes in on how stock prices have behaved in the past and any clues that patterns may offer about future price movements.


The appeal of reading charts is the approach often seems to work, at least in small ways....
SLEEP COUNTRY CANADA $21 (Toronto symbol ZZZ; Shares o/s: 37.1 million; Market cap: $779.1 million; Divd. yield: 3.5%; www.sleepcountry.ca) is the dominant specialty mattress retailer in Canada, with 256 stores.


The company pays a quarterly dividend of $0.185 for a 3.5% yield.


Sleep Country’s brick-and-mortar stores face intensifying competition from popular online retailers....
CAE recently raised its dividend for the eighth-straight year. While the stock yields just 1.5%, the company is in a strong position to keep raising that payment.


In fact, CAE now expects the number of active airline and business jet pilots worldwide to jump 47%, from 360,000 in 2018 to 530,000 by 2028.


The company is in a strong position to profit from that trend....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $24.77 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units o/s: 306.8 million; Market cap: $7.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.8%; www.riocan.com) is preparing to lease the units of its first rental development, eCentral, in midtown Toronto before the end of this year....
ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $45.03 (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Units outstanding: 103.9 million; Market cap: $4.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 3.5%; www.alliedreit.com) owns 147 office buildings, mainly in major Canadian cities....
POWER CORP. $26.00 (Toronto symbol POW; Shares outstanding: 414.4 million; Market cap: $12.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.9%; www.powercorporation.com) is a holding company with a diversified list of businesses. It holds its financial assets through its 65.6%-owned Power Financial.


Power Financial’s assets include a 67.6% interest in insurer Great-West Lifeco and 61.5% of mutual-fund provider IGM Financial.


Through its 50% stake in Parjointco, Power Financial also holds 55.5% of Swiss-listed Pargesa Holdings SA....
CHOICE PROPERTIES REIT $12.22 (Toronto symbol CHP.UN; Units outstanding: 277.2 million; Market cap: $8.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 6.1%; www.enbridge.com) acquired Canadian REIT (old symbol REF.UN), a recommendation of Canadian Wealth Advisor, on May 7, 2018.


The merger created Canada’s biggest real estate investment trust: 751 properties for a total of 66.8 million square feet of retail, industrial and office space.


In the quarter ended September 30, 2018, the REIT’s revenue jumped 52.5%, to $315.6 million from $207.0 million a year earlier....
H&R REIT $21.00 (Toronto symbol HR.UN; Units outstanding: 285.7 million; Market cap: $6.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 6.6%; www.hr-reit.com) should get a boost from Amazon.com’s decision to choose Long Island City as the location for one of its two new headquarters....
Algonquin Power continues to expand through big acquisitions, which adds risk. Still, it partially offsets that with acquisitions that add immediately to its cash flow—plus, its renewable energy projects sell their power under long-term government-guaranteed contracts....