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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CAE INC. $15 (Toronto symbol CAE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 265.2 million; Market cap: $4.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.8; Dividend yield: 1.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cae.com) is buying the military flight-training business of BOMBARDIER INC. (Toronto symbols BBD.A $3.12 and BBD.B $3.04; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $5.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; Dividend suspended in February 2015; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.bombardier.com). This business trains pilots for the Royal Canadian Air Force and other NATO countries at facilities in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and Cold Lake, Alberta. CAE will pay $19.8 million when it closes the deal later this year. This a small sum for both companies, but the new operations are a nice fit with CAE’s other pilot-training businesses. After the sale, Bombardier can focus on its struggling aircraft-manufacturing business, including the upcoming launch of its new CSeries passenger jet....
PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $4.15 (Toronto symbol PGF; Aggressive Growth and Income Portfolios, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 530.2 million; Market cap: $2.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.8; Dividend yield: 5.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.pengrowth.com) recently started up its Lindbergh oil sands project in eastern Alberta, which should produce 16,000 barrels a day by the end of 2015. Due to falling oil prices and Lindbergh’s completion, Pengrowth plans to spend $200 million to upgrade and maintain its properties in 2015, down 74.0% from $770 million last year. But even with the lower spending, Pengrowth expects to produce between 73,000 and 75,000 barrels a day (57% oil and liquids, 43% natural gas) in 2015, or about 1.5% more than in 2014, thanks to Lindbergh....
Advertisers continue to shift to online ads and away from printed flyers and newspapers. That’s hurting revenue at Transcontinental (below) and Torstar (see box). But both are industry leaders and are doing a good job of controlling costs. That will let them maintain their current dividend rates. TRANSCONTINENTAL INC. $16 (Toronto symbol TCL.A; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 78.0 million; Market cap: $1.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www. tctranscontinental.com) is Canada’s leading printer of flyers, magazines, newspapers and books. It also publishes magazines and newspapers. The company recently agreed to sell its consumer magazine division to TVA Group (Toronto symbol TVA.B). This business publishes 15 English- and French-language magazines, including Elle Canada, Canadian Living and The Hockey News. As part of the deal, Transcontinental will keep printing these magazines, as well as other TVA publications, to the end of June 2022....
TORSTAR CORP. $7.07 (Toronto symbol TS.B; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 80.1 million; Market cap: $566.3 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend yield: 7.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.torstar.com) gets 60% of its revenue from advertising on its newspapers and their websites, including The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily by circulation. Subscriptions account for most of the remaining 40%. As part of a new strategy to increase online ad sales, Torstar plans to drop the paywall on The Toronto Star’s website and launch a new version for tablet computers. The shift will likely hurt its 2015 revenue but should attract more readers. The company is debt-free and holds cash of $277.3 million, or $3.46 a share. That will help it adjust to the new online strategy. In addition, dividends total roughly $42 million a year, so the current payout still seems safe....
MAPLE LEAF FOODS INC. $21 (Toronto symbol MFI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 143.0 million; Market cap: $3.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 0.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mapleleaf.ca) is close to completing an ambitious restructuring that includes unloading less profitable businesses and modernizing its meatprocessing plants. Since 2010, the company has closed five facilities, expanded three others, merged 17 distribution centres into two and built a new processing plant. It has also simplified its product lines and streamlined its computer networks. The stock has gained 10% since the start of 2015 but could suffer in the short term, particularly if the restructuring doesn’t wrap up on schedule....
IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $50 (Toronto symbol IMO; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Shares outstanding: 847.6 million; Market cap: $42.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 1.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.imperialoil.ca) spent $5.7 billion on exploration and capital upgrades in 2014, down 29.5% from $8.0 billion in 2013. That’s mainly because it completed the first phase of its 71%-owned Kearl oil sands project. U.S.-based ExxonMobil (New York symbol XOM), which owns 69.6% of Imperial, owns the remaining 29% of Kearl. For 2015, Imperial expects to spend $4.0 billion on capital projects. Most of that will go toward expanding Kearl, as well as its Cold Lake oil sands property. These projects will last decades, so the recent drop in oil prices will have little impact on their long-term prospects. Imperial Oil is a buy....
ENBRIDGE INC. $62 (Toronto symbol ENB; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 851.6 million; Market cap: $52.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.enbridge.com) gets 90% of its revenue from pipelines that pump oil and natural gas from Western Canada to Eastern Canada and the U.S. The remaining 10% mainly comes from distributing gas to 2.1 million consumers in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and New York State.
New projects boost revenue
Since 2008, Enbridge has spent $20 billion on 39 new pipelines and other projects. Thanks to these investments, the company’s revenue soared 164.1%, from $12.5 billion in 2009 to $32.9 billion in 2013. Its revenue probably increased to $37.7 billion in 2014....
EMERA INC. $43 (www.emera.com) earned $2.23 a share in 2014, up 13.8% from $1.96 in 2013. Revenue jumped 33.3%, to $3.0 billion from $2.2 billion. These gains are largely due to the company’s November 2013 purchase of three gas-fired power plants in New England for $541 million U.S. Higher earnings from its energy-trading business also contributed to the increase. In addition, Emera raised its quarterly dividend by 3.2% with the May 2015 payment, to $0.40 a share from $0.3875. The new annual rate of $1.60 yields 3.7%. Best Buy. CANADIAN UTILITIES LTD. $40 (www.canadianutilities.com) has raised its quarterly dividend by 10.3%, to $0.295 a share from $0.2675. The new annual rate of $1.18 yields 3.0%. Buy. ATCO LTD. $48 (www.atco.com) is the parent company of Canadian Utilities (see above). It recently raised its dividend by 15.1%. The new annual rate of $0.99 yields 2.1%. Best Buy....
CAE INC., $15.58, Toronto symbol CAE, earned $52.1 million, or $0.20 a share, in its fiscal 2015 third quarter, which ended December 31, 2014. That beat the consensus forecast of $0.19. The latest earnings are also up 14.5% from $45.5 million, or $0.17 a share, a year earlier. Overall revenue rose 11.0%, to $559.1 million from $503.9 million, also beating the consensus forecast of $554.4 million. Revenue from sales of flight simulators and pilot-training services to commercial airlines (57% of the total) rose 14.2%. That’s mainly due to higher simulator sales and the positive impact of the lower Canadian dollar (overseas customers supply 90% of CAE’s revenue)....
CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO., $83.72, Toronto symbol CNR, reported stronger-than-expected results this week. It also raised its dividend. In the three months ended December 31, 2014, CN’s revenue rose 16.8%, to $3.2 billion from $2.7 billion a year earlier. That beat the consensus forecast of $3.1 billion. The company saw higher revenue in all of its freight categories: metals and minerals (up 34.4%); petroleum and chemicals (up 20.5%); automotive (up 17.8%); grain and fertilizers (up 17.6%); forest products (up 10.6%); consumer and industrial goods (up 9.5%); and coal (up 7.5%)....