Updating your Income stocks: Royal Bank of Canada, Imperial Oil, and Andrew Peller

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ROYAL BANK OF CANADA $128 (www.rbc.com) is a buy. The bank has agreed to sell its European asset servicing and custodial operations to a business jointly owned by France’s Crédit Agricole S.A. and Spain’s Santander for an undisclosed amount. It expects to complete the sale in 2023. The transaction will let Royal focus on expanding its asset-servicing business in Canada. Royal Bank is a buy. IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $74 (www.imperialoil.ca) is a buy. The oil producer will raise your quarterly dividend by 29.4% with the January 2023 payment, to $0.44 a share from $0.34. The new annual rate of $1.76 yields 2.4%. The company also plans to buy back up to $1.5 billion of its common shares (about 3.4% of the total) through a Dutch auction process. This is Imperial’s second major buyback this year. In June 2022, it repurchased $2.5 billion of its shares. Imperial Oil is a buy. ANDREW PELLER LTD. $4.90 (www.andrewpeller.com) remains a buy for long-term gains. The company is Canada’s second-largest wine producer after Arterra Wines. The stock…