In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.
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Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.
If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)
If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.
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The company has two main businesses: FirstService Residential provides property management services, such as collecting monthly condominium maintenance fees, preparing financial statements, and providing on-site security and property cleaning/maintenance services; and FirstService Brands offers a wide variety of property management services through several franchised businesses, including Paul Davis Restoration, CertaPro Painters, California Closets, Post Home Inspectors, Floor Coverings International and College Pro Painters.
FirstService operates in a highly fragmented industry, so it tends to fuel its growth with acquisitions....
As a first step to achieving its goal, in April 2022, the company handed out shares in its Diabetes Care business (called embecta) to its shareholders.
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The U.S....
The company carries on business in three segments: metals service centres, energy field stores and steel distributors....
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Starting in 2011, Telus began rewarding its shareholders with twice yearly dividend increases....
You Can See Our Current Power Recommendations For May 2025 Here.
Understanding our recommendations: Power Buy—These stocks are our top choices for new buying now....
The declaration date is the date on which a company’s board of directors actually sets the amount of the next dividend. Typically, it is a number of weeks in advance of the actual payout date.
The record date is the date on which a person must actually own shares in the company in order to receive the declared dividend.
The ex-dividend date is typically the same as the record date, or one business day before if the record date is not a business day....
Nonetheless, we think Imperial can go even higher....