One Of The Huge Mistakes Dividend Investors Are Making Right Now
Summary Recently, a reader commented to me that this is a “momentum market,” in which, in order to achieve attractive performance, it is important to invest where the market has…
Stocks with sustainable dividends that could be takeover targets
What are we looking for? Sustainable dividends from stocks that have the added benefit of takeover appeal. The screen This week’s announcement that Canadian copper miner Teck Resources Ltd. (TECK-B-T…
The cult of dividend investing faces a crisis of faith
Ever since interest rates began rising from near-zero three years ago, dividend-paying stocks have fallen short. What for decades was viewed by legions of investors as a sure thing has…
Nothing beautiful about a 50% tax on Canadian dividends
Trump’s tax bill could override Canada–US treaty and target CPP, trusts, and corporate dividends Canadian investors could face a US withholding tax on dividends as high as 50 percent by…
The Federal Reserve Just Gave Dividend Investors A Huge Christmas Gift
The Federal Reserve just cut interest rates by another 25 basis points, which was widely expected by the market. However, despite rate cuts typically being a tailwind for equity and…
Dividend-paying stocks are the Volvo of equities — boring but powerful
Crazy People is a 1990 American comedy starring Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah. Moore plays advertising executive Emory Leeson, who experiences a nervous breakdown. This causes him to design a…
The highest-yielding stocks on the TSX, plus risk data
The table below ranks all S&P/TSX Composite Index ( companies by indicated dividend yield, according to Bloomberg data. Yield-paying index stocks where no credit rating is available from either Standard…
A trust with an attractive yield, special distributions and a 64% forecast return
On today’s Breakouts report, there are 15 stocks on the positive breakouts list (with positive price momentum), and 38 securities are on the negative breakouts list (with negative price momentum).…
Why dividend growth investors may want to pass on ETFs
Dividend growth is one of the most powerful concepts in investing because it’s so compellingly simple. A company paying a dividend that rises year by year generally can be considered…