The annual “Top 10 Canadian DRIP companies” is purely arbitrary, but also based on the cardinal investment rules: return, safety and risk.
Dividend yield
Top 10 DRIP should have decent dividend yield. You will notice that all of Top 10 have yield higher than 3%, mostly higher than 4%. After all, DRIP is all about dividend.
Absolutely free
All [...]
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Another pillar of your DRIP portfolio should be the Canadian income trust sector.
In the past, Canadians loved the income trust sector simply because of its generous payout. Lots of investors bought into the income trusts to generate stable cash flow. However, Canadian government made an abrupt change to the income trust rule in Oct. 2006, which [...]
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Today, we will take an in depth look at all major Canadian Telecom players, as well as their DRIP and SPP plans.
First of all, of all the six major Canadian telecom companies, half of them do not currently offer a DRIP and SPP plan:
Rogers
Manitoba Telecom
Cogeco Cable
We rank the remaining of three companies based on the [...]
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If you are holding Canadian telecom stocks throughout the amazing comeback period of year 2009, your return on investment may just be lukewarm.
Typically, telecom is in more defensive sector. They will outperform the general market during the market downturn, but lag the rest of the market during the recovery phase.
This is exactly what happens here [...]
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CTIC tanked more than 50% this Monday on the news that FDA panel disapprove their drug pixantrone. Add to that, the biotech investment banker Rodman downgrade its stock on the same day.
Since then, the stock bounced back for two days, from 42 cents to as high as 77 cents, a 71% comeback.
Is CTIC a dead [...]
The newest kid on the Canadian DRIP block is a household name: Tim Hortons. On Feb.8 2010, Tim Horton introduced its DRIP and SPP plan to both Canadian and US investors.
Since its IPO in July 2006, Tim Hortons has been increasing its dividend from $0.06/quarter to current $0.13/quarter, an 85% increase. Given its still timid [...]
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HW – Headwaters
HW is leveraged its growth on three business areas:
1. building materials
2. Energy services (coal) – (coal combustion product and refined coal businesses)– HW is also the component of Coal Stock Index, although it has much less weight compare to those pure coal players.
3. Construction materials
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CYPB
CYPB has tons of cash on hand. Its cash per share value is $3.81. Yet the pile of cash failed to attract investors. Stock price is merely hovering around $5.
Product: Savella – for fibromyalgia
Avise – for theumatoid arthritis
Distribution: By FRX
Next on FDA Calendar:
Sales: 20.68M
Cash on-hand: 144.81M (cash/share = $3.81)
Float: 38M
TA:
Stock is still trending below MA50 $5.33. [...]
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Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc.
Founded in 1970, Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc. serves clients in all 50 states and manages approximately $17 billion in client assets as of June 30, 2007. It remains an employee-owned firm, with 100% of the firm owned by full-time employees.
Headquarters: Fairport New York, United States
Industry: Finance, Brokerage, Investment Banking
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