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Three Key Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before Purchasing A Dividend Stock

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Note this is a guest post from Dan at Stocktrades.ca. Dan is an active Canadian dividend growth investor with whom I share many investing similarities. Hope you enjoy! -Mike Dividend investing isn't exactly the risky business that growth investing is. That being said, a lot of people have the misconception that dividend investing is a bullet-proof route. Although excellent income stocks tend to be resilient during adverse market conditions and often survive the lows of a bear market, you …

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Should You Trade Aecon?

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I often have the feeling we forget about industrials. There is nothing sexy about them. There is nothing to create hype on the stock market. Even worst, this sector is not seen as a high yielding one. Still, the fact that many companies operate through cycles, there are always a few industrials for sale. During 2016, I’ve covered many railroads and suggested Canadian National Railway (CNR.TO) and Union Pacific (UNP) to be strong buys. They both did very well over the past 20 months compared …

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Andrew Peller: I love the wine and you should too!

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Andrew Peller (ADW.A.TO) owns wineries in British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia. It doesn’t only produce its own wine, but also market it along with other products. ADW owns several brands like Peller Estates, Trius, Hillebrand, Thirty Bench, Sandhill, Copper Moon, Calona Vineyards Artist Series VQA wines and Red Rooster. Currently the company has an estimated 14% share of its total wine market and a 37% share of domestic wines. The company is known to grow its revenues through …

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Can My Portfolio Survive a Crash?

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The idea of losing lots of money in a short period of time is probably one of the biggest fear of any investors. In fact, many of them rather wait on the sideline than suffer this “inevitable-next-market-crash”. After all, nobody wants to suffer this type of drop: When a market crashes everybody panics. Should they? Not if they have done their homework first. It is impossible to know when the market will hit a new correction and your portfolio will lose 10% within a few weeks. We all know …

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Selling SNC Lavalin & Buying Amazon

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Back in April 2015 I made a bold move in my portfolio; I sold ScotiaBank (BNS.TO) to buy SNC Lavalin (SNC.TO). Many readers weren’t too sure about this move, but I’ve proven that I was right 2 years after the trade: Source: Ycharts While SNC outperformed BNS all the way, it is clear on this graph I should have sold SNC a year ago and a few weeks ago. But the investment thesis behind my purchase was still valid a year ago: “I believe the moment charges will be settled, investors will …

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Best 2017 Dividend Stocks Review

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After a little bit more than 3 months on the stock market in 2017, we have already experienced our fair share of emotions. While the U.S. market peaked at +7.02% on March 1st, investors’ enthusiasm is fading away as the market is now up only +4.03% as at April 16th (yes, I’m writing this on Easter, a man has to work sometimes!). We are seeing a similar phenomenon on the Canadian market as it peaked at +4.15% on February 21st to drop to just +1.62% at the moment of writing this article. We …

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