Category Archives: Canadian Dividend Achievers

Symbol	Name	Price	EPS	P/E	Beta	% from low
TRI	Thomson Reuters	37.78	1.18	32.02	0.38	5.38%
RCI.B	Rogers Comm.	35.82	2.53	14.15	0.51	7.60%
SJR.B	Shaw Comm.	20.00	1.06	18.95	0.31	8.11%
EMP.A	Empire Co. Ltd.	54.45	5.13	10.61	0.04	8.51%
CJR.B	Corus Ent. Inc.	20.22	1.34	15.15	0.88	10.73%
CP	Canadian Pacific	59.75	3.45	17.34	0.73	11.54%
POW	Power Corp	28.36	1.89	15.04	0.90	13.53%
GWO	Great-West Lifeco	26.65	1.69	15.81	0.92	14.04%
MRU.A	Metro, Inc.	47.15	3.68	12.81	0.20	14.97%
PWF	Power Financial	31.40	2.10	14.97	0.91	16.30%
CCO	Cameco Corp.	25.44	1.17	21.70	0.98	17.56%
CTC.A	Canadian Tire Corp.	62.38	5.56	11.21	0.65	18.77%

*CML Healthcare Income Fund excluded due to charting inaccuracies

 

 

 

 

This list of Canadian Dividend Achievers, published by Mergent's, includes current and former Canadian Dividend Achievers and then ranking the companies based on those closest to the 52-week low as of September 3, 2010. We've updated the stock symbol to connect to the Financial Post, one of Canada's top business publications. You'll find the most complete fundamental information on these companies at the FP website. However, Yahoo!Finance probably has the better long-term charts and historical dividend data. Enjoy.

 

This week, the Canadian Dividend Achievers, as a group, gained an average of 3.41% since our last review of the same list on August 20, 2010. Among the top three performers were SNC-Lavalin Group up over 9%, Methanex Inc. up 8.18% and Canadian Pacific Railway up 7.91%. SNC-Lavalin has increased 23.35% since early July. Methanex Inc. is up 12.84% since August 26th. Finally, Canadian Pacific Railway is up 15.35% since July 5th.

 

The worst performing Canadian Dividend Achievers since our August 20, 2010 posting were Ensign Energy Services with a loss of –1.71% and Transcontinental Class A shares were down –0.24%.

 

Of the top three stocks nearest the low, Ensign Energy and Imperial Oil are the best investment candidates. From a technical perspective, Ensign and Imperial are within 23% and 20.98%, respectively, of their lowest all time lows. Both companies have unblemished dividend payment histories and are in critical industries.

This list of Canadian Dividend Achievers, published by Mergent's, includes current and former Canadian Dividend Achievers and then ranking the companies based on those closest to the 52-week low as of August 6, 2010. We've updated the stock symbol to connect to the Financial Post, one of Canada's top business publications. You'll find the most complete fundamental information on these companies at the FP website. However, Yahoo!Finance probably has the better long-term charts and historical dividend data. Enjoy.

Below are the best and worst performing Canadian Dividend Achievers in the period from July 23, 2010 to August 6, 2010.

This list of Canadian Dividend Achievers, published by Mergent's, includes current and former Canadian Dividend Achievers and then ranking the companies based on those closest to the 52-week low as of July 16, 2010. We've updated the stock symbol to connect to the Financial Post, one of Canada's top business publications. You'll find the most complete fundamental information on these companies at the FP website. However, Yahoo!Finance probably has the better long-term charts and historical dividend data. Enjoy.

Name	Yahoo Quote	FP Quote	Price	Pct from Yr Low
ENSIGN ENERGY SERVICES INC.	ESI.TO	ESI	$12.33	1.31%
POWER CORP CDA	POW.TO	POW	$26.20	4.17%
POWER FINANCIAL CORP.	PWF.TO	PWF	$27.89	4.26%
TALISMAN ENERGY INC.	TLM.TO	TLM	$16.55	5.35%
IMPERIAL OIL	IMO.TO	IMO	$39.87	5.62%
IGM FINANCIAL INC.	IGM.TO	IGM	$38.80	5.69%
RITCHIE BROS AUCTIONEERS	RBA.TO	RBA	$19.34	6.85%
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.	SU.TO	SU	$32.33	8.09%
GREAT-WEST LIFECO INC	GWO.TO	GWO	$24.50	8.12%
SNC-LAVALIN SV	SNC.TO	SNC	$45.06	8.34%
CANADIAN TIRE	CTC-A.TO	CTC.A	$55.63	9.38%

This list of Canadian Dividend Achievers, published by Mergent's, includes current and former Canadian Dividend Achievers and then ranking the companies based on those closest to the 52-week low. We've updated the stock symbol to connect to the Financial Post, one of Canada's top business publications. You'll find the most complete fundamental information on these companies at the FP website.  However, Yahoo!Finance probably has the better long-term charts and historical dividend data.  Enjoy.

This list of Canadian Dividend Achievers, published by Mergent's, includes current and former Canadian Dividend Achievers and then ranking the companies based on those closest to the 52-week low. You'll find the most complete fundamental information on these companies at the FP website.

This list of Canadian Dividend Achievers is published by Mergent's includes current and former Canadian Dividend Achievers and then ranking the companies based on those closest to the 52-week low. Do your homework on these companies and, whenever possible, please report back to us with your findings along with source citations.

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A reader asks, "Have you ever considered adding foreign companies to this watch list? Some of them have very enticing dividends?"  

Our Answer: In general, we have considered foreign companies and have come to the conclusion that we don't have much of an interest in them.  Our view is that investors should invest in the companies that they have the best access to quality information.  Another bias that we have about foreign investing is that most American companies derive a large portion of their earnings overseas thereby nullifying the need to invest abroad.  Finally, as an American investor, if you can't find quality companies to invest in then maybe sending your money far afield isn't going to resolve the dilemma. 

With that said, we're introducing the Canadian Dividend Achievers, as defined by Mergent's, to our site.  Getting a copy of Mergent's Dividend Achievers is highly recommended since it has more details on all the companies in question. We'll publish this list weekly as we do with the Nasdaq 100 and the (American) Dividend Achievers using the same criteria. 

It is our goal to include the International Dividend Achievers (current and former Dividend Achievers) that trade on the U.S. exchanges. Much thanks to Stocksystm for his wonderful site The Stock Market Advantage and for getting us off our duffs and moving this site to a new level higher. We know that this isn't exactly what you wanted (i.e. high yielding international stocks) however, we hope our tracking of Dividend Achievers from Canada and hopefully non-North American Dividend Achievers will satiate your appetite for the time being. We're still aiming for "quality" and "consistency" whenever possible.

Disclaimer: If it seemed that we know little or nothing about the (American) Dividend Achievers then that goes double for the Canadian Dividend Achievers.  We're only using those companies that are designated by Mergent's as current and/or former Canadian Dividend Achievers and then ranking the companies based on those closest to the 52-week low. Do your homework on these companies and, whenever possible, please report back to us with your findings along with source citations.  We really want to know more about our neighbors to the north.