An investor’s best hedge against inflation is a dividend growth stock. Over the past decade, a lot of Canadian companies have lost their dividend growth mojo. But for help identifying some stocks,a website called Canadian Dividend Growth Investing & Retirement. On its all-star list, you’ll find stocks with 10-plus years of dividend hikes and some stocks are miles ahead of inflation.
The all-star list is topped by Canadian Utilities Ltd. and Fortis Inc., with an incredible 47 and 45 straight years of dividend increases, respectively, through the end of 2018.After gaining an influential and financially powerful strategic partner, this company’s stock is set to rise again When the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board invests $200-million in your company, you know you must be doing something right,. That’s what happened with Premium Brands Holdings Corp. last month. The big breakthrough for the Vancouver-based company came when the Premium Brands won a contract to provide breakfast sandwiches to Starbucks. That experiment turned out to be immensely popular, and the company is now reported to be ready to sign a similar deal with Walmart.
One thing we know about this recent surge in equity markets is that it has little do with anything real or fundamental,. The world economy is soft and getting softer. Perhaps the most important data point this week, with due deference to the jobs report, was the number of times the U.S. Fed Beige Book used the word “uncertain” to describe the outlook – the most in six years.
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