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Closing TSE yields and prices March 1, 2002 (common stock only, never preferred)
2 - 18.7¹ Sceptre Invest³. 5.2% $15.35 dividend was reduced with April payment to .80 (DinD)
1 + 3.3 Emera (NS Power) 5.3% $16.32 up 42% from low of $11.50 in Mar00
3 • 4.9 TransAlta 4.5% $22.45 up 83% from low of $12.25 in Dec99
4 + 15.7 TRP 4.4% $22.56 up 130% from low of $9.80 in Feb00*
5 + 8.9¹ Trilon Fin². 3.9% $16.35 up 103% from low of $8.05
5 • 17.3 Dofasco 3.9% at $28.00 is up 47% from low of $20.55 in September 2000 (DinD)
5 + 7.9 Fortis 3.9% $47.60 up 74% from low of $27.25 in Mar00
8 + 3.9 BC Gas 3.7% $35.68 up 75% from low of 20.45 in Dec99
9 + 7.7 Cdn.Util. 3.7% $53.55 up 73% from low of $31 in Jan00
10 - 13.2 Telus 3.6% $16.90 dividend reduced with Jan '02 payment to .60
11 • 14.2 BCE 3.4% $34.15 up 10% from Sept 2000 low of $30.95 (DinD)
12 + 5.2 Enbridge 3.4% $44.85 up 95% from Jan00 low of $23.00
13 + 13.9 ² Laurentian Bank 3.3% $34.70 up 127% from$15.25
13 + 14.2 BMO 3.3% $36.83 up 75% from low of $21 in Jan00 (adjusted for stock split)
15 • 7.1¹ Brascan 3.2% $31.30 up 99% from low of $15.70 in Mar00
16 + 17.5 Westcoast Energy 3.1% $43.50 up 121% from low of $19.65 in Feb00 (Duke Energy)
17 • 11.0 Aliant 3.0% $29.81 up 37% from low of $21.65 in Nov99 (DinD)
18 + CIBC 3.0%
19 + 20.5 Investors Group 2.8 $29.81 up 110% from low of $13.75
20 + 18.6 Royal Bank 2.8 % $51.65 up 89% from $27.25 in Jan00
22 + 17.4 National Bank 2.7% $31.07 up 91% from Jan00 low of $16.25
21 + 19.7 BNS 2.7% $50.07 up 93% from $26 low in March of 2000
23 • 12.0 Manitoba 2.4% $32.00 up 89% from low of $16.90 in Oct99
AVERAGE increase from low is 75%
* In February 2000, I did my "Time to Buy" issue: yields were high. The tech bubble burst a few weeks later.
DinD = dividend in danger - payout ratio over 100
Pacific Northern Gas did not pay its dividend in September or December of 2000, nor in 2001. PNG.A removed from list as it has no yield and a rating on
its debt of only BB+.
² Because the list has lost so many stocks in recent years (QueTel, BCTel, NFLD Tel, NB.Tel), I added Laurentian Bank (in Oct, 2000), Trilon (in Dec,
20 00) and Investors Group (Dec, 2001) mainly to push other stocks further down the list so their position data will not be skewed. Even though they are
above their normal position, based on an average position in the list data since 1996, respectively, I make no comment on LB's, TFC.A's or IGI's suitability
by adding them.
¹ Position data for SZ.A, EBC, TFC.A and IGI from 1995or 1996 only.
³ Sceptre Investment: There was a dividend reduction on Sceptre with the April 12, 2001 payment, from .26 to .20.
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No buy, sell or hold recommendation is made for any security mentioned above. Investment decisions you make should be based upon your own research
and judgements. I have no favourite stock.
E. & O. E
Be certain to verify this data before you act upon it. I key these numbers in quickly.
Stocks near the top of the list, those with high yields, are not necessarily the best buy.
The safest purchase, after your own research, involves a company with:
a long record of dividend payments, and a
good record of dividend growth, and a
recent dividend increase
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