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In 2000, I lost $300,000 in mutual funds that an investment advisor had put my lifesavings into.... I lost it because I had entrusted it to an industry that does not educate investors nor encourage them to look closely at what that industry is doing with their money..... I set out to find a better, safer way to invest..... My podcasts relate to what I learned in creating a generous, reliable income and in growing my wealth.... A few of the more important lessons I learned and explore are:.... (1) It is critical that you become a self-directed investor.....(2) If you can not easily measure the risk and potential in an investment, then do not invest in it. This excludes from your portfolio bundled investment devices, like mutual funds, ETFs and Index funds,..... (3) Financially strong companies who have paid “good dividends” for decades will continue to stay strong and continue to pay good dividends because it is both part of their "character" and in their executives selfish interest.....(4) Diversification is critical. Investing equally in the best 20 strong dividend stocks is the ideal.....A portfolio of 20 limits your risk in any one stock to 5% of your wealth..... No matter how strong you think a stock is, do not fall in love with it..... I have lived very well off my steady dividend income for 18 years, through two market crashes and one pandemic. I have watched my portfolio’s capital more than triple from where I started, despite taking out a generous dividend income every year to live on... In charts, for my second investment book,(Safer Better Dividend Investing), I spent months scoring all 628 dividend stocks paying dividends of 6% or greater traded on the TSX, NYSE and the NASDAQ. I discovered dozens of stocks that can provide not only a generous dividend income but outstanding capital growth.....Financial independence is realizable for careful, patient, dividend investors.

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Podcast 201 - ENBRIDGE & HF SINCLAIR CORP SCORE 7O - HIGH SCORES ALSO FROM GAMING AND LEISURE - TC ENERGY - KILROY REALTY

December 28, 2024 • Ian Duncan MacDonald

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see these 10 stocks strengths and weaknesses revealed.

The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing podcasts answered hundreds of questions from my podcast listeners and readers of my publications. Not wanting to repeat material that has already been covered, the weekly podcasts now deal with identifying each week 10 stocks whose recent exceptional share price growth may make them worth considering as possible portfolio acquisitions.

Visit www.informus.ca for information on my six investment guide books and stock scoring software.

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Greetings to listeners all around the world. Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 201, on December 28 of 2024. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald.

In the 4,000 minutes that were recorded for the first 190 Podcasts of Safe Dividend Investing, you can find answers to hundreds of investment questions. Starting with Podcast 191 I changed my podcast format. Each week I now sift through the 17,000 of stocks traded in North America and bring to your attention the five most outstanding U.S. stocks and the five most outstanding Canadian stocks. Each of these stocks has been scored. Their score appears along with the five criteria that were used in finding them.

If you have not already obtained the stock scoring software that I supply free to those who purchase my investment guidebooks, please visit my website www.informus.ca where you can learn more about it. It has helped many investors quickly sort out the best financially strong stocks with high dividend payouts. While the score is calculated out of a possible 100, the highest score I have ever calculated, out of the thousands a I have scored, was a 78. The lowest was a 5. I personally prefer stocks scoring over 50 in my portfolio.

I am not an investment advisor, I am an “investment educator” trying to provide investors with enough insight into judging the value of a stock that they can easily make decisions on which safe stocks to choose for their portfolio.

THE TEN OUTSTANDING US & CANADIAN STOCKS FOR 28 DEC 2024

The following 5 US & 5 Canadian stocks qualified because they exceeded the following criteria.

(1) Trading volume exceeding one million in US shares and 109,000 in Canadian shares.

(2) A US and Canada dividend yield percents exceeding 5%.

(3) A weekly share price gain exceeding 1% in the US and Canada.

(4) US share price exceeding $32.05 and exceeding $0.04 in Canada.

(5) A US Operating Margin Exceeding 1% and 1% in Canada

The 5 US stocks were:

1.Gaming and Leisure (GLPI : NASDAQ).......SCORE = 69

2. TC Energy Corp (TRP : NYSE)………………….SCORE = 68

3. Enbridge (ENB : NYSE) ……………………………SCORE = 67

4. Kilroy Realty Corporation (KRC : NYSE)…….SCORE = 61

5. HF Sinclair Corporation (DINO : NYSE)……….SCORE = 70

The 5 Canadian stocks were:

1. Enbridge (ENB : TSX)……………………………. SCORE = 70

2. Sun Residential REIT (SRES : TSX) …………..SCORE = 36

3. Birch Cliff Energy Ltd (BIR : TSX)……………..SCORE = 57

4. Canadian Utilities Ltd (NWC : TSX) …………SCORE = 59

5. Gibson Energy Inc (GEI : TSX)…………………SCORE = 57

While scoring these US and Canadian stocks I found the following interesting:

USA TOP 5 GAINING STOCKS WEEK ENDING 19 DEC 2024

STOCK Price -4yrPrice book buy strong yield margin volume P/E
SCORE $ $ $ # # % % # #x

| GLPI 69 | 47.85 | 42.05 | 15.51 | 9 | 0 | 6.33 | 73.73 | 1m | 16.8x
| TRP 68 | 42.26 | 37.40 | 19.77 | 9 | 0 | 5.16 | 41.67 | 2m | 13.49x
| ENB 67 | 41.82 | 31.83 | 20.07 | 4 | 0 | 6.42 | 19.5 | 3m | 20.43x
| KRC 61 | 41.08 | 57.40 | 45.58 | 0 | 0 | 5.15 | 28.77 | 1m | 25.13x
| DINO 70 | 34.23 | 25.85 | 50.85 | 5 | 0 | 5.82 | 1.41 | 2m | 20.2x

CANADIAN TOP 5 GAINING STOCKS WEEK ENDING 19 DEC 2024

STOCK Price -4yrPrice book buy strong yield margin volume P/E
SCORE $ $ $ # # % % # #x

ENB 70 | 60.30 | 40.80 | 28.92 | 3 | 1 | 6.27 | 19.50 | 8m | 20.44x
| SRES 36 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0 |0 | 7.60 | 47.47 | 178K | 183.3x
| BIR 57 | 5.04 | 1.77 | 8.33 | 1 | 0 | 7.95 | 3.74 | 1m | 20.1x
| CU 59 | 34.88 | 31.09 | 25.63 | 0 | 0 | 5.22 | 24.3 1 | 483k | 18.1x
| GEI 57 | 24.70 | 20.56 | 5.64 | 8 | 0 | 6.67 | 3.2 | 1m | 16.8x

The most expensive stock was Enbridge at $60.30 and Sun Residential REIT was the least expensive at $0.06.

The most buy recommendations by analysts were 9 for both Gaming & Leisure as well as for TC Energy Corporation. The least number of recommendations were for Kilroy Realty Corp and Canadian Utilities. They had no recommendations. One stock had a strong buy recommendation. That was Enbridge.

The highest Book Value was for HF Sinclair Corporation at $50.85 and the lowest was Sun Residential REIT at $0.09.

The highest number of shares traded was 8 million for Enbridge and the lowest number of shares traded was for Sun Residential REIT at 178 thousand.

The highest dividend yield percentage was for Birch Cliff Energy Ltd at 7.95%. The lowest dividend yield was for Kilroy Realty Corporation at 5.15%.

The highest operating margin was Gaming & Leisure at 73.73% and the lowest was HF Sinclair Corporation at 1.41%.

The best price to earnings ratio 13.49x for TC Energy Corporation and the highest was a for Sun Residential REIT at 183.3x.

The two stocks with the highest IDM score of 70 were HF Sinclair Corporation and Enbridge. The lowest score was Sun Residential REIT with a 36. This was the first week where 6 out of the 10 stocks had strong IDM scores over 60.

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Scoring stocks gives you an objective measure to compare and judge the potential and value of each stock. It is strongly recommended just before you purchase any stock that you always do your due diligence and score the stock to make sure you have a good understanding of its current strength.

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Investment companies work hard to convince the public that they could never invest profitably without allowing the financial industry to nibble away at a client’s life savings for the rest of their lives. The objective of advisors is to transfer as much money from your pocket to the pocket of the financial institution that employs them.

I knew 24 years ago that I had to find a better way to invest when I saw a $300,000 loss in the mutual funds an investment advisor had put my life savings into. Since then, I have learned if you are patient and disciplined you can easily grow your portfolio as a self-directed investor without paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees over your lifetime to the investment industry parasites.

My early research quickly showed me that most investors are speculators who see their wealth destroyed when their bet on a stock increasing in price falls below their purchase price. With such speculative churning encouraged by the investment industry, it seemed obvious me that no one can accurately predict future share prices.

I became a successful self-directed investor by carefully selecting and buying 20 strong, high dividend stocks through my bank’s online self-directed investment platform.

Why have I never been disappointed in my income or my capital gain from my 20 stocks? Because my financially strong stocks have paid ever increasing dividend payments out of their company profits.

While share prices are determined by impulsive speculators making guesses, my dividend payouts are the result of the wise revenue and expense decisions of the experienced managers of the companies whose shares I own.

By looking at free, accessible records that go back for decades, anyone can easily see before they buy a share how that stock’s fluctuating share price has had little or no impact on a stock’s rising dividend payouts.

What do I do when a market crash comes along, and the share price of my stocks, like all stocks, may drop by 50%? I relax and do nothing because I live off my dividends. Those dividends are paid throughout the crash as regularly as they have always been paid by these strong stocks. I know from experiencing the last three market crashes that the share prices of my 20 financially strong stocks will again reach new high values. During the crash I pay my monthly bills with my dividend income just as I have always done.

The idea the investment industry promotes that your portfolio must shrink in value after you retire is meant to scare you into buying more of their investment products. The value of my portfolio has grown by several multiples into the 7 figures and is still growing.

I go for years without selling any of the stocks in my portfolio while realizing a dividend income of 6 to 8 percent each year of the value of my portfolio. Most years the share prices of my 20 strong companies can also increase by about 12%. These rising share prices often cause the company’s managers to proudly increase their dividend payouts to maintain their stock’s historically high dividend yield percentages. That has kept my dividend income well ahead of inflation.

You too can also build a strong dividend portfolio just like I did.

Until next week’s podcast this is Ian Duncan MacDonald encouraging you to become a successful self-directed investor.

Any questions and comments can be sent to imacd@informus.ca