Each week CanadaStockChannel.com screens through their coverage universe of dividend paying Canadian stocks, and look at a variety of data — dividend yield, book value, quarterly earnings — and compare it to the stock’s trading data to come up with certain calculations about profitability and about the stock’s valuation (whether it looks ”cheap” or ”expensive”).

History has shown that the bulk of the stock market’s returns are delivered by dividends, and so the site pays special attention to dividend history. And of course, only consistently profitable companies can afford to keep paying dividends, so profitability is of critical importance. Dividend investors should be most interested in researching the strongest most profitable companies, that also happen to be trading at an attractive valuation — maybe there is a company-specific reason causing the stock to be ”cheap” or maybe the entire sector is taking a hit, but whatever the reason, CanadaStockChannel thinks there is great value in ranking their coverage universe weekly using their proprietary DividendRank formula, and sharing the top stocks with subscribers, neatly divided into 17 sectors/categories.

These are the three stocks in each category that their DividendRank system has identified as the top most ”interesting” … this is meant purely as a research tool to generate ideas that merit further research.

Stocks have kick started this week with a 0.85% pop in price but the big question is if the market can hold up. Last week stocks repeatedly gap higher and sold off with strong volume telling us that institutions are slowing phasing out of stocks (distribution selling) unloading shares into strength and passing them onto the a average investor to be left holding bag.

I want to show you a couple charts which show the price action, volume and money flow of the SP500 so you have a visual of what I am talking about.

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Chris Vermeulen

(1) TCL.A.CA Ex-Dividend Reminder – 4/2/14 triggered: 03/31/2014

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Since the start of the year, the markets have not been able to advance or decline. Earlier this year we upgraded our allocation model, due to the breakout of the S&P 500 index above 1850, but have not made any real net progress since. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that, despite plenty of headwinds from geopolitical events, ongoing tapering of bond purchases by the Federal Reserve which is reducing liquidity and weak economic data, the markets have not declined. The index has consistently held support at 1850 and on a very short term basis is beginning to get oversold.

From a bullish perspective, it would appear that the markets are consolidating the advance from the lows of February which should allow markets to stage another advance into late spring. That analysis would align with both seasonal tendencies and the fact that the Fed is still pushing liquidity into the financial markets presently.

It is for these reasons that we are currently keeping our allocation models aligned with the overall market.

However, the bearish view would suggest a topping pattern. It is from this view from which we maintain and monitor our risk control measures. If the market rises, great – it is a decline in markets with which we are far more concerned. It is market declines, not advances, that destroy two of the most precious and finite items that we have – capital and time.

As will be discussed below – I have the “worry gene.” It is from that perspective that I continue to watch for what might go wrong, rather than “hoping” everything continues to go right indefinitely. With the Federal Reserve now extracting support from the markets, the risk of something going wrong has risen.

….much much more HERE

Portfolios that are rugged, diversified, & flexible enough to adapt to ever-changing economic weather is the goal of this very detailed & quite fascinating article.

Risk the author sees would be changes in 3 Macro factors during this period of Zero interest rates:

Negative real rates, Recession, & Regulatory / Tax Policy (i.e. a rise of populist policy) – Money Talks Editor

….read the entire article HERE