The Canadian Telecom Monopoly

 

I'm sure a lot of "Do It Yourself" investors ponder about how to get started and have doubts about the performance of their own portfolio(s) and wonder how the other dividend investors/growers are doing?

There's a lot of resources out there to reference like Blogs, articles on financial sites where they highlight various portfolios/stocks/ETFs from various editors/posters to financial data sites. I read up on these, not to copy their moves but to see what can be added to my "Watchlist" that's had a decent history of growth over the last 5 to 10 years. Initially on my mind is  "How's the growth with the stock price/dividend over the years?" before I dig deeper.

Overall, it comes down to how much money an investor has to fund and that relates to how fast or slow one can build up on stocks and dividends over the months and years ahead along with those that "DRIP" where more shares are bought at a discount on autopilot from dividends received.

Some popular Bloggers highlight 10 year journeys from a few hundred gained in dividends in the first year to thousands per month at year 10 and still growing. But, again ...  it depends on how much cash left over in a month to invest that's not needed to keep the personal finances on track.

One needs a plan and stay at a comfortable funding pace to build it. With me, it's long term. Constantly scrapping plans, selling ... is like spinning wheels with no traction. 

                           

I'm always looking ahead to the next month for what I'm going to build on that I own or add.

June, I'm thinking Telecoms and BCE (BCE) at a current 6.13% with a 5.16% dividend increase this year plus Telus (T) at 5.32% with a dividend increase of 3.56%, which have quarterly ex-dividend dates. With energy related, Suncor Energy (SU) is early in June on the 2nd with a 5.40% dividend yield.

The big fish Telecoms like BCE, Telus and Rogers are swallowing other companies which created a monopoly in Canada. With most being wired up with cell phones, we pay some of the highest cell subscriptions in the world. The money flows into these companies and owning a piece of them pays dividends.

                            Courtesy of MobileSyrup.com

That takes me up to mid June with more interesting stocks later in the month that have ex-dividend dates like Canadian top Banks and POW, Power Corporation of Canada I'll highlight about at that time.

Personal picks of the many stock and etf choices out there that pay dividends.