Topic: Dividend Stocks

POTASH CORP. OF SASKATCHEWAN $40 – Toronto symbol POT

POTASH CORP. OF SASKATCHEWAN $40 (Toronto symbol POT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 829.7 million; Market cap: $33.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.4; Dividend yield: 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.potashcorp.com) gets 40% of its revenue and 50% of its earnings from potash, followed by nitrogen (35%, 40%) and phosphate (25%, 10%) fertilizers.

The company sold its potash for an average of $281 U.S. a tonne in the third quarter of 2014, down 8.5% from $307 U.S. a year earlier.

It now expects to sell 9.0 million to 9.2 million tonnes of potash for all of 2014, up from 8.1 million in 2013. However, lower selling prices will cut its earnings to a projected $1.80 U.S. a share from $2.09 U.S. The stock trades at a somewhat high 19.3 times the 2014 estimate. The $1.40 U.S. dividend yields 4.0%.

Potash Corp. is still a hold.

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