TD hikes your dividend

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TD BANK, $77.92, is still a buy. The lender (Toronto symbol TD; Shares o/s: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $137.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 5.3%; www.td.com) will raise its quarterly dividend by 2.9% with the January 2025 payment. Investors will then receive $1.05 a share instead of $1.02. The new annual rate of $4.20 yields a high 5.3%. The increase comes even as the bank recently paid a fine of $3.09 billion U.S. over lapses in the anti-money laundering processes of its U.S. retail banking operations. The settlement also imposed an asset cap on TD’s U.S. retail banking operations. As a result, those assets cannot exceed $434 billion, which was their value on September 30, 2024. TD will probably earn $7.93 a share in fiscal 2025, and the stock trades at just 9.8 times that forecast. TD Bank remains a buy. buy…