Three ways to pad your 2025 returns

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For 2025, we’ve selected TC Energy, Cisco Systems and RioCan REIT as our top three picks for dividend investors. All three offer investors high, sustainable dividend yields. Their high-quality businesses will also let them keep raising their dividends for years to come. Moreover, all three stocks trade at attractive multiples to their projected earnings. TC ENERGY CORP. $65 is a top pick for 2025. The company (Toronto symbol TRP; Income-Growth Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.0 billion; Market cap: $65.0 billion; Dividend yield: 5.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.tcenergy.com) spun off its oil pipeline business as separate company South Bow Corp. (see page 17) on October 1, 2024. The remaining company now focuses on its 93,300-kilometre pipeline network that pumps natural gas from Alberta to eastern Canada and the U.S. It also owns gas pipelines in Mexico, and owns or invests in seven power plants in Canada and the U.S. Due to the loss of the South Bow assets, TC will cut your quarterly dividend by 14.3%….