Your dividend could return in 2021

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MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. is still a hold. The beer brewer (Toronto symbols TPX.A $70 and TPX.B $70; Conservative Growth Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares o/s: 216.7 million; Market cap: $15.2 billion; Dividend suspended in March 2020; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Below Average; www.molsoncoors.com) suspended its quarterly dividend of $0.57 U.S. a share in March due to COVID-19 lockdowns. Meanwhile, it continues to add faster-growing beverages, such as seltzers, to counter its slowing beer sales. It also recently completed upgrades to two U.S. breweries that will expand seltzer production by 400%. As well, Molson has opened a new brewery in Vancouver and will open another new facility in Montreal later this year. These new plants replace older facilities and will help cut its operating costs. Molson Coors is still a hold. hold…