Topic: How To Invest

Hello. Can you tell me how Canadian Banc Corp. can have such a high yield when they just hold Canadian banks? Are they a buy or hold? I am enjoying the Inner Circle. Thanks.

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Canadian Banc Corp. is a split-share company with two types of stock: capital shares ($12.85, symbol BK on Toronto) and preferred shares ($10.26, symbol BK.PR.A on Toronto). The company holds shares of the six biggest Canadian banks. Split-share companies typically issue two classes of stock. Usually the capital shares get all or most of the capital gains and losses, as well as variable dividend income, and the preferred shares get a fixed amount of dividend income. In the case of Canadian Banc Corp., the capital shares receive dividends monthly at a rate determined by applying a 10% annualized rate on the capital shares’ average market price over the last three trading days of the preceding month. The June 2015 dividend is $0.10933 a share, May was $0.11483, April was $0.11625 and so on. The capital shares’ annualized yield is 10.2%, based on the latest monthly payment. The dividend income the company gets from its portfolio of bank shares isn’t enough to pay capital and…