Talk:Common shares/Archive 1

Please check the table Dividends paid in February, May, August, and November as it doesn't match the referenced article Dividend Cycles of Some Canadian Companies. I believe the month should be March, not May, and the sectors don't match. I hesitated to make the correction, as I'm not familiar with these companies. --LadyGeek 12:30, 10 December 2011 (MST)

There is a mistake in my original table. The sequence is indeed May not March in the FMAN cycle. Sectors can change depending upon the source used to assign them (generally Reuters) since some companies such as TRP operate in several sectors.--Shakespeare 12:51, 10 December 2011 (MST)

Given the page has been about Dividend paying Canadian Stocks, should the Title be changed to reflect this? --Peculiar Investor 16:51, 11 December 2011 (MST)

Another alternative to examine, Wikipedia:Splitting - Wikipedia --Peculiar Investor 17:06, 11 December 2011 (MST)

There is no other page discussing Canadian stocks so I'd like to leave the title as is. We should split the cycles into separate sections.--Shakespeare 17:09, 11 December 2011 (MST)

As I post this, the current list of stocks is mostly drawn from the "Mergent Dividend Achievers (found as a spreadsheet at here) or Dividend Aristocrats (found as the constituents of Claymore ETF CDZ) lists or the S&P/TSX 60 Index". I would contend that the users of this information are looking to build/maintain an income generating portfolio, and as such as generally looking for "quality" or "blue-chip" type stocks. Are those fair assumptions? If so, can a criteria for inclusion in the list be specified? Or should the lists include any publicly traded Canadian stock that pays a dividend? --Peculiar Investor 13:49, 12 December 2011 (MST)

I think at this point all we can specify is a regular dividend, with no quality screening whatsoever. That means tightening up the descriptive language.--Shakespeare 14:38, 12 December 2011 (MST)

Proposal to rename page
If you traverse the links Asset classes->Equities->Canadian Equities the page shows:
 * Canadian Stocks
 * Preferred Shares
 * Hybrid Securities

I propose renaming "Canadian Stocks" to either "Common Shares" or "Canadian Common Shares". It would therefore be more consistent with Preferred Shares.--Peculiar Investor 18:07, 26 January 2012 (MST)

Since "Canadian" is already implied, "Common Shares" is likely appropriate. "Canadian" should then appear in the first sentence in some form if it doesn't already. --Shakespeare 18:11, 26 January 2012 (MST)

Removed link references above as Canadian Stocks has been renamed Common Shares and therefore "Canadian Stocks" was showing up on Wanted pages --Peculiar Investor 06:26, 5 June 2012 (MDT)