Dividend-paying common shares are great for investors looking for potentially safer, income-generating securities that also offer the possibility of capital gains. The five companies on our list today have significantly increased its payout rate to shareholders over the past few years.
Secure Energy Services Inc. (TSX: SES) – $11.67
Oil Related Services and Equipment
Secure Energy Services Inc. (Secure) is a Canada-based diversified energy services company that operates in three divisions: Processing, Recovery and Disposal, On-Site Services and Drilling Services. The processing, recovery and disposal division (the PRD) assists upstream oil and natural gas companies operating in the WCSB and North Dakota with the treatment and sale of crude oil and the processing, treatment, recycling and disposal of the by-products associated with oil and natural gas development and production. The drilling fluids and drilling fluid systems that are designed for more complex wells, such as medium services division (DS) specializes in the development and supply of drilling to deep wells, horizontal wells and horizontal SAGD wells.
- Market Cap: $1,640,112,124
- Dividends (LTM): $25,285,000
- Revenues (LTM): $2,111,986,000
- Dividends CAGR (2 years): 335.5%
Whitecap Resources Inc. (TSX: WCP) – $10.82
Oil & Gas Exploration and Production
Whitecap Resources Inc. is engaged in the exploration, development and production of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids in Western Canada. The Company’s activities are concentrated primarily in Northwest Central Alberta and Southwest Saskatchewan. In May 2014, Whitecap acquired certain strategic light oil assets focused primarily in its Pembina Cardium / West Central core area, as well as at Boundary Lake in northeast B.C.
- Market Cap: $3,506,635,235
- Dividends (LTM): $183,125,000
- Revenues (LTM): $1,047,879,000
- Dividends CAGR (2 years): 206.4%
DHX Media Ltd. (TSX: DHX.A) – $9.26
Entertainment Production
DHX Media Ltd. (DHX) is a Canada-based company engaged in the supply and distribution of television and film productions. The Company is a creator, producer, marketer and broadcaster of family entertainment. DHX Media Ltd. is the owner of Family Channel, a children’s television channel in Canada, as well as Disney Junior (English and French) and Disney XD. The Company markets and distributes its library of over 10,000 half-hours of entertainment programming globally, and licenses its owned properties through its dedicated consumer products business. Its brands includes Yo Gabba Gabba!, Caillou, Teletubbies, In the Night Garden, Inspector Gadget, Johnny Test, and Degrassi.
- Market Cap: $1,150,873,670
- Dividends (LTM): $6,100,000
- Revenues (LTM): $222,614,000
- Dividends CAGR (2 years): 182.4%
Toscana Energy Income Corp. (TSX: TEI) – $7.24
Oil & Gas Exploration and Production
Toscana Energy Income Corporation, formerly Toscana Resource Corporation, is a Canada-based oil and gas producer that targets non-operating working interest investments in the oil and natural gas sector with reserve life indexes of more than eight years. The Company’s Toscana Financial Income Trust provides mezzanine debt financing alternatives to mid-sized private and public companies in Western Canada with a specialized focus on the junior oil and gas sector.
- Market Cap: $53,674,643
- Dividends (LTM): $11,197,090
- Revenues (LTM): $43,981,970
- Dividends CAGR (2 years): 167.0%
Regal Lifestyle Communities Inc. (TSX: RLC) – $12.01
Healthcare Facilities & Services
Regal Lifestyle Communities Inc. (Regal) was formed to carry out the offering and to acquire a portfolio consisting of income-producing retirement communities, which provides primarily independent serviced living (ISL) and assisted living (AL) programs. The portfolio consists of 10 current generation Retirement Communities with an average age of approximately five years, consisting of over 1,400 suites primarily located in the Province of Ontario and including a property located in each of the Provinces of Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Market Cap: $375,809,905
- Dividends (LTM): $20,952,000
- Revenues (LTM): $113,885,000
- Dividends CAGR (2 years): 151.5%
