Brookfield Office Properties Inc BRPYF

x,y,z

[DemDem]

Honestly, I don't understand your purchase of x, y, z. These BPOs are destined to continually decline when rates fall. Currently, they yield less than a GIC if you look at its dividend. As for the possible capital gain, you shouldn't believe it too much, because the higher the stock goes, the lower the dividend will be. Unless the series' final due date is very close.

[CrazyTrader]

You are mixing up Dividend Amount and Yield.   Yield on these are much much much higher than GICs Yields....    Yields factor in Share Price.   "X" is trading at $9.40, not $25. "X" paid quarterly dividend of $0.315 on Feb 14th, I believe.     That puts the yield about 13.4%.  

[SONOFFERGUS]

Taxes too -- interest sucks at tax time. To compare on a pre-tax basis, the pref market grosses up dividends by 30%.  This is a rough approximation ofc.  Lots of retail investors pay little (or even negative) tax on dividends because of how the dividend tax credit works. So 13.26% adjusted for tax is 17.25% or so.  Compare that to 3-month t-bills at 5.00%.  Where else are you