The biggest threat may come from Vistar, a Canadian firm backed by the telecommunications giant BCE.
Late Thursday, BCE filed a motion asking the Supreme Court of Canada to rule by June 30.
Based on the recent price, BCE stock has a projected dividend yield of 5.5% over the next 12 months.
At almost every turn Rogers is confronting his nemesis, BCE, the equally acquisitive Montreal-based holding company that owns Bell Canada.
Another big global dividend payer that Bill Priest of Epoch Partners likes is Canadian telecom BCE, Inc. ( BCE).
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Comcast, BCE and Rogers could be among the first operators to distribute into homes in the U.S. and Canada.
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The offer represented a 40.9% premium from where BCE was trading in late March, prior to the onset of buyout rumors.
In the second century BCE the ancient Jews were overrun by the Assyrians, a Greek proxy in the ancient Middle East.
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Yes, like Frontier, BCE briefly suspended its dividend during the financial meltdown.
Though Rogers has previously dismissed BCE as a "Soviet-style monopoly, " he doesn't take the competition lightly and knows he must eat or be eaten.
Bondholders of BCE, the parent of Bell Canada, argued that the deal would load the company up with debt, curbing the value of their holdings.
GuruFocus rated BCE Inc. the business predictability rank of 2.5-star.
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As a result of the transaction, BCE and Rogers each own 37.5% of MLSE, while Kilmer Sports, which previously owned 20% of the enterprise, owns 25%.
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The offer represented a 40.9% premium from where BCE, formerly known as Bell Canada Enterprises, was trading in late March, prior to the onset of buyout rumors.
And the underappreciated jewel is BCE, which not only has the most sustainable dividends but also is the least leveraged (41% debt-to-enterprise) of all five of these telecom outfits.
The first Chinese WRITTEN text on medicine dates to approximately 200 BCE but we know that the practice of acupuncture goes much farther back than that, potentially from 3-5, 000 BCE.
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Half is held by the arm of telecommunications concern BCE, soon to control the Globe and Mail, the nation's largest commercial television network (CTV) and Sympatico, the largest Internet portal.
The purchase price represents a 40.0% premium over the average trading price of BCE's stock in 2007's first quarter, before privatization talk went public. (See " BCE Confirms Buyout Talks").
The dividend yield of BCE Inc. stocks is 4.8%.
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Weight your portfolio towards high-quality fixed-income securities and focus your Canadian stock list on banks, utilities, and leading telecoms such as BCE Inc. ( BCE), which just raised its dividend by 5%.
Some of our picks, such as BCE Inc. (BCE) and Toronto Dominion Bank (TD) have doubled in value (including dividends) since they were recommended and many more have scored impressive double-digit gains.
Documents exist that prove Jews lived there at least as far back as 650 BCE, and by the time of the Muslim conquest in the 7th century roughly 40, 000 Jews already dwelled in many Egyptian towns and cities.
"The signing of this agreement to take the company private in the largest transaction of its kind in the world, at 42.75 dollars per share, is the final chapter in a strong stewardship that has created substantial value for shareholders, " BCE Board Chair, RichardCurrieRichard Currie.
On Friday, the Canadian Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling made in late-May that the sale of BCE (nyse: BCE - news - people ) to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and its minority U.S. partners didn't adequately consider bondholders' interests.
"The signing of this agreement to take the company private in the largest transaction of its kind in the world, at 42.75 dollars per share, is the final chapter in a strong stewardship that has created substantial value for shareholders, " BCE Board Chair, Richard Currie .
For Jews, a straight line can be drawn from the Hanukkah experience of the second century BCE to the eloquent expressions of religious freedom of the Founding Fathers, many of whom as learned Christian gentlemen of their era were versed in Hebrew and the Jewish canon.
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Still, the 7th century Al-Aqsa mosque was built atop an earlier Christian church, which in stood astride a Roman temple, all of which stood on the platform built by king Herod to house the second Jewish temple, which itself replaced the temple of Solomon, built around 900 BCE.
Even further back, we remember that the only reason the Kingdom of Judea did not suffer the same fate as the Kingdom of Israel in the end of the 8th century BCE is because as the ten tribes of Israel were expelled into oblivion, King Hezkiyahu saved Jerusalem from the Assyrians.
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