Below is a long-term dividend history chart for SJR, which the report stressed as being of key importance.

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Among the largest underlying components of PID, in trading today Shaw Communications Inc ( NYSE: SJR) is up about 1.1%, Thomson Reuters Corp ( NYSE: TRI) is up about 2.5%, and Pearson Plc ( NYSE: PSO) is higher by about 1.7%.

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These fast-growing, adroit and well-managed companies help set the benchmarks for their respective industries. (Full methodology can be found here.) Just five Canadian companies make this elite group of 130: Brookfield Asset Management, Manulife, metals producer Teck Cominco (nyse: TCK - news - people ), Calgary-based TV and internet services provider Shaw Communications (nyse: SJR - news - people ) and Suncor Energy.

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