What is a Preferred Share?

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Yield has become increasingly elusive, but preferred shares continue to offer high single digit payouts. But there's a lot more to this security than meets the eye, let's take a closer look.
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Never found such a concise explanation of preferred shares within ten minutes elsewhere. This channel is a gem.

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Thanks for the detailed explanation! 👍

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[@Magic_beans_]

One thing that really stuck with me was when someone observed that preferred stock for a solid company in a relatively reliable industry (banking, real estate, utilities) offers about the same rate as “junk” bonds. If we believe the market to be at least mostly efficient, there has to be a reason for that. Looking at the attributes of preferred stock you can see why the rate is what it is. Preferred stock is essentially an open-ended loan _subordinate_ to the company’s other debt. The company can just pay a fixed amount per year (which because of inflation makes borrowing cheaper for them and less profitable to you each year) and if they run into trouble they can defer or even skip those interest payments. That’s a good amount of uncertainty to take on, so you’d better get paid.

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I really like that you use Canada in a lot of examples and topics. I read things like the intelligent investor (Ben Graham) and similar materials and they're always talking about things from an american perspective. Most of it transfers over but there are a few details every once in a while that makes things different for us Canadians. The problem is that as someone who is only about a year into their financial literacy journey, I don't always know how to spot those details. Hey, maybe that could be a video idea. Just a 5 min video on some of the key things like terminology differences and the like

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Jam packed video. Awesome work, Richard! I still do consider prefs = fixed income

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Great explanation!

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[@laertesl4324]

A few years ago in Spain banks pressed preferred shares to many savers who didn't understand what they are. Many of them lost lots of money.

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[@Clinkzies]

Thanks for the video! How about debentures, where do they fall into this whole picture?

[@JK-rv9tp]

I don't touch the leveraged Class As, but I have the preferreds of a couple of Split Share Funds, Financial 15, and Middlefield eCommerce and Real Estate. Financial 15 pays over 6 points, and Middlefield pays just over 5. The Middlefield one is a bit like having a global 1st mortgage, with a LTV of under 40%, on the entire real estate portfolio (the total NAV is approaching 30$ with the pref at 10). That's quite a lot of downside protection for the yield. Financial 15 has almost as much downside protection with its unit NAV at about 120% of the pref share value.

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Can you do one on floating bonds please? And other types of bonds?

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Could you talk about hybrid bonds?

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Can you do a non-principal protected note?

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Why would the retractable lower the securities yield?

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If The Plain Bagel has not done so yet, I would suggest a video on convertible bonds. If The Plain Bagel has already presented such a video, please let me know. Thanks!

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Hi Richard, what do u think about investing in Leveraged ETFs for the S&P500/DOW?

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I know this is an old comment, but for anyone reading this now, leveraged ETFs are great trading instruments but not great investments as they decay over time due to the interest on the margin used by the funds.

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Please do a video for perpetual bonds.

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Sir I have a doubt. Can you please clear. Talking about the great depression, when people started selling their shares in huge numbers, who purchased their shares?

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Other people. Doesn't necessarily need to be Americans.. Could have been an individual Japanese investor, or an Malaysian Investment Fund, etc.

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@@dodid0 but who would prefer buying shares in a depression in such large quantities?

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@@tusharmahajan845 Someone who had a lot of money and was waiting for the depression to pass so they sell it and make huge profit

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No, the price of the stock would just drop if no one wanted to buy, until it was at an attractive price for buyers. Price is all about supply and demand. There rarely are no buyers - only people who are willing to buy for a cheaper price.

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So preferred stockholders are basically short covered calls while hedging with puts

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5:40 it doesn't sound like it's preferred at all

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Hi there! I work in Ottawa but have been to Montreal a few times for work. There’s a larger finance/investment industry in Montreal than Ottawa so I would imagine there are good opportunities there, but I wouldn’t know for sure

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Most times they render the useless currency invalid and start issuing a new one, often after a change in government, but I'm sure he can give a more detailed explanation

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What did country done after hyperinflation example Germany, Zimbabwe

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OMAGA .W Germany made a new currency tied to land to give it real value, and then switched to a normal currency after the economy stabilised

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Zimbabwe switched to using other countries' currencies mainly the US Dollar and the South African Rand.

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