TFSA Investors: How to Make $4,567 Annually in Passive Income

Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:CRR.UN), Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU)(NYSE:SU), and one other stock offer investors a chance to bring in more than $4,500 in annual passive income.

Amy Legate-Wolfe

Amy became interested in investing in 2018 after having her first daughter. After receiving a masters degree in journalism from Western University, she became frustrated that the finance industry remained a confusing place for Canadians like her: new parents, millennials, and other young people who needed to understand their finances. Now, Amy focuses on tech companies and renewable energy for growth opportunities, coupling that with long-term investing strategies and equities. Before joining Motley Fool Canada, she wrote for major news organizations including HuffPost, CTVNews.ca, and CBC. Amy’s work can be found regularly on the Financial Post and MoneyWise Canada. When she’s not researching investing strategies, Amy’s time is pretty much monopolized by her two wild daughters, but in what little spare time she has she loves to do yoga, go on walks with her dog Finley, and travel. Follow Amy on LinkedIn.

Published June 23, 2019 10:00 am EDT

Creating a passive-income portfolio has been an incredibly hot topic lately. It’s easy to see why. After an incredibly hot summer — both physically and within the markets — investors were shocked by October and the market swing that came with it.

Investors were left shaken and perhaps a little better for it. It helps investors to realize that while investments such as those in the cannabis industry are exciting, they aren’t what you want to put all your retirement savings into.

The stocks you want are passive-income dividend stocks. These offers investors the perfect buy-and-hold option, so while your cannabis stocks are going up and down like a roller coaster, they stay relatively steady. Even if they don’t (after all, a recession could be coming), you’ll still receive that passive income from the stock’s dividend yield.

If you have that cash in a Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) then you can be assured the government won’t touch a penny of your passive-income fund. That means you’ll know exactly how much money you’ll be bringing in every quarter or even every month to put towards reinvestment. Whether that reinvestment is in the stock, other stocks, or your household, is totally up to you.

So, let’s take a look at three options that can bring you to more than $4,500 per year in passive income.

Vermilion

Vermilion Energy (TSX:VET)(NYSE:VET) offers investors the perfect opportunity to buy into this dividend stock. The company has two factors at play that have sent its share price near 52-week lows. First off, there’s the oil and gas industry as a whole. Second, the company hasn’t had the best books in the past, which has meant investors have been wary to buy the stock, despite low prices within a poor industry. It has quite a bit of debt and not much of a cushion to fall back on.

But that looks like it’s about to change in the next few years. The company has seen overall production rise 2% year over year, and funds from operations were up 14% recently. This year, the company predicts a 19% growth in production, which translates to 8% per share.

Meanwhile, the company offers an incredible dividend of 9.93% that many investors should find hard not to sink their teeth into.

Crombie

Next up, we have Crombie REIT (TSX:CRR.UN), a safe bet within the world of REITs that is currently going through a pretty exciting restructure at the moment.

The redevelopment plan has meant changing the company from pretty much only grocery stores to grocery stores coupled with residential apartments or condominiums. Units that are near grocery stores can charge higher rents, so Crombie is about to make a killing by offering units that are literally above grocery stores. Think about it: who wants to go out and get the milk they forgot during a snowstorm?

Crombie has put aside $511 million for the project, and this should increase net asset value by 75% over the next two-and-a-half years and gross leasable space by 50%. Along with that share increase, shareholders would also take advantage of a 5.78% dividend yield, dished out monthly.

Suncor

Finally, we have Suncor Energy (TSX:SU)(NYSE:SU), a firm staple of any good growth portfolio. As one of Canada’s leading energy companies, this stock has the potential for a major rise as oil and gas prices rebound. Once they do, the company is set up for significant growth due to its future oil sands projects. Meanwhile, the company is supported by its other arms of its integrated business, meaning it can battle some market volatility.

Analysts are still bullish about this stock’s future, including the legendary Warren Buffett. Many analysts believe the stock will rise to around $63 per share in the next 12 months — a potential upside of 50% as of writing. And, of course, while you wait, there’s a 4.03% dividend to keep you happy.