John  is an electrical engineer with a utility company in Calgary. He worked for this company for 20 years and looking to retire in next ten years. He is debt free and have sufficient income to live a good life. He has a generous pension plan with company and a good amount of self directed RRSP with your bank. He got his annual bonus of $25,000 last week and want to invest this money to travel next year. You are his investment advisor and he told you invest this money to get maximum possible after tax return in a year. His marginal tax rate is 36% and has net worth of over $1 million. You both already agreed on three possible investments and he asked you to do some analysis to choose most suitable among all three. Can you advise him that which one of the following is best suitable to achieve his goal? Your advice must be based on reasoning and supported by all necessary calculations,

1. A blue ship Canadian stock trading at $105.93/share and expected to grow by 11% in next one year and no dividend is expected during this period.
2. A good corporate bond trading at $930 with coupon rate 3.80% and expected to mature next year.
3. One year high rate GIC paying 5.10% interest rate.

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