Topic: Dividend Stocks

BOMBARDIER INC. – Toronto symbols BBD.A $4.97 and BBD.B $4.98

BOMBARDIER INC. (Toronto symbols BBD.A $4.97 and BBD.B $4.98; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $8.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend yield: 2.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.bombardier.com) is the world’s third-largest commercial-aircraft maker, behind Boeing and Airbus. Its aerospace division supplies roughly half of its revenue. The other half comes from its transportation division, which is the world’s largest maker of passenger railcars.

In its 2011 second quarter, which ended July 31, 2010, the company earned $0.08 a share (all amounts except share prices and market cap in U.S. dollars). That’s down 27.2% from $0.11 a share, a year earlier. Revenue fell 17.5%, to $4.1 billion from $4.9 billion. The uncertain economy continues to hurt demand for Bombardier’s jets. It delivered 46 aircraft in the latest quarter. That’s down from 80 a year earlier.

However, Bombardier received orders for 29 new planes (net of cancellations) in the latest quarter. A year ago, it had negative 38 net orders. The railcar division received $4.3 billion of new orders, up 43.3% from $3.0 billion a year earlier.

Bombardier trades at 13.5 times the $0.37 a share it should earn in fiscal 2011.

Bombardier is a buy. The subordinate-voting “B” shares are the better choice because of their slightly better liquidity and higher dividend yield.

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