Topic: Dividend Stocks

BOMBARDIER INC. – Toronto symbols BBD.A $4.10 and BBD.B $4.01

BOMBARDIER INC. (Toronto symbols BBD.A $4.10 and BBD.B $4.01; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $6.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.bombardier.com) is the world’s third-largest commercial-aircraft maker, behind Boeing and Airbus. It is also the world’s largest passenger railcar manufacturer.

In the three months ended July 31, 2011, Bombardier’s earnings rose 56.7%, to $210 million, or $0.12 a share (all amounts except share prices and market cap in U.S. dollars). A year earlier, it earned $134 million, or $0.07 a share. Sales rose 17.4% to $4.7 billion from $4.0 billion.

Sales at the railcar division (which supplies 56% of Bombardier’s total sales) rose 26.0%, mainly due to strong demand from European public-transit systems. In the latest quarter, this business received $3.9 billion of new orders, down from $4.3 billion a year earlier. Its order backlog is $33.9 billion, up from $33.5 billion on January 31, 2011.

Sales at the aerospace division (44% of total sales) rose 7.9%. It delivered 56 planes in the quarter, up from 49 a year earlier. Its order backlog of $23 billion is up 19.8% from January 31, 2011.

Bombardier trades at just 8.8 times the $0.46 U.S. a share that it should earn in 2011.

Bombardier is a buy. The subordinate-voting class B shares are the better choice, due to their greater liquidity and slightly higher dividend yield.

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