TD shares are cheap

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TD BANK, $83.43, (Toronto symbol TD; Shares outstanding: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $152.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.6%; www.td.com) continues to benefit from rising interest rates, which let it earn higher interest income on its loans. In the three months ended July 31, 2023, revenue rose 12.2%, to $13.01 billion from $11.60 billion a year earlier. Concerns over higher interest rates and inflation have also prompted TD to set aside $766 million for potential loan losses, up 118.2% from $351 million a year earlier. As a result, TD’s earnings in the latest quarter fell 4.8%, to $1.99 a share (or a total of $3.66 billion) from $2.09 a share (or $3.81 billion). Meanwhile, the bank should earn $8.26 a share for all of fiscal 2023, and the stock trades at just 10.1 times that forecast. The $3.84 dividend yields a high 4.6%. TD Bank is still a buy. buy…