Updating Bank of Montreal, IGM Financial Inc., Finning International Inc.

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BANK OF MONTREAL $101 (www.bmo.com) will raise its quarterly dividend by 3.2%, starting with the August 2018 payment. Investors will receive $0.96 a share, instead of $0.93, for a new annual rate of $3.84. That yields 3.8%. Meantime, the bank earned $1.46 billion in its fiscal 2018 second quarter ended April 30, 2018. That’s up 13.0% from $1.30 billion a year earlier. Due to fewer shares outstanding, earnings per share rose at a faster rate of 14.6%, to $2.20 from $1.92. Those gains are mainly due to higher interest rates, which have offset slower demand for home mortgages. Buy. IGM FINANCIAL INC. $39 (www.igmfinancial.com) had $157.7 billion in assets under management as of May 31, 2018. That’s up 5.0% from a year earlier. The company’s fee income rises and falls with the value of the mutual funds and other securities it manages. Buy. FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC. $35 (www.finning.com) sells and services Caterpillar-brand heavy equipment in Canada, South America and the U.K. Its main customers are in the oil, mining, forest-products…