Updating CAE INC., IGM FINANCIAL INC., SNC-LAVALIN GROUP INC.

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CAE INC. $10 (Toronto symbol CAE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 258.7 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 2.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cae.com) recently sold six flight simulators and related equipment. In all, these deals are worth $85 million, or 5% of CAE’s annual revenue of $1.8 billion. The company has now sold 16 simulators in its 2013 fiscal year, which began on April 1, 2012. CAE sold 37 simulators in all of fiscal 2012. CAE is a buy. IGM FINANCIAL INC. $37 (Toronto symbol IGM; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares out- standing: 255.1 million; Market cap: $9.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.6; Dividend yield: 5.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.igmfinancial.com) reports that it had $119.7 billion of assets under management, including mutual fund assets, as of September 30, 2012. That’s an increase of 2.5% from $116.7 billion a year earlier. IGM’s fee income rises and falls with the value of the mutual funds…