Updating your Cyclical-Growth Payers: Finning International

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FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC. $39 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol FTT; Cyclical-Growth Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 146.0 million; Market cap: $5.7 billion; Dividend yield: 2.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.finning.com) sells and services Caterpillar-brand heavy equipment in Western Canada, South America, the U.K. and Ireland. Its main customers are in the oil and gas, mining, forestry products, and construction industries. With the June 2023 payment, Finning raised your quarterly dividend by 5.9%, to $0.25 a share from $0.236. The new annual rate of $1.00 yields 2.6%. Finning has now raised the annual dividend rate each year for the past 22 years. The company continues to benefit from the re-opening of the world’s economies and increased demand for its equipment and services. Revenue in the three months ended June 30, 2023, gained 27.7%, to $2.56 billion from $2.00 billion a year earlier. Per-share earnings also rose 25.0%, to $1.00 from $0.80. Finning’s balance sheet remains strong. Its long-term debt of $949 million (as…