Aggressive industrials for your portfolio

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We continue to recommend all investors allocate as much as 20% of their portfolios to aggressive stocks such as the three we analyze below. All three of these industrial stocks operate in cyclical industries, which makes them vulnerable to economic downturns. However, they are all leaders in their markets, which helps offset that cyclical risk. Even so, we see only two of them as buys right now. TOROMONT INDUSTRIES LTD. $120 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol TIH; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 82.2 million; Market cap: $9.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; Dividend yield: 1.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.toromont.com) operates through two business segments: The Equipment Group (91% of revenue) is the exclusive Caterpillar dealer of Caterpillar heavy equipment, such as bulldozers, backhoes and excavators, for eastern Canada. The company is also the MaK engine dealer for the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., from Maine to Virginia. CIMCO (9%) is a market leader in the design, engineering, fabrication, installation and after-sale support of…