Bombardier wins new orders

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BOMBARDIER INC. (Toronto symbols BBD.A $2.44 and BBD.B $2.37; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $4.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.3; Dividend suspended in February 2015; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.bombardier.com) is the world’s third-largest maker of commercial aircraft, after Boeing (No.1) and Airbus (No. 2). It’s also a leading maker of commuter trains. The company recently announced that CityJet of Ireland has exercised its option to purchase four additional CRJ900 regional jet planes. As a result, it will now buy a total of 10 planes for $467 million (all amounts except share prices in U.S. dollars). To put that figure in context, Bombardier’s revenue totalled $16.3 billion in 2016. The company has yet to reveal when it plans to deliver those planes. Bombardier has also won an order for an additional 27 passenger railcars from the public transit system of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company will build those trains as part of a joint venture with a local…