Demand set to lift your CAE returns

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CAE INC., $33, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CAE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 265.0 million; Market cap: $8.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cae.com) has opened three new pilot training centres in Europe—two in England and one in Italy. All three operate flight simulators that will train pilots to fly the popular Airbus A320 jetliner under long-term contracts with major airlines. With these new facilities, CAE now has 59 aviation training centers worldwide. The outlook for the company’s simulators and services remains bright. CAE estimates that airlines will need to train 300,000 new pilots over the next 10 years to keep up with rising air passenger traffic. traffic. …