Topic: How To Invest

Could I please have your opinion on Davis + Henderson Corp.? I currently have the stock and am considering buying more. Thank you.

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Davis + Henderson Corp., $31.00, symbol DH on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 80.7 million; Market cap: $2.5 billion; www.dhltd.com), is a leading cheque printer. It also sells software for managing chequing and credit card accounts and technology for approving loans and searching for and registering liens. Davis + Henderson’s clients are mainly financial institutions. It now has over 7,000 customers in Canada and the U.S. In April 2011, the company bought Wisconsin-based Mortgagebot LLC, which sells web-based mortgage software, for $231.8 million U.S. Mortgagebot’s software runs on more than 6,000 mortgage websites and generates mortgage applications for nearly 1,100 U.S. banks and credit unions. Davis + Henderson bought Mortgagebot to keep diversifying away from cheque printing and related services, which make up about 40% of its business. Cheque printing is declining as more consumers switch to electronic payment methods. In May 2012, the company paid $40 million U.S. for South Carolina-based Avista Solutions, which provides mortgage-related software for community and regional banks, credit unions and…