Finning gains as lockdowns end

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FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC. $37 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol FTT; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 157.7 million; Market cap: $5.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.finning.com) sells and services Caterpillar-brand heavy equipment in Western Canada but also Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, the U.K. and Ireland. Its main customers are in the oil and gas, mining, forestry-products and construction industries. The company continues to benefit as re-opening of the world’s economies spurs demand for its equipment and maintenance services. Revenue in the three months ended December 31, 2021, rose 14.4%, to $1.77 billion from $1.55 billion a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, per-share earnings jumped 73.7%, to $0.66 from $0.45. Investors can expect Finning to earn $2.34 a share in 2022, and the stock trades a moderate 15.8 times that estimate. The $0.90 dividend yields 2.4%. Finning is a buy. buy…