Focus on premium wines to pay off

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ANDREW PELLER LTD. (Toronto symbols ADW.A $16 and ADW.B $16; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 44.2 million; Market cap: $707.2 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.1; Dividend yield: 1.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.andrewpeller.com) is Canada’s second-largest wine producer. The company recently acquired three wineries in B.C.: Black Hills Estate, Gray Monk Estate, and Tinhorn Creek. In all, it paid $94.8 million for those businesses. That price consisted of $77.6 million in cash, plus $17.2 million worth of class A common shares. The new wineries will add between $30 million and $35 million to Peller’s annual sales over the next five years; its revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, was $342.6 million. As well, the new operations expand the company’s portfolio of premium brands. They generate higher profits per litre than regular wines. Andrew Peller class A is a buy. buy…