Saputo
Toronto symbol SAP, is Canada's largest producer of dairy products including milk, butter and cheese. Its main dairy brands include Saputo, Stella and Dairyland. Saputo also makes snack cakes and tarts.
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SAPUTO INC. $39 (Toronto symbol SAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 200.6 million; Market cap: $7.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 1.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.saputo.com) earned $127.1 million in its 2012 second quarter, which ended September 30, 2011. That’s up 1.0% from $125.8 million a year earlier. Earnings per share rose 1.7%, to $0.61 from $0.60, …read more »
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SAPUTO INC. $46 (Toronto symbol SAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 204.6 million; Market cap: $9.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.6; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.saputo.com) continues to use acquisitions to expand its dairy operations. Since it became a public company in 1997, it has spent roughly $2.8 billion buying related firms. Expanding by acquisition adds risk. …read more »
SAPUTO INC. $40 (Toronto symbol SAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 204.6 million; Market cap: $8.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 1.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.saputo.com) earned $0.54 a share in its third quarter, which ended December 31, 2010. That’s up 8.0% from $0.50 a year earlier. Revenue rose 3.0%, to $1.54 billion from $1.48 billion.
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Saputo Inc. (Symbol SAP on Toronto) is Canada’s largest producer of dairy products, including milk, butter and cheese. The company also makes snack cakes and tarts. Aside from Saputo, the Canadian stock pick’s main brands include Neilson, Stella and Dairyland.
The company also has operations in the U.S., Argentina and Europe.
In its second quarter, which ended September 30, 2010, Saputo …read more »
SAPUTO INC. $37 (Toronto symbol SAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 206.3 million; Market cap: $7.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.3; Dividend yield: 1.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.saputo.com) has fallen from its recent peak of $40 in November 2010. That’s mainly because possible listeria contamination forced it to recall cheese produced at one of its Quebec plants.
The same bacteria …read more »
The stock market downturn of 2008/2009 renewed investor interest in food stocks. That’s because food is a necessity of life, and food producers’ shares are much less volatile than those of cyclical companies, such as resource firms.
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One key part of our three-pronged investing program is to spread your money out across the five main sectors of the economy: Manufacturing & Industry; Resources; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities.
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SAPUTO INC. $29 (Toronto symbol SAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 207.2 million; Market cap: $6.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.0; Dividend yield: 2.0%; SI Rating: Average) is Canada’s largest producer of dairy products, including milk, butter and cheese. It also makes snack cakes and tarts. Aside from Saputo, the company’s main brands are Neilson, Stella and Dairyland. The …read more »
