Updating TOROMONT INDUSTRIES LTD., TIM HORTONS and MAJOR DRILLING

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TOROMONT INDUSTRIES LTD. $18.99 (Toronto symbol TIH; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (416-667-5511; www.toromont.com; Shares outstanding: 76.4 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; Dividend yield: n/a) has completed its spinoff of ENERFLEX LTD., $13.49 (Toronto symbol EFX; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (403-387-6377; www.enerflex.com; Shares outstanding: 76.4 million; Market cap: $1.0 billion; Dividend yield: n/a). Toromont shareholders received shares of the new Toromont and shares of Enerflex. Shareholders will not have to pay capital-gains taxes until they sell their shares. (When they do, they will allocate 56.4% of their adjusted cost base to Toromont and 43.6% to Enerflex). Enerflex sells and installs compression systems for natural gas, coal-bed methane, fuel gas and carbon dioxide in Canada and around the world. Toromont and Enerflex will now pay dividends that, combined, will equal the rate of $0.64 per share previously paid by Toromont. In the three months ended March 31, 2011, Enerflex’s revenue jumped 53.7%, to $326.4 million from $212.4 million a year earlier. The improvement was mainly the…