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ANDREW PELLER LTD. $15 – Toronto symbol ADW.A

ANDREW PELLER LTD. $15 (Toronto symbol ADW.A; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 14.3 million; Market cap: $214.5 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.andrewpeller.com) is Canada’s second-largest producer of wines, after Vincor International. The company has wineries in Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia.

In the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2014, Peller’s sales rose 9.3%, to $79.5 million from $72.7 million a year earlier. That’s partly because it started selling its Wayne Gretzky wines in Western Canada. It also launched several new products, such as skinnygrape spritzers and Panama Jack cocktails.

However, strong price competition and higher sales of lessprofitable brands cut Peller’s earnings by 19.4%, to $4.1 million, or $0.30 a share, from $5.1 million, or $0.37.

If you disregard all unusual items, including losses on hedging contracts Peller uses to lock in foreign exchange rates and costs related to a restructuring plan at its home-winemaking division, earnings gained 11.4%.

Andrew Peller is a buy.

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