Use our updates to enhance your portfolio

Article Excerpt

TORONTO-DOMINION BANK $78 is a buy. The lender (Toronto symbol TD; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $140.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.9; Dividend yield: 4.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.td.com) has cancelled its deal to acquire First Horizon Corporation (New York symbol FHN) for $13.4 billion U.S. due to delays in securing the necessary regulatory approvals. The purchase would have made TD’s banking operations the sixth largest in the U.S. As a result, the bank will pay $225 million U.S. in termination and other fees to First Horizon. If you exclude that charge and other unusual items, TD earned $3.75 billion (Canadian) in its fiscal 2023 second quarter, ended April 30, 2023. That’s up 1.0% from $3.71 billion a year earlier. Due to more shares outstanding, per-share earnings fell 4.0%, to $1.94 from $2.02. TD will probably earn $8.33 a share for all of fiscal 2023, and the stock trades at 9.4 times that forecast. It also plans…