These 1990s Favourites Are Buys Again

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BOMBARDIER INC. (Toronto symbols BBD.A $4.55 and BBD.B $4.56; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $7.7 billion; SI Rating: Extra risk) is the world’s third-largest maker of commercial aircraft, after Boeing and Airbus. The company is also a leading maker of passenger railway cars. Due to steadily rising demand, the company now plans to build a new 100-seat regional jet, which is slightly larger than its current 70-seat and 90-seat models. It now has 38 firm orders for the plane, and 23 conditional ones. The new plane will cost $300 million to develop; Bombardier earned $0.03 a share (total $53 million) in the three months ended October 31, 2006 (all amounts except share price in U.S. dollars). Each plane sells for roughly $45 million, and the company feels it can sell 400 of them over the next 20 years. Bombardier is still thinking about building the CSeries regional jet. This would be an entirely new plane,…