Updating CAE Inc., BCE Inc., and Encana Corp.

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CAE INC. $14 (www.cae.com) has won several contracts for flightsimulators and related equipment from airlines in China, SouthKorea, Russia and the U.S. In all, these deals are worth $130million, or 6% of the company’s $2.2 billion of annual revenue. CAEhas now sold 15 flight simulators in its 2016 fiscal year, whichbegan April 1, 2015, after selling 41 in fiscal 2015. The stock is our#1 buy for 2015. BCE INC. $54 (www.bce.ca) recently started offering tri-band LTEadvanced (LTE-A) service, which is 1.9 times faster than its mainLTE network, in Halifax, Hamilton, Oakville and Toronto. Fasterwireless service should prompt more of its subscribers to upgradeto smartphones, which generate higher profits than regularcellphones. Best Buy. ENCANA CORP. $9.24 (www.encana.com) is selling its Haynesvillenatural gas properties in northern Louisiana. These assetsaccount for 9% of the company’s production but less than 3% of itscash flow. Selling them will let Encana focus on its more profitableproperties (two in Canada and two in the U.S.), which producelarge amounts of…