Updating your Cyclical-Growth Payers: Finning International

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FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC. $33 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol FTT; Cyclical-Growth Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 157.7 million; Market cap: $5.2 billion; Dividend yield: 2.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.finning.com) sells and services Caterpillar-brand heavy equipment in Western Canada, South America, the U.K. and Ireland. Its main customers are in the oil and gas, mining, forestry-products and construction industries. Starting with the June 2022 payment, Finning will raise your quarterly dividend by 4.9%. Investors will then receive $0.236 a share instead of $0.225. The new annual rate of $0.944 yields 2.9%. The company has now raised the annual dividend rate each year for the past 21 years. Finning continues to benefit as the re-opening of the world’s economies spurs demand for its equipment and maintenance services. Revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2022, rose 18.2%, to $1.74 billion from $1.47 billion a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, per-share earnings jumped 68.6%, to $0.59 from $0.35. The company’s improving order…