Updates on your Conservative stocks: CAE, Imperial Oil & Suncor Energy

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CAE INC. $33 (www.cae.com) remains a buy. The company expects the global air travel industry will need 1.3 million new pilots, aircraft maintenance technicians and cabin crew over the next 10 years. That’s due to rising retirement and turnover rates. For the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, improving demand for its flight simulators and pilot-training services, plus savings from a restructuring plan, should increase its earnings by about 35% to $1.19 a share. The stock trades at a reasonable 27.7 times that forecast. CAE is a buy. IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $79 (www.imperialoil.ca) is a buy. The oil producer raised your quarterly dividend by 13.6% with the July 2023 payment, to $0.50 a share from $0.44. The new annual rate of $2.00 yields 2.5%. As well, the company now plans to buy back about 29.2 million of its common shares (or 5% of the total outstanding) by the end of 2023, which is much earlier than its initial target of June 28, 2024. Imperial Oil is a buy. SUNCOR ENERGY…