Better efficiency spurs its earnings

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TOROMONT INDUSTRIES LTD. $112 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol TIH; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 82.4 million; Market cap: $9.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.toromont.com) distributes a broad range of industrial equipment (such as bulldozers, backhoe loaders and drills), including Caterpillar machinery, in eastern Canada and the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. Toromont also makes refrigeration systems through its CIMCO business. In the quarter ended December 31, 2021, revenue fell 3.6%, to $956.0 million, from $992.2 million a year earlier. That’s partly because supply chain problems forced it to defer some deliveries to 2022. However, improving efficiency helped lift its earnings by 18.5%, to $1.28 from $1.08. Toromont will probably earn $4.47 a share in 2022, and the stock trades at a reasonable 25.1 times that estimate. It’s also raising your quarterly dividend by 11.4%. The new annual rate of $1.56 yields 1.4%. Toromont is a buy. buy…