Bombardier’s turnaround will take time

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BOMBARDIER INC. (Toronto symbols BBD.A $2.12 and BBD.B $1.89; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 2.2 billion; Market cap: $4.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.3; Dividend suspended in February 2015; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.bombardier.com) is the world’s third-largest maker of commercial aircraft, after Boeing (No. 1) and Airbus (No. 2). It also makes passenger railcars. The company recently received the last half of a $1.0 billion investment by the government of Quebec (all amounts expect share prices and market cap in U.S. dollars). The province now owns 49.5% of a joint venture that will build Bombardier’s new CSeries passenger jets. The company has firm orders for 370 CSeries planes worth roughly $26 billion. These customers also have options for up to 380 more planes. However, due to delays by engine supplier Pratt & Whitney, Bombardier now expects to deliver just seven planes in 2016, less than half of its earlier forecast of 15. In the second quarter of…