High interest rates could hurt orders

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BOMBARDIER INC. is a hold. The company (Toronto symbols BBD.A $50 and BBD.B $50; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 95.3 million; Market cap: $4.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend suspended in February 2015; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.bombardier.com) now focuses solely on making private luxury and business jet planes following the January 2021 sale of its passenger railcar business to France’s Alstom SA. Bombardier received $3.6 billion for its stake (all amounts except share prices and market cap in U.S. dollars). That included 11.5 million Alstom shares, later sold for $611 million. With the end to pandemic travel restrictions, the company continues to benefit from rising demand for business jets, in particular from operators of jet fleets. Bombardier’s order backlog was $14.9 billion as of June 30, 2023, up from $14.8 billion at the end of 2022. The company expects to deliver 138 planes in 2023, up from 123 in 2022. It also expects annual deliveries will rise to 150 in 2025…