Military sales lift CAE

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CAE INC. $22 (Toronto symbol CAE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 268.3 million; Market cap: $5.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; Dividend yield: 1.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cae.com) is the world’s largest maker of flight simulators. It also trains pilots. In its fiscal 2018 second quarter, ended September 30, 2017, CAE earned $65.2 million. That’s up 35.0% from $48.3 million a year earlier. Due to more shares outstanding, per-share earnings rose at a slightly slower pace of 33.3%, to $0.24 from $0.18. If you exclude a gain on the sale of a training facility and other unusual items, earnings rose 17.5%. Overall revenue rose 1.7%, to $646.0 million from $635.5 million. While sales of flight simulators and pilot-training services to airlines (54% of total revenue) declined 1.6%, sales to military clients (42%) improved 6.1%. Sales of medical-simulation products (4%) rose 2.5%, also on higher demand from military customers. CAE’s order backlog at the end of the quarter was $6.7 billion,…