ShawCor sheds its legacy business

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SHAWCOR LTD. $18 remains a buy for aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol MATR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 70.5 million; Market cap: $1.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.9; Dividend suspended in March 2020; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mattr.com) has completed a strategic review of its pipeline coating division, which operates under the ShawCor brand. Note—as part of its re-organization, ShawCor plans to change its legal name to Mattr Infratech. The stock now trades under the “MATR” symbol instead of “SCL.” As a result of the review, the company will sell most of the pipeline coating business to Tenaris S.A. (New York symbol TS). The transaction includes its operations in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Norway, the UAE and Indonesia. ShawCor plans to eventually sell the division’s remaining businesses in Malaysia, Italy, the U.K. and Brazil. The company will receive $166 million U.S. when it completes the transaction in the next few months. The remaining firm will shift its focus to its more-profitable plastic tank…