Topic: How To Invest

Pat: What is your current opinion on Davis + Henderson? Thank you.

Article Excerpt

Davis + Henderson Corp., $18.25, symbol DH on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 59.2 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; www.dhltd.com), is a leading printer of cheques. It also sells software that manages chequing and credit card accounts, processes loans and registers and searches out liens on property. Davis + Henderson’s clients are mainly financial institutions. Last year, the company bought Wisconsin-based Mortgagebot LLC, a seller of web-based mortgage application software, for $231.8 million U.S. in cash. Davis + Henderson sold $121.8 million of shares to help pay for this purchase. Borrowers can use Mortgagebot through more than 6,000 mortgage websites. The company generates almost $150 billion of mortgage applications a year for nearly 1,070 banks and credit unions in the U.S. Davis + Henderson bought Mortgagebot to keep diversifying away from cheque printing, which makes up about 40% of its business. Cheque use is declining as more consumers switch to electronic payment methods. In the three months ended March 31, 2012, Davis + Henderson’s revenue rose…