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Pat: What are your thoughts on Automodular Corp.? Thanks for your help.

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Automodular Corp., $2.00, symbol AM on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 20.4 million; Market cap: $40.8 million; www.automodular.com), assembles car and truck components, such as instrument panels, engines and rear suspensions. The company operates two plants in Oakville, Ontario, that assemble components for its one remaining automotive customer: Ford Motor Company at its Oakville Assembly Plant. Automodular closed its plant in Oshawa in 2010 after it lost its contracts with General Motors of Canada, which switched to a U.S. supplier after Automodular refused to sharply cut its prices. These contracts, to supply parts for the Camaro made at GM’s Oshawa plant, accounted for roughly 20% of Automodular’s business. In June 2012, Automodular opened a new plant in Brantford, Ontario, to assemble wind turbine components under an agreement with Vestas Nacelles A/S, a subsidiary of publicly traded Danish company Vestas Wind Systems A/S. Doing this work at Automodular’s facility will let Vestas’s equipment meet the Ontario Feed-in Tariff Program’s domestic content requirements. This program offers long-term contracts…