A savvy acquisition for Wajax investors

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WAJAX CORP. $18.02 (Toronto symbol WJX; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.wajax.ca; Shares o/s: 20.0 million; Market cap: $360.4 million; Divd. yield: 5.6%) has bought Calgary-based Tundra Process Solutions for $99.1 million. Tundra provides maintenance and technical services to customers in the Western Canadian midstream oil and gas, oil sands, petrochemical, mining, forestry and municipal markets. Tundra also distributes industrial process equipment from leading manufacturers of valves, instrumentation and controls, motors and drives, control buildings, boilers and water treatment solutions. For the 12 months ended November 30, 2020, the company had revenues of approximately $147.8 million. To put that in perspective, Wajax reported sales of $340.6 million in the latest quarter. Tundra should add between $0.10 and $0.15 to the company’s per-share earnings in 2021. Wajax Corp. is a buy. buy…