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Brett Girard, CPA, CA, CFA
Lindsay Corp.
LNN-N
BUY
Jan 22, 2025
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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His resource of choice is water and wastewater. This company is into irrigation equipment. They've been able to advance, through technology, to have satellite shots of irrigation equipment so it can be controlled anywhere on the farm. 60% of sales are in the US and 40% is international, particularly in Brazil. Dividend yield of 1.4%. (Analysts price target is $83.)
Lindsay Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and distributor of irrigation and infrastructure equipment and technology. Established in 1955, the company has been at the forefront of research and development of innovative solutions to meet the food, fuel, fiber and transportation needs of the world's rapidly growing population. The Lindsay family of irrigation brands includes Zimmatic® center pivot and lateral move agricultural irrigation systems and FieldNET® remote irrigation management and scheduling technology as well as irrigation consulting and design and industrial IoT solutions.
Water irrigation equipment. Commodity prices are low, so farmers aren't buying systems. Satellite technology makes targeted irrigation cheaper. Road infrastructure business fairly stable. Capped costs. Earnings margins have gone up, so cashflow can be allocated to a higher dividend, R&D, and tuck-in acquisitions.
Serial acquirers tend to do better than the indices over a 10-20 year time horizon, and that's his focus.
Pivot irrigation, which is the hardware component. The software component provides data analytics for crop moisture, alerts for leaks, etc. Very much domestic US sales, so will benefit from the America First policies.