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GE Aerospace posted a powerful Q2, with whole income of $10.2 billion, up 23% year-over-year. Progress was broad-based throughout each segments. Industrial Engines & Providers (CES) led the best way, delivering $8.0 billion in income, up 30% from final yr. Providers income climbed 29%, pushed by spare elements gross sales (up over 25% on quantity and pricing) and a greater than 20% improve in inner store go to income, because of increased output, expanded work scopes, and pricing tailwinds. On the gear facet, income was up 35%, with unit quantity up 37%, as demand remained sturdy and provide chain execution continued to enhance. Protection & Propulsion Applied sciences (DPT) introduced in $2.6 billion, a 7% improve versus final yr. Inside that, Protection & Methods grew 6% and Propulsion & Additive Applied sciences rose 9%.
B2Gold operates as a $4.51 billion market cap international gold producer, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. BTG operates gold mines in Namibia, Mali, and the Philippines. The corporate additionally started manufacturing this yr on the Goose mine in northern Canada. B2Gold is growing the Again River mine in Canada and the Gramalote Mission in Colombia, the place the corporate has 100% possession of each mines. BTG continues its exploration for added areas with a $9 million price range in 2025. BTG has 100% possession within the Masbate Gold Mission within the Philippines. Masbate has a processing throughput of 8 Mtpa (8 million tonnes per yr) with a mineral reserve grade of two.07 gram per tonne of gold (g/t Au). This mine has a 74.5% gold restoration charge.
Again in January, I upgraded shares of Mexican airport operator Southeast Airport Group (NYSE:ASR) (OTCPK: ASRMF) from a maintain to a purchase ranking. I did so largely as a result of its Colombian airports are exhibiting operational momentum. For my part, that power can be adequate to offset the truth that the corporate’s core Mexican airports produced disappointing visitors figures final yr. That decision seems to have been proper thus far, with ASR shares up about 15% since then. Moreover, Sureste shares have produced a 30% whole return since that time, when together with the large $25.71/share dividend that Sureste paid out in Could. That stated, operationally, Sureste continues to be the weakest of the Mexican airport operators year-to-date. The truth is, it lately reported a 1.8% decline in total visitors for June 2025 as in comparison with the prior yr.
The truth is, a $100 million enterprise as latest as 2021 has risen to over $200 million by now following a profitable transition away from cyclical power markets to sustainable progress in protection & house, whereas the shareholder base has been saved flattish. Working margins have been comparatively modest, having risen to mid-single digits in more moderen occasions, as that is actually a smaller enterprise. Shareholder views on the enterprise have been divergent prior to now, this being a $40 inventory in 2007 and 2013 already. Shares have been down to simply $7 in 2022 popping out of the pandemic, as momentum has been red-hot ever since, pushed by an actual transition, backed up by actual outcomes. A $30 inventory final fall rose to the $50 mark early this yr, as shares fell to the mid-twenties in April, to ever since double to present ranges at $51 per share once more.
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