Wall Street has already made its early bets on the state of the economy in 2012, and the outlook is not very encouraging. That would be bad news for investors in a diversified industrial mini-conglomerate like Actuant (NYSE:ATU) if not for the fact that Wall Street is often wrong. Although Actuant has recovered nicely from the worst of the recession and does have increasingly challenging comparables ahead, any upside in 2012's economic performance could make this an undervalued industrial play.
A Good Start to the Fiscal Year
Perhaps this quarter will set the tone for a better-than-expected fiscal year and an undervalued stock getting some love. Actuant reported 23% revenue growth and topped the highest analyst estimate, though core revenue growth was a far more modest 7%. Growth was strong in both the industrial and energy categories, where revenue rose by a low-teens percentage organically. Electrical growth was more modest at 7%, while core growth in the engineered segment was flat.
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