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BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS (New York symbol BR; www.broadridge.com) serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing and transaction clearing. The company processes 90% of all proxy votes in the U.S. and Canada.

Broadridge began trading on April 2, 2007, after former parent Automatic Data Processing handed out Broadridge stock to its own investors as a special dividend.

Without one-time items, Broadridge earned $37.0 million, or $0.30 a share, in its fiscal 2015 first quarter, which ended September 30, 2014. That’s down 22.9% from $48.0 million, or $0.39 a share, a year earlier.

The company paid employees higher commissions on new sales and performance bonuses. It also expanded its sales and marketing capabilities.


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Stock market advice: Broadridge shares up 137% since spinoff

Broadridge typically makes about half of its profits in its fiscal fourth-quarter ended June 30. That’s the busiest period for processing proxies and annual reports for its clients.

Two-thirds of the company’s total revenue comes from contracts that pay recurring fees. The remaining third comes from one-time events, such as notifications of special shareholder meetings and distributing information when mutual funds change managers.

Revenue gained 1.9% in the latest quarter, to $555.8 million from $545.2 million. Broadridge expects to earn $2.42 to $2.52 a share in fiscal 2015.

The company’s long-term debt of $524.1 million is a low 9.4% of its market cap, and it holds cash of $331.3 million, or $2.76 a share.

Broadridge stayed in a narrow range between the 2008 financial crisis and 2012, but it jumped in 2013 and is now up 137% since it became a separate firm.

Since April 2014 the stock is up 35% for us, but trades at a reasonable 18.8 times the mid-point of that range.

Broadridge is a buy recommendation of our advisory on more aggressive investing, Stock Pickers Digest.

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