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PFIZER INC. $30(New York symbol PFE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 6.2 billion; Market cap: $186.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.8; Dividend yield: 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pfizer.com) acquired rival drug maker Wyeth in October 2009. Wyeth has now agreed to pay the U.S. Medicaid system $784.6 million to settle a dispute over how it calculated rebates for its Protonix acid reflux drug between 2001 and 2006. Pfizer will have to restate its earnings for 2015 to reflect this charge. However, its earnings before unusual items of $2.20 a share remains unchanged....
C.R. BARD INC. $194 (New York symbol BCR; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 73.7 million; Market cap: $14.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.2; Dividend yield: 0.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.crbard.com) has acquired Liberator Medical Holdings for $181 million. This firm distributes a variety of medical products such as urological catheters and diabetic supplies, directly to consumers’homes. Under the deal, Bard plans to expand the availability of its own medical devices. That should add $70 million to its annual sales of $3.4 billion, and $0.05 to $0.10 a share to its annual earnings in 2017; Bard will probably earn $9.97 a share in 2016. The stock trades at a reasonable 19.5 times that forecast. C.R. Bard is a buy....
MCCORMICK & CO. INC. $93(New York symbol MKC; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 115.4 million; Market cap: $10.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.8; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mccormick.com) makes spices, herbs, seasonings and flavours. The company earned $449.5 million in the fiscal year ended November 30, 2015, up 1.8% from $441.6 million in 2014. Due to fewer shares outstanding, per-share earnings rose 3.3%, to $3.48 from $3.37. Sales rose just 1.3%, to $4.3 billion from $4.2 billion. That’s a 6.4% gain when currency exchange rates are factored out. McCormick aims to save a total of $400 million over the next four years, mainly through job cuts and new, more efficient manufacturing equipment. However, the stock is expensive at 25.2 times the $3.69 a share that the company expects to earn in fiscal 2016....
FAIR ISAAC CORP. $96 (New York symbol FICO; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 31.4 million; Market cap: $3.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.5; Dividend yield: 0.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.fico.com) is best known for its FICO Scores computer program, which helps lenders make better decisions about customer creditworthiness. It also makes software that helps credit card issuers control fraud and analyze cardholders’spending patterns. The company is now applying its banking expertise to other areas of cybersecurity. It recently won a patent for a system that monitors corporate networks for suspicious activity or online attacks. It received another patent for a similar program that helps power, gas and water utilities detect unusual consumption patterns. However, the stock trades at a high 29.4 times the $3.26 a share that Fair Isaac will probably earn in its 2016 fiscal year, which ends September 30, 2016....