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ADOBE SYSTEMS INC. $85 (Nasdaq symbol ADBE; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 498.3 million; Market cap: $42.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 9.0; No dividends paid since June 2005; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.adobe.com) makes software for publishing companies and website developers. Its main products include Adobe Acrobat, which lets users create and edit electronic documents in the widely used PDF format, and its Creative Suite package of photo editing and desktop publishing programs. In 2012, Adobe started selling its Creative Suite software as a cloud-based service called Creative Cloud. The company now gets 74% of its revenue from recurring sources....
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC. $51 (Nasdaq symbol TXN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.0 billion; Market cap: $51.0 billion; Price- to-sales ratio: 3.9; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.ti.com) specializes in analog chips, which convert inputs like touch, sound and pressure into electronic signals that computers can understand. Manufacturers use these chips in a variety of products, including cars, cameras, medical devices and appliances. In 2015, Texas Instruments’ earnings rose 5.8%, to $3.0 billion from $2.8 billion in 2014. It spent $2.7 billion on share buybacks during the year, so earnings per share gained 9.7%, to $2.82 from $2.57. Overall revenue fell 0.3%, to $13.00 billion from $13.05 billion. Sales of analog chips (64% of the total) rose 2.9%. Revenue from embedded processor chips (21%), which perform mathematical calculations, gained 1.7%. However, revenue from other chips and calculators (15%) fell 14.9%....
APPLE INC. $93 (Nasdaq symbol AAPL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 5.5 billion; Market cap: $511.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 2.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.apple.com) gets about two-thirds of its revenue from its iPhone smartphone. The remaining third comes from its Mac computers, iPad tablets, iPod music players and sales of software, movies and music through its iTunes online store. In its fiscal 2016 first quarter, which ended December 26, 2015, Apple sold 74.8 million iPhones, up just 0.4% from 74.5 million a year earlier. That’s mainly due to slowing demand in China. Users are also waiting for the company to launch a new model later this year....
Computer technology continues to change— and spread— rapidly. We feel the best way to profit from this growth is by investing in well-established companies that lead their markets, like the four we analyze below. All of them have strong earnings and balance sheets. That lets them spend heavily on product development and buy smaller firms with attractive technologies. We have a high opinion of all four, but we see only two as buys right now....