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These three companies are a great way to widen your Finance sector exposure beyond banks. They are all leaders in their markets, and trade at reasonable multiples to earnings. Moreover, new investments in their businesses are setting them up for future growth. VISA INC. $79 (New York symbol V; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 2.4 billion; Market cap: $189.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 13.3; Dividend yield: 0.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.visa.com) operates the world’s largest electronic payments network. It can process over 65,000 credit, debit, prepaid and commercial transactions per second....
DIEBOLD INC. $25 (New York symbol DBD; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 65.2 million; Market cap: $1.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 4.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.diebold.com) is a leading maker of automated teller machines. It also makes safes and vaults. Diebold is buying German ATM maker, Wincor Nixdorf AG, for $1.8 billion in cash and shares. The purchase will make Diebold the world’s largest maker of ATMs, with roughly 35% of the global market. It should complete the purchase in the second half of 2016. Meantime, Diebold’s revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2016, fell 11.3%, to $509.6 million from $574.8 million a year earlier. Overseas markets supply 60% of its revenue, so the high U.S. dollar hurts the contribution of its foreign operations. Excluding exchange rates, revenue fell 6.1%....
APPLE INC. $100 (Nasdaq symbol AAPL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 5.5 billion; Market cap: $550.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 2.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.apple.com) makes a variety of electronic devices, including iPhone smartphones, Mac computers, iPad tablets, iPod music players and Apple watches. It also sells software, movies and music through its iTunes online store. The company recently invested $1 billion for an undisclosed minority stake in Didi Chuxing. Similar to Uber, this private firm operates the largest ride-sharing service in China. The purchase should help Apple gain more insight into China’s fast-growing Internet economy. That’s important because it wants to expand Apple Pay— its mobile payment system— in that country. This investment could also help Apple improve its in-car entertainment and information products....
NCR CORP. $30 (New York symbol NCR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 123.9 million; Market cap: $3.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.ncr.com) makes automated teller machines, cash registers, self-serve checkouts and kiosks for theatres and arenas. In the quarter ended March 31, 2016, NCR’s revenue fell 2.2%, to $1.4 billion from $1.5 billion a year earlier. Lower sales of ATMs offset higher revenue from its software and services operations. If you factor out currency rates, revenue was flat. Earnings in the quarter fell 16.4%, to $61 million from $73 million. Due to fewer shares outstanding, earnings per share declined at a slower rate of 11.6%, to $0.38 from $0.43....