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What is Adobe?

Adobe is a multinational software company best known for its creative and digital media products. Founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Adobe originally focused on desktop publishing and revolutionized the industry with its PostScript technology. Over time, it expanded into a broad suite of tools that support graphic design, video editing, photography, and web development. Flagship products like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Acrobat have become industry standards, widely used by professionals and hobbyists alike.

In recent years, Adobe has transitioned from a traditional software licensing model to a cloud-based subscription service known as Adobe Creative Cloud. This shift has allowed users to access software updates more frequently and collaborate more easily across devices. Beyond creative tools, Adobe has also built a strong presence in digital marketing and analytics through its Adobe Experience Cloud, offering businesses solutions for customer data management, advertising, and personalized content delivery.

Adobe continues to play a significant role in shaping the digital economy by enabling creativity, communication, and digital transformation. Its innovations in artificial intelligence, such as Adobe Sensei, enhance automation and streamline workflows across its platforms. As content creation and digital experiences become increasingly important across industries, Adobe remains a key player, continually adapting its technologies to meet evolving user needs.

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Growth Stocks
Research spending keeps these techs on top
These four technology companies continue to dominate their specific industries. They also spend large sums on the development of products. That makes it difficult for new competitors to cut into their market share.


That high research spending depresses their current earnings and makes them look more expensive in relation to their projected earnings....
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Growth Stocks
High dollar is still a risk
ADOBE SYSTEMS $126.21 (Nasdaq symbol ADBE; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (408536-6000; www.adobe.com; Shares o/s: 494.1 million; Market cap: $62.0 billion; No dividends paid) makes software that lets computer users create, edit and share documents in the popular PDF format....
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Growth Stocks
Sales climb for Adobe and Fair Isaac
ADOBE SYSTEMS INC. $118.73 (Nasdaq symbol ADBE; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (408-536-6000; www.adobe. com; Shares outstanding: 497.2 million; Market cap: $58.1 billion; No dividends paid) makes software that lets computer users create, edit and share documents in the popular PDF format....
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Growth Stocks
Updating Archer Daniels Midland Co., Adobe Systems Inc. and Newmont Mining Corp.
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. $45 (New York symbol ADM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 587.6 million; Market cap: $26.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; Dividend yield: 2.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.adm.com) processes corn, wheat, soybeans, canola, flax seed, peanuts and other crops to make a variety of food ingredients such as flour, oils and sweeteners....
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ETFs
Updates on six North American ETFs
These six ETFs hold mostly blue-chip stocks that are widely traded on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. Each ETF mirrors, or tracks, the performance of a major stock market index. That’s different from narrower indexes that focus on resources or themes such as solar power or biotech.


Of course, you pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell these ETFs....
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Growth Stocks
Hang on to these tech leaders
These two tech firms continue to dominate their main markets. However, we feel their shares will make only limited progress over the next few months.


APPLE INC. $117 (Nasdaq symbol AAPL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 5.3 billion; Market cap: $620.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.9; Dividend yield: 1.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.apple.com) gets about 60% of its revenue from its iPhone smartphone....
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Pat McKeough
How To Invest
Q: Pat: Could you please give me your opinion on two American closed-end funds: Liberty All-Star Equity Fund and AllianzGI Equity & Convertible Income Fund? The yields are great on each fund and you are getting their holdings at a discount. Thank you in advance.
A: Liberty All-Star Equity Fund, $5.22, symbol USA on New York (Units outstanding: 186.8 million; Market cap: $975.1 million; www.all-starfunds.com), is a closed-end fund that aims to combine the stock recommendations of three value-style and two growth-style investment managers.


The fund started up on October 31, 1986, and its MER is 1.03%.


The fund’s top holdings are Alphabet, Inc., Mondelez International, Visa Inc., Salesforce.com, Facebook, Inc., The Priceline Group, Amazon.com, Halliburton Co., Adobe Systems and Bank of America Corp.


Liberty All-Star Equity Fund takes on an above-average level of risk with its holdings: its highest industry group weighting is Information Technology at 21.4%.


The fund also has a high 9.2% yield....
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Growth Stocks
These tech stocks have hit new highs
In addition to Alphabet, we also like the outlook for these three tech leaders. However, after their recent price gains, only two are buys.


ADOBE SYSTEMS INC. $104 (Nasdaq symbol ADBE; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 497.2 million; Market cap: $51.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 9.4; No dividends paid since June 2005; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www....
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Growth Stocks
TubeMogul is a great fit
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TubeMogul uses data gathering to place video ads on websites that an individual consumer trusts and regularly visits....
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Adobe & Microsoft team up
ADOBE SYSTEMS INC. $108.39 (Nasdaq symbol ADBE; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (408-536-6000; www.adobe.com; Shares outstanding: 497.2 million; Market cap: $53.9 billion; No dividends paid) is now joining with Microsoft (symbol MSFT on Nasdaq and a recommendation of our Wall Street Stock Forecaster newsletter) to integrate each other’s cloud computing products.


Microsoft Azure will host Adobe’s business software tools, including Adobe Marketing Cloud, Adobe Document Cloud and Adobe Creative Cloud....
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