Updating Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.

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BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS INC. $107 (New York symbol BR; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares o/s: 116.7 million; Market cap: $12.5 billion; Divd. yield: 1.4%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.broadridge.com) serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing and transaction clearing. Investor communications makes up 72% of its overall revenue. Securities processing and transaction clearing make up the remaining 28%. Broadridge last raised its quarterly dividend by 10.6% with the October 2017 payment. Investors now receive $0.365 a share instead of $0.33. The new annual rate of $1.46 yields 1.4%. In the fiscal 2018 second quarter, ended December 31, 2017, revenue rose 13.5%, to $1.01 billion from $892.6 million a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, the company earned $94.7 million, or $0.79 a share. That’s up 102.4% from $46.8 million, or $0.39 a share. Much higher fee revenues—from processing an increased volume of proxy voting by mutual fund managers and other investors—drove the earnings jump. That extra business made use of…