Big savings on the way for State Street

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STATE STREET CORP. $59 (New York symbol STT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 400.0 million; Market cap: $23.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.9; Dividend yield: 2.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.statestreet.com) sells accounting and administrative services to large institutional investors, such as mutual funds and pension plans. State Street’s fee income rises and falls with the value of the mutual funds and other securities it manages. Recent stock market weakness reduced the value of its assets under custody and administration. In addition, low interest rates are hurting the interest income it gets from its loan portfolio. It’s also paying more to comply with tougher securities and banking regulations. The company now aims to spur its long-term profitability with a new restructuring plan, which includes job cuts and greater use of computers in its businesses. These moves should save it $550 million a year by 2020; it earned $2.0 billion, or $4.89 a share, in 2015. State Street is a buy…