Broadridge is an emerging AI leader

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Broadridge profits from its recurring fee-based revenue from long-term client contracts and its leading position in proxy and other investor communication services. Its dominance in providing a wide range of back-office services, plus its high-quality clientele, also helps cut its risk. The company is now focused on becoming a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services. Broadridge is a Power Buy. BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, $202.18, is a buy. The company (New York symbol BR; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.broadridge.com; Shares outstanding: 117.8 million; Market cap: $24.0 billion; Dividend yield: 1.6%) serves the investment industry in three areas: investor communications, securities processing and transaction clearing. Broadridge is best known for processing and distributing proxies and regulatory filings for nearly every publicly traded U.S. company and mutual fund, both electronically and by surface mail. That segment comprises about three-quarters of the company’s annual revenue. Fees are tied to the volume of communications that Broadridge delivers—a surge of interest from individual investors in the last few years has led to…