Cut your Finance risk with these three

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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. Visa gets most of its revenue from the fees it charges card issuers and merchants that use its network. These fees are based on transaction volumes and other factors. The banks that issue the credit cards are responsible for evaluating customer creditworthiness and collecting payments, not Visa. The company earned $1.6 billion in its second quarter ended March 31, 2016. That’s a gain of 4.9% over $1.55…