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TERADATA CORP. $43 is still a hold. The company (New York symbol TDC; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 97.8 million; Market cap: $4.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.teradata.com) makes computers and software to capture and store large amounts of data for its clients—individual businesses. Teradata then analyzes this information and identifies consumer buying habits and other trends. The company’s investors continue to benefit from its shift to selling products as cloud-based subscriptions, instead of one-time software purchases. Teradata’s revenue in the third quarter of 2023 rose 5.0%, to $438 million from $417 million a year earlier. If you factor out exchange rates, revenue improved 6%. The higher revenue also contributed to a 35.5% jump in earnings before unusual items, to $0.42 a share from $0.31. The stock trades at a reasonable 21.4 times the $2.01 a share that Teradata will probably earn in 2023. However, the company continues to face strong competition from bigger firms like…