Two financial services stocks to buy now

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Fair Isaac and Broadridge were well positioned to gain during the pandemic and after it: since March of 2020, Fair Isaac is up 304.3%, and Broadridge has jumped 101.9%. We think both stocks have room to move even higher as product demand remains strong—and growing. FAIR ISAAC CORP., $848.80, is a buy. The company (New York symbol FICO; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.fairisaac.com; Shares outstanding: 24.9 million; Market cap: $21.7 billion; No dividends paid) is best known for its FICO Scores software. It lets lenders make better decisions about customer creditworthiness. Through your shares, you also invest in a company that makes programs to help credit-card issuers reduce fraud and analyze the spending of their cardholders. For the quarter ended June 30, 2023, revenue rose 14.2%, to $398.7 million from $349.0 million a year earlier. Software revenues, which include the company’s analytics and digital decision-making technology, were up 16%. Meanwhile, Scores revenue, which includes the company’s business-to-business (B2B) scoring solutions and its business-to-consumer (B2C) solutions, rose 13%. Excluding…