Updating State Street Corp., MTS Systems Corp., and Teradata Corp.

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STATE STREET CORP. $71 (www.statestreet.com) sells accounting and administrative services to operators of mutual funds and pension plans. The company now plans to cut 6% of its workforce, which should save it $350 million in 2019. If you exclude costs related to that plan and other unusual items, State Street’s earnings rose 14.1%, to $2.7 billion in 2018 from $2.4 billion in 2017. Due to fewer shares outstanding, earnings per share gained 15.3%, to $7.22 from $6.26. Buy. MTS SYSTEMS CORP. $47 (www.mts.com) makes equipment and software that manufacturers use to test the behaviour of materials, machines and structures. It also makes sensors for industrial equipment. The company recently paid $80.0 million for E2M Technologies B.V. Based in the Netherlands, E2M makes hydraulic platforms for flight simulators and testing equipment for amusement park rides. It should add $30 million to MTS’s annual revenue of $778 million. Hold. TERADATA CORP. $44 (www.teradata.com) makes computers and software to capture and store large amounts of data for individual businesses—its clients. The company then…