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Pat: Can I have your recommendation on the following stock: Teledyne Technologies? Thanks.

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Teledyne Technologies, $32.50, symbol TDY on New York (Shares outstanding: 36 million; Market cap: $1.2 billion), makes and sells electronic components; instruments and communication products; systems-engineering services; and on-site gas and power-generation systems. The company’s customers include government agencies, aerospace contractors, energy-exploration and production companies, industrial firms, airlines and general-aviation companies. Teledyne gets 68% of its revenue from its electronics and communications segment. The systems-engineering solutions segment provides 19%, aerospace engines and components supply 9%; and energy systems accounts for the remaining 4%. In the three months ended June 28, 2009, Teledyne’s revenue fell 7.9%, to $441.1 million from $478.8 million. Earnings fell 22.7%, to $25.2 million, or $0.69 a share, from $32.6 million, or $0.89 a share, a year earlier. Teledyne’s $333.9-million long-term debt is a reasonable 28% of its market cap. Teledyne trades at 11.8 times this year’s forecast earnings of $2.75 a share. But that could prove optimistic, as the company’s general-aviation, commercial-aerospace and global-infrastructure markets continue to…