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GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. $79 is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol GEHC; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 479.7 million; Market cap: $37.9 billion; Dividend yield: 0.2%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.gehealthcare.com) makes X-ray equipment, MRIs and ultrasound scanners. The company took its current form in January 2023 when General Electric Co. (New York symbol GE) spun off its healthcare business as a new firm. Investors received one share of the new firm for every three GE shares they held. Parent GE retained a 19.9% stake. For all of 2023, GEHC expects its revenue will rise 5% to 7%. It also predicts earnings will improve 7% to 11%, to between $3.60 and $3.75 a share. The stock, which is up 37% since the spinoff, trades at 21.5 times the midpoint of that range. That’s a reasonable multiple as the company spends about 6% of its revenue on research. It has also started to pay a quarterly dividend of $0.03 a share; the annual rate of $0.12 yields…