Higher fee income boosts earnings

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STATE STREET CORP. $72 is a buy. The company (New York symbol STT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 344.5 million; Market cap: $24.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.1; Dividend yield: 3.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.statestreet.com) sells accounting and administrative services to operators of mutual funds and pension plans. It also offers exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mainly under the SPDR ETF brand. The company’s fee income varies with the value of the assets it administers. Thanks to higher stock market prices and new contract wins, State Street’s is expecting fee income in the second quarter of 2023 to be up 4.0% to 4.5% over its first quarter fee income of $2.34 billion. For all of 2023, earnings should rise 5% to $7.80 a share, and the stock trades at 9.2 times that estimate. The $2.52 dividend yields 3.5%. State Street is a buy. buy…