Broadridge enters new growth phase

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BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC. $24 (New York symbol BR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 124.9 million; Market cap: $3.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.3; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.broadridge.com) gets 70% of its revenue from its Investor Communication Solutions division, which distributes proxy materials, including ballots, to investors in stocks and mutual funds. It also counts the votes. Broadridge’s ProxyEdge software helps centralize and simplify shareholder voting, particularly if a meeting involves multiple ballots. Broadridge mails and processes 60% of all proxy votes worldwide. The remaining 30% of its revenue comes from its Securities Processing Solutions division, which provides transaction-processing services that automate many functions, including taking and executing orders, confirming trades, settlement and accounting. Big changes since spinoff The stock began trading on April 2, 2007, after former parent Automatic Data Processing Inc. (Nasdaq symbol ADP) handed out Broadridge shares to its own shareholders as a special dividend. Since it became a public company, Broadridge has spent $460 million…