Topic: Growth Stocks

STANLEY BLACK & DECKER INC. $82 – New York symbol SWK

STANLEY BLACK & DECKER INC. $82 (New York symbol SWK; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 160.3 million; Market cap: $13.1 billion; Priceto- sales ratio: 1.3; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.stanleyblackanddecker.com) has completed its purchase of Infastech, a Hong Kong-based fastener maker that serves the automotive, electronic, construction and aerospace markets. The purchase price of $850 million is equal to 1.1 times the $778.7 million, or $4.67 a share, that Stanley earned in 2012. Infastech should add $0.20 a share to Stanley’s 2013 earnings.

Thanks to this new business, Stanley now gets 16% of its revenue from emerging markets like Asia and Latin America. It aims to raise this to 20% by 2015.

Stanley Black & Decker is a buy.

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