Topic: Growth Stocks

STATE STREET CORP. $58

STATE STREET CORP. $58 (New York symbol STT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 395.9 million; Market cap: $23.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 2.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.statestreet.com) sells accounting and administrative services to large institutional investors such as mutual funds and pension plans.

State Street recently agreed to buy General Electric’s asset management business for $485 million. This operation manages pension plans and other portfolios for over 100 institutional investors.

The purchase will add $100 billion to the company’s $2.3 trillion in assets under management (as of March 31, 2016). Its income rises and falls with the value of the mutual funds and other securities it manages.

In addition, State Street is currently restructuring its operations by cutting jobs and outsourcing some of its computer systems. The plan should cut $100 million from its annual costs by the end of 2016.

These factors should increase its 2016 earnings per share by 6.5%, to $4.76. The stock trades at a low 12.2 times that forecast. The $1.36 dividend yields 2.3%.

State Street is a buy.

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