Sale fuels big buyback plan

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STANLEY BLACK & DECKER INC. $139 is a buy. The company (New York symbol SWK; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 163.4 million; Market cap: $22.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.5; Dividend yield: 2.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.stanleyblackanddecker.com) is one of the world’s largest makers of hand and power tools for consumers. Stanley will now sell its automatic doors business, Access Technologies, to Allegion plc (New York symbol ALLE) for $900 million. The sale is part of its plan to focus on its main tools and industrial products businesses. The company will use the cash to fund a new plan to buy back $4.0 billion of its shares in 2022. Stanley Black & Decker is a buy. buy…