Sustainable income bolsters their gains

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Fair Isaac and Broadridge were well positioned to gain during the pandemic and after it: since March of 2020, Fair Isaac is up 375.3%, and Broadridge has jumped 100.9%. We think both stocks have room to move even higher as product demand remains strong—and growing. BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, $180.32, is a buy. The company (New York symbol BR; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.broadridge.com; Shares outstanding: 117.6 million; Market cap: $21.3 billion; Dividend yield: 1.8%) serves the investment industry in three areas: investor communications, securities processing and transaction clearing. Broadridge is best known for processing and distributing proxies and regulatory filings for nearly every publicly traded U.S. company and mutual fund, both electronically and by surface mail. The company also has other businesses providing software to handle back-office functions for money managers, broker-dealers, and other capital markets institutions. Those functions include trade processing, record-keeping, accounting, and more. In its fiscal 2024 first quarter, ended September 30, 2023, Broadridge’s revenue rose 11.5%, to $1.43 billion from $1.28 billion a year…