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DUN & BRADSTREET HOLDINGS INC. $14 remains a buy. The company (New York symbol DNB; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 433.8 million; Market cap: $6.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.7; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.dnb.com) continues to benefit from its January 2021 acquisition of Bisnode Business Information Group AB for $805.8 million in cash and shares. Based in Sweden, that firm provides data and analytics services to business clients in 19 European countries. The company completed two more purchases in 2021: Eyeota, a data analytics firm, for $172.4 million; and NetWise, a marketing data specialist, for $69.8 million. These new businesses likely helped lift Dun & Bradstreet’s revenue (excluding exchange rates movements) in 2022 by between 5.5% and 6.5%. It probably earned $1.11 a share, and the stock trades at just 12.6 times that forecast. The company recently started paying a quarterly dividend of $0.05 a share. The annual rate of $0.20 yields 1.4%. Dun & Bradstreet is a buy. IDEXX LABORATORIES…