Updating GANNETT CO. INC., PEPSICO INC., and STATE STREET CORP.

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GANNETT CO. INC. $27 (New York symbol GCI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector: Shares outstanding: 227.9 million; Market cap: $6.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.gannett.com) plans to include USAToday, its flagship newspaper, in 35 of its local daily papers’ print and electronic editions. This is a low-cost way to expose more readers to USAToday- and attract more advertisers. As well, the company expects its TV stations’ advertising revenue to fall 20% in the fourth quarter of 2013, as the year-earlier quarter benefited from heavy political advertising ahead of the presidential election. However, if you disregard political ads, Gannett’s broadcast revenue should rise 17%. Gannett is a buy. PEPSICO INC. $81 (New York symbol PEP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $121.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.9; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pepsico.com) has won a contract to supply soft drinks to 975 Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in the…