Broadcaster to spin off Cars.com website

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TEGNA INC. $22 (New York symbol TGNA; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector: Shares outstanding: 214.3 million; Market cap: $4.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 2.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.tegna.com) owns 46 TV stations and several popular websites, including Cars.com (car sales and vehicle information), CareerBuilder (job search), Cofactor (advertising services) and G/O Digital (website design). As part of a new plan to focus on its main broadcasting operations, Tegna plans to spin off Cars.com as a separate firm in 2017. It may also sell its 53%-owned CareerBuilder business. Studies have shown that after an initial adjustment period of a few months, spinoffs and their former parents tend to outperform groups of comparable stocks for several years. Tegna is a buy. buy…