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Tempting Targets: 5 Stocks Priced for a Takeover

Companies don’t seem interested in buying rivals at the moment, despite the comparatively low prices they could pay for them. That bodes poorly for stock tickers in general, but investors can still use the math of takeover pros to find bargains. U.S. shares are 27% cheaper than a year ago, even after climbing 15% in [...]

5 Stocks Yielding 4% — or More

Dividends are in the dumps. For 11 years ended 2007, the S&P 500 carried a yield of less than 2% compared with a historic average for stock tickers of closer to 5%. Share prices have plunged since 2007, so the index’s yield should have fattened to 3% or so. Instead, it’s on its way to [...]

3 Companies With Fast, Organic Growth

Activision-Blizzard (ATVI) and Thomson-Reuters (TRIN) posted huge sales increases last year, but only because of the mergers reflected in their hyphenated names. When one company buys another, it simply lumps the new sales in with its own for reporting purposes. Since no new business is created, the stock ticker price is often unaffected by the [...]

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