Crane Co. (CR), which boasts an industry-leading yield of 2.7%, recently declared a quarterly dividend of 20 cents per share. The company also posted solid results for the third quarter, raising the lower end of its earnings outlook.

Company Description

Crane Co. manufactures highly engineered industrial products. Founded in 1855, the company provides products and solutions to customers in the aerospace, electronics, hydrocarbon processing, petrochemical, chemical, power generation, automated merchandising, transportation and other markets. Crane's five business segments are: Aerospace & Electronics, Engineered Materials, Merchandising Systems, Fluid Handling and Controls. Crane has approximately 11,000 employees in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Solid Income

The company recently declared a quarterly dividend of 20 cents per share, noting that it is payable on December 10 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 30.

Crane's dividend yield of 2.7% tops the industry average of 1.6%

A Strong Quarter

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Dover Corp. (DOV), a diversified manufacturer of industrial products, announced that Hill PHOENIX, its operating company has acquired Barker Co. Ltd. and its sister company, Barker Sales and Service, Inc. (the Barker Co.). The Barker Co. specializes in manufacturing refrigerated, non-refrigerated and hot display cases. However, financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.   The acquisition is expected to be a strategic fit as it puts Hill PHOENIX in a better position to serve customers in its Specialty Products division. In addition, Barker Company's innovative design capabilities and broad specialty product line coupled with the impressive technology and product engineering in combination with the performance of Hill PHOENIX represents a real opportunity for Hill PHOENIX to expand its presence in the rapidly-growing specialty merchandiser segment.   In the past three years Dover has been focusing on growth through strategic acquisitions. During the second quarter, the company acquired ...

Tyco International Ltd. (TYC) reported fourth-quarter earnings per share from continuing operations of 61 cents. This was higher than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 54 cents per share.   Quarterly Revenues of $4.4 billion declined 16% versus the prior year with an organic revenue decline of 12%. For the largest operating segment, ADT Worldwide, revenues of $1.8 billion declined 9% in the quarter with an organic revenue decline of 5% and a 4% decline due to changes in foreign currency. ADT's recurring revenues grew 4% organically on a global basis. Systems installation and service revenue declined 14% organically, mostly due to weakness in North America and Europe, as a result of continuing lower sales to commercial customers, including the retailer end market.

For Flow Control, revenues of $1 billion declined 15% in the quarter with an organic revenue decline of 10%. Organic revenues declined 7% in the Valves business, 17%

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Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog:

Macy’s Raises Earnings Guidance

Macy’s Inc. (M) recently reported third-quarter 2009 results. The company posted a loss of 3 cents a share that outshined the Zacks Consensus Estimate loss of 9 cents, and improved substantially from a loss of 8 cents delivered in the prior-year quarter.

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General Electric Co. (GE) is in talks to sell its security systems unit, most likely to United Technologies Corp. (UTX), for more than $1.5 billion in an effort to reshuffle its extensive portfolio and raise capital for strategic acquisitions.

United Technologies Corp. is a diversified company whose products include Carrier heating and air conditioning, Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace systems and industrial products, Otis elevators and escalators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Sikorsky helicopters, UTC Fire & Security systems and UTC Power fuel cells. The company has been lately looking to expand its security business.

GE’s move to sell its fire alarms and security division comes as it is finalizing a bigger deal to hive off its NBC Universal television and movie unit into a joint venture controlled by the cable operator Comcast.  Strategically, GE wants to raise funds to expand its core businesses – which include infrastructure, oil and gas equipment,

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Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CVAT) announced recently that it has signed Miura Engineering Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan (www.miura21.co.jp) as its new agent to serve markets in Japan for CTI’s Nano-Cavitation Process Systems. Miura is a leading Engineering Company specialized in Edible Oil Processing Plants in the Far East. Last week CVAT reported a 3-for-1 forward stock split.

At the 2nd Asia Pacific Contact Center Association Leaders and CCAM Expo this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Convergys

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Honeywell International Inc., a Fortune 100 diversified technology and manufacturing leader, recently announced that the company’s third-quarter profit fell 15 percent due to slower sales in all its divisions with aviation and industrial products continuing to struggle.

For the third quarter ended September 30, the company earned $608 million, or 80 cents per share, down from $719 million, or 97 cents per share, one year ago. In addition, revenue declined 17 percent to $7.7 billion, down from $9.28 billion during the third quarter of 2008. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected lower earnings of 72 cents per share on higher revenue of $7.88 billion.

More than half of Honeywell’s sales are overseas and as a result, the company has been hit by some of the economy’s weakest sectors, including the aerospace, automotive and construction markets. Sales in the company’s aerospace business decreased 16 percent in the third quarter compared with one year

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Badger Meter (BMI) reported its third quarter results yesterday, after market close. The company reported earnings of 47 cents per share, above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 44 cents per share and up 20.5% from 39 cents reported in the prior-year quarter. Despite an 11.6% decline in sales, earnings during the quarter were higher than last year as the company benefited from lower commodity costs, ongoing cost reduction efforts, and pricing discipline. Gross margin in the quarter increased significantly to 39.0%, compared to 34.0% in the comparable quarter of 2008 due to favorable raw material pricing. Sales to the utility market, which constitutes more than 80% of total revenue, declined 9% compared to the third quarter of 2008. The utility market is facing a downturn as the customers are postponing purchasing decisions while they wait to see if they can receive federal funds for infrastructure ...

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Power3 Medical Products, Inc. is a leading bio-medical company engaged in the commercialization of neurodegenerative disease and cancer biomarkers, pathways, and mechanisms of diseases through the development of diagnostic tests and drug targets. Power3’s patent-pending technologies are being used to develop screening and diagnostic tests for the early detection and prognosis of disease, identify protein biomarkers, and drug targets. Diagnostic tests are targeted toward markets with critical unmet needs in areas including neurodegenerative disease (NuroPro) and breast cancer (BC-SeraPro). Power3 expects to

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General Electric Co. (GE) and Rolls-Royce Group are gathering support for the second F-35 engine program, which Defense Secretary Robert Gates and President Barack Obama have singled out as unnecessary in the tightening credit environment. Representatives of the two companies met top Pentagon officials recently to offer a fixed-price package on about 100 low-rate production engines for the F-35 fighter.

The deal would cover low-rate production engines to be built from 2012 to 2015. Without F-35, GE would be out of the large fighter-aircraft engine business. Gates recently reiterated his opposition in Fort Worth, Texas, where Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) builds the F-35. Lawmakers backing the program are of the view that continuing work on a second engine will stimulate competition and lower costs on the massive $300 billion fighter program in the long run.

United Technologies Corp.’s (UTX) Pratt & Whitney unit has seen the

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