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Top 10 Up And Coming Stocks To Own Right Now: McGraw Hill Financial Inc (MHFI)

McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. incorporated on December 29, 1925, is a financial intelligence company. The Company is engaged in credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics for the global capital and commodity markets. The Companys brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Platts, CRISIL, J.D. Power & Associates, McGraw Hill Construction and Aviation Week. The Companys credit ratings, indices, price assessments and other capabilities provide clients with the intelligence to manage risk. Standard & Poors Ratings Services helps investors and markets participants measure and manage credit risk through credit ratings, research and analytics. S&P Capital IQ is a provider of real-time data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, investment advisors and wealth managers, corporations and universities globally. On March 22, 2013, the Company sold McGraw-Hill Education. Effective July 18, 2013, McGraw Hill Financial Inc acquired a remaining undisclosed interest which it did not already own in Tata McGraw-Hill Education Pvt Ltd from Tata charitable trust. In August 2013, McGraw Hill Financial Inc completed the sale of Aviation Week to Penton.

The Company provides a range of capabilities designed to help track performance, generate alpha, identify new trading and investment ideas, and perform risk analysis and mitigation strategies. The Companys S&P Dow Jones Indices is the provider of financial market indices. Its Platts is a provider of information and a source of benchmark price assessments for the energy, petrochemicals, metals and agriculture markets. J.D. Power & Associates is a global marketing information services company operating in business sectors, including customer satisfaction research, market research, social media research, and performance improvement programs. McGraw Hill Construction connects people, proje! cts, and products a cross the design and construction industry. AVIATION WEEK is the multimedia information and services provider to the global aviation, aerospace and defense industries.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Marc Bastow]

  Financial intelligence company McGraw-Hill (MHFI) raised its quarterly dividend 7.1% to 30 cents per share, payable on Mar. 12 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 26.
  MHFI Dividend Yield: 1.57%

• [By Chris Dieterich]

  McGraw Hill Financial (MHFI) could be in focus after The Wall Street Journal reported that the company’s Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services unit is close to reaching a settlement with regulators over ratings of real-estate bonds. The settlement could result in a suspension of S&P from rating some deals and a fine of at least $60 million, the Journal reports. The stock was unchanged in premarket trading.

• [By Tom Rojas and Maria Armental var popups = dojo.query(".socialByline .popC"); ]

  McGraw Hill Financial Inc.(MHFI) said it would record a $60 million accounting adjustment related to ongoing, “active discussions” it is having with federal and state regulators over six commercial real estate deals the firm graded in 2011. The company also said third-quarter earnings declined, although revenue grew.

• [By Donald van Deventer]

  The legacy credit ratings (those reported by credit rating agencies like McGraw-Hill (MHFI) unit Standard & Poor's and Moody's (MCO)) for Goldman Sachs Group have changed only three times during the decade.

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