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Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. – ‘10-Q’ for 12/31/19 – ‘JSON’

On: Friday, 1/31/20, at 10:44am ET · For: 12/31/19 · Accession #: 1383312-20-13 · File #: 1-33220

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 1/31/20  Broadridge Fin’l Solutions, Inc.  10-Q       12/31/19   92:13M

Quarterly Report — Form 10-Q — Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

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                Income                                                           
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                Income (Parenthetical)                                           
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                Equity                                                           
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                Equity (Parenthetical)                                           
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                Liabilities (Details)                                            
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                (Details)                                                        
37: R64         Borrowings - Future Principal Payments on the       HTML     46K 
                Company?s Outstanding Debt (Details)                             
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