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Valentine's Day has come and gone, but an expected boost in sweetheart-holiday spending could still help a few stocks show your portfolio some love over the longer term. Here are the bull and bear cases for three companies that stand to see at least some benefit from Cupid's arrow.

After weeks of sitting on the sidelines while Cadbury played cat-and-mouse with Kraft Foods, Hershey is finally ready to make a bid for the U.K.-based chocolate maker. Sources close to the Hershey board say that the company will bid $17.9 billion for Cadbury.

Kraft faces an uphill battle in its bid for Cadbury. Now Hershey may make an offer for the U.K. company.

The male ego is a delicate thing. And when that ego finds its way into the upper ranks of a large company, it is uniquely vulnerable to the right sales pitch. As Fortune reports, last October one Dina Wein Reis (pictured), whose New York townhouse the FBI emptied of its millions in expensive...