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The list:
- General Motors Company (GM): Comment: Not a GM fan (although I have 2 GM cars). Skeptical. 3.8% yield.
- Wal-Mart Stores (WMT): Comment: Retail powerhouse. 2.3% yield
- Exxon Mobil (XOM): Comment: 3.1% yield
- Unum Group (UNM): Comment: 2% yield. I know almost nothing about this company.
- Pfizer Inc. (PFE): Comment: 3.3% yield
- General Electric (GE): Comment: 3.5% yield
- Intel Corporation (INTC): Comment: 2.5% yield
- Alcoa (AA): Comment: Not profitable in the last quarter. Not on my buy radar
- Verizon Communications (VZ): Comment: 4.8% yield
- NextEra Energy (NEE): Comment: 2.9% yield. Acquisition of Hawaii Electric just announced.
- McDonald's (MCD): Comment: 3.8% yield.
- Aflac (AFL): Comment: 2.6% yield. Got to love the Duck
- Abbott Laboratories (ABT): Comment: 2% yield. High P/E ratio
- W.W. Grainger (GWW): Comment: 1.8% yield. High stock price of $ 244. Ivan in my AFB class works here.
- ADP (ADP): Comment: 2.3% yield. Highish P/E
- Sherwin-Williams (SHW) : Comment: .9% yield. High price of $ 245.
- AT&T (T) : Comment: 5.7% dividend yield. Mom's stock.
- Consolidated Edison (ED): Comment: 4% yield. "the only utility stock in the Dividend Aristocrats Index. The company provides electricity to 3.3 million New Yorkers and gas to another 1.1 million customers. Consolidated Edison has increased its dividend payments for 40 consecutive years"
- Grupo Aeroportuario Sureste (ASR): Comment: 2.7% yield. "Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. holds concessions to operate, maintain, and develop airports in the southeast region of Mexico."
- Kinder Morgan Energy -LP (KMP): Comment: 4.5% yield
- UIL Holdings Corp (UIL): Comment: 4.1% yield. "UIL Holdings Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates in the regulated utility businesses. The company operates in the Electric Distribution, Electric Transmission, and Gas Distribution segments."
- Southern Co (SO): Comment: 4.4% yield
- Entergy Corp (ETR): Comment: 4% yield
- Hospitality Properties Trust (HPT): Comment: 6.3% yield: "Hospitality Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in buying, owning, and leasing hotels."
- Reynolds American Inc (RAI): Comment: 4.1% yield: "Reynolds American Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cigarette and other tobacco products in the United States. The company operates through RJR Tobacco, American Snuff, and Santa Fe segments." (I do not invest in tobacco stocks!)
- Safety Insurance Group Inc (SAFT): Comment: 4.7% yield: "Safety Insurance Group, Inc. provides private passenger automobile insurance products primarily in Massachusetts and New Hampshire."
- LTC Properties Inc (LTC): Comment: 4.8% yield. "LTC Properties, Inc. operates as a health care real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States."
- Spectra Energy Partners LP (SEP): Comment: 4.4% yield. " Spectra Energy Partners, LP operates as an investment arm of Spectra Energy Corp."
Jack Bogle: Do this, you'll be 'badly defeated':
ReplyDelete"If you're going to jump in and out of anything on a moment's notice, you will be badly defeated. That's a speculative strategy,"
Instead, investors should have a long-term investment strategy and stay the course, he said.
As for where to invest, Bogle advises sticking with U.S. stocks over international equities.
At the urging of both of my boys, and the recommendation of Wells Fargo, I bought AA today
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