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...difficult year ahead. We are putting a premium on companies that have good yields currently, that are selling at value prices and where the expectation is for dividend growth. In that category, you have to have General Electric [3.3%]. It's raised its dividend every year. We also like Procter & Gamble [1.9%], McDonald's [1.6%] and Home Depot [1.2%], which is a company we have not owned before in value portfolios. So we have a great focus on the industrial sector, getting ready for an economic recovery. We also find energy stocks interesting, including Marathon [4.5%] and Amerada Hess...
...profits that are already paying a dividend. "They have the ability to keep paying and raising their dividend and have demonstrated the willingness," says Deborah Kuenstner, head of value investing at Putnam Investments. Her picks include power companies Entergy and Florida Power, oil company ExxonMobil and consumer-products maker Procter & Gamble. Other analysts like drugs (Pfizer, Wyeth), financials (AIG FleetBoston) and phones (Verizon, SBC). Proven funds that target dividends: T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and Capital Income Builder...
...profits that are already paying a dividend. "They have the ability to keep paying and raising their dividend and have demonstrated the willingness," says Deborah Kuenstner, head of value investing at Putnam Investments. Her picks include power companies Entergy and Florida Power, oil company ExxonMobil and consumer-products maker Procter & Gamble. Other analysts like drugs (Pfizer, Wyeth), financials (AIG FleetBoston) and phones (Verizon, SBC). Proven funds that target dividends: T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and Capital Income Builder...
SMOLIK: At Dow, we typically work with customers rather than suppliers because our suppliers are the oil companies and such. Our customers are typically companies that make products for consumers--a Nike or a Procter & Gamble. A lot of times, we have the technology for a better, more sustainable raw material that they can use. Nike, for example, is a consumer-product company, so just as soon as some particular component becomes very unpopular, they switch pretty quickly. That's why socially responsible investors and environmental groups are good. They put pressure on the system. They put pressure...
...sold Macrobid--an antibiotic--but can she sell Big Macs? Napier, 47, earned her marketing stripes over 20 years at Procter & Gamble, most recently as vice president of its North American drug business, where she launched the company's hot osteoporosis drug, Actonel. Now she'll try to shine up the Golden Arches as senior VP of marketing for McDonald's. Napier has plenty of work on her plate: the firm's domestic sales are down 1.5% this year, and its shares are down 40% in the past six months. Plans include closing 175 restaurants in 10 countries and laying...