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GANNETT CO. INC. $15 (New York symbol GCI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector: Shares outstanding: 240.2 million; Market cap: $3.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 1.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.gannett.com) reported revenue of $1.25 billion in the three months ended March 27, 2011. That’s down 3.7%, from $1.3 billion a year earlier. The company is seeing lower advertising revenue …read more »
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. $20 (New York symbol GE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 10.7 billion; Market cap: $214.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ge.com) is seeing rising demand for its large industrial equipment, such as turbines and locomotives, as the economy recovers. GE’s order backlog is now a record $175 …read more »
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. $16 (New York symbol GE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 10.7 billion; Market cap: $171.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 3.0%; WSSF Rating: Above Average) is buying California-based Clarient Inc. (Nasdaq symbol CLRT). Clarient’s advanced technology helps identify genes and other markers in cancer cells. This helps doctors tailor their treatments to …read more »
Big companies like GE and 3M are examples of “GNP (Gross National Product) stocks”. Because they are already huge and sell to a wide variety of customers, investors feel their earnings growth may only match the growth of the overall economy.
However, both GE and 3M successfully restructured their businesses during the recession. The resulting cost cuts should push their …read more »
In spite of the weak economy, governments around the world continue to invest heavily in wind projects and electrical-power grids. On Monday, for example, the Ontario government committed $2.3 billion over the next three years to expand and strengthen the province’s grid.
Antiquated power grids can hold back wind power stocks
Upgrades to power grids are important to wind power stocks because, …read more »
Most power plants are located near big cities to keep transmission costs down. However, wind farms tend to be in remote areas with steady winds. Growth in wind power will force utilities to expand their electrical-power grids. That should lead to higher sales for transmission-equipment suppliers, such as General Electric and ABB.
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. $12 (New York symbol GE; Conservative …read more »
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. $12 (New York symbol GE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 10.6 billion; Market cap: $127.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; WSSF Rating: Above Average) is one of the world’s largest makers of industrial equipment. Products include aircraft engines, medical-imaging scanners and locomotives.
GE is also a major supplier of electrical infrastructure equipment, such as turbines, …read more »
Green stocks have a lot of conceptual and emotional appeal, but may offer limited investment potential. Investments in environmental or green stocks may need a long time to move from the research or concept stage to profitability in the face of high initial costs and uncertain government subsidies. So they may not be profitable for investors.
It’s hard to set …read more »
The Successful Investor value investing approach follows the basic model set by the old-fashioned Graham/Dodd approach. Basically, it tries to identify well-financed companies that are well-established in their businesses and have a history of earnings and dividends. They are likely to survive any economic setback that comes along, and thrive anew when prosperity returns, as it inevitably does.
When we recommend …read more »
Wind power stocks include companies that make components for wind turbines and those that use wind turbines to generate power.
Although publicly traded wind companies are considered green stocks, wind power does draw some objections from environmental groups. It also faces some challenging technical problems.
Concept has appeal, but wind power is imperfect
One of the key problems with wind power is that …read more »
