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PFIZER INC. $31 (New York symbol PFE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 6.2 billion; Market cap: $192.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.0; Dividend yield: 3.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pfizer.com) is one of the world’s leading prescription drug makers. Top-selling brands include Lyrica (epilepsy), Celebrex (arthritis pain), Prevnar (pneumonia) and Enbrel (rheumatoid arthritis). Many of Pfizer’s drugs will lose their patent protection in the next few years. To fuel its future growth, the company paid $17 billion for Hospira in 2015. Hospira makes biosimilars, which are close copies of biologic drugs (or those made from living organisms, like bacteria and yeast). Biologics differ from regular drugs, which are typically made from chemical compounds....
WAL-MART STORES INC. $64 (New York symbol WMT; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 3.2 billion; Market cap: $204.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.walmart.com) is the world’s largest retailer, with 11,600 stores in 27 countries....
The lower Canadian dollar has made it more expensive to buy U.S. stocks. However, the American market gives you access to the world’s leading companies. What’s more, U.S. dollar investments give you foreign currency diversification. We feel it’s more important than ever to build a varied portfolio of high-quality stocks. For 2016, we’ve chosen one from each of our portfolios (Aggressive, Conservative and Income). We think all three could post strong gains in the next two to five years. ALPHABET INC. (Nasdaq symbols GOOG $700 [class C: nonvoting] and GOOGL $718 [class A: one vote per share]; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 687.7 million; Market cap: $493.5 billion; Priceto- sales ratio: 7.0; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.abc.xyz) is the new parent company of Google’s Internet search business (still called Google) and other operations. Each of these subsidiaries functions independently....
SYMANTEC CORP. $19 (Nasdaq symbol SYMC; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 680.0 million; Market cap: $12.9 billion; Priceto- sales ratio: 2.1; Dividend yield: 3.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.symantec.com) said in 2014 that it would split into two publicly traded firms. One would keep the Symantec name and focus on antivirus and security software. The other, called Veritas Technologies, would focus on Symantec’s information-management business, which makes products for data backup and recovery. However, the company instead decided to sell Veritas to the Carlyle Group (Nasdaq symbol CG) for $8.0 billion. Now Carlyle seems to be having trouble raising the funds to buy Veritas. As a result, Symantec and Carlyle have altered the deal’s terms. Symantec will now receive $7.0 billion, including $6.6 billion in cash and $400 million in Veritas stock. It plans to complete the sale by the end of January 2016....