Pfizer Inc.

PFIZER INC. $32 (New York symbol PFE; IncomeGrowth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 6.1 billion; Market cap: $195.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.7; Divd. yield: 4.0%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.pzifer....

PFIZER INC. $31 (New York symbol PFE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares o/s: 6.1 billion; Market cap: $189.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.6; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; Dividend yield: 3.9%; www.pfizer.com) is one of the world’s leading prescription drugmakers....

We still think investors will profit most—and with the least risk—by buying shares of well-established, dividend-paying stocks with strong business prospects.

These are companies that have leading positions in healthy industries. They also have strong management that will make the right moves to remain competitive in a changing marketplace.

Stocks such as these give investors an additional measure of safety in today’s volatile markets....

PFIZER INC. $34 (New York symbol PFE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 6.1 billion; Market cap: $207.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.9; Dividend yield: 3.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pfizer.com) is one of the world’s leading prescription drugmakers....

PFIZER INC. $35 (New York symbol PFE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 6.1 billion; Market cap: $213.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.1; Dividend yield: 3.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pfizer.com) is one of the world’s leading prescription drug makers....

A: Novo Nordisk A/S (ADR), $55.41, symbol NVO on New York (Shares outstanding: 2.0 billion; Market cap: $142.5 billion; www.novonordisk.com), is a major producer of diabetes-care products, including insulin....

PLEASE NOTE: Our next Hotline will go out on Friday, July 8, 2016.

MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL INC., $45.51, Nasdaq symbol MDLZ, makes cookies and biscuits (Oreo, Chips Ahoy, Ritz), chocolate bars (Cadbury, Toblerone), gum and candy (Trident, Chiclets) and Halls cough drops.

On Thursday, the company offered to acquire The Hershey Co....

As an Inner Circle member, you’re no doubt familiar with our three-part investment advice. One of those key points is to invest mainly in well-established dividend-paying stocks. (The other two parts are to downplay stocks in the broker/media limelight and spread your money across most if not all the five main economic sectors: Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities.)

With today’s low interest rates, investors continue to pay a lot of attention to dividend yields....

WAL-MART STORES INC., $69.85, New York symbol WMT, has expanded its existing relationship with MCKESSON CORP., $182.29, New York symbol MCK. McKesson currently supplies prescription drugs to Wal-Mart’s in-store pharmacies in the U.S. Under this new deal, the two companies will team up to buy generic drugs in bulk. This will help Wal-Mart keep its pharmacy costs down. The long-term deal also cuts McKesson’s risk. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart sales in the quarter ended April 30, 2016, rose 0.9%, to $115.9 billion from $114.8 billion a year earlier. That beat the consensus forecast of $113.2 billion....

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