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TEGNA INC. $12 (New York symbol TGNA, Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector: Shares o/s: 215.3 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 2.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.tegna.com) owns 47 TV stations and two radio stations in 39 markets....
On November 1, 2016, Arconic spun off its bulk aluminum business (Alcoa) as a separate company. Each investor received one Alcoa Corp. share for every three ARNC shares they owned.
Both stocks have moved down lately, so they’re roughly flat since the split....
PFIZER INC. $42 (New York symbol PFE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 5.8 billion; Market cap: $243.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.6; Dividend yield: 3.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pfizer.com) is one of the world’s largest makers of prescription drugs....
Each of these two firms recently completed a big acquisition. So far, those new businesses fit nicely with their existing operations and have expanded their overall profit.
FEDEX CORP. $163 (New York symbol FDX; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 263.5 million; Market cap: $43.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.fedex.com) delivers packages and documents in the U.S....
MCKESSON CORP. $111 (New York symbol MCK; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 195.4 million; Market cap: $21.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.1; Dividend yield 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.mckesson.com) is the largest wholesale drug distributor in the U.S....
T. ROWE PRICE GROUP INC. $88 (Nasdaq symbol TROW; Aggressive Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 240.7 million; Market cap: $21.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.0; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.troweprice.com) sells mutual funds and wealth management services.
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Most investors limit their U.S. Finance-sector holdings to big banks like J.P. Morgan. That’s mainly due to the high dividends of those industry leaders.
However, the American market offers a variety of non-banking stocks in the Finance sector such as the three we analyze below....
However, the American market offers a variety of non-banking stocks in the Finance sector such as the three we analyze below....
AT&T INC. $30 (New York symbol T; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 7.3 billion; Market cap: $219.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.3; Dividend yield: 6.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.att.com) is the largest wireless carrier in the U.S....
Microsoft recently surpassed Apple as the world’s most valuable company (based on market cap). That’s because it continues to expand in the fast-growing field of cloud-computing, which lets users run computer programs over the Internet.
That strategy relies on a subscription model and has cut the company’s dependence on selling individual software packages to consumers and businesses....
TELUS CORP. $47 (Toronto symbol T; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares o/s: 598.2 million; Market cap: $28.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.0; Dividend yield: 4.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.telus.com) has 9.15 million subscribers and is Canada’s third-largest wireless carrier after Rogers (No....