united technologies

United Technologies has a long history of successful acquisitions. They include its 2012 purchase of Goodrich. That aircraft-equipment maker has helped the company increase its manufacturing contracts.

UTX stock moved down recently in response to media reports the company now aims to buy Rockwell Collins Inc....

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP. $122 (New York symbol UTX; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 801.2 million; Market cap: $97.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.5; Dividend yield: 2.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.utc.com) has four main businesses: Climate, Controls & Security makes heating/air conditioning systems (under the Carrier brand) as well as building alarms; Otis makes elevators; Aerospace Systems manufactures aircraft parts; and Pratt & Whitney makes jet engines.


In the three months ended March 31, 2017, United Technologies’ overall sales rose 3.4%, to $13.8 billion from $13.4 billion a year earlier....

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP. $118 (New York symbol UTX; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 805.9 million; Market cap: $95.1 billion; Dividend yield: 2.2%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.utc.com) has four main businesses: Climate, Controls & Security (29% of 2016 revenue, 33% of earnings) makes Carrier heating and air-conditioning equipment, as well as burglar alarms and fire-safety products; Pratt & Whitney (26%, 17%) manufactures aircraft engines; Aerospace Systems (25%, 26%) makes engine-control systems and other aircraft parts; and Otis (20%, 24%) makes elevators and escalators....

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....

United Technologies has moved down from its recent peak of $110 in August 2016. The decline reflects the slow delivery of its new jet engines because of manufacturing problems. However, that’s a short-term setback, and deliveries should pick up in 2017.

To boost market share, the company is now cutting its prices....

A: Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, $85.68, symbol VIG on New York (Units outstanding: 33.7 million; Market cap: $2.2 billion; www.vanguard.com), aims to track the Nasdaq Dividend Achievers Select Index....

These six ETFs hold mostly blue chip, widely traded stocks on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. All of them mirror, or track, the performance of major stock market indexes. That’s opposed to narrower indexes focused on, say, resources or themes such as solar power or biotech....

SPDR DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE ETF $183.94 (New York symbol DIA; buy or sell through brokers; www.spdrs.com) holds the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The ETF began trading on January 14, 1998.

This ETF’s top holdings are Goldman Sachs, IBM, Home Depot, Travelers Cos., Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth, United Technologies and McDonald’s....

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SPDR DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE ETF $176.32 (New York symbol DIA; buy or sell through brokers; www.spdrs.com) holds the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This ETF’s top holdings are Goldman Sachs, IBM, Home Depot, Travelers Cos., Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth, United Technologies, McDonald’s, 3M and Boeing. The fund’s expenses are about 0.17% of its assets, and it yields 2.4%. SPDR Dow Jones ETF is a buy.