Quality Individual U.S. Companies
Richard Shaw (November 7th, 2009) Writes:
We generally prefer investment funds over individual stocks to minimize investment selection risk (focusing more on asset allocation as the greater issue). However, when we do look at individual stocks, we focus on quality companies with financial strength, limited leverage, solid cash flow, and growing sales and dividends.
This short list consists of companies that are candidates for consideration. If you are a do-it-yourself investor who prefers individual stocks; and you have a non-speculative, conservative approach, this list may be worth researching further.
We identified those companies that S&P rated B+ or better for earnings and dividend strength, and which paid dividends continuously for at least 10 years. Subsequently, we ran that list through a fundamental filter (described below) to arrive at this list of six prospects.
These are not recommendations for purchase, but they are a list that has been “worked over” a bit from the data angle. We have not made
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