This list of companies selected for top financial strength characteristics could be valuable to do-it-yourself, conservative, risk averse individual stock or bond investors, as a starting place to begin looking for suitable opportunities.

From the thousands of companies available in the US, this list of 38 companies represents some of those with the greatest fundamental financial strength.

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To develop the list we identified those companies rated in all of these three ways:

(1) better than B+ for Earnings and Dividends Strength by S&P,

(2) better than B++ for Financial Strength by Value Line

(3) pay some level of current dividend, have a tangible equity, and long-term debt less than 1/2 of book equity.

There are many other strong companies, but having two noted analytical firms (one qualitative in approach and the other quantitative in approach) rate them highly for financial strength, plus imposing