4/20/12 Fri pm Dow Closes at 13,029.26 up 65.16 or 0.5%

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 13,029.26 up 65.16 or 0.05% from Thursday's close of 12,964.1. For the week the Dow is up 65.16 or 0.05% from last Friday's close of 12,849.59. Of the 30 Dow components 23 gained and 7 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Travelers and percentage-wise was Microsoft. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was JPMorgan and percentage-wise was Bank of America.

As of the open of the market on Friday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C5 of Friday's Wall St. Journal is 0.132129493. Friday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.49 down from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.58 (year ago it was 14.99); today's P/E estimate is 12.55 unchanged from Tuesday's P/E estimate of 12.55 (year ago it was 12.65) and today's dividend yield is 2.53 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.51 (last year it was 2.36). The Dow's all-time high was 14,164.53 on Oct. 9, 2007. The 12 year low close for the Dow was on March 9, 2009 when it fell to 6,547.05.

Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,721.54 up 8.50 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1,712.94. This is the sum of all 30 closing prices. A short cut to the Dow numerator is to multiply the closing Dow by the Divisor. Now, if you divide the Dow numerator increase for today by the divisor (0.132129493) you get the increase in today's Dow. A $1 change in the price of any DJIA stock = a 7.57 change in the average.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $57.38 up $0.28 from Thursday's average closing price of $57.10. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $52.04 (DD/HD) down $0.05 from Thursday's median closing price of $52.09. The lowest volume was 3M and the highest volume again was Bank of America.

If Friday morning before the market opened you had purchased 100 shares of each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 shares (assuming you could buy fractional shares and assuming no transaction costs) and sold at the close you would have made $850 ($172,154 - $171,294).

MarketWatch Friday 4/20/12 4:45 pm by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks mostly advanced Friday, with two of the major indexes halting a two-week losing streak, as better-than-expected corporate results overrode global concerns. “A lot of stock prices are being made in Europe these days, but it is a short-term phenomenon. Even though the economies are weak, they seem to be doing what they should be doing, and that sort of behavior tends to be rewarded,” said John Manley, chief equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advantage Funds. “The market is coming to grips with what lies before it. On balance, earnings numbers are more positive than negative,” he added. After rising as much as 118 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA +0.50% gained 65.16 points, or 0.5%, to 13,029.26, up 1.4% from the week-ago close and its first weekly gain in three. Microsoft Corp. MSFT +4.55% led blue-chip advancers, up 4.6%, after the software company said net income fell from the year-ago period, but its profit and sales topped Wall Street’s expectations. Dow component General Electric Co. GE +1.15% rose 1.2% after the aircraft-engine manufacturer and financial-services provider reported earnings that topped Wall Street’s estimates. Up 0.7% on the week, the S&P 500 Index SPX +0.12% climbed 1.61 points, or 0.1%, to 1,378.53, with utilities and consumer staples leading sector gains and technology and financials lagging among its 10 industry groups. Apple Inc. AAPL -2.46% shares fell 2.5% to $572.98, off more than 10% from $644, the record intraday high reached April 10. The close under $580 sets the stage “for a fast move down to $525,” said Richard Ross, technical strategist at Auerbach Grayson & Co. Apple’s fall weighed on the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP -0.24% , which turned lower in the final hour of trade, off 7.11 points, or 0.2%, at 3,000.45 — a level that has it off 0.2% from last Friday’s finish and extending its weekly losing spree to three. For every stock that fell, nearly two gained on the New York Stock Exchange, where 966 million shares traded. Composite volume topped 3.8 billion. The U.S. dollar DXY -0.52% fell against other global currencies, while dollar-denominated commodities rose, with crude futures CLM2 +1.28% closing a nickel above $103 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. But while micro concerns dominated Friday’s session, macroeconomic issues will likely continue to be in play. “The realization has grown that all of the problems of last year are still present,” said Andrew Milligan, head of global strategy at Standard Life Investments.
Milligan cites the outlook for the United States, Europe’s ability to keep its recession from deepening, China’s ability to navigate a soft landing and the price of oil as the four primary concerns of investors. “We’re particularly reassured by the breadth of sectors seeing improvements; it’s not just industrial and tech, but most sectors,” he added. Corporate results from outside the United States are “perhaps more mixed, which is no great surprise, bearing in mind some of the weakness in parts of Asia and Europe,” Milligan said. For Manley at Wells Fargo Advantage Funds, the real test for U.S. results comes in the third quarter. “If you look at consensus expectations for the S&P 500, the first quarter was a little better than flat, not a high hurdle,” with the same holding true for second-quarter results, he said. But by the third quarter, expectations call for double-digit gains “and I don’t think we’ll get that,” commented Manley, who believes those estimates will be scaled back over the course of the next three to six months.

Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:

Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market

AT&T T $30.86 +0.12 0.39% 21,699,859 NYSE
Alcoa AA $9.7 -0.06 0.61% 18,949,727 NYSE
American Express AXP $57.45 -0.12 0.21% 7,771,700 NYSE
Bank of America BAC $8.36 -0.41 4.68% 274,573,616 NYSE
Boeing BA $73.55 +0.45 0.62% 4,264,330 NYSE
Caterpillar CAT $107.73 +0.37 0.34% 3,955,582 NYSE
Chevron CVX $102.52 +0.01 0.01% 5,750,876 NYSE
Cisco CSCO $19.91 +0.005 0.03% 33,443,465 NASDAQ-GS
Coke KO $74.13 +0.31 0.42% 6,671,867 NYSE
Disney DIS $42.35 +0.27 0.64% 7,731,989 NYSE
DuPont DD $52.62 +0.01 0.02% 6,338,184 NYSE
Exxon XOM $85.3 +0.02 0.02% 17,107,697 NYSE
GE $19.36 +0.22 1.15% 67,616,053 NYSE
Hewlett-Packard HPQ $24.51 -0.20 0.81% 19,553,886 NYSE
Home Depot HD $51.46 -0.10 0.19% 10,977,965 NYSE
Intel INTC $27.6 -0.09 0.33% 37,217,661 NASDAQ-GS
IBM $199.6 +0.09 0.05% 4,699,375 NYSE
JPMorgan JPM $42.72 -0.50 1.16% 25,899,476 NYSE
Johnson & Johnson JNJ $63.71 +0.68 1.08% 14,230,627 NYSE
Kraft KFT $38.54 +0.34 0.89% 7,156,930 NYSE
McDonald's MCD $95.94 +0.66 0.69% 10,917,840 NYSE
Merc MRK $38.73 +0.37 0.96% 14,792,985 NYSE
Microsoft MSFT $32.42 +1.41 4.55% 104,689,737 NASDAQ-GS
Pfizer PFE $22.56 +0.225 1.01% 37,621,375 NYSE
Procter & Gamble PG $67.51 +0.94 1.41% 11,081,461 NYSE
3M MMM $87.48 +0.68 0.78% 3,168,068 NYSE
Travelers TRV $62.75 +1.05 1.7% 4,812,482 NYSE
United Technologies UTX $81 +0.60 0.75% 3,618,135 NYSE
Verizon VZ $38.73 +0.58 1.52% 19,306,360 DualListed
Walmart WMT $62.45 +0.70 1.13% 8,978,115 NYSE

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The following are excerpts from Friday morning's Blog.

A read of the print editions of Friday's Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, New York Times, USA Today, Atlanta Journal Constitution and Daily Report (Ga. - carries Bloomberg) yielded the following stories about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 component companies and the Dow with stories about the Dow aggregated first and then items about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 companies presented alphabetically, followed by symbol and Thursday's stock prices and related data.

Dow Jones Industrial AverageThe Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Thursday at 12,964.1 down 68.65 or 0.53% from Wednesday's close of 13,032.75. For the year the Dow is up 6.11%. Of the 30 Dow components 3 gained and 27 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Travelers. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was McDonald's.

WSJ pC4 "Poor data help damp Dow" by Matt Jarzemsky says stocks fell after a trio of disappointing economic readings overshadowed better than expected earnings reports from Travelers and other firms. Only 3 of the Dow components rose as Travelers gained $2.23, Verizon rose 49 cents after both reported 1Q results that beat projections and GE gained 4 cents ahead of its results Fri.

Fin Times p22 "Ebay on 52 week high but weak job figures weigh on sentiment" by Arash Massoudi says Ebay soared to a 52 week high as it's plans to lead the mobile payments race encouraged investors, but another weak jobs report added to Wall St woes yesterday. Bank of America which has risen more than 60% in the year lost 1.8% as it reported lower earnings.

NYT pB6 "Signs of weakness send shares down again" by Reuters says stocks fell for a 2nd day on Thurs as labor market data showed more signs of weakness, while a warning from Qualcomm & poor results from Stanley Black & Decker discouraged investors. Bank of America fell 1.7%. After the close Microsoft reported a slight drop in 3Q profits.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Stocks reverse lower in rising volume" by Paul Whitfield says after rising in the first 75 minutes of trading, the major indexes reversed to finish with moderate losses. The current outlook is the market is in a correction. Apple lost 3% on reports that iPhone activations fell at Verizon.

USA Today p4B "Economic reports, Europe again bring markets down" by Bloomberg says stocks retreated a 2nd day Thurs as disappointing economic data & concern about Europe's debt crisis overshadowed better than forecast earnings from firms including eBay and Morgan Stanley.

Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,712.94 down 9.07 from Wednesday's closing numerator of 1,722.01. This is the sum of all 30 closing prices. A short cut to the Dow numerator is to multiply the closing Dow by the Divisor. Now, if you divide the Dow numerator decrease for today by the divisor (0.132129493) you get the decrease in today's Dow. A $1 change in the price of any DJIA stock = a 7.57 change in the average.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $57.10 down $0.30 from Wednesday's average closing price of $57.40. The median closing price of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $52.09 (DD/HD) down $0.45 from Wednesday's median closing price of $52.54. The lowest volume was 3M and the highest volume again was Bank of America.

If Thursday morning before the market opened you had purchased 100 shares of each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 shares (assuming you could buy fractional shares and assuming no transaction costs) and sold at the close you would have lost $907 ($172,201 - $171,294).

MarketWatch Thursday 4/19/12 4:15 pm by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks fell for a second day Thursday, pushing the Nasdaq Composite COMP -0.79% into the loss column for the week, as uncertainty over Europe and disappointing jobless claims overcame cheer over corporate results. "At this stage, this is just a symptom and not a disease," said Laurence Creatura, porfolio manager at Federated Investors, of the weekly data on applications for unemployment benefits. "But this afternoon investors aren't giving the market the benefit of the doubt." The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -0.53% shed 68.65 points, or 0.5%, to 12,964.10. The S&P 500 SPX -0.59% fell 8.22 points, or 0.6%, to 1,376.92. The Nasdaq Composite COMP -0.79% lost 23.89 points, or 0.8%, to 3,007.56

Thursday's Closing Dow Numbers and Friday's News:

Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market

AT&T T
$30.74 -0.01 0.03% 16,533,357 NYSE: WSJ pB3 "Nokia plots chepaer Lumia" by Sven Grundberg says Nokia will sell less expensive versions of the Lumia smartphones which run Microsoft's new mobile op system. In the US Nolia luanched on April 8 the Lumia 900 and provided more than 10,000 phones to AT&T to distribute to its stores.

Alcoa AA
$9.76 -0.19 1.91% 32,781,996 NYSE: No mentions found.

American Express AXP
$57.57 -0.47 0.81% 7,137,227 NYSE: No mentions found.

Bank of America BAC
$8.77 -0.15 1.68% 346,459,109 NYSE: WSJ pC3 "BofA profit, loans decline" by Dan Fitzpatrick, USA Today p5B "BofA earnings beat estimates" by Pallavi Gogoi, AP, Fin Times p17 "BofA struggles to close door on mortgage woes" by Tom Braithwaite, NYT pB4 "Bank of America, focusing les on retail, leans on trading for profit" by Nelson Schwartz, AJC pA15 "BofA $2.4 bil set aside to cover bad loans lowest since crisis hit" by Pallavi Gogoi, AP, say BofA's 1Q profit fell 68% to $653 mil or 3 cents a share from $2.05 bil or 17 cents a share a year earlier. Rev fell to $22.3 bil from $26.9 bil. there was a charge of $4.8 bil in the value of its debt. Loans outstanding fell 3% to $902 bil from a year earlier compared to 1Q increases in outstanding loans of JPMorgan, Wells & Citigroup.

WSJ pC10 "Morgan trades place with Goldman" by David Reilly lists year over year change for 1Q '12 for banks' fixed income, commodities & currencies operations and the ranking is Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan & Goldman.

Fin Times p22 "Ebay on 52 week high but weak job figures weigh on sentiment" by Arash Massoudi says Ebay soared to a 52 week high as it's plans to lead the mobile payments race encouraged investors, but another weak jobs report added to Wall St woes yesterday. Bank of America which has risen more than 60% in the year lost 1.8% as it reported lower earnings.

NYT pB6 "Signs of weakness send shares down again" by Reuters says stocks fell for a 2nd day on Thurs as labor market data showed more signs of weakness, while a warning from Qualcomm & poor results from Stanley Black & Decker discouraged investors. Bank of America fell 1.7%. After the close Microsoft reported a slight drop in 3Q profits.

Boeing BA
$73.1 -0.61 0.83% 3,654,718 NYSE: No mentions found.

Caterpillar CAT
$107.36 -1.85 1.69% 5,492,053 NYSE: No mentions found.

Chevron CVX
$102.51 -0.88 0.85% 6,313,139 NYSE: No mentions found.

Cisco CSCO
$19.905 0.155 0.77% 34,342,501 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pA12 in a letter to the editor Cisco's SVP & gen Counsel Mark Chandler says Cisco did not export telecom equipment to Iran.

Coke KO
$73.82 -0.35 0.47% 5,216,665 NYSE: No mentions found.

Disney DIS
$42.08 0.41 0.96% 7,002,237 NYSE: WSJ pD3 "Going big" says Disney/Marvel's The avengers will be in theaters on May 4.

DuPont DD
$52.61 -0.66 1.24% 8,374,366 NYSE: Fin times p16 "Higher agricultural prices and demand boost DuPont" by Hal Weitzman, Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "DuPont posts modest Q1 gain", AJC pA16 "Chemicals, Danisco buy boost DuPont's net" say DuPont reported net income in 1Q of $1.49 bil or $1.57 pe share vs $1.43 bil or $1.52 per share short of expectations of $1.55 per share.

Exxon XOM
$85.28 -0.47 0.55% 14,924,302 NYSE: No mentions found.

GE
$19.14 +0.04 0.21% 50,503,866 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "it's a capital time for a fresh look at GE" by Spencer Jakab says GE reports 1Q results today and is expected to report a profit of 32 cents a share vs. 31 cents a year earlier.

WSJ pC4 "Poor data help damp Dow" by Matt Jarzemsky says stocks fell after a trio of disappointing economic readings overshadowed better than expected earnings reports from Travelers and other firms. Only 3 of the Dow components rose as Travelers gained $2.23, Verizon rose 49 cents after both reported 1Q results that beat projections and GE gained 4 cents ahead of its results Fri.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ
$24.71 -0.22 0.88% 17,368,467 NYSE: No mentions found.

Home Depot HD
$51.56 -0.25 0.48% 10,469,157 NYSE: No mentions found.

Intel INTC
$27.69 -0.26 0.93% 42,862,269 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

IBM
$199.51 -0.62 0.31% 5,656,992 NYSE: No mentions found.

JPMorgan JPM
$43.22 -0.07 0.16% 25,692,172 NYSE: WSJ pC10 "Morgan trades place with Goldman" by David Reilly lists year over year change for 1Q '12 for banks' fixed income, commodities & currencies operations and the ranking is Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan & Goldman.

WSJ pC3 "BofA profit, loans decline" by Dan Fitzpatrick says BofA's 1Q profit fell 68% to $653 mil or 3 cents a share from $2.05 bil or 17 cents a share a year earlier. Rev fell to $22.3 bil from $26.9 bil. there was a charge of $4.8 bil in the value of its debt. Loans outstanding fell 3% to $902 bil from a year earlier compared to 1Q increases in outstanding loans of JPMorgan, Wells & Citigroup.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ
$63.03 -0.23 0.36% 15,021,653 NYSE: No mentions found.

Kraft KFT
$38.2 -0.04 0.1% 8,081,702 NYSE: No mentions found.

McDonald's MCD
$95.28 -2.06 2.12% 13,805,770 NYSE: No mentions found.

Merck MRK
$38.36 -0.04 0.1% 10,535,083 NYSE: NYT pB9 "Collaboration on hepatitis drugs lags" by Andrew Pollack says new pills by Vertex and Merck last year have sharply improved the cure rate for hepatitis C to 60% from 90%.

Microsoft MSFT
$31.01 -0.13 0.42% 52,180,212 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pB4 "Microsoft sidesteps PC woes" by Shira Ovide, USA Today "Microsoft earnings surpass estimates", Inv. Bus. Daily pA4 "Microsoft's Q3 exceeds views as Windows 7 upgrades help" by Pat Seitz, NYT pB2 "Microsoft beats estimates as Windows makes a stand" by Nick Wingfield say net income for 3Q ended 3/31 was $5.11 bil or 60 cents a share down from $5.23 bil or 61 cents a share a year earlier.

WSJ pB3 "Nokia plots chepaer Lumia" by Sven Grundberg, NYT pB1 "Windows phone's mixed success is slight salvation for Nokia" by Kevin O'Brien, say Nokia will sell less expensive versions of the Lumia smartphones which run Microsoft's new mobile op system. In the US Nolia luanched on April 8 the Lumia 900 and provided more than 10,000 phones to AT&T to distribute to its stores.

WSJ pB1 "Verizon's answer to iPhone: Windows" by Greg Bensinger says Verizon will push smartphones powered by Microsoft's Windows as a counterweight to the popular Apple iPhone. Carriers pay $400 or so to subsidize the cost of each iPhone so Verizon will cut costs by pushing another option.

NYT pB6 "Signs of weakness send shares down again" by Reuters says stocks fell for a 2nd day on Thurs as labor market data showed more signs of weakness, while a warning from Qualcomm & poor results from Stanley Black & Decker discouraged investors. Bank of America fell 1.7%. After the close Microsoft reported a slight drop in 3Q profits.

Pfizer PFE
$22.335 -0.115 0.51% 30,275,618 NYSE: No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble PG
$66.57 -0.18 0.27% 7,386,118 NYSE: No mentions found.

MMM
$86.8 -0.33 0.38% 2,511,388 NYSE: No mentions found.

Travelers TRV
$61.7 +2.23 3.75% 6,100,176 NYSE: Fin times p14 "Stronger pricing helps Travelers beat expectations" by Telis Demos says Travelers net income fell 4% for 1Q to $804 mil or $2.02 per share but better than estimates of 50 cents per share. Travelers said it will increase its quarterly dividend to 46 cents a share up 5 cents from the prior payment.

WSJ pC4 "Poor data help damp Dow" by Matt Jarzemsky says stocks fell after a trio of disappointing economic readings overshadowed better than expected earnings reports from Travelers and other firms. Only 3 of the Dow components rose as Travelers gained $2.23, Verizon rose 49 cents after both reported 1Q results that beat projections and GE gained 4 cents ahead of its results Fri.

United Technologies UTX
$80.4 0.80 0.99% 2,590,420 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pA3 "the downs and huge up of the elevator savior" by J.L. Kominicki is a profile on the inventor of the elevator Elisha Otis. In '75 United Technologies bought Otis Elevator for $275 mil & it now employs 60,000 with annual rev of $11.5 bil.

Verizon VZ
$38.15 +0.49 1.3% 18,334,270 DualListed: Fin Times p15 "Smartphone sales growth lifts rev at Verizon" by Paul Taylor, Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "Verizon Q1 EPS, profit beat", NYT pB2 "Mobile data services fees help bolster profit at Verizon by Brian Chen say Verizon Communications' net income rose 17% to $1.69 bil or 59 cents a share from $1.44 bil or 51 cents a share a year earlier on sales that grew by 4.6% to $28.2 bil.

WSJ pC4 "Poor data help damp Dow" by Matt Jarzemsky says stocks fell after a trio of disappointing economic readings overshadowed better than expected earnings reports from Travelers and other firms. Only 3 of the Dow components rose as Travelers gained $2.23, Verizon rose 49 cents after both reported 1Q results that beat projections and GE gained 4 cents ahead of its results Fri.

WSJ pB1 "Verizon's answer to iPhone: Windows" by Greg Bensinger, AJC pA16 "Sales of iPhones begin to ring Verizon's bells", Inv,. Bus. Daily pA4 "Verizon iPad sign ups ease iPhone slowdown" by Reinhardt Krause say Verizon will push smartphones powered by Microsoft's Windows as a counterweight to the popular Apple iPhone. Carriers pay $400 or so to subsidize the cost of each iPhone so Verizon will cut costs by pushing another option.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Stocks reverse lower in rising volume" by Paul Whitfield says after rising in the first 75 minutes of trading, the major indexes reversed to finish with moderate losses. The current outlook is the market is in a correction. Apple lost 3% on reports that iPhone activations fell at Verizon.

Walmart WMT
$61.75 -0.31 0.5% 6,202,935 NYSE: No mentions found.

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Here are the current CEOs of the Dow 30 Companies:

AT&T T Randall L. Stephenson (Dallas, TX)
Alcoa AA Klaus Kleinfeld (NY, NY)
American Express AXP Kenneth I. Chenault (NY, NY)
Bank of America BAC Brian T. Moynihan (Charlotte, N.C.)
Boeing BA W. James McNerney, Jr. (Chicago, Ill)
Caterpillar CAT Douglas Oberhelman (Peoria, Ill.)
Chevron CVX John Watson (San Ramon, CA)
Cisco CSCO John Chambers (San Jose, CA)
Coca Cola KO Muhtar Kent (Atlanta, GA)
Disney DIS Robert Iger (Burbank, CA)
DuPont DD Ellen Kullman (Wilmington, DE)
ExxonMobil XOM Rex W. Tillerson (Irving, Tx)
GE Jeffrey R. Immelt (Fairfield, CT)
Hewlett-Packard HPQ Meg Whitman (Palo, Alto, CA)
Home Depot HD Frank Blake (Atlanta, GA)
Intel INTC Paul S. Otellini (Santa Clara, CA)
IBM Virginia M. Rometty (Armonk, NY)
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon (NY, NY)
Johnson & Johnson JNJ William C. Weldon to be replaced by Alex Gorsky 4/24/12 (New Brunswick, NJ)
Kraft KFT Irene Rosenfeld (Northfield, Ill.)
McDonald's MCD Jim Skinner to be replaced July 1 by Don Thompson (Oak Brook, Ill)
Merck MRK Kenneth Frazer (Whitehouse Station, N.J.)
Microsoft MSFT Steve Ballmer (Redmond, WA)
Pfizer PFE Ian Read (NY, NY)
Procter & Gamble PG Bob McDonald (Cincinnati, OH)
3M MMM Inge Thulin (St. Paul, MN)
Travelers TRV Jay S. Fishman (NY, NY)
United Technologies UTX Louis Chenevert (Hartford, CT)
Verizon VZ Lowell McAdam (NY, NY)
Wal-Mart WMT Mike Duke (Bentonville, ARK)

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Here are the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 as of 4/15/12 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $4391 [5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 258.5 [8.5]
3. IBM 235 [1]
4. WalMart WMT 203.5 [3.5]
5. GE 200 [10.5]
6. Chevron CVX 199 [2]
7. Procter & Gamble PG 181 [3]
8. AT&T T 181 [6]
9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 175 [3]
10. JPMorgan Chase JPM 165 [4]
11. Pfizer PFE 164.5 [7.5]
12. Coke KO 162 [2.5]
13. Intel INTC 140.5 [5]
14. Merck MRK 115 [3]
15. Cisco CSCO 107 [5.5]
16. Verizon VZ 104.5 [3]
17. McDonald's MCD 98.5 [1]
18. Bank of America BAC 93.5 [10.5]
19. Home Depot HD 77.5 [1.5]
20. Disney DIS 75 [2]
21. United Technologies UTX 72.5 [1]
22. Caterpillar CAT 68.5 [.5]
23. American Express AXP 67 [1]
24. Kraft KFT 66 [2]
25. 3M MMM 59.5 [.5]
26. Boeing BA 54.5 [1]
27. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 48.5 [2]
28. DuPont DD 48.5 [1]
29. Travelers TRV 22.5 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 10.5 [1]

Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 4/15/12:

Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments

AT&T T: 3/12/12 Proxy Materials re: Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on 4/27/12 at 9 a.m. at Grand American Hotel, Salt lake City, Utah
2/29/12 8K re: redemption of 5.87% Notes due 5/15/12
2/24/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 Prelim Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Stockholders on 4/27/12 Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah
2/13 8K re: sale of $3 bil Global Notes

Alcoa AA: 4/11/12 8K re: 1Q results
3/12/12 & 3/1/12 Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 5/4/12 9:30 am, Fairmont Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
2/28/12 10K/A & 2/16/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/26/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws re: notice to shareholders

American Express AXP: 3/26/12 8K re: dividend of 20 cents a share payable 5/10 to holders at 4/5 & stock buyback plan of up to 150 mil shares
3/20 & 3/2/12 Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 4/30/12 9 am American Express HQ, NYC
3/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats thru 2/29
3/13/12 8K re: Comprehensive Capital Plan
2/29/12 & 2/24/12 10K/A & 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/15/12 8K re: Deling & write-off stats for 3 months ended 1/31/12
2/13/12 8K re: retirement of Director Dan Akerson

Bank of Am BAC: 4/11/12 8K re: reclassification of business segments
3/16/12 8K re: sale of preferred stock
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/10/12 8K re: settlement of mortgage abuse case with state & fed regulators

Boeing BA: 3/16/12 Proxy materials re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 4/30/12 10 am Field Museum, Chicago
2/29/12 8K re: grant of stock options to exec
2/9/12 10K for year ended 12/31/11

Caterpillar CAT: 4/12/12 8K re: election of fromer Utah Gov. and Ambassador Jon Huntsman to Board of Dirs.
4/11/12 Proxy materials re: Annual Meeting of Stockholders on 6/13/12 at 8 am, Marriott Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas
3/20/12 8K re: dealer stats thru 2/12
2/21/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 8K re: Jan '12 dealer stats

Chevron CVX: 4/12/12 & 3/29/12 Proxy material re: Annual Meeting og stockholders on 4/4/12 9:30 am HQ, San Ramon, CA
4/10/12 8K re: 1Q update
3/29/12 8K & Proxy materials re: amendment of bylaws re: litigation in Delaware courts, raise of CEO and other execs' salaries and election of Charles "Wick" Moorman to Board of Dirs.
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11

Cisco CSCO : 3/27/12 8K re: execs' pre-arranged stock trading plans
3/15/12 8K re: acquisition of NDS Group Ltd, a provider of video software for $5 bil
2/21/12 10Q for Qtr ended 1/28/12
2/17/12 8K re: $3 bil credit agreement with Bank of America
2/8/12 8K re: 2Q results

Coke KO 3/14/12 8K re: closing of sale of over $1 bil of notes
3/8/12 Proxy materials re Annual meeting of shareowners 4/15/12 9:30 am Cobb Galeria, Atlanta
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 8K re: election of Robert A. Kotick as Dir.
2/15/12 8K re: adoption of restricted stock plan
2/7/12 8K re: 4Q & full year '11 results

Disney DIS 3/16/12 8K re: amendment to 2011 Stock Incentive Plan
2/13/12 8K re: sale of $1 bil of 1.125% Global Notes due '17
2/7/12 10Q for 12/31/11
2/7/12 8K re: 1Q results

DuPont DD: 4/3/12 & 3/16/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of stockholders 4/25/12 10:30 am HQ Wilmington, Del
3/15/12 8K re: retirement of William K. Reilly from Board of Dirs.
2/9/12 10K re: FY ended 12/31/11

ExxonMobil XOM: 4/12/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders 5/30/12 9 am Meyerson Center, Dallas
3/28/12 8K re: Fin'l Operations review info on website
3/14/12 8K re: transcript of 3/8 analysts meeting
2/29/12 8K re: election of Henrietta H. Fore as Dir.
2/24/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/23/12 8K re: worldwide proved oil & gas reserves

GE: 4/9/12 & 3/9/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 4/25/12 10 am Detroit Marriott
4/6/12 8K re: downgrade of GE senior unsecured debt rating by Moodys from Aa2 to aa3 and other downgrade
3/16/12 8K re: GE Capital segment fin'l info as of 12/31/11
1/20/12 8K re: 2/24/12 10K re: FY ended 12/31/11

Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 3/23/12 8K re: exec changes and amendment to bylaws decreasing Board of Dirs from 14 to 11
3/12/12 10Q for Qtr ended 1/31/12
3/12/12 8K re: underwriting of $2 bil of Global Notes
2/22/12 8K re: 1Q results ended 1/31/12
2/3/12 Proxy re: 3/21/12 Annual meeting of shareholders at Santa Clara, CA Convention Ctr.

Home Depot HD: 4/2/12 Proxy material and 10K for year ended 1/29/12 and material re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/17 at 9 am at Cobb Galeria, Atlanta
2/21/12 8K re: FY '11 results & FY '12 guidance

Intel INTC: 4/4/12 Proxy material re: annual stockhodles meeting 5/17/12 8:30 am HQ, Santa Clara, CA
2/28/12 8K re: expansion of JV with Micron Tech for flash memory
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/9/12 8K re: settlement of antitrust case brought by NY Atty Gen'l

IBM: 3/22/12 & 3/12/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of stockholders on 4/24/12 10 am Charleston Convention Center, S.C.
2/28/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/9/12 8K re: underwriting agreement for 2.2% Notes due '17
2/3/12 8K re: underwriting agreement for notes due '15 - '17
2/3/12 8K re: exec salaries for top 5 execs

JPMorganChase JPM: 4/13/12 2 8Ks re: fin'l info on website & 1Q results
4/4/12 Proxy material re: annual meeting of shareholders 5/15/12 at JPM campus in Tampa, Fl
4/4/12 8K re: annual report on website
3/29/12 8K re: Reg. statement re: Global Med. Term Notes'
3/27/12 8K re: changes to Board of Dirs: election of Tim Flynn and retirement of William Gray & David Novak
3/14/12 8K re: dividend of 30 cents payable 4/30 to record holders as of 4/5 and $15 bil share buyback program
3/1/12 8K re: 2/28/12 Investor Day Presentation
2/29/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/9/12 8K re: global settlement of mortgage foreclosure suits brought by state & fed regulators

Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 4/9/12 8K re: resignation of Vice Chair of Board, Sheri S. McCoy to join Avon as CEO
4/3/12 & 3/14/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of Shareholders on 4/26/12 10 am Grand Hyatt New Brunswick, NJ
3/28/12 8K re: new format for sales results
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 8K re: election of Alex Gorsky as CEO & Dir as of 4/26/12

Kraft KFT: 4/2/12 & 3/23/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/23/12 at North Shore Performing Arts Center in Skokie, Ill.
3/20/12 8K re: $2.1 bil of costs and expenses re: spin-off of N. Amer. grocery business
3/15/12 8K re: nominations of Terry Lundgren & Jorge Mesquita to Board of Dirs.
3/14/12 8K re: revolving credit agreement
2/27/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 2 8Ks re: '11 operating results & 4Q results

McDonald's MCD: 4/13/12 & 3/7/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of shareholders on 5/24/12 at HQ at Oak Brook, Ill.
3/26/12 8K re: retirement of James Skinner as CEO effective 6/30/12 and his replacement as CEO of Donald Thompson
3/8/12 8K re: Feb. '12 sales results
3/7/12 Prelim Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 5/24/12 at McDonald's HQ Oak Brook, Ill.
2/24/11 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/10/12 8K re: grant of exec stock options
2/8/12 8K re: Jan '12 sales
2/7/12 8K re: issuance of $750 mil med term notes

Merck MRK: 4/12/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of Shareholders on 5/22/12 8:30 am at Bridgewater Marriott in NJ
3/30/12 8K re: Retirement from Board of Dirs of Steven Goldstone & Harry Jacobson
2/28/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/9/12 8K re: Dr. Thomas Shenk retiring from Board of Dirs.
2/2/12 8K re: full year & 4Q results 12/31/11

Microsoft MSFT: 2/27/12 8K re: election of John W. Thompson as Dir.
1/27/12 10Q/A & 1/19/12 10Q for year ended 12/31/11
1/19/12 8K re: 2Q 12/31/11 results

Pfizer PFE: 3/15/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders 4/26/12 8:30 am Westin Governor Morris, Morristown, NJ
2/28/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/12
1/31/12 8K re: 4Q & full year 12/31/11 results

Procter & Gamble PG: 4/13/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents payable 5/15/12 to record holders at 4/27
2/23/12 8K re: Consumer Analyst Conference slides 2/23/12
2/15/12 8K re: sale of Pringles to Kellogg for $2.7 bil in cash
2/10/12 8K re: restructuring of Beauty & Grooming Global Business Unit
2/6/12 8K re: issuance of $2 bil 2.3% & floating rate notes

3M MMM: 3/21/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of stockhodlers 5/8/12 10 am River Centre, St. Paul, Minn
2 8ks 2/21/12 & 2 8ks 2/16/12 re: exec pre-arranged stock trading plans
2/16/12 10K FY 12/31/11
2/8/12 8K re: Inge G. Thulin replacing George W. Buckley as CEO on 2/24/12

Travelers TRV: 4/10/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/23/12 11 am Hartford, Marriott
2/16/12 10K FY 12/31/11

United Technologies UTX: 4/13/12 8K re: retriement of charles Lee from Board of Dirs.
3/22/12 & 2/24/12 Proxy materials re: 4/11/12 Annual Meeting of Shareholders Riviera Theatre Charleston, SC
3/15/12 8K re: structure for proposed Goodrich acquisition
2/17/12 8K re: election of Pedro Baranda as Pres. of Otis Elevator
2/9/12 10K for year ended 12/31/11

Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 4/2/12 & 3/19/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/3/12 at 10:30 at Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Al.
2/24/12 10K FY 12/31/11

WalMart WMT: 3/27/12 10K for year ended 1/31/12
2/21/12 8K re: 4Q results
1/25/12 8K re: election of Rosalind Brewer as CEO of Sam's Club
12/8/11 8K re registration rights agreement with certain selling shareholders
12/8/11 10Q for qtr ended 10/1/11