Thursday, May 31, 2012

5/31/12 Thurs pm Dow Closes at 12,393.45 down 26.41 or 0.21%


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Post No. 1,652 The following is brought to you by Intellivest Securities Research, Inc. Toward the end of this Blog is a list of the Dow 30 current CEOs, and a ranking of the Dow 30 components by market capitalization as of May 16 and recent Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of May 16.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed  Thursday at 12,393.45 down 26.41 or 0.21% from Wednesday's close of 12,419.86.  Of the 30 Dow components 13 gained and  17 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Chevron  and percentage-wise was  Bank of America. The biggest decliner dollar-wise  and percentage-wise was  Caterpillar.

As of the open of the market on Thursday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C5 of  Wednesday's Wall St. Journal is 0.132129493. Thursday's trailing P/E ratio is 13.69 down from Wednesday's trailing P/E ratio of 13.86 (year ago it was 14.30);  today's P/E estimate is 11.75 unchanged from Wednesday's P/E estimate of 11.75 (year ago it was 12.54) and today's dividend yield is 2.66 down from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.70 (last year it was 2.37). 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.

Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,637.54 down 3.49 from Wednesday's closing numerator of 1,641.03. 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 $54.58 down  0.12 from Wednesday's average closing price of $54.70. The median closing price of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $48.80 (HD/DD)  down 0.53 from Wednesday's median closing price of $49.43. The lowest volume was Travelers 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  $349 ($164,103 - $163,754).

MarketWatch  Thursday 4:15 by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks finished the month with sizeable losses, with all three indexes off 6% or more during May. "People may be expecting a bit weaker number than they would have hoped for 24 hours ago," Lawrence Creatura, portfolio manager at Federated Investors, of Friday's monthly payrolls data, and the lowered expectations following a disappointing ADP report on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -0.21% fell 26.41 points, or 0.2%, to 12,393.45, off 6.2% for May. The S&P 500 Index  SPX -0.23% fell 2.99 points, or 0.2%, to 1,310.33, leaving it down 6.3% for the month. The Nasdaq Composite  COMP -0.35% fell 10.02 points, or 0.4%, to 2,827.34, down 7.2% for the month. May proved the worst in two years for the Dow and Nasdaq.

Thursday's Dow Closing Numbers:

TNYSE
AANYSE
AXPNYSE
BACNYSE
BANYSE
CATNYSE
CVXNYSE
CSCONASDAQ-GS
KONYSE
DISNYSE
DDNYSE
XOMNYSE
GENYSE
HPQNYSE
HDNYSE
INTCNASDAQ-GS
IBMNYSE
JPMNYSE
JNJNYSE
KFTNYSE
MCDNYSE
MRKNYSE
MSFTNASDAQ-GS
PFENYSE
PGNYSE
MMMNYSE
TRVNYSE
UTXNYSE
VZDualListed
WMTNYSE
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The following are excerpts from Thur. morning's Blog:

A read of the print editions of  Thursday's Wall St. Journal &  Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, New York Times, USA Today,  The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press and the Kalamazoo Gazette 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 a separate table of Dow component's symbol and Wednesday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.

Dow Jones Average  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed  Wednesday at 12,419.86 down 10.83 or 1.28% from Tuesday's close of 12,580.69. For the year the Dow is up 1.7%. Of the 30 Dow components only Intel gained and 29 declined. The onlygainer dollar-wise   and percentage-wise was intel . The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Chevron and percentage-wise was  was Alcoa.

WSJ pC1 "May again bites investors" by Jon Cheng says for the 3rd year in a row May as not been good fo US stock market bulls.  With just one day to go the Dow is down 6% in May.

NYT pB9 "Europe's economic troubles steer investors toward 10  year note" by Chris Hauser says unnerved again by Europe's woes, investors bought US gov securities sending their yield on the Treasury's 10 year note to a record low.

USA Today p5B "Surge in investor worries over Europe sends markets down" by AP says fearing a fin'l rupture in Europe investors fled from risk.  Stocks and the euro were punished and the yield on US bonds hit the lowest point since WWII.

Inv. Bus. Daily pB2 "Stocks resume downtrend as vol rises a little" by Vic Reklaitis says stocks on Wed returned to their losing ways of the past month giving up all of their gains from Tues' rally & some of last week's advance.

Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,641.03 down 21.25 from Tuesday's closing numerator of 1,662.28. 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  Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $54.70  0.71 from Tuesday's average closing price of $55.41. The median closing price of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $49.43 (HD/DD)  down 0.04 from Tuesday's median closing price of $49.47. The lowest volume was 3M and the highest volume again was Bank of America.

If Wednesday 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  $2,125 ($166,228 - $164,103).

MarketWatch  Wednesday 5:06 by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks retreated Wednesday, wiping out the prior session’s rally, as bond yields in Spain and Italy surged and polls out of Greece added to the uncertainty over whether it would remain in the euro zone. ECB opposes Spain's banks planEuropean Central Bank officials signal they would oppose any attempt to fund the $23.8 billion recapitalization of Spain's Bankia via the central bank's facilities. “If Greece ends up leaving the European Union and the debt crisis remains reasonably well contained, then world growth will continue at a modest pace. But if that contagion becomes chaotic, then all bets are off,” said Mark Martiak, senior wealth strategist at Premier/First Allied Securities. The Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449 DJIA -1.28% dropped 160.83 points, or 1.3%, to 12,419.86, with all but one of its 30 components in the red. On Tuesday, it had gained nearly 126 points in a broad surge fueled by hopes for Greece and more global stimulus. The S&P 500 Index SPX -1.43% on Wednesday shed 19.10 points, or 1.4%, to end at 1,313.32, with energy and financial firms hardest hit among its 10 sectors. All sectors ended lower. The Nasdaq Composite Index / COMP -1.17% declined 33.63 points, or 1.2%, to 2,837.36. For the month that ends Thursday, the benchmark indexes are down at least 6%.For every stock rising, roughly six fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where 768 million shares traded. NYSE composite volume was 3.5 billion, while volume of Nasdaq-listed shares was 1.7 billion.Gold gained, with the futures contract for August delivery /quotes/zigman/676896 GCQ2 -0.11% rising $14.70 to end at $1,565.70 an ounce. Oil /quotes/zigman/2203147 CLN2 -0.22% tumbled $2.94 to finish at $87.82 a barrel. The bourse in Madrid. Spain’s 10-year bond yields /quotes/zigman/4869131/delayed ES:10YR_ESP +0.13% hit a six-month high and closed 22 basis points higher, at 6.7%, as Spanish authorities discussed how they would pay for the $23.6 billion bailout of lender Bankia S.A.  ES:BKIA -8.60% , and new data showed private deposits fled Spanish banks in April. Italy’s borrowing costs rose as the government sold debt but fell short of its target. Read more on Italian bonds. As stocks in Europe tumbled, the European Commission called for direct aid for troubled euro-zone banks. The latest poll from Greece had the leftist Syriza party taking the lead against the pro-bailout conservatives ahead of a parliamentary election June 17 that could determine if the nation remains in the euro zone. Bloomberg News reported that a survey found most Greek voters want to revise the terms of the nation’s financial rescue. “There’s a Greek myth about a guy named Sisyphus who was compelled to roll a rock up a hill, only to see it roll back down over and over again, and it seems like that’s what we have here,” said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Banyan Partners in New York, of the European debt crisis. “Even if Greece stays in the euro and Spain can somehow recapitalize its banks, they are still in an austerity-plagued environment with low or negative growth, and that’s going to impact the rest of the world,” he added. In the United States, the 10-year Treasury yield /quotes/zigman/4868283/delayed 10_YEAR -0.55% fell to a record low of 1.62%. The National Association of Realtors reported its index of pending home sales in April unexpectedly declined, offsetting recent data that inspired hopes that housing had hit a bottom.

 Thursday's Dow News followed by Wednesday's Closing Dow Numbers:

AT&T:  No mentions found.

Alcoa:  
No mentions found.

American Express: 
No mentions found.

Bank of America:
No mentions found.
Boeing:
No mentions found.
Caterpillar:  WSJ pB7 "Angry Caterpillar hunkering down" by James Hagerty says 770 IAM workers in Joliet are on strike.

IBD pA2 "Caterpillar" says CAT agreed to sell its Bucyrus business  in S. Africa to a S. African firm for $115 mil.

Chevron:
No mentions found.
Cisco:  IBD pA2 "Cisco: web traffic to soar" says the No. 1 network equp maker sees Internet traffic soaring in the next 4 years at an annual rate of 29% due to online video demand.

Coke:
No mentions found.
Disney:  No mentions found.

DuPont:
No mentions found.
Exxon:
No mentions found.
GE:
No mentions found.
Hewlett-Packard:  WSJ pB1 "HP, Oracle head to divorce court" by Ben Worthen says jury selection starts today in a trial in Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, CA over Oracle's decision las yea to stop making its database software for some HP server systems.  It involves HP servers that use Intel's Itanium processors.  HP is tring to force Oracle to keep making sofware for the Itanium servers.

Home Depot:
No mentions found.
Intel:  WSJ pB1 "HP, Oracle head to divorce court" by Ben Worthen says jury selection starts today in a trial in Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, CA over Oracle's decision las yea to stop making its database software for some HP server systems.  It involves HP servers that use Intel's Itanium processors.  HP is tring to force Oracle to keep making sofware for the Itanium servers.

IBM:
No mentions found.
JPMorgan:
No mentions found.
Johnson & Johnson:
No mentions found.
Kraft:
No mentions found.
McDonald's:
No mentions found.
Merck:
No mentions found.
Microsoft:  Detroit Free Press p4B "Motley Fool" says Microsoft's Windows 8 will be tablet friendly when it rolls out this year.

Pfizer:
No mentions found.
Procter & Gamble:  WSJ pC3 "Gupta's lawyers: liars at Galleon" by Chad Bray says defense lawyers for former Procgter & Gamble director Rajat Gupa claimed his accusers of insider trading were lying.

3M:
No mentions found.
Travelers:
No mentions found.
United Tech:
No mentions found.

Verizon:
No mentions found.
Walmart:  WSJ pB3 "Walmart cheer: inegrity" by Shelly Banjo says Walmart had a meeting of 1,300 employees in Ark Wed ahead of is shareholdes' meeting Fri and the theme was integrity.
Wednesday's Dow Closing Numbers:

SymbolLast SaleChange% ChangeShare VolumeMarket
TNYSE
AANYSE
AXPNYSE
BACNYSE
BANYSE
CATNYSE
CVXNYSE
CSCONASDAQ-GS
KONYSE
DISNYSE
DDNYSE
XOMNYSE
GENYSE
HPQNYSE
HDNYSE
INTCNASDAQ-GS
IBMNYSE
JPMNYSE
JNJNYSE
KFTNYSE
MCDNYSE
MRKNYSE
MSFTNASDAQ-GS
PFENYSE

PGNYSE
MMMNYSE
TRVNYSE
UTXNYSE
VZDualListed

WMTNYSE
WMTNYSE

WMTNYSE
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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 Alex Gorsky (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 5/16/12 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 $382.5 [4.5]

2. Microsoft MSFT 253.5 [8.5]

3. IBM 229.5 [1]

4. WalMart WMT 202 [3.5]

5. Chevron CVX 200 [2]

6. AT&T T 195.5 [6]

7. GE 195 [10.5]

8.Procter & Gamble PG 174.5 [3]


9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 174.5 [3]

10. Coke KO 173 [2]

11. Pfizer PFE 167 [7.5]

12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 138 [4]

13. Intel INTC 134 [5]

14. Verizon VZ 116.5 [3]

15. Merck MRK 115 [3]

16. McDonald's MCD 92.5 [1]

17. Cisco CSCO 89 [5.5]

18. Disney DIS 80.5 [2]

19. Bank of America BAC 78.5 [10.5]

20. Home Depot HD 74 [1.5]

21. United Technologies UTX 69.5 [1]

22. Kraft KFT 69 [2]

23. American Express AXP 67 [1]

24. Caterpillar CAT 60.5 [.5]

25. 3M MMM 59.5 [.5]

26. Boeing BA 54.5 [1]

27. DuPont DD 47 [1]

28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 44 [2]

29. Travelers TRV 25 [.5]

30. Alcoa AA 9 [1]


Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 5/16/12:



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



AT&T T: 5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31

5/2/12 8K re: Results of Annual Stockholders Meeting

4/24/12 2 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results

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

Alcoa AA: 5/10/12 8K re: Results of Annual Shareholders Meeting

5/8/12 8K re: Sustainability Highlights Report

4/16/12 8K re: 1Q Earnings call transcript

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


American Express AXP: 5/15/12 8K re: delinquency & write-off stats thru 4/30

5/3/12 8K re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders results

5/1/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31

4/18/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/16/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats thru 3/31

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




Bank of Am BAC: 5/9/12 8K re: results of Annual Shareholders meeting

5/4/12 8K re: change of presentation of fin'l info

5/3/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31

4/23/12 Proxy material for 5/9 Annual Meeting

4/19/12 8K 1Q results

4/11/12 8K re: reclassification of business segments

3/16/12 8K re: sale of preferred stock




Boeing BA: 5/3/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws reducing number of directors from 12 to 11

4/25/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/25/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

3/16/12 Proxy materials re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 4/30/12 10 am Field Museum, Chicago




Caterpillar CAT: 5/7/12 10Q for 1 Qtr ended 3/31

4/25 8K re: 3/12 dealer stats

4/25/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/23/12 Proxy re: 6/13/12 Annual Stockholders Meeting at San Antonio, Tx

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




Chevron CVX: 5/3/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

5/3/12 Proxy material re: voting recommendations

4/27/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

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.



Cisco CSCO : 5/9/12 8K re: 3 Qtr results

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




Coke KO: 5/15/12 Proxy re: special meeting of stockholders to approve stock split to be held at Atlanta on 7/10/12 to get invited email: shareownerservices@na.ko.com by 5/21

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




Disney DIS: 5/8/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

5/8/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

3/16/12 8K re: amendment to 2011 Stock Incentive Plan




DuPont DD: 5/1/12 8K re: Annual meeting of stockholders results

4/24/12 10Q re: quarter ended 3/31

4/19/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/17/12 Proxy re: voting recommendations

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.




ExxonMobil XOM: 5/11/12 proxy re: voting recommendations

5/3/12 10Q ended 3/31

4/26/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

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




GE: 5/16/12 8K re: dividend of $475 mil & increase of stock buyback program

5/9/12 10Q/A & 5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31

4/30/12 8K amending emmployee incentive plan

4/20/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results


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




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




Home Depot HD: 5/15/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

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



Intel INTC: 5/11/12 8K re: Reg FD disclosure of webcast

5/7/12 8K re: 90 cents a share dividend

5/4/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/18/12 & 4/17/12 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results

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




IBM: 5/10/12 8K re: underwriting of notes

5/9/12 8K re: investor briefing materials

4/26/12 8K re: Annual stockholders meeting results

4/24/12 10Q re: Qtr ended 3/31

4/18/12 8K re: sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions Business to Toshiba TEC

4/18/12 & 4/17/12 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results

3/22/12 & 3/12/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of stockholders on 4/24/12 10 am Charleston Convention Center, S.C.





JPMorganChase JPM: 5/15/12 8K re: retirement of Chief Inv. Office Ina Drew succeeded by Matthew E. Zames

5/10/12 10Q re: qtr ende 3/31

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




Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 5/8/12 8K re: sale of DePuy Orthopaedics to Biomet

5/7/12 10Q re: qtr ended 4/1

4/27/12 8K re: results of annual meeting of stockholders

4/20/12 add'l proxy material
4/19/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws splitting the offices of Chairman & CEO

4/17/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

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





Kraft KFT: 5/14/12 proxy material re Annual meeting

5/4/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31

5/3/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

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




McDonald's MCD: 5/8/12 8K re: April sales

5/8/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/20/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/16/12 8K re: election of Tim Fenton as COO

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.




Merck MRK: 4/27/12 10Q re Qr ended 3/31

4/27/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

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




Microsoft MSFT: 5/3/12 8K re: election of Steve Luczo to Board, he is CEO of Seagate Tech

4/19/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31

4/19/12 8K re 1 Qtr results



Pfizer PFE: 5/10/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/1

5/1/12 8K re: 1 qtr results

4/27/12 8K re: results of annual meeting of shareholders

4/23/12 8K re: ale of Nutrition business to Nestle for $11.85 bil

44/16/12 add't'l proxy material

3/15/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders 4/26/12 8:30 am Westin Governor Morris, Morristown, NJ




Procter & Gamble PG: 5/4/12 8K e: resentation of info re: Snack Business as a discontinued operation

4/27/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31

4/27/12 2 8Ks re: 3 qtr results

4/13/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents payable 5/15/12 to record holders at 4/27




3M MMM: 5/10/12 & 5/412 8Ks re: adoption of exec pre-arranged stock trading plans

5/9/12 2 8Ks re: approval of amendments to employee stock purchase plan

5/3/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results

4/17/12 8K re: duties of Lead Inependent Director


3/21/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of stockhodlers 5/8/12 10 am River Centre, St. Paul, Minn




Travelers TRV: 4/19/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ended 3/31

4/10/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/23/12 11 am Hartford, Marriott


United Technologies UTX: 4/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results

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




Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 5/9/12 8K re: results of annual shareholders meeting

4/26/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/19/12 8K re: 1 qtr results

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.




WalMart WMT: 4/16/12 proxy material re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held 6/1 at 7 am at U. of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark.

3/27/12 10K for year ended 1/31/12 END