Sunday, June 24, 2012

6/24/12 Sun/Sat Barron's Likes Walmart


Post No. 1,692 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 recent ranking of the Dow 30 components by market capitalization as of 6/20/12 and Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of 6/20/12.

A read of the print editions of Monday's Barron's and Investor's Business Daily, the combined Saturday and Sunday issues of the Wall St. Journal &  Financial Times; and Sunday's & Saturday's New York Times &  Atlanta Journal Constitution 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 Friday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.

Dow Jones Average The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 12,640.78 up 67.21 or 0.53% from Thursday's close of 12,573.57. For the week the Dow was down 126.35 or 0.99% from last Friday's close of 12,767.13. For the year the Dow is up 3.46%. Of the 30 Dow components 28 gained and 2 (Caterpillar and Walmart) declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Travelers up 75 cents and percentage-wise was Microsoft up 1.87 %. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Walmart down 40 cents or 0.59%.

 Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 "Stocks hang tough after Thursday's sharp decline"  by Paul Whitfield says stocks rebounded from Thursday's nasty drojp, but lower volume throughout most of the session suggested the big money wasn't rushing to buy.  Friday's action was up as rebalancing of the russell indexes boosted volume.  The current outlook is uptrend under pressure.

WSJ pB4 "Too little, too late for Dow" by Matt Jarzemsky says a rebound by banks & health care shares helped push the dow higher but not enough to avoid a losing week.  Fin'l firms led the advance following Thurs' downgrade of 15 global banks by Moody's.  JPMorgan was up 48 cents.

Sat. NYT pB6 "Bank shares, thurs' losers, lead S&P back up" by Reuters says stocks ended higher on Fri led by gains in bank shares as the S&P bounced back from its 2nd worst decline of the year.

Fin Times p11 "Morgan Stanley rebounds after Moody's downgrade" by Kandy Wong says banks stocks were mixed on the week.  Bank of America lost 0.8% and JPMorgan gained 3.5%.  Over the week, energy and utilities stocks led losses as the price of crude oil dropped below $90 for the first time in 18 months.  Exxon was 0.9% lower.  Procter & Gamble was down 4.3% after it cut earnings and rev forecast for the 2nd time in 3 months.

As of the close of the market on Friday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page B4 of Saturday's Wall St. Journal is 0.132129493. Saturday's trailing P/E ratio is 13.94 up from Friday's trailing P/E ratio of 13.85  (year ago it was 13.58); Saturday's P/E estimate is 12.15 up from Friday's P/E estimate of 12.05 (year ago it was 12.20) and Saturday's dividend yield is 2.64 down from Friday's dividend yield of 2.65 (last year it was 2.51). 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 1,670.22 up 8.88 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1,661.34. 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 $55.67 up $0.29 from Thursday's average closing price of $55.38. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $50.49 (HD/DD) up 0.10 from Thursday's median closing price of $50.39. The lowest volume was Travelers 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 $888 ($167,022 - $166,134).

MarketWatch Fri. 4:13 pm by Myra P. Saefong Gibson says U.S. stocks finished higher Friday, recouping a portion of the hefty losses they saw in the previous session as investors cheered news that the European Central Bank would take further steps to ease loan collateral for banks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA+0.53% rose 67 points, or 0.5%, to close at 12,640.86, but fell 1% for the week, while the S&P 500 SPX+0.72% added 10 points, or 0.7%, to 1,335.02, losing 0.6% for the week. The Nasdaq Composite COMP+1.17% rose 33 points, or 1.2%, to 2,892.42, ending the week 0.7% higher. The gains helped lift the Nasdaq back into the black for the week, but the Dow industrials and S&P 500 fell from last Friday's close. The market rallied "on short covering from the selloff from [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke's disappointing game of 'Twister' instead of a full blown QE3, some relief that the bank downgrades didn't spell out disaster and news from Europe that it is loosening their collateral requirements," said Keith Springer, president of Springer Financial Advisors.

Sunday's and Saturday's Dow News followed by Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:

AT&T:  No mentions found.

Alcoa:   No mentions found.



American Express: No mentions found.

Bank of America:  WSJ pB1 "Moody's defends bank rating cuts" by Robin Sidel says Moody defends cutting JPMorgan two notches and Bank of America's long term rating by one notch.

WSJ pB16 "Wall St: don't mention the war" by David Reilly says shares in bank of America are trading at discounts to its tangible book value. JPMorgan's rating cut by Moody's was partially due to its trading losses.

Fin Times p11 "Morgan Stanley rebounds after Moody's downgrade" by Kandy Wong says banks stocks were mixed on the week.  Bank of America lost 0.8% and JPMorgan gained 3.5%.  Over the week, energy and utilities stocks led losses as the price of crude oil dropped below $90 for the first time in 18 months.  Exxon was 0.9% lower.  Procter & Gamble was down 4.3% after it cut earnings and rev forecast for the 2nd time in 3 months.

Boeing: No mentions found.

Caterpillar: Barron's Cover Story & p27  "World's most respected companies" by Michael Santoli says Apple is the runaway No.l, followed by IBM at 2, McDonald's at 3, Amazon, and Caterpillar at 5..  Coke is 8 and Disney is 11.      Sliding in the rankings: PepsiCo, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan.  Hewlett-Packard didn't make the list.

Chevron: No mentions found.

Cisco:  Fin Times p5 "Surface tensions" by Richard Waters says the unveiling of Microsoft's tablet coputer shows how a once feared software titan has been forced to change course in a world recast by the success of bitter rival Apple.  A pile of tablet computers have already failed to match the iPad and includes defunct devices like Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad and Cisco System's Cius.

Coke: Barron's Cover Story & p27  "World's most respected companies" by Michael Santoli says Apple is the runaway No.l, followed by IBM at 2, McDonald's at 3, Amazon, and Caterpillar at 5..  Coke is 8 and Disney is 11.      Sliding in the rankings: PepsiCo, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan.  Hewlett-Packard didn't make the list.

Disney: Barron's Cover Story & p27  "World's most respected companies" by Michael Santoli says Apple is the runaway No.l, followed by IBM at 2, McDonald's at 3, Amazon, and Caterpillar at 5..  Coke is 8 and Disney is 11.      Sliding in the rankings: PepsiCo, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan.  Hewlett-Packard didn't make the list.

DuPont: No mentions found.

Exxon: Fin Times p11 "Morgan Stanley rebounds after Moody's downgrade" by Kandy Wong says banks stocks were mixed on the week.  Bank of America lost 0.8% and JPMorgan gained 3.5%.  Over the week, energy and utilities stocks led losses as the price of crude oil dropped below $90 for the first time in 18 months.  Exxon was 0.9% lower.  Procter & Gamble was down 4.3% after it cut earnings and rev forecast for the 2nd time in 3 months.

GE: No mentions found.

Hewlett-Packard:  Barron's Cover Story & p27  "World's most respected companies" by Michael Santoli says Apple is the runaway No.l, followed by IBM at 2, McDonald's at 3, Amazon, and Caterpillar at 5..  Coke is 8 and Disney is 11.      Sliding in the rankings: PepsiCo, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan.  Hewlett-Packard didn't make the list.

 Fin Times p5 "Surface tensions" by Richard Waters says the unveiling of Microsoft's tablet coputer shows how a once feared software titan has been forced to change course in a world recast by the success of bitter rival Apple.  A pile of tablet computers have already failed to match the iPad and includes defunct devices like Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad and Cisco System's Cius.

Home Depot:

Intel:

IBM:  Barron's Cover Story & p27  "World's most respected companies" by Michael Santoli says Apple is the runaway No.l, followed by IBM at 2, McDonald's at 3, Amazon, and Caterpillar at 5..  Coke is 8 and Disney is 11.      Sliding in the rankings: PepsiCo, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan.  Hewlett-Packard didn't make the list.

JPMorgan:  Barron's p14 "Last Week review" says Microsoft released the first computer it ever made.  Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan got tougher treatment on his 2nd visit to Capitol hill.   Johnson & Johnson and the Justice Dept are close to settling a proble of improper promotion of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.

 WSJ pB1 "Moody's defends bank rating cuts" by Robin Sidel says Moody defends cutting JPMorgan two notches and Bank of America's long term rating by one notch.

 Fin Times p11 "Morgan Stanley rebounds after Moody's downgrade" by Kandy Wong says banks stocks were mixed on the week.  Bank of America lost 0.8% and JPMorgan gained 3.5%.  Over the week, energy and utilities stocks led losses as the price of crude oil dropped below $90 for the first time in 18 months.  Exxon was 0.9% lower.  Procter & Gamble was down 4.3% after it cut earnings and rev forecast for the 2nd time in 3 months.

WSJ pB16 "Wall St: don't mention the war" by David Reilly says shares in bank of America are trading at discounts to its tangible book value. JPMorgan's rating cut by Moody's was partially due to its trading losses.

WSJ pB4 "Too little, too late for Dow" by Matt Jarzemsky says a rebound by banks & health care shares helped push the dow higher but not enough to avoid a losing week.  Fin'l firms led the advance following Thurs' downgrade of 15 global banks by Moody's.  JPMorgan was up 48 cents.

Johnson & Johnson:  Barron's p14 "Last Week review" says Microsoft released the first computer it ever made.  Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan got tougher treatment on his 2nd visit to Capitol hill.   Johnson & Johnson and the Justice Dept are close to settling a proble of improper promotion of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.

Kraft:  Barron's p24 "Smucker looks tasty again" by Bob O'Briend says Smucker is down 3% this year while Kraft Foods is up 4% and J.J. Heinz is down 1%.

McDonald's: Barron's Cover Story & p27  "World's most respected companies" by Michael Santoli says Apple is the runaway No.l, followed by IBM at 2, McDonald's at 3, Amazon, and Caterpillar at 5..  Coke is 8 and Disney is 11.      Sliding in the rankings: PepsiCo, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan.  Hewlett-Packard didn't make the list.

Merck: No mentions found.

Microsoft:  Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "Microsoft", Barron's p35 "Microsoft tries to etch a future in tablets" by Tiernan Ray  say Microsoft's new Surface tablet computer, unveiled to compete with Apple iPads and other tablets, will at first be sold without mobile-phone-network capability for Internet access.

Barron's p14 "Last Week review" says Microsoft released the first computer it ever made.  Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan got tougher treatment on his 2nd visit to Capitol hill.   Johnson & Johnson and the Justice Dept are close to settling a proble of improper promotion of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.

Barron's charts Microsoft at pM6 saying it will try to catch Apple and Google with a revamped Windows Phone software for smartphones that go on sale this fall.

Fin Times p5 "Surface tensions" by Richard Waters says the unveiling of Microsoft's tablet coputer shows how a once feared software titan has been forced to change course in a world recast by the success of bitter rival Apple.  A pile of tablet computers have already failed to match the iPad and includes defunct devices like Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad and Cisco System's Cius.

Pfizer:

Procter & Gamble:  Inv. Bus. Daily pB2 "Strong dollar hurts P&G, others" says Procter & Gamble cut its current Q4 guidance partly on forex woes.

Fin Times p9 "P&G core business pledge fails to convince investors" by Barney Jopson says P&G will not enter any new nations but will focus on its existing operations in the 10 most important nations.  This strategic shift sets P&G apart from peers such as Colgate and Unilever which continue to try to expand aggressively.

 Fin Times p11 "Morgan Stanley rebounds after Moody's downgrade" by Kandy Wong says banks stocks were mixed on the week.  Bank of America lost 0.8% and JPMorgan gained 3.5%.  Over the week, energy and utilities stocks led losses as the price of crude oil dropped below $90 for the first time in 18 months.  Exxon was 0.9% lower.  Procter & Gamble was down 4.3% after it cut earnings and rev forecast for the 2nd time in 3 months.

3M:  WSJ pC7 "Go ahead, think it over" by Chris Chabris is a review of the book Wait by Frank Partnoy and discusses the 12 year delay from the time 3M invented Post-It Notes to its launch as a product.

Travelers: No mentions found.

United Technologies: No mentions found.

Verizon: No mentions found.

Walmart:  Barron's pM10 "Walmart, a fin'l locomotive" by Steven Sears says Walmart is the sleeper hit of '12 as it is overshadowed by Europe's economic crisis.  It set a 52 week high of $68.86 on Thurs.  Its annual dividend was increased recently to $1.59 from $1.46 and now yields 2.3% compared with 10 year Treasury yield of 1.6%.   Walmart is gradually getting stronger and seems uncorrelated with the market.

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Friday's Closing Dow 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

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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 6/20/12 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 $397.5 [4.5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 260 [8.5]
3. IBM 229.5 [1]
4. WalMart WMT 233 [3.5]
5. Chevron CVX 204.5 [2]
6. AT&T T 207.5 [6]
7. GE 213 [10.5]
8.Procter & Gamble PG 165.5 [3]
9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 184 [3]
10. Coke KO 170.5 [2.5]
11. Pfizer PFE 169.5 [7.5]
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 138.5 [4]
13. Intel INTC 139 [5]
14. Verizon VZ 123 [3]
15. Merck MRK 119 [3]
16. McDonald's MCD 90 [1]
17. Cisco CSCO 94 [5.5]
18. Disney DIS 85.5 [2]
19. Bank of America BAC 87.5 [10.5]
20. Home Depot HD 81 [1.5]
21. United Technologies UTX 69 [1]
22. Kraft KFT 69 [2]
23. American Express AXP 66 [1]
24. Caterpillar CAT 57 [.5]
25. 3M MMM 60.5 [.5]
26. Boeing BA 54.5 [1]
27. DuPont DD 47.5 [1]
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 42 [2]
29. Travelers TRV 25 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 9.5 [1]

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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 6/20/12:

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

AT&T T: 6/14/12 8K re: sale of approx. $2 bil of notes
6/7/12 8K re completion of sale of AT&T Advertising Solutions to Cerebrus
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

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: 6/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats 3/31, 4/30 & 5/31/12
6/13/12 8K re: fin'l presentation of Vice-Chair Edward Gilligan
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

Bank of Am BAC: 5/25/12 8K re: repurchase of notes
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


Boeing BA: 5/3/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws reducing number of directors from 12 to 114/25/12 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: 6/20/12 8K re: 3 month dealer stats thru 5/12
6/18/12 8K re: amended by-laws re: date of annual stockholders meeting
6/14/12 8K re: election of Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. to Bd. of Dirs.
6/13/12 8K re: increase of quarterly div to 52 cents payable 8/20 to 7/20 record holders
5/17/12 8K re: 3 month dealer stats thru 4/12
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

Chevron CVX: 6/4/12 8K re: voting results from annual stockholders meeting
5/27/12 proxy re: recommendation to vote against all stockholder proposals
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 of 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 : 6/13/12 8K re: director's pre-arranged stock trading plan
5/23/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/28/12
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: 5/25/12 Proxy material re: 7/10 Special stockholders meeting
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


Disney DIS:6/11/12 8K re: $2.25 bil 5 year credit agreement
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: 6/1/12 8K re: voting results from annual shareholders meeting
5/16/12 proxy re: exec compensation
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: 6/12/12 8K re: election of Manjin Dekkers to Board of Dirs.
5/23/12 10Q/A amend 10Q for quarter ended 3/31/12
5/16/12 8K re: dividend of $475 mil from GECC to GE & increase of stock buyback program
5/9/12 10Q/A & 5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31
4/30/12 8K amending employee 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: 6/8/12 10Q re: quarter ended 4/30/12
5/23/12 8K re: 2nd Qtr results
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: 5/24/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/29/12
5/22/12 8K re: voting results of 5/17 annual shareholders meeting
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: 5/22/12 8K re: voting results of annual stockholders meeting
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 stockholders meeting 5/17/12 8:30 am HQ, Santa Clara, CA


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


JPMorganChase JPM: 6/13/12 8K re: CEO Jamie Dimon's testimony before US Senate Comm on Banking
6/12/12 8K re: redemption of $9 bil in Trust Preferred Capital Securities
5/18/12 8K re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders' results
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


Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 6/14/12 8K re: completion of Synthes purchase for $19.7 cash/stock
6/12/12 8K re: repurchase of shares from Goldman Sachs & JPMorgan
6/8/12 8K re: special charge of $600 mil related to legal charges related to Risperdal, Invega & Naterecor
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


Kraft KFT: 6/18/12 8K re: Exchange Offer
6/8/12 8K re: on 6/26 KFT to trade on NASDAQ not NYSE
5/31/12 8K re: issuance of $6 bil of notes
5/24/12 8K re: amendment of bylaws to do away with share certificates as of 6/15
5/22/12 8K re: 5 year revolving credit contract
5/18/12 8K re: favorable IRS ruling on tax-free nature of spin-off
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.

McDonald's MCD: 6/18/12 8K re: stocks options to Donald Thompson CEO as of 7/1
6/11/12 8K re: May '12 sales
5/29/12 8K re: issuance of approx. $1 bil of notes
5/29/12 8K re: approval of officers' stock plan
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
Merck MRK: 5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/22 Annual meeting of shareholders
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: 6/18/12 8K re: Amendment to By-laws re: timing of Annual Meeting of Shareholders
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: 5/23/12 8K re: exec promotions
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 Independent Director
3/21/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of stockhodlers 5/8/12 10 am River Centre, St. Paul, Minn

Travelers TRV: 5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/23 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
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: 6/18/12 8K re: issuance of equity unites
6/1/12 8K re: issuance of $9.8 bil of notes
4/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results
4/13/12 8K re: retirement 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: 6/4/12 8K re: voting results of Annual Meeting of Shareholders
6/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/30/12
5/17/12 8K re: operating results & guidance
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

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