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Post No. 1,925 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 11/2/12 and recent Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of 11/2/12.
A read of the print editions of Friday's Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, New York Times, USA Today & Washington Post 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 Thursday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.
Dow Jones Average: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Thursday at 13,021.82 up 36.71 or 0.28% from Wednesday's close of 12,985.11. For the year the Dow is up 6.6$. Of the Dow components, 21 gained, Alcoa was unchanged and 8 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise and percentage-wise was UnitedHealth up $1.36 or 3.05%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Home Depot down 59 cents and percentage-wise was Intel down 2.79%.
WSJ pC4 "Stocks find footing after midday whipping" by Alexandra Scaggs et al says a rise in telecom & healh care shares helped stocks settle higher after major indexes were whipped around by fiscal cliff worries.
NYT pB8 "Economic reports help shares gain ground" by AP says stocks rose Thurs after ainvestors recovered from pessimistic reports on fed budget talks & were cheered by reports on economic growth & unemployment claims.
Fin times p24 "Kohl's takes a knock as nov same store sales fail to impress' by Anora Mahmudova says US equity markets had volatile trading as investors reacted to news that Tim Geithner held a 1st round of unsuccessful talks with the Republican leader in theh House over the the looming fiscal cliff.
IBD pB2 "Stocks push ahead, shrug off disappointing news" by Pual Whitfield says stocks advanced Thurs as the indexes shrugged off mostly lackluster data & stalled fiscal cliff talks in DC. Thursday's acion saw higher volume and the market was up as the current outlook is sill a confirmed uptrend.
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 0.130216081. Friday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.49 up from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.45 (year ago it was 13.00); today's P/E estimate is 12.10 unchanged from Thursday's P/E estimate of 12.10 (year ago it was 11.55) and today's dividend yield is 2.68 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.67 (last year it was 2.62). 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 1,695.65 up 4.78 from Wednesday's closing numerator of 1,690.87. 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 (0.130216081) you get the increase in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $7.68 change in the Dow Index.
The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.51 up 15 cents from Wednesday's average of $56.36. The median closing price of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $52.04 (DIS/UNH) up $1.09 from Wednesday's median closing price of $50.95. 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have made $478 ($169,565 - $169,087).
AT&T: No mentions found.
Alcoa: No mentions found.
American Express: No mentions found.
Bank of America: No mentions found.
Boeing: WSJ pB3 "Boeing seeks US mediator" by Jon ostrower says Boeing requested a fed mediator's help in its negotiations with its enginners union re: a new contract
Caterpillar: No mentions found.
Chevron: No mentions found.
Cisco: IBD pA2 "Cisco bids $141 mil for Cariden" says Cariden is a privately held maker of network planning,d esign,, & raffic mgmt sofware for telecom firms.
Coke: No mentions found.
Disney: WSJ pB7 "For Hong Kong Disney profit comes true" by Chester Yung says afer 7 years, its theme park there is finally making money thanks to Mainland visitors.
DuPont: No mentions found.
Exxon: No mentions found.
GE: No mentions found.
Hewlett-Packard: NYT pB1 "A clash of auditors in HP deal 7 loss" by Floyd Norris says the finger pointing continues over the Autonomy deal.
Home Depot: No mentions found.
Intel: No mentions found.
IBM: WSJ pC3 "Illegal tipping alleged on IBM deal" by Chad Bray says the US charged 2 ex-bokers for trading ahead of a $1.2 bil purchase by IBM in '09.
JPMorgan: No mentions found.
Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.
JPMorgan: No mentions found.
McDonald's: No mentions found.
Merck: No mentions found.
Microsoft: Fin Times p15 "Microsoft plans to follow Apple with yearly Windows updates" by Richard Waters say this is due to its desire to reposition its core product for the mobiel computing revolution.
WSJ pB5 "Windows 8 gets a slow start" by Steve Jones et al says Microsoft's new op system fails to ignite PC sales in its first 3 weeks based on data from big retailers such as Walmart.
Pfizer: No mentions found.
Procter & Gamble: No mentions found.
3M: No mentions found.
Travelers: No mentions found.
UnitedHealth: No mentions found.
United Technologies: No mentions found.
Verizon: No mentions found.
Walamrt: WSJ pB5 "Windows 8 gets a slow start" by Steve Jones et al says Microsoft's new op system fails to ignite PC sales in its first 3 weeks based on data from big retailers such as Walmart.
11/29/12 Thurs. 4:32 pm MarketWatch by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks on Thursday rose for a second day, lifting the Dow industrials into positive terrain for the week, as investors bet on at least a short-term fix to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. “I’m still expecting a deal. On the tax side, 98% of Americans will get to keep their Bush tax cuts on a permanent basis. Both sides of the partisan divide agree that this should happen. That’s actually a very big deal and very good for the economy,” Ed Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research Inc., wrote in a research note. “The Democrats want to raise the top two tax rates, which apply to the top 2% of Americans earning $250,000 or more. The Republicans oppose doing so. Nevertheless, an outline of a compromise is taking shape,” said Yardeni. The indexes came off their highs after House Speaker John Boehner declared that “no substantive progress” had been made in talks to reach a budget deal. “The market has been doing a good job of jumping on almost every remark out of Washington and overshooting,” Elliot Spar, market strategist at Stifel Nicolaus, remarked in afternoon commentary. After a 77-point rise, the Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449 DJIA +0.28% dipped 23 points as Boehner spoke, but finished up 36.71 points, or 0.3%, to 13,021.82, leaving it up 0.1% for the week, with one session remaining. Walt Disney Co. DIS +1.06% shares climbed after the entertainment company and Dow component hiked its dividend. The S&P 500 Index SPX +0.43% rose 6.02 points, or 0.4%, to 1,415.95, with materials and health care pacing the gains among its 10 major sectors. “The S&P traded within 3 points of its 200-day moving average at 1,423 and then along comes Boehner. He has gone from optimistic to disappointed in about 24 hours,” said Spar. Addressing a televised news conference, the Ohio Republican said Democrats were “not serious” about spending cuts. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP +0.68% gained 20.25 points, or 0.7%, to 3,012.03. For every two stock falling more than two rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where 662 million shares traded. Composite volume surpassed 3.3 billion. The move into riskier assets weakened the U.S. dollarDXY 0.00% and Treasurys, with commodity prices including oil CLF3 -0.56% and gold /quotes/zigman/699338 GCZ2 -0.05% rising.Obama followed up on his election-victory statement that he looked forward to “sitting down with” Mitt Romney by having lunch with the Republican he beat to win a second term. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and another senior White House aide visited Capitol Hill for talks with congressional leaders on averting automatic spending cuts and tax hikes set to begin in 2013. Thursday’s economic reports drew little response from investors, who lately have bypassed any data in favor of paying attention solely to developments related to the budget talks. The session’s U.S. economic reports included the National Association of Realtors saying pending home sales rose 5.2% in October, illustrating ongoing recovery in the housing market. Read more about pending home sales. America’s economy expanded more than initially projected in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported, with the nation’s economic growth rising to 2.7% in the period — up from an initial estimate of 2% but just under estimates calling for a 2.8% rise.Separately, the Labor Department said claims for unemployment benefits declined by 23,000 to 393,000 last week, with the decline not as much as expected.
Thursday's Closing Dow Numbers:
Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market
T $33.93 0.31 0.92% 29,542,530 NYSE
AA $8.4 unch unch 13,455,758 NYSE
AXP $55.92 0.41 0.74% 4,585,170 NYSE
BAC $9.83 0.07 0.72% 125,607,770 NYSE
BA $74.12 0.03 0.04% 2,996,044 NYSE
CAT $86.25 1.31 1.54% 7,822,503 NYSE
CVX $105.79 0.21 0.2% 5,748,678 NYSE
CSCO $19.01 0.18 0.96% 32,413,538 NASDAQ-GS
KO $37.97 0.41 1.09% 12,412,896 NYSE
DIS $49.72 0.52 1.06% 7,215,165 NYSE
DD $43.54 0.30 0.69% 5,395,855 NYSE
XOM $88.12 0.02 0.02% 11,570,168 NYSE
GE $21.13 0.01 0.05% 27,632,708 NYSE
HPQ $12.89 0.16 1.26% 31,329,548 NYSE
HD $64.24 0.59 0.91% 7,611,979 NYSE
INTC $19.53 0.56 2.79% 64,825,660 NASDAQ-GS
IBM $191.53 0.45 0.23% 4,074,724 NYSE
JPM $41.22 0.39 0.96% 18,908,281 NYSE
JNJ $69.22 0.07 0.1% 9,848,532 NYSE
MCD $86.49 0.03 0.03% 4,868,946 NYSE
MRK $44.71 0.11 0.25% 9,556,845 NYSE
MSFT $26.95 0.41 1.5% 69,522,040 NASDAQ-GS
PFE $24.85 0.18 0.73% 31,575,336 NYSE
PG $69.5 0.06 0.09% 8,772,414 NYSE
3m $90.65 0.28 0.31% 2,360,432 NYSE
TRV $71.18 0.22 0.31% 1,498,210 NYSE
UNH $54.36 1.61 3.05% 10,908,955 NYSE
UTX $79.76 0.04 0.05% 4,206,315 NYSE
VZ $44.01 0.45 1.03% 15,021,817 DualListed
WMT $70.83 0.27 0.38% 9,615,510 NYSE
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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) (has announced early retirement)
IBM Virginia M. Rometty (Armonk, NY)
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon (NY, NY)
Johnson & Johnson JNJ Alex Gorsky (New Brunswick, NJ)
McDonald's MCD Donald 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)
UnitedHealthUNC Stephen Hemsley (Minnetonka, MN)
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 11/2/12 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:
1. Exxon Mobil XOM $416.5
2. Microsoft MSFT 248
3.WalMart WMT 244.6
4. GE 225
5. IBM 218.5
6. Chevron CVX 212.5
7. AT&T T 201.5
8. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 195.5
9. Procter & Gamble PG 189
10. Pfizer PFE 183.5
11. Coke KO 166.5
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 161
13. Merck MRK 140
14. Verizon VZ 127
15. Intel INTC 110.5
16. Bank of America BAC 106
17. Home Depot HD 93.5
18. Cisco CSCO 92
19. Disney DIS 89.5
20. McDonald's MCD 87.5
21. United Technologies UTX 71.5
22. American Express AXP 64
23. 3M MMM 61.5
24. UnitedHealth UNH 57
25. Caterpillar CAT 56
26. Boeing BA 53
27. DuPont DD 41
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 27
29. Travelers TRV 26.5
30. Alcoa AA 9.5
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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 11/2/12:
Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments
AT&T T: 11/2/12 10Q for 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/24/12 2 8Ks (10/24) re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: in-kind contrib. to pension plans
Alcoa AA: 10/25/12 re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/15/12 8K re: transcript of 3Q earnings call
10/10/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/3/12 8K re: EPA remedial plan for Grasse River
American Express AXP: 10/31/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 mos. ended 9/30
10/1/12 8K re: settlement re: U.S. card practices with regulators
9/17/12 8K re: delinq & write-off stats for June, July & Aug
8/15/12 8K re: dlinq. & write0off stats for months of May, June, and July
8/8/12 8K re: presentation from semi-annual Fin'l Community Meeting
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Bank of Am BAC: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/28/12 8K re: settlement re: $1.6 bil regarding Merrill Lynch purchase
8/23/12 8K re: 4 new directors: Sharon Allen, Jack Bovender, Linda Hudson & David Yost
8/10/12 8K re: retirement of Vice Chiar Charles H. Noski as of 9/1
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Boeing BA: 10/24/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/24/12 8K re: 3Q rsults
10/17/12 8K re: two $2.3 bil credit agreements
8/29/12 8K re: bylaw amendments
Caterpillar CAT: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q eneded 9/30
10/22/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: Sept. dealer stats
10/12/12 8K re: officer changes
9/28/12 8K re: price increases
9/21/12 8K re: Aug. dealer stats
9/17/12 8K re: credit agreement for $100 mil
9/7/12 S-4; 8/28/12 8K & 8/20/12 8K all re: exchange offer for debentures
Chevron CVX: 11/2/12 8K re; 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: 3Q interim results
10/3/12 8K re: election of Dr. Alice P. Gast to Board
8/2/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: 2 Qtr. results ended 6/30/12
Cisco CSCO : 10/4/12 8K re: appointment of Gary B. Moore as Pres & other exec appointments
9/26/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Shareholders Meeting on 11/15/12 at Santa Clara,CA
9/19/12 8K re: departure of Jerry Yang from Board
9/12/12 10K for year ended July 28 '12
8/15/12 8K re: 4Q and FY '12 earnings
8/2/12 8K re: appointment to Bd. of CEO of salesforce.com Marc Benioff and Kristina M. Johnson, CEO of enduring Hydro, LLC
Coke KO: 10/25/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/28
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/14/12 8K re: exec changes
8/23/12 8K re: shareholder approval of stock split
Disney DIS: 10/30/12 8K re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilm
8/7/12 10Q & 8/7/12 8K results for 3rd quarter ended 6/30/12
DuPont DD: 10/23/12 10Q & 8K & 10/9 8K all re: 9/30 Q results
9/4/12 8K re: sale of Performance Coatings Div to Carlyle Group for $4.9 bil
ExxonMobil XOM: 11/2/12 8K re: elecgtion of CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns to Bd
11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/2/12 10Q & 7/26/12 8K re: 2Q results ended 6/30/12
GE: 10/19/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: Offering of $7 bil of notes (closing)
Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 10/3/12 8K e: earnings outlook for '13 fiscal year
9/10/12 10Q & 8/22/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/31/12
8/8/12 8K re: write-down due to impairment of goodwill
Home Depot HD: 9/21/12 8K re: election of mark Vadon to Board
8/22/12 10Q for qtr ended 7/29/12
8/14/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/29
8/7/12 8K re: purchase of U.S. Home systems and related Proxy statement
Intel INTC: 10/31/12 10Q & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 9/29 Q results
9/12/12 8K re: closed pruchase of ASWML Holding for $3.1 bil
9/7/12 8K re: lowering 3Q rev outlook
8/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
IBM: 10/30/12 & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 3Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 8K reL election of Virginia M. Rometty to Chrmn of Bd.
9/25/12 8K re: election of Virginia M. Rometty as Chair of Board
8/1/12 8K re: closing of sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions biz to Toshiba Tec
JPMorganChase JPM: 9/24/12 8K re: offering of $3 bil of 3.25% Note due '22
9/19/12 8K re: clsoing of 2.9% Notes due '17
8/27/12 8K re: isswuance of 5.5% non-cumulative Pref shares, Series O
8/20/12 8K re: closing of $2.5 bil 2% Notes due '17
8/9/12 10Q for period ended 6/30/12
Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 10/16/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
8/16/12 8K re: discontinuance of bapineuzumbab trials
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/1/12
McDonald's MCD: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/19 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
9/28/12 8K re: adoption of accoutning standard
9/24/12 8K re: quarterly cash div
9/12/12 8K re: sales increase of 3.7% in Aug.
8/9/12 8K re: July '12 sales
8/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Merck MRK: 10/26/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/13/12 8K re: closing of sale of notes
8/7/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: results of second quarter ended 6/30/12
Microsoft MSFT: 11/2/12 8K & 10/18 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 1Q results
10/17 & 10/10 & 10/9 Proxy materials re: 11/28 Annual Meeting of Shareholders at Bellevue, Wash
10/9/12 8K re: retirement of Reed Hastings from Bd & other Bd. changes
9/18/12 8K re: increase in quarterly div & retirement of Raymond Gilmartin from Board
Pfizer PFE: 11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/14/12 8K re: purchase of marketing rights to OTC Nexium from AstraZeneca
8/9/12 10Q & 7/31/12 8K re: results of 2 Qtr ended 7/1/12
Procter & Gamble PG: 10/25/12 10Q & two 8Ks 10/25 re 1Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 re: '12 Annual Shareholder Mtg results
10/9/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents per share payable on 11/15 to 10/19 record holders
10/9/12 re: CEO's speech at Shareholder Mtg
9/21/12 14A proxy re: candidate for Board
9/6/12 8K re: FD disclosure re: Barcaly's Back to School consumer conf.
8/24/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders on 10/9/12 in Cincinnati
8/16/12 Form 8-A & 8/16 & 8/14/12 8Ks re sales of notes
8/8/12 10K and 8/3/12 2 8Ks all re: fourth quarter results for year ended 6/30/12
3M MMM: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/23 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/3/12 8K re: $1.5 bil revolving credit agreement
10/1/12 8K re: contract to purchase Ceradyne Inc. for $35 per share
8/29/12 K re: $150 mil credit agreement
8/2/12 & 7/26/12 8K re: 2nd quarter results for quarter ended 6/30/12
Travelers TRV: 10/18/12 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
7/19/12 10Q & 7/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ender 6/30/12
UnitedHealth Group UNH: 11/2/112 Bd. & officer changes
10/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 9/30
10/2212 8K re: underwriting agreement to sell over $3.4 bil of notes
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: purchase of 90% of Brazil firm Amil Participacoas for $4.9 bil in cash
9/10/12 re: FD disclosure re: Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference
8/7/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12
United Technologies UTX: 10/26/12 & 10/23/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/11 8K/A re: Goodrich purchase
9/12/12 8K re: election of Marshall Larsen to Board
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 11/2/12 8K re: tenderoffer for $1.25 bil of its notes
11/2/12 8K re: Agreements ith CWA & IBEW for new 3 year congtracts covering 43,000 workers
10/25 10Q & 10/18 8K & 10/5/ 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17 8K re: transfer $7.5 bil of pension plan obligations to Prudential
WalMart WMT: 9/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/12
8/16/12 8K re: 2 Qtr results
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
11/29/12 Thurs. pm Dow Closes at 13,021.82 up 36.71
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Post No. 1,924 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 11/2/12 and recent Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of 11/2/12.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Thursday at 13,021.82 up 36.71 or 0.28% from Wednesday's close of 12,985.11. Of the Dow components, 21 gained, Alcoa was unchanged and 8 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise and percentage-wise was UnitedHealth up $1.36 or 3.05%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Home Depot down 59 cents and percentage-wise was Intel down 2.79%.
As of the open of the market on Thursday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C6 of Thursday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Thursday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.45 up from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.34 (year ago it was 13.03); today's P/E estimate is 12.10 unchanged from Wednesday's P/E estimate of 12.10 (year ago it was 11.55) and today's dividend yield is 2.67 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.66 (last year it was 2.61). 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 1,695.65 up 4.78 from Wednesday's closing numerator of 1,690.87. 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 (0.130216081) you get the increase in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $7.68 change in the Dow Index.
The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.51 up 15 cents from Wednesday's average of $56.36. The median closing price of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $52.04 (DIS/UNH) up $1.09 from Wednesday's median closing price of $50.95. 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have made $478 ($169,565 - $169,087).
11/29/12 Thurs. 4:32 pm MarketWatch by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks on Thursday rose for a second day, lifting the Dow industrials into positive terrain for the week, as investors bet on at least a short-term fix to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. “I’m still expecting a deal. On the tax side, 98% of Americans will get to keep their Bush tax cuts on a permanent basis. Both sides of the partisan divide agree that this should happen. That’s actually a very big deal and very good for the economy,” Ed Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research Inc., wrote in a research note. “The Democrats want to raise the top two tax rates, which apply to the top 2% of Americans earning $250,000 or more. The Republicans oppose doing so. Nevertheless, an outline of a compromise is taking shape,” said Yardeni. The indexes came off their highs after House Speaker John Boehner declared that “no substantive progress” had been made in talks to reach a budget deal. “The market has been doing a good job of jumping on almost every remark out of Washington and overshooting,” Elliot Spar, market strategist at Stifel Nicolaus, remarked in afternoon commentary. After a 77-point rise, the Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449 DJIA +0.28% dipped 23 points as Boehner spoke, but finished up 36.71 points, or 0.3%, to 13,021.82, leaving it up 0.1% for the week, with one session remaining. Walt Disney Co. DIS +1.06% shares climbed after the entertainment company and Dow component hiked its dividend. The S&P 500 Index SPX +0.43% rose 6.02 points, or 0.4%, to 1,415.95, with materials and health care pacing the gains among its 10 major sectors. “The S&P traded within 3 points of its 200-day moving average at 1,423 and then along comes Boehner. He has gone from optimistic to disappointed in about 24 hours,” said Spar. Addressing a televised news conference, the Ohio Republican said Democrats were “not serious” about spending cuts. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP +0.68% gained 20.25 points, or 0.7%, to 3,012.03. For every two stock falling more than two rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where 662 million shares traded. Composite volume surpassed 3.3 billion. The move into riskier assets weakened the U.S. dollarDXY 0.00% and Treasurys, with commodity prices including oil CLF3 -0.56% and gold /quotes/zigman/699338 GCZ2 -0.05% rising.Obama followed up on his election-victory statement that he looked forward to “sitting down with” Mitt Romney by having lunch with the Republican he beat to win a second term. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and another senior White House aide visited Capitol Hill for talks with congressional leaders on averting automatic spending cuts and tax hikes set to begin in 2013.
Thursday’s economic reports drew little response from investors, who lately have bypassed any data in favor of paying attention solely to developments related to the budget talks. The session’s U.S. economic reports included the National Association of Realtors saying pending home sales rose 5.2% in October, illustrating ongoing recovery in the housing market. Read more about pending home sales. America’s economy expanded more than initially projected in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported, with the nation’s economic growth rising to 2.7% in the period — up from an initial estimate of 2% but just under estimates calling for a 2.8% rise.Separately, the Labor Department said claims for unemployment benefits declined by 23,000 to 393,000 last week, with the decline not as much as expected.
Thursday's Closing Dow Numbers:
Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market
T $33.93 0.31 0.92% 29,542,530 NYSE
AA $8.4 unch unch 13,455,758 NYSE
AXP $55.92 0.41 0.74% 4,585,170 NYSE
BAC $9.83 0.07 0.72% 125,607,770 NYSE
BA $74.12 0.03 0.04% 2,996,044 NYSE
CAT $86.25 1.31 1.54% 7,822,503 NYSE
CVX $105.79 0.21 0.2% 5,748,678 NYSE
CSCO $19.01 0.18 0.96% 32,413,538 NASDAQ-GS
KO $37.97 0.41 1.09% 12,412,896 NYSE
DIS $49.72 0.52 1.06% 7,215,165 NYSE
DD $43.54 0.30 0.69% 5,395,855 NYSE
XOM $88.12 0.02 0.02% 11,570,168 NYSE
GE $21.13 0.01 0.05% 27,632,708 NYSE
HPQ $12.89 0.16 1.26% 31,329,548 NYSE
HD $64.24 0.59 0.91% 7,611,979 NYSE
INTC $19.53 0.56 2.79% 64,825,660 NASDAQ-GS
IBM $191.53 0.45 0.23% 4,074,724 NYSE
JPM $41.22 0.39 0.96% 18,908,281 NYSE
JNJ $69.22 0.07 0.1% 9,848,532 NYSE
MCD $86.49 0.03 0.03% 4,868,946 NYSE
MRK $44.71 0.11 0.25% 9,556,845 NYSE
MSFT $26.95 0.41 1.5% 69,522,040 NASDAQ-GS
PFE $24.85 0.18 0.73% 31,575,336 NYSE
PG $69.5 0.06 0.09% 8,772,414 NYSE
MMM $90.65 0.28 0.31% 2,360,432 NYSE
TRV $71.18 0.22 0.31% 1,498,210 NYSE
UNH $54.36 1.61 3.05% 10,908,955 NYSE
UTX $79.76 0.04 0.05% 4,206,315 NYSE
VZ $44.01 0.45 1.03% 15,021,817 DualListed
WMT $70.83 0.27 0.38% 9,615,510 NYSE
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The following are excerpts from Thurs. 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, Atlanta Journal Constitution & 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 a separate table of Dow component's symbol and Tuesday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.
Dow Jones Average: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Wednesday at 12,985.11 up 106.98 or 0.83% from Tuesday's close of 12,878.13. For the year the Dow is up 6.28%. Of the Dow components, 27 gained and 23 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Chevron up $2.10 and percentage-wise was Hewlett-Packard up 2.83%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Boeing down 40 cents and percentage-wise was Cisco down 0.68%.
WSJ pC4 "Stocks leave early dip in the dust" by Jonathan Cheng says US stocks erased deep morning losses to finish with big gains, as investors seized on upbeat political remoarks on the fiscal bargaining in DC, and signs that the Fed could continue buying bonds next year. Hewlett-Packard led the Dow up 37 cents.
Fin Times p24 "Costoco Wholesale jumps after it joins special div bandwagon" by Anora Mahmudova says US equity markets rebounded from early morning losses & closed higehr as investors reacted to headlines out of DC on the fiscal cliff, a mix of automatic spending cuts & tax increases.
IBD pB2 "Major indexes swing higher on fresh fed easing hope" by David Saito-Chung says the market got some helpful jawboning from politicians over the deadlock on taxes and fed spending as Wed's action saw broad upside reversal, mixed trade as the current outlook is still a confirmed uptrend.
NYT pB9 "Shares close higher on hope of fiscal accord" by AP says the stock market closed higher on Wed on signs that lawmakers were close to a deal on the fiscal cliff.
Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,690.87 up 13.93 from Tuesday's closing numerator of 1,676.94. 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 (0.130216081) you get the increase in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $7.68 change in the Dow Index.
The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.36 up 46 cents from Tuesday's average of $55.90. The median closing price of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $50.95 (DIS/UNH) down $1.15 from Tuesday's median closing price of $52.10. The lowest volume was Travelers 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have made $1,393 ($169,087 - $167,694).
11/28/12 Wed. 4:09 pm MarketWatch by Kate Gibson Lesova says U.S. stocks rose sharply Wednesday, lifting the S&P 500 back into the green for the week, after comments by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner bolstered thinking a budget deal would be reached. "The president set a timetable, that he'd like to get this done by Christmas, as opposed to drawing it out to Dec. 31, and I do think the markets are encouraged that there is an aggressive, let's get it done, attitude," said Jim Russell, chief equity strategist and regional investment director, wealth management, at U.S. Bank. Erasing a 112-point drop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA+0.83% added 106.98 points, or 0.8%, to 12,985.11. The S&P 500 index SPX+0.79% rose 10.99 points, or 0.8%, to 1,409.93. The Nasdaq Composite COMP+0.81%climbed 23.99 points, or 0.8%, to 2,991.78.
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: WSJ pB2 "Boeing, Airbus in ad spat" by David Pearson says Airbus is using a children's storybook character to accuse Boeing of making false statements.
Caterpillar: No mentions found.
Chevron: No mentions found.
Cisco: No mentions found.
Coke: No mentions found.
Disney: No mentions found.
DuPont: No mentions found.
Exxon: WSJ pB1 "Exxon has an oil shortage" by Tom Fowler says Exxon has over 20 news projects that it hopes will jump start its slumping oil and gas output, which plummeted to 3 year lows in its most recent quarter.
GE: No mentions found.
Hewlett-Packard: WSJ pC4 "Stocks leave early dip in the dust" by Jonathan Cheng says US stocks erased deep morning losses to finish with big gains, as investors seized on upbeat political remoarks on the fiscal bargaining in DC, and signs that the Fed could continue buying bonds next year. Hewlett-Packard led the Dow up 37 cents.
Home Depot: No mentions found.
Intel: No mentions found.
IBM: No mentions found.
JPMorgan: No mentions found.
Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.
McDonald's: No mentions found.
Merck: No mentions found.
Microsoft: IBD pA2 "Windows 8 not halting PC slide" says Microsoft's latest oeprating system isn't arresting the slowdown in PC sales. Earlier this week Microsoft said license sales for Windows 8 in its first month were ahead of the Windows 7 rollout.
WSJ pC10 "For insiders, it's all in the timing" by Justin Lahart says every three months Bill Gates sells 20 mil Microsoft shares.
AJC pA20 "Microsoft ads deride Google shopping guide" say Microsoft is saying Google is a lousy shopping guide for the holidays.
Pfizer: No mentions found.
Procter & Gamble: No mentions found.
3M: No mentions found.
Travelers: No mentions found.
UnitedHealth: No mentions found.
United Technologies: No mentions found.
Verizon: Fin Times p18 "Vodafone chief warns of revival of monopolies" by Dan Thomas says Vodafone's CEO says that payouts from Verizon Wireless could continue next year.
Walmart: No mentions found.
Wednesday's Closing Dow Numbers:
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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) (has announced early retirement)
IBM Virginia M. Rometty (Armonk, NY)
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon (NY, NY)
Johnson & Johnson JNJ Alex Gorsky (New Brunswick, NJ)
McDonald's MCD Donald 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)
UnitedHealthUNC Stephen Hemsley (Minnetonka, MN)
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 11/2/12 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:
1. Exxon Mobil XOM $416.5
2. Microsoft MSFT 248
3.WalMart WMT 244.6
4. GE 225
5. IBM 218.5
6. Chevron CVX 212.5
7. AT&T T 201.5
8. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 195.5
9. Procter & Gamble PG 189
10. Pfizer PFE 183.5
11. Coke KO 166.5
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 161
13. Merck MRK 140
14. Verizon VZ 127
15. Intel INTC 110.5
16. Bank of America BAC 106
17. Home Depot HD 93.5
18. Cisco CSCO 92
19. Disney DIS 89.5
20. McDonald's MCD 87.5
21. United Technologies UTX 71.5
22. American Express AXP 64
23. 3M MMM 61.5
24. UnitedHealth UNH 57
25. Caterpillar CAT 56
26. Boeing BA 53
27. DuPont DD 41
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 27
29. Travelers TRV 26.5
30. Alcoa AA 9.5
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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 11/2/12:
Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments
AT&T T: 11/2/12 10Q for 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/24/12 2 8Ks (10/24) re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: in-kind contrib. to pension plans
Alcoa AA: 10/25/12 re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/15/12 8K re: transcript of 3Q earnings call
10/10/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/3/12 8K re: EPA remedial plan for Grasse River
American Express AXP: 10/31/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 mos. ended 9/30
10/1/12 8K re: settlement re: U.S. card practices with regulators
9/17/12 8K re: delinq & write-off stats for June, July & Aug
8/15/12 8K re: dlinq. & write0off stats for months of May, June, and July
8/8/12 8K re: presentation from semi-annual Fin'l Community Meeting
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Bank of Am BAC: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/28/12 8K re: settlement re: $1.6 bil regarding Merrill Lynch purchase
8/23/12 8K re: 4 new directors: Sharon Allen, Jack Bovender, Linda Hudson & David Yost
8/10/12 8K re: retirement of Vice Chiar Charles H. Noski as of 9/1
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Boeing BA: 10/24/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/24/12 8K re: 3Q rsults
10/17/12 8K re: two $2.3 bil credit agreements
8/29/12 8K re: bylaw amendments
Caterpillar CAT: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q eneded 9/30
10/22/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: Sept. dealer stats
10/12/12 8K re: officer changes
9/28/12 8K re: price increases
9/21/12 8K re: Aug. dealer stats
9/17/12 8K re: credit agreement for $100 mil
9/7/12 S-4; 8/28/12 8K & 8/20/12 8K all re: exchange offer for debentures
Chevron CVX: 11/2/12 8K re; 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: 3Q interim results
10/3/12 8K re: election of Dr. Alice P. Gast to Board
8/2/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: 2 Qtr. results ended 6/30/12
Cisco CSCO : 10/4/12 8K re: appointment of Gary B. Moore as Pres & other exec appointments
9/26/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Shareholders Meeting on 11/15/12 at Santa Clara,CA
9/19/12 8K re: departure of Jerry Yang from Board
9/12/12 10K for year ended July 28 '12
8/15/12 8K re: 4Q and FY '12 earnings
8/2/12 8K re: appointment to Bd. of CEO of salesforce.com Marc Benioff and Kristina M. Johnson, CEO of enduring Hydro, LLC
Coke KO: 10/25/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/28
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/14/12 8K re: exec changes
8/23/12 8K re: shareholder approval of stock split
Disney DIS: 10/30/12 8K re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilm
8/7/12 10Q & 8/7/12 8K results for 3rd quarter ended 6/30/12
DuPont DD: 10/23/12 10Q & 8K & 10/9 8K all re: 9/30 Q results
9/4/12 8K re: sale of Performance Coatings Div to Carlyle Group for $4.9 bil
ExxonMobil XOM: 11/2/12 8K re: elecgtion of CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns to Bd
11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/2/12 10Q & 7/26/12 8K re: 2Q results ended 6/30/12
GE: 10/19/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: Offering of $7 bil of notes (closing)
Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 10/3/12 8K e: earnings outlook for '13 fiscal year
9/10/12 10Q & 8/22/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/31/12
8/8/12 8K re: write-down due to impairment of goodwill
Home Depot HD: 9/21/12 8K re: election of mark Vadon to Board
8/22/12 10Q for qtr ended 7/29/12
8/14/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/29
8/7/12 8K re: purchase of U.S. Home systems and related Proxy statement
Intel INTC: 10/31/12 10Q & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 9/29 Q results
9/12/12 8K re: closed pruchase of ASWML Holding for $3.1 bil
9/7/12 8K re: lowering 3Q rev outlook
8/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
IBM: 10/30/12 & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 3Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 8K reL election of Virginia M. Rometty to Chrmn of Bd.
9/25/12 8K re: election of Virginia M. Rometty as Chair of Board
8/1/12 8K re: closing of sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions biz to Toshiba Tec
JPMorganChase JPM: 9/24/12 8K re: offering of $3 bil of 3.25% Note due '22
9/19/12 8K re: clsoing of 2.9% Notes due '17
8/27/12 8K re: isswuance of 5.5% non-cumulative Pref shares, Series O
8/20/12 8K re: closing of $2.5 bil 2% Notes due '17
8/9/12 10Q for period ended 6/30/12
Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 10/16/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
8/16/12 8K re: discontinuance of bapineuzumbab trials
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/1/12
McDonald's MCD: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/19 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
9/28/12 8K re: adoption of accoutning standard
9/24/12 8K re: quarterly cash div
9/12/12 8K re: sales increase of 3.7% in Aug.
8/9/12 8K re: July '12 sales
8/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Merck MRK: 10/26/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/13/12 8K re: closing of sale of notes
8/7/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: results of second quarter ended 6/30/12
Microsoft MSFT: 11/2/12 8K & 10/18 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 1Q results
10/17 & 10/10 & 10/9 Proxy materials re: 11/28 Annual Meeting of Shareholders at Bellevue, Wash
10/9/12 8K re: retirement of Reed Hastings from Bd & other Bd. changes
9/18/12 8K re: increase in quarterly div & retirement of Raymond Gilmartin from Board
Pfizer PFE: 11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/14/12 8K re: purchase of marketing rights to OTC Nexium from AstraZeneca
8/9/12 10Q & 7/31/12 8K re: results of 2 Qtr ended 7/1/12
Procter & Gamble PG: 10/25/12 10Q & two 8Ks 10/25 re 1Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 re: '12 Annual Shareholder Mtg results
10/9/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents per share payable on 11/15 to 10/19 record holders
10/9/12 re: CEO's speech at Shareholder Mtg
9/21/12 14A proxy re: candidate for Board
9/6/12 8K re: FD disclosure re: Barcaly's Back to School consumer conf.
8/24/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders on 10/9/12 in Cincinnati
8/16/12 Form 8-A & 8/16 & 8/14/12 8Ks re sales of notes
8/8/12 10K and 8/3/12 2 8Ks all re: fourth quarter results for year ended 6/30/12
3M MMM: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/23 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/3/12 8K re: $1.5 bil revolving credit agreement
10/1/12 8K re: contract to purchase Ceradyne Inc. for $35 per share
8/29/12 K re: $150 mil credit agreement
8/2/12 & 7/26/12 8K re: 2nd quarter results for quarter ended 6/30/12
Travelers TRV: 10/18/12 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
7/19/12 10Q & 7/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ender 6/30/12
UnitedHealth Group UNH: 11/2/112 Bd. & officer changes
10/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 9/30
10/2212 8K re: underwriting agreement to sell over $3.4 bil of notes
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: purchase of 90% of Brazil firm Amil Participacoas for $4.9 bil in cash
9/10/12 re: FD disclosure re: Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference
8/7/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12
United Technologies UTX: 10/26/12 & 10/23/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/11 8K/A re: Goodrich purchase
9/12/12 8K re: election of Marshall Larsen to Board
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 11/2/12 8K re: tenderoffer for $1.25 bil of its notes
11/2/12 8K re: Agreements ith CWA & IBEW for new 3 year congtracts covering 43,000 workers
10/25 10Q & 10/18 8K & 10/5/ 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17 8K re: transfer $7.5 bil of pension plan obligations to Prudential
WalMart WMT: 9/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/12
8/16/12 8K re: 2 Qtr results
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Thursday at 13,021.82 up 36.71 or 0.28% from Wednesday's close of 12,985.11. Of the Dow components, 21 gained, Alcoa was unchanged and 8 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise and percentage-wise was UnitedHealth up $1.36 or 3.05%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Home Depot down 59 cents and percentage-wise was Intel down 2.79%.
As of the open of the market on Thursday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C6 of Thursday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Thursday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.45 up from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.34 (year ago it was 13.03); today's P/E estimate is 12.10 unchanged from Wednesday's P/E estimate of 12.10 (year ago it was 11.55) and today's dividend yield is 2.67 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.66 (last year it was 2.61). 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 1,695.65 up 4.78 from Wednesday's closing numerator of 1,690.87. 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 (0.130216081) you get the increase in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $7.68 change in the Dow Index.
The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.51 up 15 cents from Wednesday's average of $56.36. The median closing price of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $52.04 (DIS/UNH) up $1.09 from Wednesday's median closing price of $50.95. 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have made $478 ($169,565 - $169,087).
11/29/12 Thurs. 4:32 pm MarketWatch by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks on Thursday rose for a second day, lifting the Dow industrials into positive terrain for the week, as investors bet on at least a short-term fix to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. “I’m still expecting a deal. On the tax side, 98% of Americans will get to keep their Bush tax cuts on a permanent basis. Both sides of the partisan divide agree that this should happen. That’s actually a very big deal and very good for the economy,” Ed Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research Inc., wrote in a research note. “The Democrats want to raise the top two tax rates, which apply to the top 2% of Americans earning $250,000 or more. The Republicans oppose doing so. Nevertheless, an outline of a compromise is taking shape,” said Yardeni. The indexes came off their highs after House Speaker John Boehner declared that “no substantive progress” had been made in talks to reach a budget deal. “The market has been doing a good job of jumping on almost every remark out of Washington and overshooting,” Elliot Spar, market strategist at Stifel Nicolaus, remarked in afternoon commentary. After a 77-point rise, the Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449 DJIA +0.28% dipped 23 points as Boehner spoke, but finished up 36.71 points, or 0.3%, to 13,021.82, leaving it up 0.1% for the week, with one session remaining. Walt Disney Co. DIS +1.06% shares climbed after the entertainment company and Dow component hiked its dividend. The S&P 500 Index SPX +0.43% rose 6.02 points, or 0.4%, to 1,415.95, with materials and health care pacing the gains among its 10 major sectors. “The S&P traded within 3 points of its 200-day moving average at 1,423 and then along comes Boehner. He has gone from optimistic to disappointed in about 24 hours,” said Spar. Addressing a televised news conference, the Ohio Republican said Democrats were “not serious” about spending cuts. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP +0.68% gained 20.25 points, or 0.7%, to 3,012.03. For every two stock falling more than two rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where 662 million shares traded. Composite volume surpassed 3.3 billion. The move into riskier assets weakened the U.S. dollarDXY 0.00% and Treasurys, with commodity prices including oil CLF3 -0.56% and gold /quotes/zigman/699338 GCZ2 -0.05% rising.Obama followed up on his election-victory statement that he looked forward to “sitting down with” Mitt Romney by having lunch with the Republican he beat to win a second term. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and another senior White House aide visited Capitol Hill for talks with congressional leaders on averting automatic spending cuts and tax hikes set to begin in 2013.
Thursday’s economic reports drew little response from investors, who lately have bypassed any data in favor of paying attention solely to developments related to the budget talks. The session’s U.S. economic reports included the National Association of Realtors saying pending home sales rose 5.2% in October, illustrating ongoing recovery in the housing market. Read more about pending home sales. America’s economy expanded more than initially projected in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported, with the nation’s economic growth rising to 2.7% in the period — up from an initial estimate of 2% but just under estimates calling for a 2.8% rise.Separately, the Labor Department said claims for unemployment benefits declined by 23,000 to 393,000 last week, with the decline not as much as expected.
Thursday's Closing Dow Numbers:
Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market
T $33.93 0.31 0.92% 29,542,530 NYSE
AA $8.4 unch unch 13,455,758 NYSE
AXP $55.92 0.41 0.74% 4,585,170 NYSE
BAC $9.83 0.07 0.72% 125,607,770 NYSE
BA $74.12 0.03 0.04% 2,996,044 NYSE
CAT $86.25 1.31 1.54% 7,822,503 NYSE
CVX $105.79 0.21 0.2% 5,748,678 NYSE
CSCO $19.01 0.18 0.96% 32,413,538 NASDAQ-GS
KO $37.97 0.41 1.09% 12,412,896 NYSE
DIS $49.72 0.52 1.06% 7,215,165 NYSE
DD $43.54 0.30 0.69% 5,395,855 NYSE
XOM $88.12 0.02 0.02% 11,570,168 NYSE
GE $21.13 0.01 0.05% 27,632,708 NYSE
HPQ $12.89 0.16 1.26% 31,329,548 NYSE
HD $64.24 0.59 0.91% 7,611,979 NYSE
INTC $19.53 0.56 2.79% 64,825,660 NASDAQ-GS
IBM $191.53 0.45 0.23% 4,074,724 NYSE
JPM $41.22 0.39 0.96% 18,908,281 NYSE
JNJ $69.22 0.07 0.1% 9,848,532 NYSE
MCD $86.49 0.03 0.03% 4,868,946 NYSE
MRK $44.71 0.11 0.25% 9,556,845 NYSE
MSFT $26.95 0.41 1.5% 69,522,040 NASDAQ-GS
PFE $24.85 0.18 0.73% 31,575,336 NYSE
PG $69.5 0.06 0.09% 8,772,414 NYSE
MMM $90.65 0.28 0.31% 2,360,432 NYSE
TRV $71.18 0.22 0.31% 1,498,210 NYSE
UNH $54.36 1.61 3.05% 10,908,955 NYSE
UTX $79.76 0.04 0.05% 4,206,315 NYSE
VZ $44.01 0.45 1.03% 15,021,817 DualListed
WMT $70.83 0.27 0.38% 9,615,510 NYSE
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The following are excerpts from Thurs. 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, Atlanta Journal Constitution & 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 a separate table of Dow component's symbol and Tuesday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.
Dow Jones Average: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Wednesday at 12,985.11 up 106.98 or 0.83% from Tuesday's close of 12,878.13. For the year the Dow is up 6.28%. Of the Dow components, 27 gained and 23 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Chevron up $2.10 and percentage-wise was Hewlett-Packard up 2.83%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Boeing down 40 cents and percentage-wise was Cisco down 0.68%.
WSJ pC4 "Stocks leave early dip in the dust" by Jonathan Cheng says US stocks erased deep morning losses to finish with big gains, as investors seized on upbeat political remoarks on the fiscal bargaining in DC, and signs that the Fed could continue buying bonds next year. Hewlett-Packard led the Dow up 37 cents.
Fin Times p24 "Costoco Wholesale jumps after it joins special div bandwagon" by Anora Mahmudova says US equity markets rebounded from early morning losses & closed higehr as investors reacted to headlines out of DC on the fiscal cliff, a mix of automatic spending cuts & tax increases.
IBD pB2 "Major indexes swing higher on fresh fed easing hope" by David Saito-Chung says the market got some helpful jawboning from politicians over the deadlock on taxes and fed spending as Wed's action saw broad upside reversal, mixed trade as the current outlook is still a confirmed uptrend.
NYT pB9 "Shares close higher on hope of fiscal accord" by AP says the stock market closed higher on Wed on signs that lawmakers were close to a deal on the fiscal cliff.
Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,690.87 up 13.93 from Tuesday's closing numerator of 1,676.94. 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 (0.130216081) you get the increase in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $7.68 change in the Dow Index.
The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.36 up 46 cents from Tuesday's average of $55.90. The median closing price of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $50.95 (DIS/UNH) down $1.15 from Tuesday's median closing price of $52.10. The lowest volume was Travelers 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have made $1,393 ($169,087 - $167,694).
11/28/12 Wed. 4:09 pm MarketWatch by Kate Gibson Lesova says U.S. stocks rose sharply Wednesday, lifting the S&P 500 back into the green for the week, after comments by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner bolstered thinking a budget deal would be reached. "The president set a timetable, that he'd like to get this done by Christmas, as opposed to drawing it out to Dec. 31, and I do think the markets are encouraged that there is an aggressive, let's get it done, attitude," said Jim Russell, chief equity strategist and regional investment director, wealth management, at U.S. Bank. Erasing a 112-point drop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA+0.83% added 106.98 points, or 0.8%, to 12,985.11. The S&P 500 index SPX+0.79% rose 10.99 points, or 0.8%, to 1,409.93. The Nasdaq Composite COMP+0.81%climbed 23.99 points, or 0.8%, to 2,991.78.
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: WSJ pB2 "Boeing, Airbus in ad spat" by David Pearson says Airbus is using a children's storybook character to accuse Boeing of making false statements.
Caterpillar: No mentions found.
Chevron: No mentions found.
Cisco: No mentions found.
Coke: No mentions found.
Disney: No mentions found.
DuPont: No mentions found.
Exxon: WSJ pB1 "Exxon has an oil shortage" by Tom Fowler says Exxon has over 20 news projects that it hopes will jump start its slumping oil and gas output, which plummeted to 3 year lows in its most recent quarter.
GE: No mentions found.
Hewlett-Packard: WSJ pC4 "Stocks leave early dip in the dust" by Jonathan Cheng says US stocks erased deep morning losses to finish with big gains, as investors seized on upbeat political remoarks on the fiscal bargaining in DC, and signs that the Fed could continue buying bonds next year. Hewlett-Packard led the Dow up 37 cents.
Home Depot: No mentions found.
Intel: No mentions found.
IBM: No mentions found.
JPMorgan: No mentions found.
Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.
McDonald's: No mentions found.
Merck: No mentions found.
Microsoft: IBD pA2 "Windows 8 not halting PC slide" says Microsoft's latest oeprating system isn't arresting the slowdown in PC sales. Earlier this week Microsoft said license sales for Windows 8 in its first month were ahead of the Windows 7 rollout.
WSJ pC10 "For insiders, it's all in the timing" by Justin Lahart says every three months Bill Gates sells 20 mil Microsoft shares.
AJC pA20 "Microsoft ads deride Google shopping guide" say Microsoft is saying Google is a lousy shopping guide for the holidays.
Pfizer: No mentions found.
Procter & Gamble: No mentions found.
3M: No mentions found.
Travelers: No mentions found.
UnitedHealth: No mentions found.
United Technologies: No mentions found.
Verizon: Fin Times p18 "Vodafone chief warns of revival of monopolies" by Dan Thomas says Vodafone's CEO says that payouts from Verizon Wireless could continue next year.
Walmart: No mentions found.
Wednesday's Closing Dow Numbers:
| Symbol | Last Sale | Change | % Change | Share Volume | Market |
| T |  | NYSE | |||
| AA | | NYSE | |||
| AXP | | NYSE | |||
| BAC | | NYSE | |||
| BA |  | NYSE | |||
| CAT | | NYSE | |||
| CVX | | NYSE | |||
| CSCO | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| KO | | NYSE | |||
| DIS | | NYSE | |||
| DD | | NYSE | |||
| XOM | | NYSE | |||
| GE | | NYSE | |||
| HPQ | | NYSE | |||
| HD | | NYSE | |||
| INTC | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| IBM | | NYSE | |||
| JPM | | NYSE | |||
| JNJ | | NYSE | |||
| MCD | | NYSE | |||
| MRK | | NYSE | |||
| MSFT | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| PFE | | NYSE | |||
| PG | | NYSE | |||
| MMM | | NYSE |
| TRV | | NYSE | |||
| UNH | | NYSE | |||
| UTX | | NYSE | |||
| VZ | | DualListed | |||
| WMT | | NYSE |
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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) (has announced early retirement)
IBM Virginia M. Rometty (Armonk, NY)
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon (NY, NY)
Johnson & Johnson JNJ Alex Gorsky (New Brunswick, NJ)
McDonald's MCD Donald 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)
UnitedHealthUNC Stephen Hemsley (Minnetonka, MN)
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 11/2/12 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:
1. Exxon Mobil XOM $416.5
2. Microsoft MSFT 248
3.WalMart WMT 244.6
4. GE 225
5. IBM 218.5
6. Chevron CVX 212.5
7. AT&T T 201.5
8. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 195.5
9. Procter & Gamble PG 189
10. Pfizer PFE 183.5
11. Coke KO 166.5
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 161
13. Merck MRK 140
14. Verizon VZ 127
15. Intel INTC 110.5
16. Bank of America BAC 106
17. Home Depot HD 93.5
18. Cisco CSCO 92
19. Disney DIS 89.5
20. McDonald's MCD 87.5
21. United Technologies UTX 71.5
22. American Express AXP 64
23. 3M MMM 61.5
24. UnitedHealth UNH 57
25. Caterpillar CAT 56
26. Boeing BA 53
27. DuPont DD 41
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 27
29. Travelers TRV 26.5
30. Alcoa AA 9.5
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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 11/2/12:
Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments
AT&T T: 11/2/12 10Q for 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/24/12 2 8Ks (10/24) re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: in-kind contrib. to pension plans
Alcoa AA: 10/25/12 re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/15/12 8K re: transcript of 3Q earnings call
10/10/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/3/12 8K re: EPA remedial plan for Grasse River
American Express AXP: 10/31/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 mos. ended 9/30
10/1/12 8K re: settlement re: U.S. card practices with regulators
9/17/12 8K re: delinq & write-off stats for June, July & Aug
8/15/12 8K re: dlinq. & write0off stats for months of May, June, and July
8/8/12 8K re: presentation from semi-annual Fin'l Community Meeting
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Bank of Am BAC: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/28/12 8K re: settlement re: $1.6 bil regarding Merrill Lynch purchase
8/23/12 8K re: 4 new directors: Sharon Allen, Jack Bovender, Linda Hudson & David Yost
8/10/12 8K re: retirement of Vice Chiar Charles H. Noski as of 9/1
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Boeing BA: 10/24/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/24/12 8K re: 3Q rsults
10/17/12 8K re: two $2.3 bil credit agreements
8/29/12 8K re: bylaw amendments
Caterpillar CAT: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q eneded 9/30
10/22/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: Sept. dealer stats
10/12/12 8K re: officer changes
9/28/12 8K re: price increases
9/21/12 8K re: Aug. dealer stats
9/17/12 8K re: credit agreement for $100 mil
9/7/12 S-4; 8/28/12 8K & 8/20/12 8K all re: exchange offer for debentures
Chevron CVX: 11/2/12 8K re; 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: 3Q interim results
10/3/12 8K re: election of Dr. Alice P. Gast to Board
8/2/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: 2 Qtr. results ended 6/30/12
Cisco CSCO : 10/4/12 8K re: appointment of Gary B. Moore as Pres & other exec appointments
9/26/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Shareholders Meeting on 11/15/12 at Santa Clara,CA
9/19/12 8K re: departure of Jerry Yang from Board
9/12/12 10K for year ended July 28 '12
8/15/12 8K re: 4Q and FY '12 earnings
8/2/12 8K re: appointment to Bd. of CEO of salesforce.com Marc Benioff and Kristina M. Johnson, CEO of enduring Hydro, LLC
Coke KO: 10/25/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/28
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/14/12 8K re: exec changes
8/23/12 8K re: shareholder approval of stock split
Disney DIS: 10/30/12 8K re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilm
8/7/12 10Q & 8/7/12 8K results for 3rd quarter ended 6/30/12
DuPont DD: 10/23/12 10Q & 8K & 10/9 8K all re: 9/30 Q results
9/4/12 8K re: sale of Performance Coatings Div to Carlyle Group for $4.9 bil
ExxonMobil XOM: 11/2/12 8K re: elecgtion of CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns to Bd
11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/2/12 10Q & 7/26/12 8K re: 2Q results ended 6/30/12
GE: 10/19/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: Offering of $7 bil of notes (closing)
Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 10/3/12 8K e: earnings outlook for '13 fiscal year
9/10/12 10Q & 8/22/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/31/12
8/8/12 8K re: write-down due to impairment of goodwill
Home Depot HD: 9/21/12 8K re: election of mark Vadon to Board
8/22/12 10Q for qtr ended 7/29/12
8/14/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/29
8/7/12 8K re: purchase of U.S. Home systems and related Proxy statement
Intel INTC: 10/31/12 10Q & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 9/29 Q results
9/12/12 8K re: closed pruchase of ASWML Holding for $3.1 bil
9/7/12 8K re: lowering 3Q rev outlook
8/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
IBM: 10/30/12 & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 3Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 8K reL election of Virginia M. Rometty to Chrmn of Bd.
9/25/12 8K re: election of Virginia M. Rometty as Chair of Board
8/1/12 8K re: closing of sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions biz to Toshiba Tec
JPMorganChase JPM: 9/24/12 8K re: offering of $3 bil of 3.25% Note due '22
9/19/12 8K re: clsoing of 2.9% Notes due '17
8/27/12 8K re: isswuance of 5.5% non-cumulative Pref shares, Series O
8/20/12 8K re: closing of $2.5 bil 2% Notes due '17
8/9/12 10Q for period ended 6/30/12
Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 10/16/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
8/16/12 8K re: discontinuance of bapineuzumbab trials
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/1/12
McDonald's MCD: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/19 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
9/28/12 8K re: adoption of accoutning standard
9/24/12 8K re: quarterly cash div
9/12/12 8K re: sales increase of 3.7% in Aug.
8/9/12 8K re: July '12 sales
8/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Merck MRK: 10/26/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/13/12 8K re: closing of sale of notes
8/7/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: results of second quarter ended 6/30/12
Microsoft MSFT: 11/2/12 8K & 10/18 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 1Q results
10/17 & 10/10 & 10/9 Proxy materials re: 11/28 Annual Meeting of Shareholders at Bellevue, Wash
10/9/12 8K re: retirement of Reed Hastings from Bd & other Bd. changes
9/18/12 8K re: increase in quarterly div & retirement of Raymond Gilmartin from Board
Pfizer PFE: 11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/14/12 8K re: purchase of marketing rights to OTC Nexium from AstraZeneca
8/9/12 10Q & 7/31/12 8K re: results of 2 Qtr ended 7/1/12
Procter & Gamble PG: 10/25/12 10Q & two 8Ks 10/25 re 1Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 re: '12 Annual Shareholder Mtg results
10/9/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents per share payable on 11/15 to 10/19 record holders
10/9/12 re: CEO's speech at Shareholder Mtg
9/21/12 14A proxy re: candidate for Board
9/6/12 8K re: FD disclosure re: Barcaly's Back to School consumer conf.
8/24/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders on 10/9/12 in Cincinnati
8/16/12 Form 8-A & 8/16 & 8/14/12 8Ks re sales of notes
8/8/12 10K and 8/3/12 2 8Ks all re: fourth quarter results for year ended 6/30/12
3M MMM: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/23 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/3/12 8K re: $1.5 bil revolving credit agreement
10/1/12 8K re: contract to purchase Ceradyne Inc. for $35 per share
8/29/12 K re: $150 mil credit agreement
8/2/12 & 7/26/12 8K re: 2nd quarter results for quarter ended 6/30/12
Travelers TRV: 10/18/12 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
7/19/12 10Q & 7/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ender 6/30/12
UnitedHealth Group UNH: 11/2/112 Bd. & officer changes
10/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 9/30
10/2212 8K re: underwriting agreement to sell over $3.4 bil of notes
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: purchase of 90% of Brazil firm Amil Participacoas for $4.9 bil in cash
9/10/12 re: FD disclosure re: Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference
8/7/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12
United Technologies UTX: 10/26/12 & 10/23/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/11 8K/A re: Goodrich purchase
9/12/12 8K re: election of Marshall Larsen to Board
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 11/2/12 8K re: tenderoffer for $1.25 bil of its notes
11/2/12 8K re: Agreements ith CWA & IBEW for new 3 year congtracts covering 43,000 workers
10/25 10Q & 10/18 8K & 10/5/ 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17 8K re: transfer $7.5 bil of pension plan obligations to Prudential
WalMart WMT: 9/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/12
8/16/12 8K re: 2 Qtr results
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11/29/12 Thurs. am Exxon Has Oil Shortage; Windows 8 Not Halting PC Slide
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Post No. 1,923 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 11/2/12 and recent Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of 11/2/12.
A read of the print editions of Thursday's Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, New York Times, USA Today, Atlanta Journal Constitution & 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 a separate table of Dow component's symbol and Tuesday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.
Dow Jones Average: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Wednesday at 12,985.11 up 106.98 or 0.83% from Tuesday's close of 12,878.13. For the year the Dow is up 6.28%. Of the Dow components, 27 gained and 23 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Chevron up $2.10 and percentage-wise was Hewlett-Packard up 2.83%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Boeing down 40 cents and percentage-wise was Cisco down 0.68%.
WSJ pC4 "Stocks leave early dip in the dust" by Jonathan Cheng says US stocks erased deep morning losses to finish with big gains, as investors seized on upbeat political remoarks on the fiscal bargaining in DC, and signs that the Fed could continue buying bonds next year. Hewlett-Packard led the Dow up 37 cents.
Fin Times p24 "Costoco Wholesale jumps after it joins special div bandwagon" by Anora Mahmudova says US equity markets rebounded from early morning losses & closed higehr as investors reacted to headlines out of DC on the fiscal cliff, a mix of automatic spending cuts & tax increases.
IBD pB2 "Major indexes swing higher on fresh fed easing hope" by David Saito-Chung says the market got some helpful jawboning from politicians over the deadlock on taxes and fed spending as Wed's action saw broad upside reversal, mixed trade as the current outlook is still a confirmed uptrend.
NYT pB9 "Shares close higher on hope of fiscal accord" by AP says the stock market closed higher on Wed on signs that lawmakers were close to a deal on the fiscal cliff.
As of the open of the market on Thursday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C6 of Thursday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Thursday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.45 up from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.34 (year ago it was 13.03); today's P/E estimate is 12.10 unchanged from Wednesday's P/E estimate of 12.10 (year ago it was 11.55) and today's dividend yield is 2.67 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.66 (last year it was 2.61). 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.
Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,690.87 up 13.93 from Tuesday's closing numerator of 1,676.94. 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 (0.130216081) you get the increase in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $7.68 change in the Dow Index.
The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.36 up 46 cents from Tuesday's average of $55.90. The median closing price of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $50.95 (DIS/UNH) down $1.15 from Tuesday's median closing price of $52.10. The lowest volume was Travelers 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have made $1,393 ($169,087 - $167,694).
11/28/12 Wed. 4:09 pm MarketWatch by Kate Gibson Lesova says U.S. stocks rose sharply Wednesday, lifting the S&P 500 back into the green for the week, after comments by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner bolstered thinking a budget deal would be reached. "The president set a timetable, that he'd like to get this done by Christmas, as opposed to drawing it out to Dec. 31, and I do think the markets are encouraged that there is an aggressive, let's get it done, attitude," said Jim Russell, chief equity strategist and regional investment director, wealth management, at U.S. Bank. Erasing a 112-point drop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA+0.83% added 106.98 points, or 0.8%, to 12,985.11. The S&P 500 index SPX+0.79% rose 10.99 points, or 0.8%, to 1,409.93. The Nasdaq Composite COMP+0.81%climbed 23.99 points, or 0.8%, to 2,991.78.
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: WSJ pB2 "Boeing, Airbus in ad spat" by David Pearson says Airbus is using a children's storybook character to accuse Boeing of making false statements.
Caterpillar: No mentions found.
Chevron: No mentions found.
Cisco: No mentions found.
Coke: No mentions found.
Disney: AJC pA20 "Disney increases dividend by 25%" says this is due to possible higher taxes next year.
DuPont: No mentions found.
Exxon: WSJ pB1 "Exxon has an oil shortage" by Tom Fowler says Exxon has over 20 news projects that it hopes will jump start its slumping oil and gas output, which plummeted to 3 year lows in its most recent quarter.
GE: No mentions found.
Hewlett-Packard: WSJ pC4 "Stocks leave early dip in the dust" by Jonathan Cheng says US stocks erased deep morning losses to finish with big gains, as investors seized on upbeat political remoarks on the fiscal bargaining in DC, and signs that the Fed could continue buying bonds next year. Hewlett-Packard led the Dow up 37 cents.
Home Depot: No mentions found.
Intel: No mentions found.
IBM: No mentions found.
JPMorgan: No mentions found.
Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.
McDonald's: No mentions found.
Merck: No mentions found.
Microsoft: IBD pA2 "Windows 8 not halting PC slide" says Microsoft's latest oeprating system isn't arresting the slowdown in PC sales. Earlier this week Microsoft said license sales for Windows 8 in its first month were ahead of the Windows 7 rollout.
WSJ pC10 "For insiders, it's all in the timing" by Justin Lahart says every three months Bill Gates sells 20 mil Microsoft shares.
AJC pA20 "Microsoft ads deride Google shopping guide" say Microsoft is saying Google is a lousy shopping guide for the holidays.
Pfizer: No mentions found.
Procter & Gamble: No mentions found.
3M: No mentions found.
Travelers: No mentions found.
UnitedHealth: No mentions found.
United Technologies: No mentions found.
Verizon: Fin Times p18 "Vodafone chief warns of revival of monopolies" by Dan Thomas says Vodafone's CEO says that payouts from Verizon Wireless could continue next year.
Walmart: No mentions found.
Wednesday's Closing Dow Numbers:
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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) (has announced early retirement)
IBM Virginia M. Rometty (Armonk, NY)
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon (NY, NY)
Johnson & Johnson JNJ Alex Gorsky (New Brunswick, NJ)
McDonald's MCD Donald 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)
UnitedHealthUNC Stephen Hemsley (Minnetonka, MN)
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 11/2/12 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:
1. Exxon Mobil XOM $416.5
2. Microsoft MSFT 248
3.WalMart WMT 244.6
4. GE 225
5. IBM 218.5
6. Chevron CVX 212.5
7. AT&T T 201.5
8. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 195.5
9. Procter & Gamble PG 189
10. Pfizer PFE 183.5
11. Coke KO 166.5
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 161
13. Merck MRK 140
14. Verizon VZ 127
15. Intel INTC 110.5
16. Bank of America BAC 106
17. Home Depot HD 93.5
18. Cisco CSCO 92
19. Disney DIS 89.5
20. McDonald's MCD 87.5
21. United Technologies UTX 71.5
22. American Express AXP 64
23. 3M MMM 61.5
24. UnitedHealth UNH 57
25. Caterpillar CAT 56
26. Boeing BA 53
27. DuPont DD 41
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 27
29. Travelers TRV 26.5
30. Alcoa AA 9.5
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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 11/2/12:
Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments
AT&T T: 11/2/12 10Q for 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/24/12 2 8Ks (10/24) re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: in-kind contrib. to pension plans
Alcoa AA: 10/25/12 re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/15/12 8K re: transcript of 3Q earnings call
10/10/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/3/12 8K re: EPA remedial plan for Grasse River
American Express AXP: 10/31/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 mos. ended 9/30
10/1/12 8K re: settlement re: U.S. card practices with regulators
9/17/12 8K re: delinq & write-off stats for June, July & Aug
8/15/12 8K re: dlinq. & write0off stats for months of May, June, and July
8/8/12 8K re: presentation from semi-annual Fin'l Community Meeting
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Bank of Am BAC: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/28/12 8K re: settlement re: $1.6 bil regarding Merrill Lynch purchase
8/23/12 8K re: 4 new directors: Sharon Allen, Jack Bovender, Linda Hudson & David Yost
8/10/12 8K re: retirement of Vice Chiar Charles H. Noski as of 9/1
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Boeing BA: 10/24/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/24/12 8K re: 3Q rsults
10/17/12 8K re: two $2.3 bil credit agreements
8/29/12 8K re: bylaw amendments
Caterpillar CAT: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q eneded 9/30
10/22/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: Sept. dealer stats
10/12/12 8K re: officer changes
9/28/12 8K re: price increases
9/21/12 8K re: Aug. dealer stats
9/17/12 8K re: credit agreement for $100 mil
9/7/12 S-4; 8/28/12 8K & 8/20/12 8K all re: exchange offer for debentures
Chevron CVX: 11/2/12 8K re; 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: 3Q interim results
10/3/12 8K re: election of Dr. Alice P. Gast to Board
8/2/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: 2 Qtr. results ended 6/30/12
Cisco CSCO : 10/4/12 8K re: appointment of Gary B. Moore as Pres & other exec appointments
9/26/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Shareholders Meeting on 11/15/12 at Santa Clara,CA
9/19/12 8K re: departure of Jerry Yang from Board
9/12/12 10K for year ended July 28 '12
8/15/12 8K re: 4Q and FY '12 earnings
8/2/12 8K re: appointment to Bd. of CEO of salesforce.com Marc Benioff and Kristina M. Johnson, CEO of enduring Hydro, LLC
Coke KO: 10/25/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/28
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/14/12 8K re: exec changes
8/23/12 8K re: shareholder approval of stock split
Disney DIS: 10/30/12 8K re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilm
8/7/12 10Q & 8/7/12 8K results for 3rd quarter ended 6/30/12
DuPont DD: 10/23/12 10Q & 8K & 10/9 8K all re: 9/30 Q results
9/4/12 8K re: sale of Performance Coatings Div to Carlyle Group for $4.9 bil
ExxonMobil XOM: 11/2/12 8K re: elecgtion of CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns to Bd
11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/2/12 10Q & 7/26/12 8K re: 2Q results ended 6/30/12
GE: 10/19/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: Offering of $7 bil of notes (closing)
Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 10/3/12 8K e: earnings outlook for '13 fiscal year
9/10/12 10Q & 8/22/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/31/12
8/8/12 8K re: write-down due to impairment of goodwill
Home Depot HD: 9/21/12 8K re: election of mark Vadon to Board
8/22/12 10Q for qtr ended 7/29/12
8/14/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/29
8/7/12 8K re: purchase of U.S. Home systems and related Proxy statement
Intel INTC: 10/31/12 10Q & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 9/29 Q results
9/12/12 8K re: closed pruchase of ASWML Holding for $3.1 bil
9/7/12 8K re: lowering 3Q rev outlook
8/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
IBM: 10/30/12 & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 3Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 8K reL election of Virginia M. Rometty to Chrmn of Bd.
9/25/12 8K re: election of Virginia M. Rometty as Chair of Board
8/1/12 8K re: closing of sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions biz to Toshiba Tec
JPMorganChase JPM: 9/24/12 8K re: offering of $3 bil of 3.25% Note due '22
9/19/12 8K re: clsoing of 2.9% Notes due '17
8/27/12 8K re: isswuance of 5.5% non-cumulative Pref shares, Series O
8/20/12 8K re: closing of $2.5 bil 2% Notes due '17
8/9/12 10Q for period ended 6/30/12
Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 10/16/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
8/16/12 8K re: discontinuance of bapineuzumbab trials
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/1/12
McDonald's MCD: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/19 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
9/28/12 8K re: adoption of accoutning standard
9/24/12 8K re: quarterly cash div
9/12/12 8K re: sales increase of 3.7% in Aug.
8/9/12 8K re: July '12 sales
8/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Merck MRK: 10/26/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/13/12 8K re: closing of sale of notes
8/7/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: results of second quarter ended 6/30/12
Microsoft MSFT: 11/2/12 8K & 10/18 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 1Q results
10/17 & 10/10 & 10/9 Proxy materials re: 11/28 Annual Meeting of Shareholders at Bellevue, Wash
10/9/12 8K re: retirement of Reed Hastings from Bd & other Bd. changes
9/18/12 8K re: increase in quarterly div & retirement of Raymond Gilmartin from Board
Pfizer PFE: 11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/14/12 8K re: purchase of marketing rights to OTC Nexium from AstraZeneca
8/9/12 10Q & 7/31/12 8K re: results of 2 Qtr ended 7/1/12
Procter & Gamble PG: 10/25/12 10Q & two 8Ks 10/25 re 1Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 re: '12 Annual Shareholder Mtg results
10/9/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents per share payable on 11/15 to 10/19 record holders
10/9/12 re: CEO's speech at Shareholder Mtg
9/21/12 14A proxy re: candidate for Board
9/6/12 8K re: FD disclosure re: Barcaly's Back to School consumer conf.
8/24/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders on 10/9/12 in Cincinnati
8/16/12 Form 8-A & 8/16 & 8/14/12 8Ks re sales of notes
8/8/12 10K and 8/3/12 2 8Ks all re: fourth quarter results for year ended 6/30/12
3M MMM: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/23 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/3/12 8K re: $1.5 bil revolving credit agreement
10/1/12 8K re: contract to purchase Ceradyne Inc. for $35 per share
8/29/12 K re: $150 mil credit agreement
8/2/12 & 7/26/12 8K re: 2nd quarter results for quarter ended 6/30/12
Travelers TRV: 10/18/12 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
7/19/12 10Q & 7/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ender 6/30/12
UnitedHealth Group UNH: 11/2/112 Bd. & officer changes
10/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 9/30
10/2212 8K re: underwriting agreement to sell over $3.4 bil of notes
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: purchase of 90% of Brazil firm Amil Participacoas for $4.9 bil in cash
9/10/12 re: FD disclosure re: Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference
8/7/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12
United Technologies UTX: 10/26/12 & 10/23/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/11 8K/A re: Goodrich purchase
9/12/12 8K re: election of Marshall Larsen to Board
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 11/2/12 8K re: tenderoffer for $1.25 bil of its notes
11/2/12 8K re: Agreements ith CWA & IBEW for new 3 year congtracts covering 43,000 workers
10/25 10Q & 10/18 8K & 10/5/ 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17 8K re: transfer $7.5 bil of pension plan obligations to Prudential
WalMart WMT: 9/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/12
8/16/12 8K re: 2 Qtr results
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A read of the print editions of Thursday's Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, New York Times, USA Today, Atlanta Journal Constitution & 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 a separate table of Dow component's symbol and Tuesday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.
Dow Jones Average: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Wednesday at 12,985.11 up 106.98 or 0.83% from Tuesday's close of 12,878.13. For the year the Dow is up 6.28%. Of the Dow components, 27 gained and 23 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Chevron up $2.10 and percentage-wise was Hewlett-Packard up 2.83%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Boeing down 40 cents and percentage-wise was Cisco down 0.68%.
WSJ pC4 "Stocks leave early dip in the dust" by Jonathan Cheng says US stocks erased deep morning losses to finish with big gains, as investors seized on upbeat political remoarks on the fiscal bargaining in DC, and signs that the Fed could continue buying bonds next year. Hewlett-Packard led the Dow up 37 cents.
Fin Times p24 "Costoco Wholesale jumps after it joins special div bandwagon" by Anora Mahmudova says US equity markets rebounded from early morning losses & closed higehr as investors reacted to headlines out of DC on the fiscal cliff, a mix of automatic spending cuts & tax increases.
IBD pB2 "Major indexes swing higher on fresh fed easing hope" by David Saito-Chung says the market got some helpful jawboning from politicians over the deadlock on taxes and fed spending as Wed's action saw broad upside reversal, mixed trade as the current outlook is still a confirmed uptrend.
NYT pB9 "Shares close higher on hope of fiscal accord" by AP says the stock market closed higher on Wed on signs that lawmakers were close to a deal on the fiscal cliff.
As of the open of the market on Thursday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C6 of Thursday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Thursday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.45 up from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.34 (year ago it was 13.03); today's P/E estimate is 12.10 unchanged from Wednesday's P/E estimate of 12.10 (year ago it was 11.55) and today's dividend yield is 2.67 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.66 (last year it was 2.61). 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.
Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,690.87 up 13.93 from Tuesday's closing numerator of 1,676.94. 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 (0.130216081) you get the increase in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $7.68 change in the Dow Index.
The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.36 up 46 cents from Tuesday's average of $55.90. The median closing price of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $50.95 (DIS/UNH) down $1.15 from Tuesday's median closing price of $52.10. The lowest volume was Travelers 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have made $1,393 ($169,087 - $167,694).
11/28/12 Wed. 4:09 pm MarketWatch by Kate Gibson Lesova says U.S. stocks rose sharply Wednesday, lifting the S&P 500 back into the green for the week, after comments by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner bolstered thinking a budget deal would be reached. "The president set a timetable, that he'd like to get this done by Christmas, as opposed to drawing it out to Dec. 31, and I do think the markets are encouraged that there is an aggressive, let's get it done, attitude," said Jim Russell, chief equity strategist and regional investment director, wealth management, at U.S. Bank. Erasing a 112-point drop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA+0.83% added 106.98 points, or 0.8%, to 12,985.11. The S&P 500 index SPX+0.79% rose 10.99 points, or 0.8%, to 1,409.93. The Nasdaq Composite COMP+0.81%climbed 23.99 points, or 0.8%, to 2,991.78.
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: WSJ pB2 "Boeing, Airbus in ad spat" by David Pearson says Airbus is using a children's storybook character to accuse Boeing of making false statements.
Caterpillar: No mentions found.
Chevron: No mentions found.
Cisco: No mentions found.
Coke: No mentions found.
Disney: AJC pA20 "Disney increases dividend by 25%" says this is due to possible higher taxes next year.
DuPont: No mentions found.
Exxon: WSJ pB1 "Exxon has an oil shortage" by Tom Fowler says Exxon has over 20 news projects that it hopes will jump start its slumping oil and gas output, which plummeted to 3 year lows in its most recent quarter.
GE: No mentions found.
Hewlett-Packard: WSJ pC4 "Stocks leave early dip in the dust" by Jonathan Cheng says US stocks erased deep morning losses to finish with big gains, as investors seized on upbeat political remoarks on the fiscal bargaining in DC, and signs that the Fed could continue buying bonds next year. Hewlett-Packard led the Dow up 37 cents.
Home Depot: No mentions found.
Intel: No mentions found.
IBM: No mentions found.
JPMorgan: No mentions found.
Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.
McDonald's: No mentions found.
Merck: No mentions found.
Microsoft: IBD pA2 "Windows 8 not halting PC slide" says Microsoft's latest oeprating system isn't arresting the slowdown in PC sales. Earlier this week Microsoft said license sales for Windows 8 in its first month were ahead of the Windows 7 rollout.
WSJ pC10 "For insiders, it's all in the timing" by Justin Lahart says every three months Bill Gates sells 20 mil Microsoft shares.
AJC pA20 "Microsoft ads deride Google shopping guide" say Microsoft is saying Google is a lousy shopping guide for the holidays.
Pfizer: No mentions found.
Procter & Gamble: No mentions found.
3M: No mentions found.
Travelers: No mentions found.
UnitedHealth: No mentions found.
United Technologies: No mentions found.
Verizon: Fin Times p18 "Vodafone chief warns of revival of monopolies" by Dan Thomas says Vodafone's CEO says that payouts from Verizon Wireless could continue next year.
Walmart: No mentions found.
Wednesday's Closing Dow Numbers:
| Symbol | Last Sale | Change | % Change | Share Volume | Market |
| T | | NYSE | |||
| AA | | NYSE | |||
| AXP | | NYSE | |||
| BAC | | NYSE | |||
| BA | | NYSE | |||
| CAT | | NYSE | |||
| CVX | | NYSE | |||
| CSCO | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| KO | | NYSE | |||
| DIS | | NYSE | |||
| DD | | NYSE | |||
| XOM | | NYSE | |||
| GE | | NYSE | |||
| HPQ | | NYSE | |||
| HD | | NYSE | |||
| INTC | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| IBM | | NYSE | |||
| JPM | | NYSE | |||
| JNJ | | NYSE | |||
| MCD | | NYSE | |||
| MRK | | NYSE | |||
| MSFT | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| PFE | | NYSE | |||
| PG | | NYSE | |||
| MMM | | NYSE |
| TRV | | NYSE | |||
| UNH | | NYSE | |||
| UTX | | NYSE | |||
| VZ | | DualListed | |||
| WMT | | NYSE |
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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) (has announced early retirement)
IBM Virginia M. Rometty (Armonk, NY)
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon (NY, NY)
Johnson & Johnson JNJ Alex Gorsky (New Brunswick, NJ)
McDonald's MCD Donald 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)
UnitedHealthUNC Stephen Hemsley (Minnetonka, MN)
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 11/2/12 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:
1. Exxon Mobil XOM $416.5
2. Microsoft MSFT 248
3.WalMart WMT 244.6
4. GE 225
5. IBM 218.5
6. Chevron CVX 212.5
7. AT&T T 201.5
8. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 195.5
9. Procter & Gamble PG 189
10. Pfizer PFE 183.5
11. Coke KO 166.5
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 161
13. Merck MRK 140
14. Verizon VZ 127
15. Intel INTC 110.5
16. Bank of America BAC 106
17. Home Depot HD 93.5
18. Cisco CSCO 92
19. Disney DIS 89.5
20. McDonald's MCD 87.5
21. United Technologies UTX 71.5
22. American Express AXP 64
23. 3M MMM 61.5
24. UnitedHealth UNH 57
25. Caterpillar CAT 56
26. Boeing BA 53
27. DuPont DD 41
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 27
29. Travelers TRV 26.5
30. Alcoa AA 9.5
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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 11/2/12:
Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments
AT&T T: 11/2/12 10Q for 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/24/12 2 8Ks (10/24) re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: in-kind contrib. to pension plans
Alcoa AA: 10/25/12 re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/15/12 8K re: transcript of 3Q earnings call
10/10/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/3/12 8K re: EPA remedial plan for Grasse River
American Express AXP: 10/31/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 mos. ended 9/30
10/1/12 8K re: settlement re: U.S. card practices with regulators
9/17/12 8K re: delinq & write-off stats for June, July & Aug
8/15/12 8K re: dlinq. & write0off stats for months of May, June, and July
8/8/12 8K re: presentation from semi-annual Fin'l Community Meeting
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Bank of Am BAC: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/28/12 8K re: settlement re: $1.6 bil regarding Merrill Lynch purchase
8/23/12 8K re: 4 new directors: Sharon Allen, Jack Bovender, Linda Hudson & David Yost
8/10/12 8K re: retirement of Vice Chiar Charles H. Noski as of 9/1
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Boeing BA: 10/24/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/24/12 8K re: 3Q rsults
10/17/12 8K re: two $2.3 bil credit agreements
8/29/12 8K re: bylaw amendments
Caterpillar CAT: 11/2/12 10Q 3Q eneded 9/30
10/22/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: Sept. dealer stats
10/12/12 8K re: officer changes
9/28/12 8K re: price increases
9/21/12 8K re: Aug. dealer stats
9/17/12 8K re: credit agreement for $100 mil
9/7/12 S-4; 8/28/12 8K & 8/20/12 8K all re: exchange offer for debentures
Chevron CVX: 11/2/12 8K re; 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: 3Q interim results
10/3/12 8K re: election of Dr. Alice P. Gast to Board
8/2/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: 2 Qtr. results ended 6/30/12
Cisco CSCO : 10/4/12 8K re: appointment of Gary B. Moore as Pres & other exec appointments
9/26/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Shareholders Meeting on 11/15/12 at Santa Clara,CA
9/19/12 8K re: departure of Jerry Yang from Board
9/12/12 10K for year ended July 28 '12
8/15/12 8K re: 4Q and FY '12 earnings
8/2/12 8K re: appointment to Bd. of CEO of salesforce.com Marc Benioff and Kristina M. Johnson, CEO of enduring Hydro, LLC
Coke KO: 10/25/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/28
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/14/12 8K re: exec changes
8/23/12 8K re: shareholder approval of stock split
Disney DIS: 10/30/12 8K re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilm
8/7/12 10Q & 8/7/12 8K results for 3rd quarter ended 6/30/12
DuPont DD: 10/23/12 10Q & 8K & 10/9 8K all re: 9/30 Q results
9/4/12 8K re: sale of Performance Coatings Div to Carlyle Group for $4.9 bil
ExxonMobil XOM: 11/2/12 8K re: elecgtion of CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns to Bd
11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/2/12 10Q & 7/26/12 8K re: 2Q results ended 6/30/12
GE: 10/19/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: Offering of $7 bil of notes (closing)
Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 10/3/12 8K e: earnings outlook for '13 fiscal year
9/10/12 10Q & 8/22/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/31/12
8/8/12 8K re: write-down due to impairment of goodwill
Home Depot HD: 9/21/12 8K re: election of mark Vadon to Board
8/22/12 10Q for qtr ended 7/29/12
8/14/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/29
8/7/12 8K re: purchase of U.S. Home systems and related Proxy statement
Intel INTC: 10/31/12 10Q & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 9/29 Q results
9/12/12 8K re: closed pruchase of ASWML Holding for $3.1 bil
9/7/12 8K re: lowering 3Q rev outlook
8/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
IBM: 10/30/12 & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 3Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 8K reL election of Virginia M. Rometty to Chrmn of Bd.
9/25/12 8K re: election of Virginia M. Rometty as Chair of Board
8/1/12 8K re: closing of sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions biz to Toshiba Tec
JPMorganChase JPM: 9/24/12 8K re: offering of $3 bil of 3.25% Note due '22
9/19/12 8K re: clsoing of 2.9% Notes due '17
8/27/12 8K re: isswuance of 5.5% non-cumulative Pref shares, Series O
8/20/12 8K re: closing of $2.5 bil 2% Notes due '17
8/9/12 10Q for period ended 6/30/12
Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 10/16/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
8/16/12 8K re: discontinuance of bapineuzumbab trials
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/1/12
McDonald's MCD: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/19 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
9/28/12 8K re: adoption of accoutning standard
9/24/12 8K re: quarterly cash div
9/12/12 8K re: sales increase of 3.7% in Aug.
8/9/12 8K re: July '12 sales
8/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
Merck MRK: 10/26/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/13/12 8K re: closing of sale of notes
8/7/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: results of second quarter ended 6/30/12
Microsoft MSFT: 11/2/12 8K & 10/18 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 1Q results
10/17 & 10/10 & 10/9 Proxy materials re: 11/28 Annual Meeting of Shareholders at Bellevue, Wash
10/9/12 8K re: retirement of Reed Hastings from Bd & other Bd. changes
9/18/12 8K re: increase in quarterly div & retirement of Raymond Gilmartin from Board
Pfizer PFE: 11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
8/14/12 8K re: purchase of marketing rights to OTC Nexium from AstraZeneca
8/9/12 10Q & 7/31/12 8K re: results of 2 Qtr ended 7/1/12
Procter & Gamble PG: 10/25/12 10Q & two 8Ks 10/25 re 1Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 re: '12 Annual Shareholder Mtg results
10/9/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents per share payable on 11/15 to 10/19 record holders
10/9/12 re: CEO's speech at Shareholder Mtg
9/21/12 14A proxy re: candidate for Board
9/6/12 8K re: FD disclosure re: Barcaly's Back to School consumer conf.
8/24/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders on 10/9/12 in Cincinnati
8/16/12 Form 8-A & 8/16 & 8/14/12 8Ks re sales of notes
8/8/12 10K and 8/3/12 2 8Ks all re: fourth quarter results for year ended 6/30/12
3M MMM: 11/1/12 10Q & 10/23 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/3/12 8K re: $1.5 bil revolving credit agreement
10/1/12 8K re: contract to purchase Ceradyne Inc. for $35 per share
8/29/12 K re: $150 mil credit agreement
8/2/12 & 7/26/12 8K re: 2nd quarter results for quarter ended 6/30/12
Travelers TRV: 10/18/12 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
7/19/12 10Q & 7/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ender 6/30/12
UnitedHealth Group UNH: 11/2/112 Bd. & officer changes
10/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 9/30
10/2212 8K re: underwriting agreement to sell over $3.4 bil of notes
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: purchase of 90% of Brazil firm Amil Participacoas for $4.9 bil in cash
9/10/12 re: FD disclosure re: Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference
8/7/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12
United Technologies UTX: 10/26/12 & 10/23/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/11 8K/A re: Goodrich purchase
9/12/12 8K re: election of Marshall Larsen to Board
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 11/2/12 8K re: tenderoffer for $1.25 bil of its notes
11/2/12 8K re: Agreements ith CWA & IBEW for new 3 year congtracts covering 43,000 workers
10/25 10Q & 10/18 8K & 10/5/ 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17 8K re: transfer $7.5 bil of pension plan obligations to Prudential
WalMart WMT: 9/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/12
8/16/12 8K re: 2 Qtr results
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