Sunday, November 4, 2012

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Post No. 1,885 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 Monday's Barron's &  Investor's Business Daily,  the combined Sat/Sun issues of each of the Wall St. Journal & Financial Times, & Sun's & Sat's New York Times &, Atlanta Journal Constitution &amp yielded the following stories about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 component companies and the Dow with stories about the Dow aggregated first and then items about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 companies presented alphabetically, followed by a separate table of Dow component's symbol and Friday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.

Dow Jones Average: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday. at 13,093.16 down 139.46 or 1.05%  from Thursday's close of 13,232.62. For the week the Dow down 14.05 or 0.1% from last Friday's close of 13,107.21. For the year the Dow is up 7.17%.  Of the Dow components  6 gained and   24 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise      and percentage-wise was Bank of America up 12 cents or 1.23%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was IBM down $3.64 and percentage-wise was Chevron down 2.69%.

IBD pB8 "Stocks give back gains; correction still in place" by Paul Whitfield says stocks opened mixed Fri & then headed south, erasing most of the prior day's gains. Friday's action was down in lower volume.

Fin Times pB11 "Fears over the fiscal cliff trump better US jobs data" by Anora Mahmudova says US equities opened higher but early gains fizzled out as better than expected jobs data failed to lift markets.  The economy added 171,000 jobs in Oct above the expected 125,000.

Sat NYT pB7 "Rising estiamtes of casts of storm weigh on Wall St" by AP says shaken by Sandy & unmoved by a solid Oct jobs report, stocks fell sharply Fri.  Verizon Comm, whose Lower Manhattan oeprations are still without power, sais the storm would have a big effect on its 4Q earnings.

Sat WSJ pB5 "Dow Industrials tumble 139 points" by Tomi Kilgore et al says US stocks closed broadly lower with blue chips falling into negative territory for the week in the last half hour of trading as a biggger than expected increase in Oct payrolls was offset by sharp declines in materials & energy shares.  

As of the close of the market on Friday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page  B6 of Saturday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Saturday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.31 up from Friday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.30 (year ago it was 12.89); Saturday's P/E estimate is 12.37 unchanged from  Friday's P/E estimate of 12.35 (year ago it was 12.35) and Saturday's dividend yield is 2.59 unchanged from Friday's dividend yield of 2.59 (last year it was 2.59). The Dow's all-time high was 14,164.53 on Oct. 9, 2007. The 12 year low close for the Dow was on March 9, 2009 when it fell to 6,547.05.

Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,704.94 down 18.16 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1,723.10. This is the sum of all 30 closing prices. A short cut to the Dow numerator is to multiply the closing Dow by the Divisor. Now, if you divide the Dow numerator decrease for today by the divisor (0.130216081) you get the decrease 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 Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.83 down 61 cents from Thursday's average of $57.44. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $52.97     (DIS/UNH) down 40 cents from Thursday's median closing price of 53.37. The lowest volume was 3M and the highest volume again was Bank of America.

If Friday morning before the market opened you had purchased 100 shares of each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 shares (assuming you could buy fractional shares and assuming no transaction costs or dividends) and sold at the close you would have lsot $1,813       ($172,310 - $170,494).

11/2/12 Fri. 4:08  MarketWatch by Deborah Levine  says U.S. stocks ended lower on Friday, after an initial cheer for better-than-expected U.S. employment data quickly turned to setting up for the presidential election coming in a few days. The S&P 500 Index /SPX -0.94% fell 13.39 points, or 0.9% to 1,414.20. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -1.05% dropped 139.46 points, or 1.1%, to 13,093.16. For the week, the S&P 500 index pared gains to 0.2% and the Dow industrials turned down 0.1%. The Nasdaq Composite COMP -1.26% lost 37.93 points, or 1.3%, to 2,982.13. It's off 0.2% from a week ago.

Sunday's & Saturday's Dow News:

AT&T: Barron's p19 "Week preview" says on Wed. Alcoa & AT&T meet with investors; on Thursday Disney reports quarterly earnings & 3M meets with analysts.

Alcoa: Barron's p19 "Week preview" says on Wed. Alcoa & AT&T meet with investors; on Thursday Disney reports quarterly earnings & 3M meets with analysts.

American Express: No mentions found.

Bank of America: No mentions found.

Boeing: WSJ pA2 "Safety Board wins more access to flight data" by Andy Pasztor says the Nat'l Transportation Safety Board won a turf battle with the FAA and will expand its role as an air safety watchdog as it will get confidential incident reports.  The debate was sparked when a Boeing 757 opeated by American Airline ran off the runway at Jackson Hole Airport in Wymoming in Dec '10.  No body was hurt but the safety board wasn't given requested data from the FAA and the industry.

Caterpillar: No mentions found.

Chevron: IBD pA2 "Chevron falls as output dips", IBD pB2 "Weekly top 10" say #10 Exxon beats, Chevron misses", WSJ pB4 "Chevron" by Ben Lefebvre et al say Chevron said earnings missed due to declining output, a fire at a Calif. refinery & maintenance.  Exxon said EPS beat views as its refining biz overcame lower oil & gas output. Chevron's 3Q eps fell 35% to $2.55 below expectations of $2.83 per share.  Rev fell 10% to $58.04 bil vs. expectations of $63.9 bil.

Fin Times p16 "Oil companies" says Chevron reported 3Q net income of $5 bil which shows a troubling lack of oeprational momentum as capital spending continues to soar, production growth is stalling.  Oil frims still churn otu cash like no other sector.  Exxon's $14 bil of operational cash flow in 3Q allowed it to lift capital expenditure by 7%.

Cisco: No mentions found.

Coke: No mentions found.

Disney: IBD pB2 "Weekly top 10" says #9 "Walt Disney to buy Lucasfilm" says Disney will pay $4.05 bil in cash and stock for George Lucas' film & TV production company.

Barron's p19 "Week preview" says on Wed. Alcoa & AT&T meet with investors; on Thursday Disney reports quarterly earnings & 3M meets with analysts.

WSJ pB16 "Dreaming of a deal at Dream Works" by Miriam Gottfried says now that Disney is buying Lucasfil, analysts are speculating that a major media firm could buy DreamWorks.

Fin Times p7 "The director strikes back with an intergalactic deal" by Nigel Andrews profiles George Lucas & says Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm is the end of an unlikely Hollywood story.

DuPont: No mentions found.

Exxon: IBD pB2 "Weekly top 10" says #10 Exxon beats, Chevron misses" says Chevron said earnings missed due to declining output, a fire at a Calif. refinery & maintenance.  Exxon said EPS beat views as its refining biz overcame lower oil & gas output.

 Fin Times p16 "Oil companies" says Chevron reported 3Q net income of $5 bil which shows a troubling lack of oeprational momentum as capital spending continues to soar, production growth is stalling.  Oil frims still churn otu cash like no other sector.  Exxon's $14 bil of operational cash flow in 3Q allowed it to lift capital expenditure by 7%.

GE: No mentions found.

Hewlett-Packard: WSJ pB3 "Microsoft testing own phone design" by Lorraine Luk says Microsoft is working with component suppliers in Asia to test its own smartphone design.  This will show how far Microsoft has come from making software and leaving decisions re: design, features and marketing of the computing hardware to partners such as Hewlett-Packard or Samsung.

Home Depot: No mentions found.

Intel:  Barron's p35 "Tech earnings skid on pricing pressure; PC faceplant" by Tiernan Ray says in the last 3 weeks, we've had lackluster results from Intel and Microsoft given the slowdown in pc sales.  Windows 8 salres are running at better than the pace of the prior version since going on sale 10/26. 

IBM: No mentions found.

JPMorgan: No mentions found.

Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.

McDonald's: No mentions found.

Merck: No mentions found.

Microsoft:   Barron's p35 "Tech earnings skid on pricing pressure; PC faceplant" by Tiernan Ray says in the last 3 weeks, we've had lackluster results from Intel and Microsoft given the slowdown in pc sales.  Windows 8 salres are running at better than the pace of the prior version since going on sale 10/26.

WSJ pB3 "Microsoft testing own phone design" by Lorraine Luk says Microsoft is working with component suppliers in Asia to test its own smartphone design.  This will show how far Microsoft has come from making software and leaving decisions re: design, features and marketing of the computing hardware to partners such as Hewlett-Packard or Samsung.

Pfizer: No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble: No mentions found.

3M: Barron's p19 "Week preview" says on Wed. Alcoa & AT&T meet with investors; on Thursday Disney reports quarterly earnings & 3M meets with analysts.

Travelers: Barron's p20 "Sandy won't flood P&C insurers" says Travelers may face an $809 mil loss from Sandy whose total losses for the insurance industry could be $10 to $20 bil.

UnitedHealth: No mentions found.

United Technologies: No mentions found.

Verizon: Sat NYT pB7 "Rising estiamtes of casts of storm weigh on Wall St" by AP says shaken by Sandy & unmoved by a solid Oct jobs report, stocks fell sharply Fri.  Verizon Comm, whose Lower Manhattan oeprations are still without power, sais the storm would have a big effect on its 4Q earnings.

Walmart: No mentions found.

Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:

SymbolLast SaleChange% ChangeShare VolumeMarket
TNYSE
AANYSE
AXPNYSE
BACNYSE
BANYSE
CATNYSE
CVXNYSE
CSCONASDAQ-GS
KONYSE
DISNYSE
DDNYSE
XOMNYSE
GENYSE
HPQNYSE
HDNYSE
INTCNASDAQ-GS
IBMNYSE
JPMNYSE
JNJNYSE
MCDNYSE
MRKNYSE
MSFTNASDAQ-GS
PFENYSE
PGNYSE
MMMNYSE
TRVNYSE
UNHNYSE
UTXNYSE
VZDualListed
WMTNYSE
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Here are the current CEOs of the Dow 30 Companies:

AT&T T Randall L. Stephenson (Dallas, TX)

Alcoa AA Klaus Kleinfeld (NY, NY)

American Express AXP Kenneth I. Chenault (NY, NY)

Bank of America BAC Brian T. Moynihan (Charlotte, N.C.)

Boeing BA W. James McNerney, Jr. (Chicago, Ill)

Caterpillar CAT Douglas Oberhelman (Peoria, Ill.)

Chevron CVX John Watson (San Ramon, CA)

Cisco CSCO John Chambers (San Jose, CA)

Coca Cola KO Muhtar Kent (Atlanta, GA)

Disney DIS Robert Iger (Burbank, CA)

DuPont DD Ellen Kullman (Wilmington, DE)

ExxonMobil XOM Rex W. Tillerson (Irving, Tx)

GE Jeffrey R. Immelt (Fairfield, CT)

Hewlett-Packard HPQ Meg Whitman (Palo Alto, CA)

Home Depot HD Frank Blake (Atlanta, GA)

Intel INTC Paul S. Otellini (Santa Clara, CA)

IBM Virginia M. Rometty (Armonk, NY)

JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon (NY, NY)

Johnson & Johnson JNJ Alex Gorsky (New Brunswick, NJ)

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/ 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 10/4/12:

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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