Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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A read of Wednesday's Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, & Atlanta Journal & Constitution yielded the following stories about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 component companies and the Dow with stories about the Dow aggregated first and then items about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 companies presented alphabetically, followed by symbol and Tuesday's stock prices and related data.

Dow: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Tuesday at 10,043.75 down 22.82 or 0.23% from Monday's close of 10,066.57. For the year the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 3.69%. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 12 gained and 18 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Hewlett-Packard HPQ $45.85 +0.16 0.35% 22,716,437 NYSE. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Chevron CVX $72.57 -0.87 1.18% 22,303,527 NYSE and percentage-wise was Kraft KFT $28.37 -0.56 1.94% 29,023,455 NYSE.

WSJ pC2 "Exxon Mobil, Chevron Fall, While Alcoa Gains 1.9%" by Donna Yesalavich says blue chip stocks fell, with Chevron and Exxon among the decliners as crude oil futures slipped. But the broader S&P 500 edged into positive territory after materials firms including Alcoa and consumer discretionary stocks such as Home Depot staged late rallies. Kraft is charted under Bad News says it posted the largest drop among the 30 Dow firms on broad worries about global growth due to euro zone woes and Korean tensions. Coca-Cola was off 1.6% and Walmart was down 1.4.

WSJ pC1 "Europe-Bank Lenders" Coalition of Unwilling" by E.S. Browning says after falling 292 points in the first 10 mins fo trading Tues, the dow Jones Industrial Average clawed its way back to finish down just 22.82 points.

Fin Times p22 "Fin'l stocks lead rebound after erly sharp falls" by Masa Serdarevic says mounting worries about the fiscal situation in Europe sent US stock prices sharply lower yesterday, but the losses were almost pared as the market rallied just before the closing bell. Energy stocks sold off as the price of oil fell. Chevron fell 1.2% while ExxonMobil pulled back 0.8%.

NYT pB1 "Investors Get Jittery on a Global Scale" by Graham Bowley says as fears growth that Europe cold face a full blown fin'l crisis, potentially damaging the economy in the US, investors are abandoning risky bets in the fin'l markets and rushing for safety instead.

USA Today p4B "Stocks rebound from day' s huge losses" by Bloomberg says stocks erased losses in the final minutes of trading as market indexes rebounded from '10 lows & Rep Barney Frank said a proposal to restrict banks' use of derivatives goes too far.

As of the open of the market Wednesday, the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C4 of today's Wall St. Journal is 0.132319125 unchanged, the trailing P/E ratio is 14.60 down from Tuesday's 14.64 (year ago it was 42.59) the P/E estimate is 12.45 down from Tuesday's 12.45 (year ago it was 23.73) and the current dividend yield is 2.74 unchanged from Tuesday's 2.74 (it was 3.71 a year ago). 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.

Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,328.98 down 3.02 from Monday's closing numerator of 1,332. 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 of 3.02 for Tuesday by the divisor (0.132319125) you get the decrease in Tuesday's Dow of 22.82. A $1 change in the price of any DJIA stock = a 7.56 change in the average.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $44.30 down 0.10 from Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average average closing price of $44.40. The median closing price of Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 38.97 u 0.14 from Monday's median price of $38.83. The lowest volume was 3M MMM $79.47 -0.12 0.15% 5,705,171 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of America BAC $15.49 +0.09 0.58% 263,332,205 NYSE.

If Tuesday morning before the market opened you had purchased 100 shares of each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 shares (assuming you could buy fractional shares and assuming no transaction costs) and sold at the close you would have lost $301.94 ($133,199.94 -$132,898).

Market Watch Tues. 5/25/10 at 5:08 by Kate Gibson says US stocks ended a volatile session mostly higher on Tuesday, with a rebound in materials, financial and consumer shares helping the Dow Jones Industrial Average recover most of a nearly 300-point drop that had pushed it below the 10,000 mark. Fear over the impact of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and tensions between North and South Korea had led the Dow industrials (DJIA 10,044, -22.82, -0.23%) to as low as 9,774.48 during the session. But the blue-chip average recovered to end down 22.82 points, or 0.2%, at 10,043.75 by the close. Dow rebounds from big dropThe stock market pares its losses but stays on track for a decline fueled by European worries. Plus, WSJ's Brett Arends says investors should ignore the panic and look for solid value. Blue-chip gains were led by shares of Home Depot HD 33.22, -0.76, -2.24%) , up 2.3%, and Alcoa Inc. (AA 11.39, +0.09, +0.80%) , up 1.9%. In the broad market, the S&P 500 Index (SPX 1,074, +0.38, +0.04%) rose 0.38 points to 1,074.03, led by the materials sector, up 1.6%, and the financials and consumer discretionary sectors, both up 0.8%. During the session, the broad market gauge had fallen as low as 1,040, its lowest level since late November. The Nasdaq Composite (COMP 2,211, -2.60, -0.12%) ended down 2.6 points, or 0.1%, at 2,210.95. Still, for every stock on the rise, two lost ground on the New York Stock Exchange, where 1.9 billion shares traded. Tuesday's action had Italian, Portuguese and Irish stocks markets joining Spain and Greece in bear-market territory, down 20% and more from April highs. Read more about Southern Europe markets. Worries about the banking industry in Europe could be seen in the Libor rate, with the three-month U.S. dollar London interbank offered rate hitting its highest level since July of last year. The European Commission on Wednesday will announce plans for an up-front levy on European banks to help protect against future failures, according to published reports. The steep losses on the major U.S. stock indexes moderated some after U.S. economic data, which included a better-than-expected report on consumer confidence. Still, the list of worries includes Europe's ability to stem its sovereign-debt trouble, which was further fueled by the Bank of Spain taking over a savings bank during the weekend, along with news that four other Spanish savings banks would merge. Plus, tensions between North and South Korea escalated, with the two countries trading economic and political threats. The Conference Board said its sentiment gauge rose to 63.3 in May from 57.7 the prior month, with the index up for a third consecutive month. Less upbeat were reports on the U.S. housing industry, with the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index off 0.5% in March from February. Separately, the Federal Housing Finance Authority reported U.S. home prices fell 1.9% in the first quarter from the fourth quarter.

AT&T T $24.32 -0.11 0.45% 52,216,859 NYSE:

Alcoa AA $11.3 +0.21 1.89% 48,494,048 NYSE: WSJ pC2 "Exxon Mobil, Chevron Fall, While Alcoa Gains 1.9%" by Donna Yesalavich says blue chip stocks fell, with Chevron and Exxon among the decliners as crude oil futures slipped. But the broader S&P 500 edged into positive territory after materials firms including Alcoa and consumer discretionary stocks such as Home Depot staged late rallies. Kraft is charted under Bad News says it posted the largest drop among the 30 Dow firms on broad worries about global growth due to euro zone woes and Korean tensions. Coca-Cola was off 1.6% and Walmart was down 1.4.

Amex AXP $39 -0.04 0.1% 14,738,521 NYSE: No mentions found.

Bank of Am BAC $15.49 +0.09 0.58% 263,332,205 NYSE: WSJ pA1 "Banks Trim Debt, Obscuring Risks" by Michael Rapoport, Tom Mcgity says Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup are among the most active at temporarily shedding debt just before reporting their finances to the public. The practice is known as window dressing and suggests that the banks are carrying more risk most of the time than their investors or custoemrs can easily see.

Boeing BA $62.78 -0.37 0.59% 6,903,135 NYSE: No mentions found.

Caterpillar CAT $59.21 -0.01 0.02% 13,789,980 NYSE: No mentions found.

Chevron CVX $72.57 -0.87 1.18% 22,303,527 NYSE: Fin Times p22 "Fin'l stocks lead rebound after erly sharp falls" by Masa Serdarevic says mounting worries about the fiscal situation in Europe sent US stock prices sharply lower yesterday, but the losses were almost pared as the market rallied just before the closing bell. Energy stocks sold off as the price of oil fell. Chevron fell 1.2% while ExxonMobil pulled back 0.8%.

WSJ pC2 "Exxon Mobil, Chevron Fall, While Alcoa Gains 1.9%" by Donna Yesalavich says blue chip stocks fell, with Chevron and Exxon among the decliners as crude oil futures slipped. But the broader S&P 500 edged into positive territory after materials firms including Alcoa and consumer discretionary stocks such as Home Depot staged late rallies. Kraft is charted under Bad News says it posted the largest drop among the 30 Dow firms on broad worries about global growth due to euro zone woes and Korean tensions. Coca-Cola was off 1.6% and Walmart was down 1.4.

CSCO $23.31 -0.06 0.26% 64,823,069 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

Coke KO $50.62 -0.84 1.63% 14,334,137 NYSE: WSJ pC2 "Exxon Mobil, Chevron Fall, While Alcoa Gains 1.9%" by Donna Yesalavich says blue chip stocks fell, with Chevron and Exxon among the decliners as crude oil futures slipped. But the broader S&P 500 edged into positive territory after materials firms including Alcoa and consumer discretionary stocks such as Home Depot staged late rallies. Kraft is charted under Bad News says it posted the largest drop among the 30 Dow firms on broad worries about global growth due to euro zone woes and Korean tensions. Coca-Cola was off 1.6% and Walmart was down 1.4.

Disney DIS $32.32 +0.16 0.49% 26,555,900 NYSE: WSJ pB2 "Miramax Back at Square One" by Ethan Smith, Lauren Schuker, AJC pA14 "Disney ends Miramax talks with billionaire" say the talks with the Weinstein brothers to buy back Miramax with financing from Ron Burkle for $625 mil have terminated.

DuPont DD $35.48 -0.08 0.23% 10,414,969 NYSE: No mentions found.

Exxon XOM $59.71 -0.48 0.8% 50,516,773 NYSE: Fin Times p22 "Fin'l stocks lead rebound after erly sharp falls" by Masa Serdarevic says mounting worries about the fiscal situation in Europe sent US stock prices sharply lower yesterday, but the losses were almost pared as the market rallied just before the closing bell. Energy stocks sold off as the price of oil fell. Chevron fell 1.2% while ExxonMobil pulled back 0.8%.

WSJ pC2 "Exxon Mobil, Chevron Fall, While Alcoa Gains 1.9%" by Donna Yesalavich says blue chip stocks fell, with Chevron and Exxon among the decliners as crude oil futures slipped. But the broader S&P 500 edged into positive territory after materials firms including Alcoa and consumer discretionary stocks such as Home Depot staged late rallies. Kraft is charted under Bad News says it posted the largest drop among the 30 Dow firms on broad worries about global growth due to euro zone woes and Korean tensions. Coca-Cola was off 1.6% and Walmart was down 1.4.

GE $15.95 -0.06 0.37% 122,132,979 NYSE: No mentions found.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ $45.85 +0.16 0.35% 22,716,437 NYSE: WSJ pB5 "H-P Tops IBM in Server Rev" by Justin Scheck says sales of servers rebounded in 1Qtr, with Hewlett-Packard topping IBM in system rev for the first time since early '08.

Home Depot HD $33.98 +0.76 2.29% 30,405,988 NYSE: WSJ pC2 "Exxon Mobil, Chevron Fall, While Alcoa Gains 1.9%" by Donna Yesalavich says blue chip stocks fell, with Chevron and Exxon among the decliners as crude oil futures slipped. But the broader S&P 500 edged into positive territory after materials firms including Alcoa and consumer discretionary stocks such as Home Depot staged late rallies. Kraft is charted under Bad News says it posted the largest drop among the 30 Dow firms on broad worries about global growth due to euro zone woes and Korean tensions. Coca-Cola was off 1.6% and Walmart was down 1.4.

Intel INTC $20.85 +0.18 0.87% 95,865,576 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

IBM $124.52 +0.07 0.06% 9,492,517 NYSE: WSJ pB5 "H-P Tops IBM in Server Rev" by Justin Scheck says sales of servers rebounded in 1Qtr, with Hewlett-Packard topping IBM in system rev for the first time since early '08.

Johnson & John JNJ $60.35 -0.22 0.36% 21,093,805 NYSE: WSJ pB3 "J&J Unit Faces FDA Warning" by Jennifer Dooren says the FDA warned a Johnson & Johnson unit about its failures to properly handle and correct problems reported with certain sterilization devices made by Advanced Sterilization Products, an Irvine, CA firm that is part of Ethicon Inc. which is a unit of J&J.

WSJ pA8 "Remembrances of Robert McNeil" by Stephen Miller says McNeil died Thurs at 94 and created Tylenol in '55 and then sold his family owned McNeil Labs to Johnson & Johnson which wanted to add a pharma div to its stable of consumer and hospital products. The deal closed in '59 for $33 mil in stock.

JPMorgan JPM $38.94 +0.32 0.83% 66,513,792 NYSE: No mentions found.

Kraft KFT $28.37 -0.56 1.94% 29,023,455 NYSE: WSJ pC2 "Exxon Mobil, Chevron Fall, While Alcoa Gains 1.9%" by Donna Yesalavich says blue chip stocks fell, with Chevron and Exxon among the decliners as crude oil futures slipped. But the broader S&P 500 edged into positive territory after materials firms including Alcoa and consumer discretionary stocks such as Home Depot staged late rallies. Kraft is charted under Bad News says it posted the largest drop among the 30 Dow firms on broad worries about global growth due to euro zone woes and Korean tensions. Coca-Cola was off 1.6% and Walmart was down 1.4.

McDonalds MCD $67.84 +0.18 0.27% 9,256,329 NYSE: No mentions found.

MRK $32.06 +0.20 0.63% 20,685,239 NYSE: No mentions found.

Microsoft MSFT $26.07 -0.20 0.76% 98,162,730 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pB1 "Microsoft CEO Takes Over Gadget Unit" by Nick Wingfield, NYT pB2 "Microsoft Shakes Up Its Consumer Products Unit" by Ashlee Vance, USA Today p1B "2 prominent Microsoft execs leave company" by Byron Acohido, AJC pA14 "Microsoft div's execs step down" say keys execs from the group that makes its Xbox 360 game system, Windows mobile phones and Zune media players are leaving. Pres. of the div, Robbie Bac, and J. Allard will be replaced by CEO Steve Ballmer.

Pfizer PFE $15.06 -0.16 1.05% 102,912,187 NYSE: No mentions found.

Proctor & Gam PG $61.05 -0.35 0.57% 18,249,819 NYSE: No mentions found.

MMM $79.47 -0.12 0.15% 5,705,171 NYSE: No mentions found.

Travelers TRV $48.67 +0.18 0.37% 6,596,081 NYSE: No mentions found.

United Tec UTX $66.16 +0.03 0.05% 7,858,347 NYSE: No mentions found.

Verizon VZ $27.4 -0.09 0.33% 23,239,800 Dual Listed: No mentions found.

WalMart WMT $50.28 0.72 1.41% 23,969,357 NYSE: WSJ pB4 "Wal-Mart Rolls Back Prices on iPhone 3GS" by Yukari Kane says WalMart is slashing the price on iPhone 3GS devices with 16 gigabytes of memory by $100 to $97 for customers that sign a 2 year service contract.

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Here are the current CEOs of the Dow 30 Companies:

AT&T T Randall L. Stephenson
Alcoa AA Klaus Kleinfeld
American Express AXP Kenneth I. Chenault
Bank of America BAC Brian T. Moynihan
Boeing BA W. James McNerney, Jr.
Caterpillar CAT Douglas Oberhelman
Chevron CVX John Watson
Cisco CSCO John Chambers
Coca Cola KO Muhtar Kent
Disney DIS Robert Iger
DuPont DD Ellen Kullman
ExxonMobil XOM Rex W. Tillerson
GE Jeffrey R. Immelt
Hewlett-Packard HPQ Mark Hurd
Home Depot HD Frank Blake
Intel INTC Paul S. Otellini
IBM Samuel J. Palmisano
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon
Johnson & Johnson JNJ William C. Weldon
Kraft KFT Irene Rosenfeld
McDonald's MCD Jim Skinner
Merck MRK Robert Clark
Microsoft MSFT Steve Ballmer
Pfizer PFE Jeffrey Kindler
Procter & Gamble PG Bob McDonald
3M MMM George W. Buckley
Travelers TRV Jay S. Fishman
United Technologies UTX Louis Chenevert
Verizon VZ Ivan Seidenberg
Wal-Mart WMT Mike Duke

Here are the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest billion as of 5/1/10 followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $319 [5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 268 [9]
3. WalMart WMT 201 [4]
4. GE 201 [10.5]
5. Procter & Gamble PG 180 [3]
6. BAC 179 [10]
7. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 177 [3]
8. JPMorgan Chase 169 [4]
9. IBM 166 [1]
10. Chevron CVX 163 [2]
11. AT&T 154 [6]
12. Cisco CSCO 154 [6]
13. Pfizer PFE 135 [8]
14. Intel INTC 126 [5.5]
15. Coke KO 123 [2]
16. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 122 [2]
17. Merck MRK 109 [3]
18. Verizon VZ 82 [3]
19. McDonald's MCD 76 [1]
20. Disney DIS 71 [2]
21. United Technologies UTX 70 [1]
22. 3M MMM 63 [.5]
23. Home Depot 60 [1.5]
24. Boeing BA 55 [1]
25. American Express AXP 55 [1]
26. Kraft KFT 51 [1.5]
27. Caterpillar CAT 43 [.5]
28. DuPont DD 36 [1]
29. Travelers 25 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 14 [1]

Here are the latest SEC filings as of 5/10/10 market other than ownership filings, registration of shares for employee benefit plans, free writing prospectuses and, except for certain cases, I do not include third party shareholder proposals:

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

T AT&T: 5/6/10 10-Q
5/4/10 8K: re: results from the annual meeting of the stockholders of AT&T Inc. held on April 30, 2010, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Alcoa AA: 5/4/10 8K re: Alcoa Inc.’s 2009 Sustainability Highlights Report.

American Express AXP: 5/5/10 10Q
4/28/10 8-K re: transcript of 4/22/10 American Express live audio conference call/webcast to discuss the Company’s financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2010

Bank of Am BAC: 5/10/10 Rule 424(b) Prospectus
5/7/10 10-Q

Boeing BA: 4/28/10 8-K re: results of its Annual Meeting of Shareholders on April 26, 2010

Caterpiller CAT: 5/10/10 Definitive Proxy materials
5/510 8-K re: departure of directors and officers
5/3/10 10Q

Chevron CVX: 5/510 10Q
4/30/10 8K re: 4/30/10 press release announcing unaudited first quarter 2010 net income of $4.6 billion

Cisco CSCO: 2/17/10 8K re: amendment of an excec vp's employment agreement.

Coke KO: 4/29/10 10Q
4/26/10 8K re: results of 4/21/10 voting results from annual meeting in Duluth, Ga.

Disney DIS: 3/16/10 8K re: amendment to stock option plan & by-laws