Sunday, October 14, 2012

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Post No. 1,856 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 as of 10/4/12 of the Dow 30 components by market capitalization and recent Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of 10/4/12.

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, & Sunday's & Saturday's New York Times &     Atlanta Journal Constitution yielded the following stories about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 component companies and the Dow with stories about the Dow aggregated first and then items about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 companies presented alphabetically, followed by a separate table of Dow component's symbol and Friday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.

Dow Jones Average: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 13,328.25 up 2.46 or 0.02 % from Thursday's close of 13,326.39. For the week the Dow is down 281.90 or 2.07% from last Friday's close of 13,610.15. For the year the Dow is up 9.10%. Of the Dow components 12 gained and 18 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was IBM up $1.88 and percentage-wise was Boeing up 1.48%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was chevron down 89 cents and percentage-wise wasBank of America down 2.3 %.

Fin times p13 "JPMorgan & Wells Fargo fall despite robust results" by Arash massoudi says Wall St had its worst week in 4 and a half months despite  good quarterly results from JPMorgan and Wells Fargo.  Alcoa highlighted  concerns with the global economy as it kicked off 3Q reporting season on Tues & cut its forecast for global alum demand by 1% noting Chinese ind'l slowdown.

WSJ pB4 "Dow snaps losing run by a hair" by Jonathan Cheng says the Dow squeezed out a tiny advance to wrap up a tough week as worries about bank profits balanced off vs. a jump in consumer sentiment.

Sat. NYT pB3 "Wall St dips, ending worst week in 4 months" by REuters says the US stock market wrapped up its worst week in 4 months led lower on Fri by fin'l shares as results from Wells and JPMorgan stoked concerns re: shrinking profit margins for big lenders.

IBD pB8 "Stocks stumble last week, worst showing in 4 months" by Paul Whitfield says stocks sauntered to modest losses Fri as they added to their biggest weekly decline in more than 4 months.  Quarterly reports from Wells and JPMorgan disappointed despite earnings beats.  In the coming week the reports will pick up speed.  The Street awaits data from IBM and Coca-Cola.

As of the close of the market on Friday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page B5 of Saturday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Saturday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.52 up from Friday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.51 (year ago it was 12.98); Saturday's P/E estimate is 12.62 down from Friday's P/E estimate of 12.79 (year ago it was 11.70) and Saturday's dividend yield is 2.55 unchanged from Friday's dividend yield of 2.55 (last year it was 2.66). 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 1,735.55 up 0.24 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1,735.31. 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 Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $57.85 up 1 cent from Thursday's closing numerator of $57.84. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $53.84 (DIS/UNH) down 18 cents from Thursday's median closing price of $54.02 (DIS/UNH). The lowest volume was Travelers and the highest volume again was Bank of America.

If Friday morning before the market opened you had purchased 100 shares of each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 shares (assuming you could buy fractional shares and assuming no transaction costs or dividends) and sold at the close you would have made $24 ($173,555 - $173,531).

MarketWatch.com Fri. 10/12/12 4:15 pm by Kate Gibson says US stocks indexes on Friday closed their worst week in four months nearly unchanged, with the market stalling again as worries about Europe overcame an unexpected rise in U.S. consumer confidence. "On the European side, they still have to figure out their fiscal issues, and we're deep into earnings," said Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Asset Management Group. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA+0.02% added 2.46 points to 13,328.85, off 2.1% for the week. The S&P 500 index SPX-0.30% shed 4.25 points, or 0.3%, to 1,428.59, leaving it down 2.2% from the week-ago close. The Nasdaq Composite COMP-0.17%declined 5.3 points, or 0.2%, to 3,044.11.

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

AT&T:  WSJ pB14 "T-Mobile having trouble getting through" by Miriam Gottfired says last year regulators stops T-Mobile USA from selling itself to AT&T.  Sprint's LTE network lags thsoe of Verizon & AT&T, it is far ahead of T-Mobile.

Alcoa: Fin times p13 "JPMorgan & Wells Fargo fall despite robust results" by Arash massoudi says Wall St had its worst week in 4 and a half months despite  good quarterly results from JPMorgan and Wells Fargo.  Alcoa highlighted  concerns with the global economy as it kicked off 3Q reporting season on Tues & cut its forecast for global alum demand by 1% noting Chinese ind'l slowdown.

American Express:  No mentions found.

Bank of America: Barron's p16 "Week review"  says derivatives are concentrated in 4 banks:  JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs so rules are needed to get risky derivatives out of federally insured banks.  JPMorgan had a record quarterly profit and Jamie Dimon said housing turned the corner.

 Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

Boeing:  No mentions found.

Caterpillar:  IBD pB2 "google pauses as most stocks in IBD 50 hold or test support" by Alan R. Elliott says leading stocks behaved well as the market nosed down into correction mode & as blue chips like Chevron, Caterpillar and Home Depot crumbled.

Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

Chevron:   IBD pB2 "google pauses as most stocks in IBD 50 hold or test support" by Alan R. Elliott says leading stocks behaved well as the market nosed down into correction mode & as blue chips like Chevron, Caterpillar and Home Depot crumbled.

 Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

Cisco: Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

Coke: IBD pB8 "Stocks stumble last week, worst showing in 4 months" by Paul Whitfield says stocks sauntered to modest losses Fri as they added to their biggest weekly decline in more than 4 months.  Quarterly reports from Wells and JPMorgan disappointed despite earnings beats.  In the coming week the reports will pick up speed.  The Street awaits data from IBM and Coca-Cola.

Barron's "Week preview" says on Tuesday Intel and Coke reports earnings.

Disney: Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

DuPont:  No mentions found.

Exxon: Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

GE: Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

Hewlett-Packard:  Fin Times p11 "HP relinquishes its crown as world's top PC maker" by Chris Nuttall says number one PC maker is now Lenovo of China.

Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

Home Depot:   IBD pB2 "google pauses as most stocks in IBD 50 hold or test support" by Alan R. Elliott says leading stocks behaved well as the market nosed down into correction mode & as blue chips like Chevron, Caterpillar and Home Depot crumbled.

Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

Intel: Barron's "Week preview" says on Tuesday Intel and Coke reports earnings.

IBM: IBD pB8 "Stocks stumble last week, worst showing in 4 months" by Paul Whitfield says stocks sauntered to modest losses Fri as they added to their biggest weekly decline in more than 4 months.  Quarterly reports from Wells and JPMorgan disappointed despite earnings beats.  In the coming week the reports will pick up speed.  The Street awaits data from IBM and Coca-Cola.

 Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

JPMorgan:  Fin times p1 "Dimon bullish on US housing market" by Tom Braithwaite et al, Fin times p18 "JPMorgan/Wells Fargo", NYT pB1 "Mortgage lending helps JPMorgan pprofit rise 34%" by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, IBD pA1 "JPMorgan and Wells beat profit views as housing revives" by Kevin Harlin, WSJ pB14 "JPMorgan & Wells Fargo: housing on mend" by Dan Fitzpatrick et al, WSJ pB14 "Banks left feeling QEasey by Fed's efforts" by David Reily,  say JPMorgan the largest US bank and Wells Fargo on Ri reported better than expected Q3 earnings growth on an iprovinghousing markets but JPMorgan 1%.  JPM had eps of $1.40 up 37% vs a year ago.  Net rev grew 6% to $25.86 bil vs expectations of $1.24 on rev of $24.53 bil.

Barron's pM6 "Charting the Market" charts JPMorgan.

 Fin times p13 "JPMorgan & Wells Fargo fall despite robust results" by Arash massoudi says Wall St had its worst week in 4 and a half months despite  good quarterly results from JPMorgan and Wells Fargo.  Alcoa highlighted  concerns with the global economy as it kicked off 3Q reporting season on Tues & cut its forecast for global alum demand by 1% noting Chinese ind'l slowdown.

 IBD pB2 "Weekly top 10" JPMoran upbeat on housing" says  Jamie Dimon said housing "turned the corner." in comments last week.

IBD pB8 "Stocks stumble last week, worst showing in 4 months" by Paul Whitfield says stocks sauntered to modest losses Fri as they added to their biggest weekly decline in more than 4 months.  Quarterly reports from Wells and JPMorgan disappointed despite earnings beats.  In the coming week the reports will pick up speed.  The Street awaits data from IBM and Coca-Cola.

Barron's p16 "Week review"  says derivatives are concentrated in 4 banks:  JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs so rules are needed to get risky derivatives out of federally insured banks.  JPMorgan had a record quarterly profit and Jamie Dimon said housing turned the corner.  

Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

 NYT pB3 "Wall St dips, ending worst week in 4 months" by REuters says the US stock market wrapped up its worst week in 4 months led lower on Fri by fin'l shares as results from Wells and JPMorgan stoked concerns re: shrinking profit margins for big lenders.

Johnson & Johnson:  No mentions found.

McDonald's:  No mentions found.

Merck:  No mentions found.

 Microsoft: Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

Pfizer:  No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble:  Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

3M:  No mentions found.

UnitedHealth: Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

United Technologies:  No mentions found.

Verizon: Barron's p27 "almost there" by Andrew Bary says at 13,329 the Dow is closing in on its peak of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, '07 & is being driven by IBM, Home Depot and McDonald's and GE.   IBM, Exxon, Disney, Caterpillar and Travelers are some Dow components with ample ability to boost their dividends.  Chevron, Cisco, Bank of America, Travelers and UnitedHealth joined the Dow since '07.  No Dow component trades at more than 20 times estimated '13 profits and six have single digit P/Es: JPMorgan, Chevron, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.   Some of the high P/E Dow stocks are Home Depot, Verizon and Procter & Gamble.  Home Depot may already discount an upturn in housing while Verizon's P/E is high historically at a time when its core wire line biz remains under pressure.

WSJ pB14 "T-Mobile having trouble getting through" by Miriam Gottfired says last year regulators stops T-Mobile USA from selling itself to AT&T.  Sprint's LTE network lags thsoe of Verizon & AT&T, it is far ahead of T-Mobile.

Walmart:  IBD pB2 "Weekly top 10" Costco beats, Walmart upbeat" says Walmart was upbeat about its small format expansion. 

Barron's pM13 "Catching up to Walmart" by Steven Sears says Walmart's stock is hitting new highs and the author thinks the rally is just getting started as Walmart can increase rev and dividends.  Walmart may operate ore than 500 Neighborhood Markets by '15 with more than $10 bil in new sales.

Fin times p11 "Walmart trials same day delivery to take on Amazon" by Barney Jopson as widely reported last week, it will test this service in 4 US areas.

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 10,4/12 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $426.5 [4.5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 252 [8.5]
3.WalMart WMT 251 [3.5]
4. GE 242.5 [10.5]
5. IBM 240.5 [1]6. Chevron CVX 230 [2]
7. AT&T T 221 [6]
8. Procter & Gamble PG 191.5 [3]
9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 191 [3]
10. Pfizer PFE 189.5 [7.5]
11. Coke KO 172.5 [4.5]
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 159 [4]
13. Merck MRK 140.5 [3]
14. Verizon VZ 134.5 [3]
15. Intel INTC 112.5 [5]16. Cisco CSCO 100 [5.5]
17. Disney DIS 94.5 [2]
18. Home Depot HD 93 [1.5] 19. McDonald's MCD 92 [1]
20. Bank of America BAC 101.5 [10.5]
21. United Technologies UTX 71.5 [1]
22. American Express AXP 66 [1]
23. 3M MMM 65 [.5]
24. UnitedHealth UNH 60 [1]
25. Caterpillar CAT 56 [.5]
26. Boeing BA 52.5 [1]
27. DuPont DD 46.5 [1]
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 29.5 [2]
29. Travelers TRV 26.5 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 9.5 [1]

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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 10/4/12:

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

AT&T T: 6/29/12 8K re: election of Scott F. Ford as Director
6/14/12 8K re: sale of approx. $2 bil of notes
6/7/12 8K re completion of sale of AT&T Advertising Solutions to Cerebrus

Alcoa AA: 10/3/12 8K re: EPA remedial plan for Grasse River
7/26/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
7/13/12 8K re: Transcript of 2Q earnings call
7/10/12 8K re: 2Q results


American Express AXP: 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
7/20/12 8K re: election of David L. Vasella (Chairman of Bd. of Novartis) as Director
7/18/12 8K re: 2Q results
7/16/12 8K re: credt stats through 6/30/12
6/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats 3/31, 4/30 & 5/31/12
6/13/12 8K re: fin'l presentation of Vice-Chair Edward Gilligan


Bank of Am BAC: 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
7/18/12 8K re: 2Q results




Boeing BA: 8/29/12 8K re: bylaw amendments
7/25/12 10Q and 8K re: 2nd quarter results ended 6/30/12
6/26/12 8K re: selection of Raymond L. Conner to replace Jim Albaugh as Pres/CEO of Boeing Comm'l Airplanes
5/3/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws reducing number of directors from 12 to 114/25/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31


Caterpillar CAT: 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

8/17/12 8K re: 3 mos. dealer stats
8/10/12 8K re: debenture exchange
8/6/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12
7/27 8K re: debenture exchange
7/24/12 8K re: 3 mos. dealer states
6/26/12 8K re: safety problems at Wyoming mine
6/25/12 8K re: underwriting agreement re: issuance of $1.5 bil of debt
6/20/12 8K re: 3 month dealer stats thru 5/12
6/18/12 8K re: amended by-laws re: date of annual stockholders meeting
6/14/12 8K re: election of Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. to Bd. of Dirs.
6/13/12 8K re: increase of quarterly div to 52 cents payable 8/20 to 7/20 record holders


Chevron CVX: 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
7/11/12 8K re: guidance for 2Q
6/4/12 8K re: voting results from annual stockholders meeting
5/27/12 proxy re: recommendation to vote against all stockholder proposals
5/3/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
5/3/12 Proxy material re: voting recommendations


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
6/27/12 8K re; execs' pre-arranged stock trading plan
6/13/12 8K re: director's pre-arranged stock trading plan


Coke KO: 9/14/12 8K re: exec changes
8/23/12 8K re: shareholder approval of stock split
7/1 8K re: new operating structure
7/27/12 8K re: Amendment to Articles of Incorp. to increase auth. shares & 2 for 1 stock split
'7/26/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/29/12
7/17/12 8K re; 2Q results
7/10/12 8K re: approval of shareholders for stock split


Disney DIS: 8/7/12 10Q & 8/7/12 8K results for 3rd quarter ended 6/30/12
6/11/12 8K re: $2.25 bil 5 year credit agreement


DuPont DD: 9/4/12 8K re: sale of Performance Coatings Div to Carlyle Group for $4.9 bil
7/24/12 8K and 7/24/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
5/1/12 8K re: Annual meeting of stockholders results

ExxonMobil XOM: 8/2/12 10Q & 7/26/12 8K re: 2Q results ended 6/30/12
6/1/12 8K re: voting results from annual shareholders meeting
5/16/12 proxy re: exec compensation
5/11/12 proxy re: voting recommendations
5/3/12 10Q ended 3/31


GE: 7/30/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12
7/30/12 8K re: election of John J. Brennan to Bd., he is Chairman Emeritus of Vanguard
7/23/12 8K re: resignation of John Krenicki as Vice Chair & exec officer at year end
7/20/12 8K re: 2Q results
6/12/12 8K re: election of Manjin Dekkers to Board of Dirs.
5/23/12 10Q/A amend 10Q for quarter ended 3/31/12
5/16/12 8K re: dividend of $475 mil from GECC to GE & increase of stock buyback program



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
6/8/12 10Q re: quarter ended 4/30/12



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: 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
7/18/12 2 8Ks re: 2Q results
7/9/12 8K re; purchase of 10% of ASML for $2.1 bil



IBM: 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
7/31/12 10Q for period ended 6/30/12
7/27/12 8K re: underwriting agreement for 1.875% notes due '22
7/19/12 & 7/18/12 8Ks re: 2Q results



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
7/27/12 8K re: exec changes
7/13/12 8K re: 2Q results
7/13/12 8K re: restatement of 1Q results
6/13/12 8K re: CEO Jamie Dimon's testimony before US Senate Comm on Banking
6/12/12 8K re: redemption of $9 bil in Trust Preferred Capital Securities



Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 8/16/12 8K re: discontinuance of bapineuzumbab trials
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/1/12
7/20/12 8K re: settlement of shareholder deriv case in US Dist CT NJ
7/17/12 8K re: 2Q results
6/14/12 8K re: completion of Synthes purchase for $19.7 cash/stock
6/12/12 8K re: repurchase of shares from Goldman Sachs & JPMorgan
6/8/12 8K re: special charge of $600 mil related to legal charges related to Risperdal, Invega & Naterecor
5/8/12 8K re: sale of DePuy Orthopaedics to Biomet



McDonald's MCD: 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
7/23/12 8K re; 2Q results
7/20/12 8K re: various amendments to By-laws
6/18/12 8K re: stocks options to Donald Thompson CEO as of 7/1
6/11/12 8K re: May '12 sales



Merck MRK: 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
5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/22 Annual meeting of shareholders


Microsoft MSFT: 9/18/12 8K re: increase in quarterly div & retirement of Raymond Gilmartin from Board
7/26/12 10K for year ended 6/30/12
7/19/12 8K re: 4Q & full year results
7/2/12 8K re: write-down to Online Services Div
6/18/12 8K re: Amendment to By-laws re: timing of Annual Meeting of Shareholders
5/3/12 8K re: election of Steve Luczo to Board, he is CEO of Seagate Tech

Pfizer PFE: 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
5/23/12 8K re: exec promotions
5/10/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/1
5/1/12 8K re: 1 qtr results



Procter & Gamble PG: 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
7/18/12 8K re: Board proclaims support for CEO Bob McDonald
7/10/12 8K re: quarterly dividend of 0.562 cents per share
6/20/12 8K re: Deutsche Bank Conference Reg. FD disclosures


3M MMM: 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
7/26/12 8K re: sale of notes
6/26/12 8K re: issuance of $1.25 bil of notes
5/10/12 & 5/412 8Ks re: adoption of exec pre-arranged stock trading plans


Travelers TRV: 7/19/12 10Q & 7/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ender 6/30/12
5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/23 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

UnitedHealth Group UNH: 9/10/12 re: FD disclosure re: Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference
8/7/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12


United Technologies UTX: 9/12/12 8K re: election of Marshall Larsen to Board
7/31/12 8K re: purchase of Silver II for $3.46 bil
7/26/12 10Q & 7/26/12 8K re: results of 2nd qtr ended 6/30/12 & closing of Goodrich purchase and board and exec changer
6/18/12 8K re: issuance of equity unites
6/1/12 8K re: issuance of $9.8 bil of notes


Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 7/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
7/19/12 Form S-3 re: registration of 29,750,000 shares
7/19/12 & 7/18/12 8Ks re: 2Q results
5/9/12 8K re: results of annual shareholders meeting


WalMart WMT: 9/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/12
8/16/12 8K re: 2 Qtr results
7/30/12 8K re: election to Board of Tim Flynn, former Chairman of KPMG
6/4/12 8K re: voting results of Annual Meeting of Shareholders
6/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/30/12
5/17/12 8K re: operating results & guidance
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