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SO: Bull or Bear?
Where should granny put $50,000?
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+4.15%
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Filed under: Getting started, McDonald's (MCD), Diageo plc (DEO), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Altria Group (MO), Novartis AG ADS (NVS), Automatic Data Proc (ADP), Kellogg Co (K), Consolidated Edison (ED), General Mills (GIS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Merck and Co (MRK), Duke Energy (DUK), Personal finance, S and P 500, Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO), Annaly Capital Management (NLY) <> One of my wonderful friends, Ms. P, asked me for some guidance on how she might allocate $50,000 currently earning peanuts in a money market account. Though she is decades from becoming a grandmother, after a...
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Serious Money: Three more stocks that beat the market: BHP, RTN, SO
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+2.32%
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(closed on 10/09/09)
Filed under: BHP Billiton Ltd ADR (BHP), Serious Money, Commodities, S and P 500, Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO), Raytheon Company (RTN), Best Stocks for 2009  After finding three stocks yesterday that were a good bet to beat the the S&P 500 index going forward, I decided to pursue this notion further. Each of yesterday's stocks was in a different industry that will have strong recurring revenue and pays a dividend; energy, food and booze.<>Today's three stocks are in diversified mining, electric power utilities and high-tech defense. Going back ten years, they have all trounced the index...
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The Southern Co.: Safety and decent growth are hard to ignore
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Filed under: Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO)  Readers of this space know that one of the preferred sectors is the electric/power generation sector, which should benefit from both an expanded infrastructure and ramping demand, once U.S. economic growth resumes.
And with the above in mind, the Southern Co. is (NYSE: SO) worth a review. The Southern Co. provides power to roughly 4.3 million customers in the Southeast United States. <>In general, analysts expect the economic recovery in and around Atlanta, Georgia, SO's core area, to put a bottom under earnings in FY2009. The commercial side of ...
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Bullish on SO ...
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Southern Company (SO:NYSE) is an electric utility with 4.4 million customers in one of the fastest-growing regions of the country - the Southeast. SO generates 42,000 megawatts of capacity. Thirty-five thousand of these megawatts go to places like homes and small businesses that pay under government regulation plans - and 5,500 megawatts of wholesale generation are sold to large companies like steel mills through purchase power agreements. <> The company is in a unique position because during the past two years, state government regulatory boards have raised electricity rate...
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Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF
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Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF The table at my website link below contains 35 companies included in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Highly Defensive PerformIdex which are based in the U.S., Canada, and Europe with market caps over $10B that are the leaders by market cap in their defensive industry groups. The index includes 23 consumer staples and healthcare companies, with the remaining 12 companies chosen from a variety of other defensive industry groups. <> (A) Mass Merchant Dis...
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Expanding Defensive Growth Index into Europe
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+0.99%
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(closed on 01/21/09)
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<> The accompanying table presents an updated version of the ETFI Highly Defensive PerformIdex, which is expanded to 40 companies with market caps of at least $10B from the industry groups listed below. This defensive growth index is heavily weighted in consumer staples and healthcare and is now structured to include companies based in Europe, in addition to the United States and Canada.
Compared to the previous version, this index has a lower beta and higher average market cap and adds European companie...
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All bets are off -- stocks irrational downside
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(closed on 06/29/09)
Filed under: Rants and raves, General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO) <> There is a lot of bad news affecting the stock market and prices are falling for some very important reasons. These include reduced expectations for earnings, higher unemployment, a lack of liquidity, a housing market that has not bottomed yet, federal spending gone wild, and the collapse of some venerable financial institutions to name a select few.
The<> Standard & Poor's 500 Index: started the year (Dec 28, 2007) at 1,478.49 and as of...
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Serious Money: 5 more stocks better than CDs -- NUE, PDS, SO, WFC, XEL
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-2.25%
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(closed on 10/06/08)
Filed under: Nucor Corp (NUE), Wells Fargo (WFC), Serious Money, Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO), Precision Drilling TR (PDS), Xcel Energy (XEL)  This is a continuation of Serious Money: Choose these 5 stocks over CDs -- DEO, GE, HNP, JPM, MRK, which listed the first five stock ideas. Below are the other picks rounding out the ten.
<>Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) - This is one of the world leaders in the idea of mini-mills. This smallish steel producer prides itself on running a tight ship, pays a dividend and has a P/E under 9. The steel industry has been volatile in recent years with many...
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Serious Money: How safe were BRK, BUD, PG, SO, & UPS?
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(closed on 08/25/08)
Filed under: Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Wal-Mart (WMT), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Anheuser-Busch Cos (BUD), Procter and Gamble (PG), United Parcel'B' (UPS), Washington Mutual (WM), PetroChina Co Ltd ADR (PTR), Comfort Zone Investing, Serious Money, S and P 500, Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO) <> The stock market was down yesterday and it is down again today. Bearish sentiment is roaming through Wall Street right now, so I thought I would look back on another occasion when the market was going through similar turmoil and I wrote about the following eight stocks, which I though...
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Southern Company: Do Utilities Trump Pharmas?
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<> Southern Co. (SO) is an electric utility company with an annual dividend of around 4.8%. In turbulent times, electric utilities appear to be the last legitimate widows-and-orphans stocks. Pharma has lost that designation, especially after Wyeth's (WYE) plummet Wednesday and Pfizer's (PFE) poor historical performance. The problem with having new drugs in the pipeline is if something goes wrong with them at any stage, gains in the stock price suddenly evaporate. That unpredictability makes electric utilities the safer bet, unless regulation becomes unreasonable.
I bought Southern Co. on July 3...
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Sleeper
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+9.97%
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(closed on 12/22/07)
Southern Company is a utility stock that I just tucked away for a rainy day some thirty years ago when I first started my portfolio. Re invest all dividends and she is a nice little bank roll today.
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Bullish on SO ...
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What can be said about good old southern company...it pays a strong dividend, and has a large market cap. I would consider adding this to your portfolio as a long term holding. Stocks like this one will allow you to save a little face in the event of a market recession. SO is the parent company of GA Power, AL Power, Savannah Electric, and several other power utilities--energy never goes out of style.
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Billions of investment dollars are sitting on the sidelines for fear of entering the market at the wrong time and losing more money after taking a bath last year. However, the market seems to have hit bottom last March and many investors missed the 40% gain from that point to now.
