Top 10 'Powerful Women' Stocks

Forbes recently released its list of the world's 100 most powerful women. Many of the women who made the magazine's list are CEOs of publicly traded companies, and of the top 20 women, 10 are the CEOs of stocks that trade in the U.S.

Stockpickr has sorted through the Forbes list and compiled the top 10 stocks of these powerful women.

At the top of the Forbes list is PepsiCo's(PEP Quote) CEO, Indra Nooyi, who was ranked No. 5 by the magazine. Pepsi was just downgraded by Standard & Poor's from buy to hold, due to its strong price rise making it fairly valued. However, the soda-maker stock is a favorite of Jim Cramer's. The stock has a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 20, a P/E-to-growth (PEG) ratio of 1.9 and a yield of 2%.

Pepsi is part of the Cramer Recession Stocks portfolio, which lists the stocks that he believes have the potential to perform well during a recession. Other stocks in the portfolio include MedcoHealth Solutions(MHS Quote), which has a P/E of 29 and a PEG of 1.5, and Procter & Gamble(PG Quote), which offers a P/E of 23 and a PEG of 1.8.

Another female CEO to make the Forbes list is Patricia Woertz, who ranks No. 8. Woertz is the chief exec of Archer Daniels Midland(ADM Quote). Due to a drop in ethanol prices, the company is shifting its production of corn from biofuel to corn syrup and other products. The stock has a P/E of 10 and a PEG of 1.5. It also pays a yield of 1.4%.