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
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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
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)
, which has a P/E of 29 and a PEG of 1.5, and
Procter & Gamble
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, 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
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. 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%.
ADM is in the portfolio of
, a $10 billion group of hedge funds whose Moore Global Investments fund has generated an average annual return of 24% since 1990. Moore also owns
Dell
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, which sports a forward P/E of 16 and a PEG of 1.6, as well as
Apex Silver Mines
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, which has a forward P/E of 8.
The CEO for
Kraft Foods
( KFT) is Irene Rosenfeld, who ranks No. 9 on the
Forbes
list. The conglomerate last week announced plans to break up its five North American business sectors into eight units: beverages, cheese, pizza, snacks and cereals, Oscar Mayer, food service, grocery and Canada. Kraft has a P/E of 20, a PEG of 2.5 and a 3.1% yield.
Kraft is one of the stocks owned by
, noted turnaround investor, takeover engineer and activist shareholder. His hedge fund, Trian, generated a return of 37% last year. Peltz also owns stakes in a couple of other food-related companies including
Cadbury Schweppes
(CSG)
, which has a P/E of 24, a PEG of 4.8 and a yield of 2.4%, as well as
HJ Heinz
(HNZ)
, which offers a P/E of 19, a PEG of 2.4 and a yield of 3.3%.
To see the entire list of the 10 stocks inspired by the
Forbes
list, check out the
at Stockpickr.com.
At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.
James Altucher is president of Stockpickr LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com and part of its network of Web properties, and a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs a fund of hedge funds. He is also a weekly columnist for
The Financial Times
and the author of
Trade Like a Hedge Fund
,
Trade Like Warren Buffett
and
SuperCa$h
. Under no circumstances does the information in this column represent a recommendation to buy or sell stocks. Altucher appreciates your feedback;
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