TheStreet Portfolios of the Week
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are talking about.
Over the past week on TheStreet, our colleagues have been talking about large-cap stocks with substantial sales growth, stocks for the second half of the year and more. Here are some of the highlights.
10 Large-Caps With Fastest Sales Growth
:
TheStreet's
Jake Lynch suggests a shield for investors concerned about a double-dip: "large-cap companies that have global reach and ample cash to withstand a slowdown." For example, on his list of 10 companies that have increased sales at an annualized rate of at least 34% over the past three years is
Celgene
(CELG) - Get Report
, which has boosted sales by 42% since 2007 and increased profit by 44% in the first quarter and revenue by 31%. The
10 Large-Caps With Fastest Sales Growth
portfolio also includes
Freeport-McMoRan
(FCX) - Get Report
.
5 Dow Stocks Likely to Rise After Earnings
: Robert Holmes notes a pattern of some
Dow
stocks historically exhibiting better post-earnings performance than others and narrows down the five that have "notched the biggest gains in the day after posting quarterly numbers in July and August over the past five years." For example,
Hewlett-Packard
(HPQ) - Get Report
has averaged a 4.6% gain over the past five years on the day following its fiscal third-quarter reports, and
Cisco's
(CSCO) - Get Report
average gain was 4.1% over the past five fourth-quarter day-afters. The
5 Dow Stocks Likely to Rise After Earnings
portfolio also includes
JPMorgan
(JPM) - Get Report
.
6 Stocks for the Last 6 Months of 2010
:
assured readers that buy-and-hold investing wasn't dead, in spite of the first half of 2010's wild ride, and that "low-risk, stable stocks," such as
Microsoft
(MSFT) - Get Report
and
McDonald's
(MCD) - Get Report
, can act as an insulation to your current portfolio holdings during the second half of the year. The >
6 Stocks for the Last 6 Months of 2010
portfolio also includes
United Technologies
.
9 Famous Tech Stocks to Sell Now
:
predicted good things for the small-cap tech world but said some of the bigger-name stocks could be running into trouble in the coming weeks. On his list of tech stocks to unload before then is
Nokia
(NOK) - Get Report
, whose "stock has been struggling all year" and
Research In Motion
(RIMM)
, which with its BlackBerry has taken on the role of second fiddle to the iPhone and Andriod devices. The
9 Famous Tech Stocks to Sell Now
portfolio also includes
Dell
(DELL) - Get Report
.
10 Large-Caps With Highest Dividend Yields
: Jake Lynch offers up a list of the 10 highest-yielding stocks in the
S&P 500
, which he says "offer big dividends and a margin of safety because of their size." Topping his list was
Frontier Communications
(FTR) - Get Report
, which offers a more-than-10% dividend and "Trades at a premium to telecom peers based on projected earnings and book value." The
10 Large-Caps With Highest Dividend Yields
portfolio also includes
AT&T
(T) - Get Report
and
Altria
(MO) - Get Report
.
RELATED LINKS:
>>Jim Cramer's Portfolios of the Week
>>"Fast Money" Portfolios of the Week
>>4 Stocks Mohnish Pabrai Is Buying
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