Stocks that can Best Weather Volatile Times
Long-term investors are searching for stocks that can best weather volatile times might consider those companies with the largest amount of cash, as well those companies that have the highest cash-to-debt percentage.
Below, courtesy of a screen conducted by Morningstar Direct, are those companies:
The top 10 U.S. companies with the largest amount of cash
Company Name | Ticker | Cash and Cash Equivalents (mil) |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | JPM | 263,631.00 |
Citigroup | C | 193,919.00 |
Bank of America | BAC | 168,667.00 |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 141,250.00 |
Goldman Sachs Group | GS | 133,546.00 |
Bank of New York Mellon | BK | 114,683.00 |
State Street | STT | 73,199.00 |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.A | 64,175.00 |
Morgan Stanley | MS | 49,659.00 |
Apple | AAPL | 48,844.00 |
The top 10 U.S. companies with the largest amount of cash, excluding companies in the financial services sector and those that have a captive financing arm.
Company Name | Ticker | Cash and Cash Equivalents (mil) |
Apple | AAPL | 48,844.00 |
AbbVie | ABBV | 39,924.00 |
Amazon.com | AMZN | 36,092.00 |
Oracle | ORCL | 20,514.00 |
Danaher | DHR | 19,912.30 |
FB | 19,079.00 | |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 18,498.00 |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 17,305.00 |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 12,346.00 |
AT&T | T | 12,130.00 |
The top 10 companies of the S&P 500 constituents that have the highest cash to debt percentage
Company Name | Ticker | Cash to Debt |
Robert Half International | RHI | 59185.56% |
Accenture PLC | ACN | 27040.57% |
Take-Two Interactive | TTWO | 10244.48% |
Incyte | INCY | 5128.68% |
FB | 2117.54% | |
SVB Financial Group | SIVB | 1776.72% |
IPG Photonics | IPGP | 1630.55% |
Corteva | CTVA | 1561.06% |
Franklin Resources | BEN | 796.79% |
State Street | STT | 554.03% |
The top 10 companies of the S&P 500 constituents that have the highest cash to debt percentage, excluding companies in the financial services sector
Company Name | Ticker | Cash to Debt |
Robert Half International | RHI | 59185.56% |
Accenture PLC | ACN | 27040.57% |
Take-Two Interactive | TTWO | 10244.48% |
Incyte | INCY | 5128.68% |
FB | 2117.54% | |
IPG Photonics | IPGP | 1630.55% |
Corteva | CTVA | 1561.06% |
NVIDIA | NVDA | 543.17% |
Synopsys | SNPS | 529.09% |
Intuit | INTU | 485.32% |
