Serious Money: Fortune's 25 leaders, 18 remain

Sheldon Liber — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:40:00 EST

Filed under: Management, General Electric (GE), PepsiCo (PEP), Intel (INTC), McDonald's (MCD), International Business Machines (IBM), 3M Corporation (MMM), American Express (AXP), FedEx Corp (FDX), General Mills (GIS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Lilly (Eli) (LLY), Deere and Co (DE), Unilever ADR (UL), Serious Money, Stock Screen, China Mobile Limited (CHL), ICICI Bank (IBN)

This is the third screening to find value among Fortune's 25 corporate world leaders that have demonstrated an ability to regenerate themselves from within. The list has been cut to 18 and will be cut further here.

The methodology of using basic stock data points to identify potential value investments only sets the stage for success -- it assures nothing. While it is true that paying less is better than paying more and getting a higher yield is better than less, this gives you a scant picture of what is in people's hearts and minds, and that is harder to judge. Like the weather, no matter the predictions, you may not find out it is raining until you are standing in it. Regardless, it should be advantageous to start with good stock (pun intended) before you take to whittlin', and that we have.

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Serious Money: Fortune's 25 leaders among leaders

Sheldon Liber — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

Filed under: International Markets, Management, General Electric (GE), PepsiCo (PEP), Intel (INTC), McDonald's (MCD), International Business Machines (IBM), 3M Corporation (MMM), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), American Express (AXP), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), FedEx Corp (FDX), General Mills (GIS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Lilly (Eli) (LLY), Deere and Co (DE), Unilever ADR (UL), Serious Money, Stock Screen, China Mobile Limited (CHL), ICICI Bank (IBN)

The recent issue of Fortune magazine discusses how the best of the best train, guide and nurture top managers to become the leaders that will propel their corporations successfully forward. They list the top 25 companies, which I have used as the basis of a new review to see how they would fair against common metric screens.

In the past few months, many articles have posited that large-cap stocks should excel in the coming year based on their lagging the market behind smaller, more volatile stocks flying out of the March lows. I do not believe this is universally true. Plenty of large-cap stocks did well, such as Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG), while many small caps went nowhere. Even among the large caps included in Fortune's "Leadership 25," some have doubled.

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