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Barrons - Time to buy?
Here are Barrons.com just published Big Ten stocks - what do you think? (couldn't get the columns to line up 
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MONDAY, JULY 24, 2006
Big Ten
These ten large stocks could generate attractive returns in the coming years thanks to reasonable price/earnings ratios and decent earnings prospects.
Recent Change 2006 2006 Dividend Market
Company Price YTD EarningsE P/E Yield Value (bil)
Chevron $65.32 15.1% $8.09 8.1 3.2% $144.8
Cisco Systems* 17.88 4.4 1.20 14.9 0.0 109.2
Dow Chemical 37.00 -15.6 4.61 8.0 4.1 35.6
General Electric 32.48 -7.3 1.99 16.4 3.1 337.7
Home Depot 33.98 -16.1 3.07 11.1 1.8 70.2
Lehman Bros. 62.13 -3.1 6.52 9.5 0.8 33.3
Nestle 78.64 5.2 4.78 16.5 1.7 126.9
News Corp. A** 18.53 19.2 1.03 18.0 0.6 58.4
Vodafone*** 20.89 -2.7 2.02 10.3 5.3 125.7
Wal-Mart Stores 44.29 -5.4 2.93 15.1 1.5 184.6
E=Estimated
*Fiscal year ends in July, 2007.
**Fiscal year ends in June, 2007.
***Fiscal year ends in March, 2007.
Sources: Thomson Financial/Baseline; Bloomberg
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MONDAY, JULY 24, 2006
Big Ten
These ten large stocks could generate attractive returns in the coming years thanks to reasonable price/earnings ratios and decent earnings prospects.
Recent Change 2006 2006 Dividend Market
Company Price YTD EarningsE P/E Yield Value (bil)
Chevron $65.32 15.1% $8.09 8.1 3.2% $144.8
Cisco Systems* 17.88 4.4 1.20 14.9 0.0 109.2
Dow Chemical 37.00 -15.6 4.61 8.0 4.1 35.6
General Electric 32.48 -7.3 1.99 16.4 3.1 337.7
Home Depot 33.98 -16.1 3.07 11.1 1.8 70.2
Lehman Bros. 62.13 -3.1 6.52 9.5 0.8 33.3
Nestle 78.64 5.2 4.78 16.5 1.7 126.9
News Corp. A** 18.53 19.2 1.03 18.0 0.6 58.4
Vodafone*** 20.89 -2.7 2.02 10.3 5.3 125.7
Wal-Mart Stores 44.29 -5.4 2.93 15.1 1.5 184.6
E=Estimated
*Fiscal year ends in July, 2007.
**Fiscal year ends in June, 2007.
***Fiscal year ends in March, 2007.
Sources: Thomson Financial/Baseline; Bloomberg