The accompanying table presents an updated version of the ETFI Highly Defensive PerformIdex, which is expanded to 40 companies with market caps of at least $10B from the industry groups listed below. This defensive growth index is heavily weighted in consumer staples and healthcare and is now structured to include companies based in Europe, in addition to the United States and Canada.
Compared to the previous version, this index has a lower beta and higher average market cap and adds European companie
KO has a small dividend on top of great options to trade and The Coca-Cola Company engages in the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups worldwide.
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"Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) is a remarkably profitable franchise," says Stephen Leeb. In The Complete Investor, he looks at its expanding market opportunities and expanding dividend.
" Selling its soft drinks and other products to just about every nation in the world, Coke has operating margins of 26.1% and return on common equity of 30.9%. On top of this, it delivers a dividend yield of 3%, higher than the S&P 500's 2.4%.
"Warren Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B), has been the single greatest investment of our lifetimes," says Alexander Green, noting, "His compounded annual gain from 1966 to 2007 was 21.1% vs. 10.3% or the S&P 500."
In the Oxford Insight, the investment director explains, "It is now time to buy the 'ultimate no-brainer'." Here's his assessment.
"Despite this strong long-term performance, Buffett experienced a rare earnings letdown during the second quarter of this year.
The Coca-Cola Company (KO) is trading at the bottom of its 52-week range ($49.44-65.59). Typically KO has been one of the world’s most admired stocks. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) is the second largest holder of KO stock with a $10.4 billion investment in the company. Analysts are however beginning to move away from the stock.
The above table (click on image for full-screen view) represents a Highly Defensive PerformIdex ETF proposal comprised of companies based in either the US or Canada with market caps greater than $5 billion from the following industry groups: (A) Grocery Stores (2); (B) Consumer Staples (11) – Non-Food/Beverage (2), Processed & Packaged Foods (4), Tobacco (1), Alcoholic Beverages (2), Non-Alcoholic Beverages (2); (C) Health Benefit Providers (3); (D) Consumer Healthcare (3); (E) Utilities (3); (F) Telecom Services (2); (G) Ag/Metal Commodities (4); (H) At-Home Entertainm
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I finally got around to investing a portion of my stimulus check. I had a few stocks in mind for the money, but at the end of the day, I decided that I should buy shares of a high-yielding blue chip for the very long term. It really wasn't a difficult decision. The winner of my stimulus-check buy was none other than General Electric (NYSE: GE).
I've been talking about GE a lot lately, but if you're an investor, you know there's a lot to talk about this conglomerate. No, I don't mean fundamentally, nece
The Coca-Cola Company engages in the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups worldwide. It principally offers sparkling and still beverages. The company’s sparkling beverages include nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverages with carbonation, such as energy drinks, and carbonated waters and flavored waters. Its still beverages consist of nonalcoholic beverages without carbonation, including non-carbonated waters, flavored waters and enhanced waters, juices and juice drinks, teas, coffees, and sports drinks. The Coca-Cola Company also offers foun...
Once the great and legendary investor Warren Buffett made money from Coke and he was able to predict the consumerist boom that would follow and propel Coke. And Buffett made very interesting and fascinating purchases. He even bought stocks when the entire market went crashing down like nine pins. But I feel at the current price, Coke has some strength, some fizz left in it even though it has had to compete quite fiercely with Pepsi at many levels and in many markets. Coke bought Energy brands last year and that acquisition would give it some teeth in the next year or so.
The Coca-Cola Company engages in the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups worldwide. It principally offers sparkling and still beverages. The company’s sparkling beverages include nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverages with carbonation, such as energy drinks, and carbonated waters and flavored waters. Its still beverages consist of nonalcoholic b
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I finally got around to investing a portion of my stimulus check. I had a few stocks in mind for the money, but at the end of the day, I decided that I should buy shares of a high-yielding blue chip for the very long term. It really wasn't a difficult decision. The winner of my stimulus-check buy was none other than 
