" Blue-chips at the low end of their dividend yield range are "overvalued.
And witness the split in the stockmarket between blue-chips such as Toyota, whose capitalisation is still three times that of the big three American car makers put together, and small, primarily domestic companies traded on the over-the-counter market, some two-thirds of which are trading for less than the net value of their assets.
Kaplan also thinks some of the biggest companies have been unfairly punished simply because they're big, and he is bullish on the prospects for blue-chips like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
Gibbons told his subscribers this week to buy a handful of beaten-down stocks, including blue-chips like Bank of New York (nyse: BK - news - people ), Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ), General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) and Goodyear Tire (nyse: GT - news - people ).
Big-cap blue chips are one of the only areas in the marketplace where we're finding attractive risk-reward equations.
General Motors, along with U.S. Steel and Royal Dutch Petroleum, were steady-paying blue chips.
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His style is to buy out-of-favor blue chips like Sara Lee, Merck and Bank of America, and hold.
The story is much the same among other popular dividend-paying blue chips.
His advice is to avoid U.S. stocks, but if you must buy them, as he does for some of his funds, he recommends nothing but the blue-est of blue chips.
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Currently, the top five companies that account for a third of stock holdings, he says, are non-Hyundai blue chips SK Telecom, power utility KEPCO, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance, and steel giant POSCO.
Travelers ( TRV), the sole insurance company among the thirty Dow Industrials, only joined the Blue Chips in mid-2009.
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The Dow Jones industrial average, on which blue chips such as Coca-Cola are listed, ended 1.6% lower at 10, 462.65.
It also happens to be one of the highest-yielding major American blue chips, with a 3.5% dividend at current prices.
But today, the blue chips are still standing -- taller than ever.
The net result will be a low double-digit advance on Wall Street with a rotation in leadership from small-cap companies to blue chips.
Throw enough microchips at the problem Deep Blue contained hundreds of specialist chess-analysis chips and it does indeed become trivial.
U.S. blue chips yesterday snapped a three-day losing streak, and notched a more than 200-point rise today .
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Their stock prices would rise above the mass of boring old blue chips and follow the high-flying tech stocks.
Method two, for the hands-on investor: Buy Japanese blue chips available in the U.S. as American Depositary Receipts.
Blue chips were bolstered by a better-than-expected labor-market report.
So, financial news that used to be an evening TV wrap-up of five or eight blue chips and an index has turned into a flood of data only specialists need to know.
And plain old recession-related predicaments were sufficient for spreads of blue chips like Ford, AOL Time Warner and Motorola to widen to Grand Canyon proportions.
For European blue chips to be a profitable investment over the next 1-5 years, the Eurozone simply needs to avoid blowing up.
The irony, of course, is that mainline blue chips, initially, are hit harder and faster than high-flying dot.coms.
The irony, of course, is that mainline blue chips, initially, are hit harder and faster than high-flying dot-coms.
By 2009, I too, had spent 20 plus years at blue chips like American Express, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Coca-Cola.
Investors, in their more rational moments, say the high price-earnings multiples of red chips, often two or three times those of blue chips, are justified by the prospects of economic growth on the mainland.
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