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NEW YORK (Money Magazine) - If there is any way to beat the market over the long run, it consists of following the strongest, most secure stocks and trying to scoop them up when they are measurably undervalued.

There are surprisingly few such stocks that you need to follow on an on-going basis -- we've come up with 70, which you can track in the table below.

What are the defining characteristics of these great growth stocks? Size is certainly part of it, and almost all of the stocks on the core list have market capitalizations and total revenues that top $5 billion a year.

We also looked for companies with diverse product lines and dominant positions in their industries.

As for growth, we sought companies that are capable of returning a steady 11 percent to 12 percent a year through a combination of earnings gains and yield.

THE SIVY SEVENTY				«Click column headings to re-sort»
Company (Ticker symbol)	Current price	52-wk high	52-wk low	P/E (next yr)	Proj. growth	Div Yield	Value Ratio
Time Warner (TWX)	$19.99	$19.92	$15.70	23.0	10.0%	1.1%	1.8
Applied Materials (AMAT)	$17.68	$21.06	$14.39	15.9	16.5%	1.1%	1.6
Cisco Systems (CSCO)	$24.19	$24.78	$16.87	18.9	15.0%	0.0%	1.8
Intel (INTC)	$21.77	$27.49	$16.75	25.7	9.5%	1.8%	1.9
Staples (SPLS)	$26.04	$27.71	$21.08	20.7	16.0%	0.8%	1.3
Pfizer (PFE)	$27.28	$28.60	$20.27	13.6	4.9%	3.5%	2.6
Microsoft (MSFT)	$28.35	$28.70	$21.46	20.9	12.0%	1.4%	1.8
Limited Brands (LTD)	$29.55	$29.33	$18.81	18.0	12.0%	2.0%	1.2
Tyco International (TYC)	$29.23	$31.28	$24.65	15.5	%	1.4%	11.7
InterActiveCorp (IACI)	$30.41	$31.50	$23.54	20.1	11.8%	0.0%	3.2
Disney (DIS)	$31.98	$31.79	$23.35	19.6	12.7%	0.8%	1.6
Dell (DELL)	$23.37	$33.22	$18.95	20.8	12.4%	0.0%	1.4
Sysco (SYY)	$34.35	$34.17	$26.50	23.1	13.0%	2.0%	1.7
Lowe's (LOW)	$30.64	$34.85	$26.15	15.4	16.0%	0.7%	0.9
CVS Corp (CVS)	$31.35	$36.14	$23.89	20.4	13.6%	0.5%	1.4
Texas Instruments (TXN)	$30.70	$36.40	$26.77	18.2	16.5%	0.5%	1.1
General Electric (GE)	$35.59	$36.48	$32.06	17.9	10.6%	2.8%	1.4
Alcoa (AA)	$27.61	$36.96	$23.58	9.7	1.0%	2.2%	3.7
Wells Fargo (WFC)	$36.43	$36.99	$29.64	14.6	10.0%	3.1%	1.2
Comcast (CMCSA)	$40.00	$39.12	$25.35	46.4	10.0%	0.0%	6.8
Home Depot (HD)	$37.38	$43.95	$32.85	12.3	13.0%	1.6%	0.9
Viacom B (VIAB)	$39.45	$44.90	$32.42	19.6	12.0%	0.0%	0.0
DuPont (DD)	$45.73	$46.90	$38.52	15.9	%	3.2%	5.4
Washington Mutual (WM)	$43.31	$47.01	$37.44	12.6	10.0%	4.9%	0.9
Coca-Cola (KO)	$47.14	$47.50	$39.36	20.1	8.3%	2.6%	2.0
T. Rowe Price (TROW)	$46.31	$48.50	$31.71	25.4	12.0%	1.2%	1.9
J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM)	$47.77	$48.57	$35.63	12.8	10.7%	2.9%	1.0
First Data (FDC)	$24.17	$48.88	$21.93	21.0	12.0%	1.0%	0.8
Aflac (AFL)	$45.17	$49.65	$41.63	15.5	14.8%	1.4%	0.9
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)	$47.89	$49.87	$37.50	19.1	10.5%	2.5%	1.6
Anheuser-Busch (BUD)	$48.22	$50.00	$40.15	18.5	8.6%	2.5%	1.8
Citigroup (C)	$50.83	$51.33	$44.81	11.7	10.0%	3.9%	0.9
Walgreen (WAG)	$43.34	$51.60	$39.55	21.0	16.0%	0.7%	1.5
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT)	$51.75	$52.15	$42.31	17.9	13.0%	1.3%	1.3
Aetna (AET)	$41.39	$52.48	$30.94	14.2	15.0%	0.1%	1.0
Illinois Tool Works (ITW)	$47.51	$53.54	$40.80	15.5	12.3%	1.8%	1.1
Wyeth (WYE)	$52.62	$54.13	$40.90	16.5	7.0%	2.0%	2.0
Bank of America (BAC)	$54.18	$54.87	$40.93	11.5	9.0%	4.1%	1.0
Anadarko Petroleum (APC)	$47.52	$56.98	$39.51	8.5	8.7%	0.8%	0.4
American Express (AXP)	$57.82	$58.43	$48.21	18.8	12.4%	1.0%	1.5
Hershey Foods (HSY)	$52.47	$59.05	$48.20	20.9	9.9%	2.1%	2.4
Lilly (LLY)	$57.29	$59.24	$49.47	18.3	10.0%	2.8%	2.1
Best Buy (BBY)	$54.68	$59.50	$42.05	20.2	15.0%	0.7%	1.4
Target (TGT)	$59.27	$59.85	$44.70	19.1	14.0%	0.8%	1.4
Colgate-Palmolive (CL)	$62.78	$63.16	$51.19	20.9	11.0%	2.0%	2.0
Procter & Gamble (PG)	$63.50	$63.74	$52.75	22.1	12.0%	1.9%	1.7
UnitedHealth Group (UNH)	$49.37	$64.61	$41.44	16.8	16.5%	0.1%	1.0
PepsiCo (PEP)	$63.82	$65.99	$56.00	21.1	11.1%	1.9%	1.7
United Technologies (UTX)	$65.24	$67.47	$50.27	17.6	10.8%	1.6%	1.5
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)	$68.82	$69.41	$56.65	18.4	8.0%	2.2%	1.8
Harley-Davidson (HOG)	$67.97	$70.14	$47.31	17.8	11.7%	1.2%	1.4
Northrop Grumman (NOC)	$65.91	$71.37	$52.30	15.8	12.5%	1.8%	1.1
ExxonMobil (XOM)	$71.62	$71.40	$54.79	11.3	10.0%	1.8%	1.0
Danaher Corp (DHR)	$71.02	$72.16	$49.94	21.9	14.4%	0.1%	1.5
ConocoPhillips (COP)	$62.20	$72.50	$54.90	6.1	10.3%	2.3%	0.5
Schlumberger (SLB)	$64.11	$74.75	$42.64	21.2	17.4%	0.8%	1.3
General Dynamics (GD)	$72.29	$77.98	$55.09	17.4	12.0%	1.3%	1.3
Caterpillar (CAT)	$62.35	$82.03	$49.75	11.7	17.0%	1.9%	0.7
Fortune Brands (FO)	$76.88	$82.87	$68.45	14.1	12.0%	2.0%	1.2
Amgen (AMGN)	$75.98	$84.50	$63.52	19.5	15.9%	0.0%	1.4
Merrill Lynch (MER)	$87.30	$86.32	$62.60	12.3	12.9%	1.1%	0.9
Burlington Northern (BNI)	$79.49	$87.99	$59.32	15.8	15.1%	1.3%	1.0
3M (MMM)	$79.24	$88.35	$67.05	17.6	10.0%	2.3%	1.4
Boeing (BA)	$79.14	$89.58	$63.70	35.7	16.4%	1.5%	2.0
Johnson Controls (JCI)	$83.50	$90.00	$66.03	13.6	12.0%	1.3%	1.2
IBM (IBM)	$91.54	$92.04	$72.73	15.3	12.0%	1.3%	1.2
Nike B (NKE)	$93.67	$93.37	$75.52	16.5	13.0%	1.3%	1.3
Genentech (DNA)	$84.52	$100.20	$75.58	39.1	29.8%	0.0%	1.7
Omnicom Group (OMC)	$100.35	$101.50	$78.75	20.2	%	1.0%	20.9
FedEx (FDX)	$115.45	$120.01	$88.95	17.9	15.0%	0.3%	1.2