Below is an assortment of blue-chip growth stocks based on the philosophy and research of Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel, author of
Stocks for the Long Run.
Our aim was to find what Siegel calls "corporate El Dorados" - those golden firms that consistently reward investors year after year. In his 2005 book,
The Future for Investors, he shows how companies that have marketed "tried and true" products for decades in slow-growth or even declining industries outperform firms that develop the hot new gizmos. Siegel endorses the stocks we uncovered using his approach.
Our 2006 growth-and-income stocks edged out the S&P with an average total return of 23%.
Company
(Ticker symbol) |
Current
price |
52-wk
high |
52-wk
low |
Market
Cap (mill) |
Div
Yield |
P/E
Ratio |
Earnings
growth |
| Abbott Labs (ABT) |
$53.56 |
$59.50 |
$41.44 |
$82,501.68 |
2.4% |
21.8 |
11% |
| Altria (MO) |
$70.26 |
$72.20 |
$52.05 |
$147,774.06 |
3.9% |
13.8 |
8% |
| Coca-Cola (KO) |
$51.38 |
$53.65 |
$42.27 |
$118,681.12 |
2.6% |
21.2 |
9% |
| Colgate-Palmolive (CL) |
$67.28 |
$69.00 |
$58.01 |
$34,413.18 |
2.1% |
22.4 |
11% |
| General Mills (GIS) |
$59.36 |
$61.52 |
$49.27 |
$20,560.11 |
2.5% |
18.8 |
8% |
| Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) |
$62.12 |
$69.41 |
$58.97 |
$179,934.18 |
2.7% |
15.8 |
9% |
| Procter & Gamble (PG) |
$62.59 |
$66.30 |
$53.79 |
$197,091.15 |
2.2% |
21.6 |
11% |
| Wyeth (WYE) |
$56.74 |
$59.00 |
$41.91 |
$76,324.38 |
1.8% |
17.6 |
8% |
Current price, 52-week high/low and market cap as of Jun 12 13:20
P/E based on earnings for the last 12 months.
Earnings growth based on analyst projections for the next five years, according to Baseline. |
