Fortune 40: Stock picks to retire on

Forty stock picks inspired by the greatest investors of all-time: From the deepest values to solid growth, these shares can make retirement dreams come true.

By David Stires, Fortune Magazine writer

JNJ: The numbers
Market Cap	$180.2 billion
Total Return YTD (June 11)	-4.5%
Total Return Last 12 Months	4.0%
Earnings Growth (Next Five Years)	8.0%
P/E (Pasts 12 months)	15.8
P/E (Next Year's Estimate)	14.5
Dividend Yield	2.7%

Source: Baseline, as of June 11, 2007.

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Growth and Income

Johnson & Johnson

Worries about drug-coated stents and competition from generic drugs have weighed on Johnson & Johnson. But its stock is still promising.

With medical devices, diagnostics, and consumer products, J&J is far more diversified than most pharmaceutical makers. In addition, it has increased its dividend for the past 44 years, generates a whopping $10 billion in free cash flow, and boasts an AAA credit rating.

8 Deep Value Stocks

TABLE: All 40 stocks...and how we picked them

Abbott Labs Johnson & Johnson Coca-Cola Altria Group Colgate General Mills Procter & Gamble Wyeth Accenture AIG Chubb ConocoPhillips McKesson 3M Microsoft United Health Pfizer Aetna Applied Industrial Carpenter Technology Loews Lufkin Tidewater VF Corp. Grey Wolf CSG Systems Hercules K-Swiss Navigant Consulting Park Electrochemical Penn Virginia Plexus UBS Diageo Novartis Petroleo Brasileiro Sanofi-Aventis Total Unilever Vodafone

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