These five top stocks all pay good dividends and raise them every year. They also offer a degree of safety in what is clearly a very expensive market.
Merck, Macy's, General Electric, and 3M all posted new 52-week lows on Monday.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Wednesday include AMD, Apple, Biogen, Capital One, Chipotle Mexican Grill, General Motors and 3M.
Caterpillar, 3M, American Express, and JPMorgan lifted the DJIA higher on Tuesday.
3M handily beat analysts' expectations when the company reported third-quarter results Tuesday morning, and the stock hit a new 52-week high.
Paul Ausick 24/7 Wall St. has put together a preview of Boeing, McDonald's, Intel and other top Dow Jones Industrial Average companies due to report their quarterly results this week.
Nike, Caterpillar, 3M, and UnitedHealth were Wednesday's top gainer among the Dow 30 stocks.
Apple and 3M weighed on the DJIA Wednesday while McDonald's and Pfizer gave the index a boost.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Wednesday include Biogen, Electronic Arts, Gap, Intuit, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, Intercept Pharmaceutical and AutoZone.
Travelers, Cisco Systems, Goldman Sachs, and 3M helped boost the DJIA to a solid gain Monday.
Boeing's 50% share price increase so far in 2017 has driven the DJIA to a gain of more than 11% for the year to date. And there appears to be little reason…
The corrections seen here might not seem that grand, but the drops seem overdone, and they may represent solid buying opportunities for investors looking for solid companies with defendable earnings growth ahead.
Apple, McDonald's, United Technologies, and 3M kept the DJIA higher Wednesday while markets were trending heavily to the downside.
3M is not the most important conglomerate when it comes to market capitalization, but its high share price makes it the most important one in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Chevron, Home Depot, Procter & Gamble, and 3M led the DJIA to another all-time high on Monday.
