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National Grid plc is an international electricity & gas company operating in UK, Wales & United States. The company delivers gas to 11 million customers in the UK & delivers electricity to 3.3 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island. The stock is currently trading at just 11.66 times earnings (as measured by the price to earnings ratio) and has a 6.36% dividend yield. This presents a real bargain when you look at a utility that has a 27% return on average equity. However, be aware that National Grid has long term debt on its balance sheet worth 21 billion Great Britain pounds. Perhaps this is one reason why the stock is trading at a discount? The company trades on the New York stock exchange and has a market cap of $30 billion. Web: http://www.nationalgrid.com Formula Systems Ltd. is a global Information Technology solutions company based in Herzliya, Israel & provides software consulting, software development & business solutions services to clients in over 50 countries. The stock is trading at 15 times earnings and sports a 7.64% dividend yield While this yield may be huge, the company's dividend payments are very volatile. For instance, Formula Systems paid $1.16 dividend per share on April 1st, 2010, down from $1.796 paid on January 8th, 2009. The company has a market cap of $262 million. The company has a solid balance sheet and only $50 million in long term debt, and $62 million in short term accounts payable. On the other hand, the company has $81.74 million in cash & cash equivalents. Web: http://www.formulasystems.com Alliance Resource Partners is a producer & marketer of coal that is sold mainly to industrial users in America. The company runs 9 underground mines in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia. As of Dec 31st, 2009, the company had produced 647.2 million tons of coal reserves. The stock is trading at 10.25 times earnings and sports a nice 5.02% dividend yield. The company has paid steady dividends starting from October 27th, 1999 and an all time return from the stock is a whopping 625.62% in less than 11 years. The company announced a dividend of $0.86 per unit payable on February 14, 2011 to all unitholders of record as of the close of trading on February 7, 2011. The announced distribution represents an increase over the cash distribution of $0.775 for the 2009 Quarter. Source: http://investor.arlp.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=115014&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1521222&highlight= Web: http://www.arlp.com GlaxoSmithKline is an international healthcare company that produces & markets pharmaceutical products including vaccines & medicines. The company's products include dental medicine, over-the-counter medicines and nutritional drinks in the consumer healthcare sector, as well as Vaccines that prevent disease and illness. The company's stock currently trades at 14.82 times earnings and sports a 5.49% dividend yield. The company has a gigantic market cap of $94.5 billion. The company is headquartered in Middlesex, United Kingdom. Billionaire investor Warren Buffet has a sizable holding in GlaxoSmithKline's stock. Web: http://www.gsk.com Partner Communications Company is a mobile phone operator in Israel and its GSM network covers over 98% of Israel's population. It has also diversified its services to offer roaming, voice mail, voice messaging, color picture messaging, ringtone and game downloads, information services, and general packet radio services (GPRS) to customers as well as smartphones that run on its 3G network. Its stock is currently trading at 8.86 times earnings and sports a trendy 11.05% dividend yield. The company has a market cap of $2.96 billion & its shares are traded as American depositary receipt (ADR) on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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upon the end of January 2011 & recent Egyptian crisis, the Dow Jones
Industrial Average (DJIA) has reached its 12,000 points mark, the highest
level seen since June 2008. Financial experts believe this is a sign where
companies' profits are getting better, revenues are growing & the
American economy is recovering. As mentioned in our recent