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Defense sector can add some stability and provide diversification to a portfolio.Usually defense stocks tend to provide safety when markets are volatile. The following are two defense sector plays from UK: 1.Company: BAE SYSTEMS Ticker: BAESY Dividend Yield: 3.4 % YTD Change: -5.27% 2.Company: Rolls Royce Ticker: RYCEY Dividend Yield: 4.3 % YTD Change: -25.23% …
E.ON held its AGM in Essen on April 20,2008. In this meeting the board proposed to: 1.Increase dividend by 22% 2.Split EON stock at the ratio of 3:1 The record date for the stock split has NOT been announced yet. EON shares performed very well last year beating the DAX and the European Utilities Index.EON …
The latest issue of BusinessWeek has the Euro 50 list for this year. This list represents the top 50 European companies based on many factors such as profitability, sales growth,innovation, etc. These were picked from the S&P Europe 350 constituents which represent 350 of the big firms in Europe. Out of this top 50 list, …
Veolia Environnement (VE) is a French Utility company with over 300K employees.It operates in water,environmental,transportation and energy segments.Public transportation is heavily encouraged and utilised in France. VE operates in this profitable business such as the railway, airport facilities maintenance and services. The stock has performed very well over the past 5 years as shown in …