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Below are the top 5 small-cap consumer goods stocks on the NASDAQ and the NYSE in terms of dividend. Seaboard Corp (NYSE: SEB) offers a per share dividend of $3. SEB’s market capitalization is $1.68 billion. SEB’s quarterly earnings growth is 11.60% y/y. Potlatch Corporation (NYSE: PCH) offers a...

• General Motors' CEO Whitacre promised the company's first year of profitability in 2010 following five years of losses • Microsoft's (NYSE:MSFT) CEO Ballmer's opening address in Las Vegas focused on the company's touch-tablet from Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), planned for introduction this year • ...

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I don't normally do this but I can't help linking to this article by TheStreet.com. The Street is touting 6 names as the Top 6 Consumer Goods Stocks for 2010, and by George I own 4 of them. Scotts Miracle Gro (SMG)Clorox (CLX)Procter & Gamble (PG)Phillip Morris (PM)Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)...

Barrons noted that there are 73 stocks in S&P 500 (excluding financials) with yields 3% or better and backed by rising profits. Among these, Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM), Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE: FPL) and Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ: ADP) are...

Analysts at Goldman Sachs maintain their “neutral” rating on the Consumer Staples sector in 2010. However, the sector is expected to perform in-line with the broader market. According to Goldman Sachs, the Staples industry may marginally outperform the market in the current stage of the cycle....

Cigarette maker Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) was added to the Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) conviction buy list today with analyst Judy Hong saying the company is being "significantly underappreciated by the market." Hong expects the international maker of Marlboros and other popular brands to earn 81 cents...

Shares of cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) rose after a Citigroup analyst upgraded the stock based on projections of profit and dividend growth. Shares rose $1.90, or 3.7%, to $52.95, a 52-week high of $53.37. Citigroup analyst Adam Spielman upgraded Citigroup's shares to "Buy,"...

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the maker of Camel cigarettes and a unit of Reynolds American (NYSE: RAI) it is offering buyouts to about 1,800 workers at its North Carolina factories to cut costs. The company said it doesn't have a specific number of jobs it is hoping to eliminate, but it is evident...

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) was today upgraded by Citigroup from Hold to Buy and price target increased to $31 from $23. AKAM is now trading at $25.20, 6% up in the pre-market session. So far in 2009, AKAM gained over 55%. Reynolds American, Inc. (NYSE: RAI) climbed 1.35% to $51.74....

The Mundus Group Inc. (OTC: MNDP) announced that their subsidiary AirStar International has purchased a computer numerical coding (CNC) machine to aid in designing and manufacturing working prototypes of aluminum and steel parts. With the addition of in-house prototyping, the need to send out...