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Love 'Em or Hate 'Em: Top US Companies for Investors

LOVE "EM OR HATE EM: TOP US COMPANIES FOR INVESTORS AMERICANS HATE INVESTORS LOVE SAY THEY COMPANIES BUT 1. PHILLIP MORRIS (PM) STOCK SYMBOL: GOOD FOR INVESTORS BAD FOR HUMANITY • Phillips Morris • S&P 500 Index Tobacco kills more than 400,000 Americans each year and 5 million worldwide. 120% 110% Despite being hated, Phillip Morris stock is up 95% over the past three years, while the S&P 500 index is up only 19%. 50,000 Deaths IAmerican Deaths 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% -10% 2010 Apr Jul Oct 2011 Apr Jul Oct 2012 Apr Jul Oct 2013 In the last three years, Phillip Morris stock has also .. in dividends, returned more than increased the payments per share by $12 BILLION 46% Smoking is "not that hard to quit." The company also does business in 180 Louis Camilleri countries and owns seven of the world's top 15 global brands Phillip Morris CEO 2. WALMART (WMT) STOCK SYMBOL: GOOD FOR INVESTORS THE BRAND WE LOVE TO HATE • Walmart Stock Price $90 +7% 2X In the U.S., Walmart's reported $80 emissions grew by roughly 7 percent between 2005 and 2009. In Asia, its green house gas $70 emissions have doubled. wwwwy $60 Walmart stopped offering health insurance to part-time employees (working less than 24 hours per week) in 2012. $50 77%-104% $40 2010 Apr Jul Oct 2011 Apr Jul Oct 2012 Apr Jul Oct 2013 For employees earning $8.81/hour working an average of 34 hours per week, some of Walmart's Walmart boasts some impressive statistics: 2012 healthcare plans would cost between 77% and 104% of the employee's annual gross income. Gross Profit Net income per share of Dividends declared per It is estimated that Walmart employees cost taxpayers more than $1 billion Margin for 20o12 common stock common share 24.5% $4.54 $146 $1B nationwide in government assistance per year. 3. BANK OF AMERICA (BAC) STOCK SYMBOL: FAITH IN WARREN BUFFETT LOVE TO HATE In August of 2011 Warren Buffett pumped $5 2ND 2nd largest bank in the U.S. billion into Bank of America. The investment (second to Chase) had two components: 50,000 preferred shares yielding 6% – redeemable at a 5% premium - and 700 million warrants to buy common 29,000,00 $2,160.85B $1,305.23B BUT. 28% shares at $7.14 apiece. Customers • Bank of America Stock Price in Assets By March of 2012, Buffett's 700 million warrants have a paper gain of just over $1.7 billion, not bad for less than seven months. $12.50 in Deposits $10 In January 2008, Bank of America began increasing credit card interest rates by up to 28%, $7.50 declining to provide explanations WikiLeaks claimed that 5 GB of Bank 5GB of America leaks was part of the deletion of over 3500 communications by Daniel Domscheit-Berg. $5 2010 Apr Jul Oct 2011 Apr Jul Oct 2012 Apr Jul Oct 2013 AMERICANS INVESTORS --WARY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF, BUT COMPANIES SHOULD BE 1. APPLE (AAPL) STOCK SYMBOL: BAD APPLE NOT SO AMERICAN PIE • Apple • NASDAQ 100 Technology Price Apple has created over 50,000 jobs in the US, but Apple 20% manufacturing in China is still controversial, using massive Since late October, the company's stock price has dropped some 18 percent, wiping out more than $100 billion of market capitalization. factory complexes to assemble 10% their products run by Foxxconn. 0% CHINA -10% 230,000 Each facility has up to 200,000 employees. -20% Nov 1, 2012 Nov 16, 2012 Dec 1, 2012 Dec 16, 2012 Jan 1, 2013 2012 showed a slowdown in the rate of growth of net sales: 6/12 +66% Many employees work up to six days a week, for up to 12 hours per day. 2010-2011 25%. $17 +45% Up to a quarter of Foxxconn employees live in company barracks near the factories. 2011-2012 Many workers earn less than $17 per day. 50% Apple's share of global tablet sales has fallen from about two thirds to half. 2. FACEBOOK (FB) STOCK SYMBOL: BAD FOR INVESTORS UNITED STATES OF FACEBOOK • Facebook Stock Price Just how many Americans are The company's initial public offering was one of the most widely anticipated since on Facebook? $40 the dot-com bubble of 1999 and 2000. 167AM Facebook users in the U.S. $35 it took less than three months for the stock to drop from the IPO price of $35 to below $20. 54% $30 of total U.S. Population $25 73% $20 of total U.S. Online Population $15 Jun 2012 Jul 2012 Aug 2012 Sept 2012 Oct 2012 How much are advertisers making with all of those annoying widgets on your @l+6? Facebook has had customer-satisfaction issues, partly due to privacy concerns. It recently did a particularly good job of alienating some of its nearly 1 billion users after it announced that it had the right to republish any and all photos in the accounts of its Instagram service. newsfeed? Average CPM* 71¢ Average CPC 11¢ 3. MICROSOFT (MSFT) STOCK SYMBOL: BAD FOR INVESTORS? THE JURY IS STILL OUT. THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS • Microsoft Stock Price 25M 1B $220M 7OM 25 million Outlook.com users since July 2012 $32 In spite of 2012 innovations, prices of stock or hovering at a low $25.29 (down from $32 at the peak of the year) $31 1 billion Skype users $30 Halo 4 earned US$220 million in global sales during its first $29 24 hours of release. $28 More than 70 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold worldwide $27 since the product launched. 4B- $26 4 billion Windows 8 upgrades. $25 Sep 24, 2012 Oct 12, 2012 Nov 1, 2012 Dec 21, 2012 Sources: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/29/business/fi-bank-of-america29 http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/08/30/ranking-the-largest-u-s-banks-mt-no-17-with-a-bullet/ http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/philip-morris-ceo-smoking-hard-quit/story?id=13589835 http://www.globaldividends.com/newsletter.asp?d=8117 http://www.streetauthority.com/income-investing/most-hated-company-earth-bringing-investors-big-profits-458767 http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-stock-continues-to-slide-as-investors-become-worried-about-future http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/14/why-apple-s-stock-is-down.html http://www.streetauthority.com/income-investing/most-hated-company-earth-bringing-investors-big-profits-458767 http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/08/14/microsofts-new-outlook-com-scream-10-million-users/ http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/united-states http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/factsheet/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2012/12/18/full-list-americas-best-and-worst-banks-2012/ http://www.businesspundit.com/5-giant-companies-who-use-slave-labor/?img=42010 http://www.walmartstores.com/sites/annual-report/2012/financials.aspx http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BAC:US http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2012/03/16/buffetts-5-billion-bank-of-america-bet-keeps-looking-better/ http://www.advisorone.com/2012/12/19/xxxbest-5-investment-picks-for-2013ready-to-pub https://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/105244480457801728 http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2008/db2008026_105146.htm GREATBUSINESSSCHOOLS.ORG NOWSOURCING

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