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General Electric (GE): Blue chip buy Print E-mail Digg It!
Thursday, 03 July 2008

 "They don’t get much more blue-chip than General Electric (NYSE: GE)," says Nilus Mattive. In his top-notch Dividend Superstars, he looks at the industrial gaint, with its 4.4% yield.

"GE is the only company that has remained in the Dow Jones Industrial Average from day one, the company was founded in 1890 by none other than Thomas Alva Edison to market his various inventions.

"GE’s broad diversification is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it affords the firm plenty of protection from a major decline in any one business.

"On the other, it has led to a very complicated enterprise with inherently limited growth prospects. Yet despite the company’s size, it has still managed to increase its revenues internally by about 9% a year.

"Currently, only about 10% of GE’s revenues are derived in Asia, but the company is rapidly trying to expand its presence in fast-growing economies like China. I think there is tremendous growth potential there, particularly for GE’s infrastructure business.

"The company has been paying a dividend in each quarter for more than a century, and it has raised its payment for 32 years consecutively.

The market has really been neglecting this stock lately, pushing GE down to multi-year lows. I believe investors are worried (rightly) that the company’s consumer finance services business could see
additional weakness in the short-term.

"However, other parts of GE can more than offset problems in a segment or two. Bottom line: I think there’s a huge opportunity for long-term income investors to scoop up these blue chip shares at a very attractive price."




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