This month's picks are a couple of telecommunications stocks with steady dividends and exceptional balance sheets...
China Mobile (CHL)
Positives:
A veritable bank vault. $73B cash vs. $0.8B debt.
2.6% dividend yield.
Massive $35B operating, $7B free cash flows.
Negatives:
Large $263B market cap; not much room for capital appreciation.
Negative earnings growth (-9%).
Tepid 7% revenue growth.
Cisco (CSCO)
Positives:
$53B cash vs. $21B debt.
2.8% dividend yield.
68% earnings growth.
Negatives:
Somewhat large $151B market cap; not much room for capital appreciation.
Tepid 7% revenue growth.
Minuscule 0.07% insider ownership.
Here's my current portfolio (growth and dividend). As always, I believe in all of these stocks - until I sell them.
Apple (AAPL) 14.24%
Tesla Motors (TSLA) 7.96%
Google (GOOG/GOOGL) 6.27%
Baidu (BIDU) 6.24%
3D Systems (DDD) 4.14%
Under Armour (UA) 3.70%
Amazon (AMZN) 3.49%
Twitter (TWTR) 3.32%
Stratasys (SSYS) 2.99%
Ace Limited (ACE) 2.96%
Blackstone (BX) 2.63%
Southern Copper (SCCO) 2.63%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 2.46%
Nike (NKE) 2.07%
BlackRock (BLK) 1.81%
Wells Fargo (WFC) 1.78%
Qihoo 360 (QIHU) 1.77%
American Software (AMSWA) 1.68%
Cisco (CSCO) 1.64%
Boeing (BA) 1.60%
Microsoft (MSFT) 1.52%
ConocoPhillips (COP) 1.49%
China Mobile (CHL) 1.49%
Intel (INTC) 1.48%
DuPont (DD) 1.46%
EMC (EMC) 1.24%
McDonald's (MCD) 1.15%
Alibaba (BABA) 1.09%
Starbucks (SBUX) 1.08%
Canadian National Railway (CNI) 0.91%
American Express (AXP) 0.89%
Ansys (ANSS) 0.89%
Lululemon Athletica (LULU) 0.88%
Hershey (HSY) 0.87%
F5 Networks (FFIV) 0.86%
Wynn Resorts (WYNN) 0.85%
Las Vegas Sands (LVS) 0.83%
Salesforce.com (CRM) 0.81%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 0.80%
Groupon (GRPN) 0.79%
Coca-Cola (KO) 0.78%
Computer Programs and Systems (CPSI) 0.70%
International Business Machines (IBM) 0.58%
iRobot (IRBT) 0.55%
SolarCity (SCTY) 0.46%
