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SELECTED STOCKS (USA)-UPDATE
Selected stocks of high possible return - update 10/30/2009
Values for previous 5 years for January are also included in the table. Values are from Yahoo as on 10/30/2009


If we look at the values for 10-30-2009, we observe that
(1)most of the stocks have recovered well during 2009, the increase varying from 5% to 100%,
(2)P/E for some of the stocks has been more that 40, indicating overpricing,
(3) eps for most of the stocks has been positive, and
(4) fast growth can bring about corrections.

















SECTOR SYMBOL 10/30/09 10/30/09 10/30/09 10/30/09 10/01/09 08/31/09 07/31/09 06/30/09 Jan-09 Jan-08 Jan-07 Jan-06 Jan-05 Jan-04


price 1yr range p/e eps price price price price price price price price price price

















technology AAPL 188 231 29 6 181 168 163 142 90-13 199.27 86.29 72.38 44.99 21.55
financial CME 302 326 30 10 294 291 278 311 173.91 685.99 515.96 368.75 229.04 72.51
technology GOOG 536 629 34 15 488 460 443 421 338.53 692.87 466.04 422.52 197.41 ---
ind tool IR 31 37 --- -9 30 30 28 20 16.21 46.43 39.46 40.38 80.51 66.75
ind tool ITW 45 54 34 1 41 41 40 37 32.66 53.55 46.37 88.61 93.01 84.16
technology MBT 45 54 14 3 47 43 41 36 21.31 102.96 51.81 25.11 34.82 83.01
consum good PEP 60 68 18 3 58 56 56 54 30.23 64.41 72.61 59.92 52.23 46.94
consum good PG 58 63 13 4 56 54 55 51 54.51 73.59 63.72 48.31 55.65 99.65
basic mat POT 92 106 11 8 86 88 93 93 74.86 146.51 147.99 80.36 82.81 86.61
technology RIMM 58 88 --- --- 67 73 75 71 55.41 114.45 129.26 66.21 83.25 67.16
basic mat VALE 25 22 17 1 22 19 19 17 14.11 33.38 30.14 42.11 29.15 58.75
basic mat SLB 62 78 21 2 57 56 53 54 40.81 99.44 63.01 98.85 66.81 54.72
technology TKC 16 15 9 1 16 16 15 13 13.17 26.98 13.48 15.48 18.45 26.41
elctric utility CNL 24 27 17 1 24 24 23 22 22.85 27.75 25.38 20.98 20.43 18.05
oil and gas STR 39 42 14 2 35 33 33 31 33.98 53.94 82.81 76.31 50.93 35.15
ind tool ATU 15 18 75 0 15 14 12 12 16.48 33.91 48.15 56.05 52.45 37.41
consum good BG 57 71 47 1 60 67 69 60 42.94 117.56 72.51 57.87 57.01 32.98
ind good MTW 9 10 --- -7 8 6 6 5 5.51 48.83 59.95 50.51 37.65 31.21
retail WMT 49 60 14 3 49 50 49 48 47.12 47.48 47.01 46.36 53.75 53.35
wholsale COST 56 62 23 2 55 50 49 45 45.03 69.63 53.35 49.75 48.24 37.19
utility ALE 33 37 13 2 33 33 31 28 31.11 39.51 46.74 44.16 36.76 30.35