Comments on: What Makes a Stock Defensive? The Ultimate Defensive Stock

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:50:26 +0000

Health . . . if you don’t have that . . . nothing else matters.
People over 65 . . . spend 4 times as much on medicine as people under 65.
Baby-boomers . . . will soon start reaching age 65.
Baby-boomers . . . are a World Wide “Global” group, born after World War 2.
Johnson & Johnson is a “Global” medicine company over 100 years old, made up of over 250 companies, with tremendous “Cash Flow,” “Dividends,” “Little Debt” and “AAA Credit Rate,” with products that you have used, from the time you were a baby, when you are in pain or sick, and more and more as you get old.
The older you get, the more health problems you get . . .
. . . ask anyone over 65.
Health . . . if you don’t have that . . . nothing else matters. JNJ

By: Dividends4Life

Dividends4Life — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:04:43 +0000

MG: Good article! I saw that MO was being dropped from the Dow Jones Industrials.

http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080211/REG/437855415/-1/FWDailyAlert01

Best Wishes,
D4L

By: Dividendgrowth

Dividendgrowth — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:37:39 +0000

PG is a good defensive play. Another good defensive play could be KFT or JNJ..

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:45:58 +0000

A lot of defensive stocks fall into the ‘Consumer Staples’ bucket, don’t they? I would expect shares like Coke (KO) to be most defensive stock lists.

The holdings of the Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF might provide some interesting defensive stocks:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hl?s=VDC

By: Lily

Lily — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:28:03 +0000

Teehee, I love my PG – and the coupons they send with annual reports.