Beat the Market With the Earnings Powerhouses In Bill Staton's New "America's Finest Companies" Directory.CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 1998--Only 40 publicly held U.S. companies have delivered higher earnings per share for at least 20 straight years. Now you can find detailed information about them and other premier stocks in one easy, just-published guide: The Eighth Annual Edition of "America's Finest Companies" from Bill Staton, chairman of The Staton Institute and Staton Investment Management. "America's Finest Companies" is the only investment directory of all publicly traded U.S. companies with at least 10 consecutive years of higher earnings per share, dividends per share Dividends per share Dividend paid for the past 12 months divided by the number of common shares outstanding, as reported by a company. The number of shares often is determined by a weighted average of shares outstanding over the reporting term. , or both. "Fewer than 3% of America's 16,000+ publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. made the cut," Staton says. As a group, these companies handily hand·i·ly adv. 1. In an easy manner. 2. In a convenient manner. Adv. 1. handily - in a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located" conveniently 2. outpaced the market and beat all but a handful of the more than 8,500 stock-mutual funds for the past decade, as well as both the Dow (Direct OverWrite) See magneto-optic disk. and S&P 500. The 159 industrials (excluding the banks and utilities) of America's Finest Companies with dividend reinvestment plans Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRP) Plan which provides for automatic reinvestment of shareholder dividends in more shares of a company's stock, often without commissions. Some plans provide for the purchase of additional shares at a discount to market price. generated a compound annual return of 21.17% for the 10 years from 1/1/88 through 12/31/97, compared with 16.01% for the S&P 500 market index. That's 32.2% better than the market. Through calendar 1997 or the fiscal year ending April 30, 1998, these 40 companies compiled all-star all-star adj. Made up wholly of star performers: an all-star cast. n. Sports One chosen for a team of star players. records by racking up higher earnings per share for at least 20 straight years: -0- Company Consecutive Years EPS --------------------------------------------------------- RPM Inc. 50 Automatic Data Processing 48 American Home Products 45 Bank of Granite Corp. 44 Emerson Electric Co. 40 Johnson & Johnson 39 Old Kent Financial Corp. 38 Park National Corp. 37 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 36 McDonald's Corp. 33 Washington REIT 32 Albertson's Inc. 28 Cintas Corp. 28 Providian Corp. 28 ServiceMaster Co. 27 Sigma-Aldrich Corp. 27 Abbott Laboratories 26 Regions Financial Corp. 26 Fifth Third Bancorp 24 SLM Holding Corp. 24 Peoples Bancorp Inc. 24 Chemical Financial Corp. 23 Associates First Capital Corp. 23 Coca-Cola Co. 23 May Department Stores 23 Teleflex Inc. 23 Valspar Corp. 23 Walgreen Co. 23 First Merchants Corp. 22 American Heritage Life 22 General Electric Co. 22 Harleysville National Corp. 22 Mercantile Bankshares 22 Microsoft Corp. 22 TRUSTCO Bank Corp. NY 21 Stryker Corp. 21 SYSCO Corp. 21 State Street Corp. 20 National Penn Bancshares 20 National Commerce Bancorp 20 "With the how-to how-to Informal adj. Offering practical advice and detailed instruction in an activity. n. pl. how-tos Something, such as a book or learning situation, that provides practical advice and detailed instruction in an investing articles in this directory, you can create your own `mini-mutual' fund and beat three-quarters Noun 1. three-quarters - three of four equal parts; "three-fourths of a pound" three-fourths common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers three-quarters npl → of Wall Street's pros 100% of the time," Staton says. Call 800/779-7175 to order a copy of the "America's Finest Companies" directory. The cost is $39.95, plus $6.95 shipping and handling. Bill Staton is founder and chairman of The Staton Institute Inc., an investment training company, and Staton Investment Management, a money management service, both headquartered in Charlotte. He became a millionaire investor in his early 30's and a multimillionaire mul·ti·mil·lion·aire n. One whose financial assets are worth several million dollars. multimillionaire Noun a person who has money or property worth several million pounds, dollars, etc. by 35. Author of "The America's Finest Companies Investment Plan: Double Your Money Every Five Years" (Hyperion), he is a Chartered Financial Analyst Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) An experienced financial analyst who has passed examinations in economics, financial accounting, portfolio management, security analysis, and standards of conduct given by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. with an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration in finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. . Investors who have followed the advice in Bill Staton's monthly newsletter since its inception in 1986 have enjoyed a 30% annual rate of return. The Staton Institute empowers people to take charge of their personal finances through entertaining and easy-to-understand materials and WealthBuilding seminars. For more information, contact The Staton Institute at 704/375-3744 or beabull@aol.com. Visit the Institute's web site at http://www.statoninstitute.com.
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