Year to Date Performance of Dow 30 Members

Below we highlight the year to date performance of the 30 DJIA members with four months remaining in 2008.  As shown, Wal-Mart (WMT) tops the list with a gain of 27.5% year to date.  WMT is trailed by IBM (14%), McDonald's (8.2%), Johnson&Johnson (7.8%), and Home Depot (6.1%).  DuPont (DD) and Disney (DIS) are the other two Dow members that are up on the year. 

AIG is down the most this year with a decline of 62%, followed by General Motors (-57%), Merck (-38.5%), Citigroup (-33.9%), and Boeing (-23%).  Twenty-three stocks out of 30 are down for the year, while 7 are up.  And with a decline of 16.07% year to date, Exxon Mobil (XOM) ranks 19th out of the 30 Dow stocks in terms of performance.  After losing a sixth of its value this year, that windfall profit tax is not something XOM is looking forward to dealing with.

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Comments

[weiwentg:]

Any votes for the stocks which have lost over 15% but don't deserve the punishment? I vote American Express and Pfizer. Pfizer's pipeline may look dry, but they have the financial clout to partner anyone with a hot drug, or to buy them outright. American Express' problems are overstated, I think.

2008 Sep 02 04:35 PM

[Chirag Amin:]

Exxon-Mobil (XOM): Can someone explain to me exactly how the most profitable company in the world with decent revenue and earnings growth can be DOWN 16% year to date? Here is the past performance results of XOM,

2008 YTD: -16%
2007: +24.3%
2006: + 39.1%
2005: +11.8%
2004: +28.0%
2003: +20.6%

I would assume that their dividend is the safest that you can find in this economy. So what am I missing here? Is XOM a great value play at these levels or what?

2008 Sep 02 06:26 PM

[trader_murf:]

At the risk of stating the obvious what this interesting line up shows is that timing (and maybe more than a little bit of luck) is everything in this market. The reality is any one of these can have made or lost one money depending on entry point. It seems like trading on fundamentals is a far second to timing, psychology and luck. In this market I have bought positions that seem fundamentally sound and even with charts that look good that shift in days and have had to just dump them to cut losses, except for BA, ha, ha - see above. What is really bad cutting those losses on great stocks was still the right choice months later. I can only figure that eventually great values like XOM will come back into favor. In this market I am still buying but only very selectively and smaller amounts than usual. If something pops I will tend to sell and take a profit and hold nothing long term except several conservative dividend payors and for better or worse some Vanguard mutual funds for my IRA but that is another story...

2008 Sep 03 09:33 AM

[sumosama:]

I am buying the bottom 4....for long term investments. Plus nice dividends to compound.

2008 Sep 03 11:12 AM

[4Annie:]

Didn't GM suspend (or was considering) their dividend?

2008 Sep 03 03:31 PM

[J. B. Wulff:]

Long term investments in JNJ and XOM among others are especially rewarding when the dividend is considered. Currently my JNJ is yielding 8% and XOM is 6.5%. They are both in dividend reinvesting plans so my holdings are growing at that rate. What's not to like?

2008 Sep 03 04:28 PM

[WAKEUP:]

AIG employees used to claim that the letters, "AIG" stood for "Ain't It Great?" Looks like the Awful Insurance Giant is headed for the Already Interred Graveyard.

2008 Sep 03 05:51 PM

[thomas728:]

Well done maestro !!!!!!!!!


On Sep 03 05:51 PM WAKEUP wrote:

> AIG employees used to claim that the letters, "AIG" stood for "Ain't
> It Great?" Looks like the Awful Insurance Giant is headed for the
> Already Interred Graveyard.

2008 Sep 10 07:10 AM

[Harley King:]

General Motors are still included in the list, This only proves that people are still interested in different cars. Which is nowadays, can be easily search in the internet if you want to buy whether it is new or used car just like in www.zibe.com

2008 Sep 25 05:53 AM