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10 Dividend Stocks for Enterprising Investors: December Update

Do your five quantitative "tests" reflect the major negative news of Friday's announcement? On Dec. 4, 2009, DuPont's customarily secretive and evasive Management finally admitted, reading between the lines, their massive effort to create and commercialise a timely FIRST-generation genetically modified seed, parodically called OptimumGAP, has BOMBED! The long-over hyped trait won't be available for DuPont's Pioneer corn for six more years, by "the middle of the next decade."

Prospects for continued innovative leadership by Monsanto brighten even further. ...funfun..

10 Dividend Stocks for Enterprising Investors

Unlike Pfizer, which remains the number one global drug company, mismanaged DuPont has slid from number one to eight in revenues amongst chemical enterprises in ten years! This relentless decline, for which recent quarters show no signs of abatement, will continue to put pressure on the Company's rich yearly dividend of $1.64 a share, in my opinion. Lost sales, lost customers, lost talent and ideas do not create cash flow with vigour.

Merely the observation of one retail investor...funfun..