Kimberly-Clark
This consumer staples leader is a safe bet for nervous investors. Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) manufactures and markets personal care and consumer tissue products worldwide. It operates through three segments.
The Personal Care segment offers disposable diapers, swimpants, training and youth pants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Little Swimmers, GoodNites, DryNites, Sweety, Kotex, U by Kotex, Intimus, Depend, Plenitud, Softex, Poise and other brand names.
The Consumer Tissue segment provides facial and bathroom tissues, paper towels, napkins and related products under the Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Andrex, Scottex, Neve and other brand names. The K-C Professional segment offers wipes, tissues, towels, apparel, soaps and sanitizers under the Kleenex, Scott, WypAll, Kimtech and KleenGuard brands.
The company sells household use products directly to supermarkets, mass merchandisers, drugstores, warehouse clubs, variety and department stores and other retail outlets, as well as through other distributors and e-commerce. It provides away-from-home use products directly to manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service and public facilities, as well as through distributors and e-commerce.
Shareholders receive a 3.71% dividend. Jefferies analysts have a $156 target price, and the consensus target for Kimberly-Clark stock is $129.69. The final trade for Monday was reported at $125.02 per share.
Texas Instruments
This old-school legacy semiconductor tech company offers solid value at current levels and is a great pick for more conservative investors. Texas Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: TXN) is a broad-based supplier of semiconductor components, ranging from digital signal processors to high-performance analog components, to digital light-processing technology and calculators.
Some 65% of the company’s sales are exposed to the well-diversified, business-to-business industrial, automotive, communications infrastructure and enterprise markets. While business from those sectors, especially automotive, could suffer in the near term, the analyst feels the solid dividend should support the shares. The company is also a big Apple supplier, so the long-term outlook for this venerable leader makes it a safer bet for investors with less risk tolerance.
Investors receive a 2.53% dividend. The Jefferies price target is $220, while the consensus target is $197.79. Texas Instruments stock was last seen on Monday trading at $182.71 a share.
Eight top companies that cut across multiple sectors and offer investors the potential for a strong upside move that is supported by dependable, and in some cases, very large dividend payouts. This also provides different companies with varying degrees of risk tolerance from very conservative consumer staples to technology and biotech leaders.
Originally posted at 24/7 Wall St.
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