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Duke Energy Corporation



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Stock Symbol: //**DUK**//

Market : //**NYSE**//

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Industry: //**Energy**//

What they Provide: [[@http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=DUK|Duke Energy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company in the United States and Latin America. The company operates in three segments: U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas, Commercial Power, and International Energy. The U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas segment generates, transmits, distributes and sells electricity in central and western North Carolina, western South Carolina, central, southwestern Ohio, north central and southern Indiana, and northern Kentucky; and transports and sells natural gas. This segment supplies electric service to 4 million residential, general service, and industrial customers; and provides regulated transmission and distribution services for natural gas to 500,000 customers in southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky, as well as sells electricity on wholesale to incorporated municipalities, electric cooperative utilities, and other load serving entities. It generates electricity through nuclear, coal-fired, hydroelectric, combustion turbine, and combine cycle stations. The Commercial Power segment owns, operates, and manages power plants, as well as engages in the wholesale marketing and procurement of electric power, fuel, and emission allowances related to plants. This segment also retails electricity to customers in southwest, west central, and northern Ohio. The International Energy segment operates and manages power generation facilities; and sells and markets electric power, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. It serves retail distributors, electric utilities, independent power producers, marketers, and industrial/commercial companies. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.]] Borrowed from Yahoo Finance

Current P/E Ratio: //**16.23**//

Dividend Information: //**1.00 (4.8%)**//

52 Week High/Low: //**16.87 - 22.12**//

Competitors: [|American Electric Power] [|Constellation Energy Group] [|Progress Energy Inc.]

Agilent Technologies



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Stock Symbol: **//A//**

Market: **//NYSE//**

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Industry: **//Scientific and Technical Instruments//**

What they Produce: [[@http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=A|Agilent Technologies, Inc. provides bio-analytical and electronic measurement solutions to the communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis industries worldwide. Its Electronic Measurement segment offers electronic measurement instruments and systems, and software design tools that are used in the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment, and operation of electronics equipment and microscopy products. Its products consist of communications and general purpose test products. This segment also provides various services, such as start-up assistance, instrument productivity and application, and instrument calibration and repair services, as well as customization, consulting, and optimization services. The companys Chemical Analysis segment offers application-focused solutions, which include instruments, software, consumables, and services. Its products comprise gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, and vacuum technology products. This segment also provides startup, operational, educational, and compliance support services for measurement and data handling systems, as well as maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and training for chemical and bioinstrumentation analysis hardware and software products. Its Life Sciences segment provides application-focused solutions that include instruments, software, consumables, and services. Its products comprise liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, microarray, polymerase chain reaction instrumentation, bioreagents, lab automation and robotics, electrophoresis, software and informatics, and nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging systems. Agilent Technologies, Inc. sells its products through direct sales, as well as through distributors, resellers, manufacturer's representatives, telesales, and electronic commerce. The company was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.]] Borrowed from Yahoo Finance Current P/E Ratio: //**14.96**//

Dividend Information: **//0.40 (0.90%)//**

52 Week High/Low: **//28.67 - 55.33//**

Competitors:

Danaher Corporation Teradyne Incorporated Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated

Oracle Corporation



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Industry: //**Application Software**//

What they Produce: [[@http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ORCL|Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and services database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems worldwide. It licenses of database and middleware software, including database management software, application server software, service-oriented architecture and business process management software, data integration software, business intelligence software, identity and access management software, content management software, portals and user interaction software, development tools, and Java; and applications software comprising enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, enterprise performance management, supply chain management, business intelligence applications, enterprise portfolio project management, Web commerce, and industry-specific applications software. The company also offers customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades and maintenance releases; Internet access to technical content; and Internet and telephone access to technical support personnel. In addition, its hardware systems products consist of computer server and hardware-related software, including the Oracle Solaris Operating System; and storage products, such as tape, disk and networking solutions for open systems and mainframe server environments. Its hardware systems support solutions include software updates for the software components. Further, the company offers consulting solutions in business and IT strategy alignment, enterprise architecture planning and design, initial product implementation and integration, and ongoing product enhancements and upgrades; cloud services, including Oracle Cloud Services and Advanced Customer Services; and education solutions comprising instructor-led, media-based, and Internet-based training in the use of its software and hardware products. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.]] Borrowed from Yahoo Finance

Current P/E Ratio: **//14.96//**

Dividend Information: **//0.24 (0.80%)//**

52 Week High/Low: **//24.72 - 36.50//**

Competitors:

International Business Machines Microsoft Corporation SAP AG ADS

3M Company



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Stock Symbol : //**MMM**//

Market: **//NYSE//**

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Industry: //**Conglomerates**//

What they produce: [[@http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=MMM|3M Company operates as a diversified technology company worldwide. The companys Industrial and Transportation segment offers tapes, coated and non-woven abrasives, adhesives, specialty materials, filtration products, energy control products, closure systems for personal hygiene products, acoustic systems products, and components and products used in the manufacture, repair, and maintenance of automotive, marine, aircraft, and specialty vehicles. Its Health Care segment provides medical and surgical supplies, skin health and infection prevention products, inhalation and transdermal drug delivery systems, dental and orthodontic products, health information systems, and food safety products. The companys Consumer and Office segment provides office supply, stationery, construction and home improvement, home care, protective material, certain consumer retail personal safety, and consumer health care products. Its Safety, Security and Protection Services segment offers personal protection products, cleaning and protection products for commercial establishments, safety and security products, roofing granules for asphalt shingles, corrosion protection products used in the oil and gas pipeline markets, and track and trace solutions. The companys Display and Graphics offers optical film solutions for LCD electronic displays; computer screen filters; reflective sheeting for transportation safety; commercial graphics sheeting and systems; architectural surface and lighting solutions; and mobile interactive solutions, including mobile display technology, visual systems products, and computer privacy filters. Its Electro and Communications segment provides packaging and interconnection devices; fluids used in the manufacture of computer chips, and for cooling electronics and lubricating computer hard disk drives; high-temperature and display tapes; and insulating materials, including tapes and resins. The company was founded in 1902 and is based in St. Paul, Minnesota.]] Borrowed from Yahoo Finance

Current P/E Ratio: **//14.84//**

Dividend Information: **//2.36 (2.70%)//**

52 Week High/Low: **//68.63 - 98.19//**

Competitors:

Avery Dennison Corporation E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Johnson and Johnson

Broadcom Corporation



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Stock Symbol: **// BRCM //**

Market: **// NASDAQ //**

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Industry: **// Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits //**

What they produce: [[@http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=BRCM|Broadcom Corporation designs and develops semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. It provides a portfolio of system-on-a-chip (SoC) and software solutions for the manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices, which enable the delivery of voice, video, data, and multimedia content to the home, office, and mobile environment. Its broadband communications products include cable modem SoCs; femtocell SoCs; MPEG/AVC/VC-1 encoders and transcoders; xDSL, passive optical network, and cable modem customer premises equipment and central office solutions; powerline networking SoCs; and digital cable, direct broadcast satellite, terrestrial, and Internet protocol (IP) set-top box integrated receiver demodulators. The companys mobile and wireless products comprise Wi-Fi and Bluetooth SoCs, wireless connectivity combo chips, global positioning system SoCs, multimedia processors, applications processors, power management units, VoIP SoCs, mobile TV SoCs, and near field communications tags. Its infrastructure and networking products include Ethernet copper transceivers, Ethernet controllers and switches, backplane and optical front-end physical layer devices, security processors and adapters, and broadband processors. The company markets and sells its products through direct sales force, distributors, and manufacturers representatives in the United States, as well as through regional offices, and a network of independent distributors and representatives in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.]] Borrowed from Yahoo Finance Current P/E Ratio: **// 23.32 //**

Dividend Information: **//0.40 (1.00%)//**

52 Week High/Low: //** 27.59 - 41.33 **//

Competitors: Infineon Tech ADS Qualcomm Incorporated Texas Instruments Incorporated