What are blue chip stocks and have they delivered blue chip returns?

The blue chips stocks are those stocks who have delivered the best value to the stakeholders and it also includes all the shareholders as well.

These companies are the best when it comes to the their respective industry segments

Let us begin by talking about the list of blue chip companies and there are a huge number of companies but I will stick to the well known which the Dow Jones blue chip stocks are and the list is the 30 stocks that comprise that index and these are

3M (MMM)

Alcoa (AA)

American Express (AXP)

AT&T (T)

Bank of America (BAC)

Boeing (BA)

Caterpillar (CAT)

Chevron Corporation (CVX)

Cisco Systems (CSCO)

Coca-Cola (KO)

DuPont (DD)

ExxonMobil (XOM)

General Electric (GE)

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)

The Home Depot (HD)

Intel (INTC)

IBM (IBM)

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

JPMorgan Chase(JPM)

Kraft Foods (KFT)

McDonald’s (MCD)

Merck (MRK)

Microsoft (MSFT)

Pfizer (PFE)

Procter & Gamble (PG)

Travelers (TRV)

United Technologies Corporation (UTX)

Verizon Communications (VZ)

Wal-Mart (WMT)

Walt Disney (DIS)

Have they delivered blue chip returns?

I would say that if you look at the recent past with the sub prime mortgage crisis and all other recessionary trends then these stocks have weathered the storm better than the others.

IBM is still strong as ever.

Mcdonald’s is also strong

Bank of America gobbled up Merrill Lynch and has emerged stronger and with less competitors. That is not to say that these have not failed as you can see from the earlier blue chip companies which were like Citigroup(C).  The major characteristics of what is a blue chip stock I have given in my earlier post.

That is why it is always better to diversify and not invest all your money only in blue chip stocks and you can also invest in the best mid cap stocks as well as the best micro cap stocks

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