Best-of-Breed Companies

Posted on Friday, 24 October 2008 at 09:49 PM by Registered CommenterStracia
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The following companies represent the best-of-breed players in their respective industries, in the opinion of Stracia’s Best-of-Breeds Editor, BoB. Rather than explain his reasoning, BoB will let readers determine which companies need to be added to or removed from this list.

You can post a comment below with any thoughts or suggestions. You can also e-mail BoB.

Aerospace & defense:Lockheed Martin (LMT)
Automobiles:Toyota Motor Corp. (TM)
Footwear:Nike (NKE)
Household products:Procter & Gamble (PG)
Investment banking:Goldman, Sachs (GS)
Money-center banks:Wells Fargo (WFC)
Oil - equipment & services:Schlumberger (SLB)
Oil - integrated majors:Exxon Mobil (XOM)
Pharmaceuticals:Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK)
Retailers - Big-box electronics:Best Buy (BBY)
Retailers - Big-box discounters:Wal-Mart (WMT)
Retailers - Drug store:Walgreen (WAG)
Semiconductors:Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN)
Telecommunications equipment:QUALCOMM Inc. (QCOM)
Telecommunications services:Verizon Wireless (VZ)

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