“If you want to invest in stocks, we have two words of advice: Go global,” Kathy Kristof and David Milstead write for Kiplinger. “With the U.S. accounting for just 22% of the world’s economic activity, it’s hard to justify owning only domestic stocks. In that vein, we’ve identified 10 great stocks from around the world. In compiling the list, we started with a few simple requirements. First, the stocks had to trade in the U.S. (that’s not always the case for foreign companies).”
“Next, we wanted companies with superior profit-growth prospects,” Kristof and Milstead write. “We also wanted stocks that are on an upward trajectory; each of the U.S. stocks had to have beaten Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index over the past five years, and each of the foreign stocks had to have outpaced the MSCI EAFE index. Finally, although we recognize that great companies never come cheap, we made sure our picks did not trade at sky-high valuations.”
“It should come as little surprise that Apple, the world’s most valuable company, makes the list,” Kristof and Milstead write. “Earnings are expected to soar nearly 40% in the fiscal year that ends in September, which is shocking growth for a company with a market capitalization of $741 billion. Meanwhile, Apple is rewarding shareholders by boosting dividends and buying back shares.”
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