Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory, I have been checking the dividend champions list for bargains. I came up with a list, using the follwoing screen criteria:

The 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials are trading for 82% of Morningstar.com's estimated fair value, which makes the Dow an undervalued 5-star market. Eleven of the 30 industrials are undervalued 5-star stocks, according to Morningstar.

In the eyes of many, the Oracle of Omaha -- whose Berkshire Hathaway holding company owns or has major stakes in many iconic brands, including Fruit of the Loom, Kraft Foods and Johnson & Johnson -- looks like a brand investor...

Analysis of 3M

The hate e-mail can stop!! This blog has been investing real money in the magic formula for over 2 years. 2007's results and results since inception are now posted!

Those people who think PE doesn't matter may want to reconsider

This post contains a review of a portion of the most recent quarterly financial results for 3M (MMM), Anheuser-Busch (BUD) and Automatic Data Processing (ADP). As noted in the table, Anheuser-Busch reported a 2.3% increase in 2nd quarter operating earnings versus the same period a year earlier. Earnings per share growth increased 7.32%...

Morningstar chats with the Oak Value Fund co-manager Larry Coats. Here is video-1 and video-2.

Barrons also interviews with Larry recently ...

Rick of Value Discipline returns with a great post on the recent market turmoil - "the Chinese 'accident' was more of a scrape or a fender-bender than a full-fledged crash...a fall out of a first storey window." A great post that touches on several important topics mainly focusing on risk and panic or the lack thereof.

Rick of Value Discipline: Thinks that 3M is currently priced at a 55% margin of saftey! I'm glad Rick is back it as been a few weeks since he last wrote.

This week it was announced that MMM’s fourth-quarter sales beat analyst expectations, but profits did not, and guidance for 2007 was below expectations. The stock fell from the 80 area back into the mid-70s. This world-class blue chip growth stock has now become cheap enough to be considered by value investors.

The Motley Fool wrote that 3M was THE blue chip to own for 2007, but it looks like investors didn't get the memo. Is this one large cap the market simply has overlooked?