10 large-cap stocks whose dividend yield is more than 4%

                 Forward Dividend & Yield

• Rio Tinto Group (RIO)   4.35 (6.66%)

• Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)  2.71 (6.16%)

• Pfizer Inc. (PFE)  1.68 (5.75%)

• TotalEnergies SE (TTE)  3.43 (5.28%)

• BHP Group Limited (BHP)  2.92 (5.11%) 

• AT&T Inc. (T)  1.11 (5.08%)

• United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS)   6.52 (4.80%)

• Philip Morris International Inc. (PM)    5.40 (4.49%)

• Chevron Corporation (CVX)  6.52 (4.33%)

• Shell plc (SHEL)  2.75 (4.11%)

         

-=Verizon (VZ) reported earnings on Tue 23 Oct 2018 (b/o)

 Verizon beats by $0.03, reports revs in-line; Reaffirms Rev and EPS growth outlook for 2018, lowers CapEx spend outlook

• Reports Q3 (Sep) earnings of $1.22 per share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.03 better than the S&P Capital IQ Consensus of $1.19; revenues rose 2.8% year/year to $32.61 bln vs the $32.45 bln S&P Capital IQ Consensus.
  • 515,000 retail postpaid net additions, including 510,000 postpaid smartphone net adds. (Slightl;y better than street expectations).
  • Retail postpaid phone churn at 0.80 percent.
  • Total revenue growth of 6.1 percent year over year, excluding the impact of the revenue recognition standard adopted on Jan. 1, 2018.
  • Service revenue growth of 2.6 percent year over year, excluding the impact of the revenue recognition standard.
• Verizon is on track to deliver against a goal to achieve $10 billion in cumulative cash savings by 2021.... 
• Oath Business Falling Short of Expectations- In Verizon's media business, Oath revenues were $1.8 billion in third-quarter 2018, 6.9 percent below the same quarter last year. The company expects Oath revenues to be relatively flat in the near term and does not expect to meet the previous target of $10 billion in Oath revenues by 2020.
• Wireless Revenues Beat Expectations- Total revenues were $23.0 billion, an increase of 6.5 percent year over year. Excluding the impact of the revenue recognition standard, total revenues were $22.9 billion in third-quarter 2018, an increase of 6.1 percent compared with third-quarter 2017....
• Guidance
  • Full-year consolidated revenue growth at low-to-mid single-digit percentage rates on a GAAP reported basis (Reaffirms)
  • The impact of revenue recognition on EPS for full-year 2018 to be between 27 and 31 cents. The accretive benefit to full-year 2018 consolidated operating income is expected to moderate in 2019 and become insignificant in 2020, as the timing impacts to revenues and commission costs converge (Reaffirms)
  • Low single-digit percentage growth in adjusted EPS in 2018, before the net impact of tax reform and the revenue recognition standard (Reaffirms)
  • Capital spending for 2018 to be in the range of $16.6 billion to $17.0 billion (Prior $17.0-17.8 bln)
  • The effective tax rate for full-year 2018 to be at the low end of the range of 24 to 26 percent (Reaffirms)

Earnings this week : Oct 22 - 26, 18 (wk 43)

With 17% of the S&P 500 having reported quarterly results, reported earnings are up 22%; 81% have beat on the bottom line but only 51% have traded higher in response.

This week marks the first of three very heavy weeks of earnings reports -- almost 1/3 of the S&P 500 will report quarterly results.

Monday (October 22):

• Pre-Market: HAL, HAS, IQV, KMB, LII, PII
• After-Hours: ACC AMTD BRO CDNS CR ELS HLX HMST HNI HSTM HXL IBTX LOGI MC NBTB RNST SFNC SLM SPN SSB ZION

Tuesday (October 23):

• Pre-Market: ABG ALKS ARCH ASTE  ATI AVY AXE BIIB  CAT CIT CNC DGX EDU FBC FCB FITB FNB GATX GLW GPK HBAN HOG HUBB JBLU LMT LPT MBFI MCD MMM NEE PCAR  PHM PNR PPBI RF SLCA SNV TRU UTX VZ WAT XRX
• After-Hours:  AGR AMP BXMT CB CHFC CNI COF CSGP CSL EQR EW FCF FMBI HA HIW IEX ILMN IRBT JNPR LRN MANH MKSI NAVI NBHC NDLS NTB NWE RHI ROIC RRC SEIC SIX STL TER TRMK TSS TXN UCBI UMBF USNA VAR VMI WRB ZIXI

Wednesday (October 24):

• Pre-Market: AB ALXN APH AVX BA BABY BCO BKU BOKF BPOP BSX CHKP CRS DTE EVR FCX FSV GD GRA HLT IR ITW LAD LH MHO MKTX NDAQ NOC NSC NYCB OC PB POL QSR RES ROL SCHN SCL SIRI SLAB SLGN SMPL STM T TDY THR TMO TNC TPH TRVG TUP TZOO UMC UPS
• After-Hours:  ABX AEM AFL AGNC AHL AKR ALGN ALGT AMD ANIK ARI ASGN AX AXS AZPN CCMP CLB CLGX CLS CMRE CTXS CURO  CUZ CVBF CVRR DLB DRE ECHO EFX EIG ELY EQC ETH F FARO FFIV FNF FR FTI FWRD GG GGG GHL ICLR KN KRA KRC LJPC LM LSTR LVS MEOH MLNX MSA MSFT MTH NEU NGD NGVT NOW OII ORLY PKG PLXS PS PTC RJF SAVE SITC SNBR SRPT SUI TILE TMK TRN TSLA UNM V VRTX WHR WPG WRI WSBC XLNX  (largest:  Ford Motor (F), Microsoft (MSFT), Visa (V), Advanced Micro (AMD) and Tesla (TSLA) )

Thursday (October 25):

• Pre-Market: AAL AAN ABB AEP AIMC ALK ALLE ALLY ARD ASPS AXTA BANC BC BEN BMS BMY BUD BWA CCE CELG CFR CFX CMC CMCSA CME CMS COLB COP COR COWN CPG CRI CRR CSTM CTS DLX DNKN EIGI EME ENTG EQM EQT FAF FBP FCFS FCN GLOP GPI GRUB GWB HEES HSY IMAX IP IRDM IRM KIM KKR LANC LAZ LDOS LEA LECO LKQ LUV MCK MCRN MMC MMYT MNRO MO MRK MTRN NEM NLSN NOK NRZ NVCR NVT OAK OCN ODFL ORI PAG PATK PDS PRLB PTEN PX RCL RS RTN SAH SCG SHOP SHW SILC SJR SPG SPGI SWK SXC TAL TECK THRM TROW TSCO TWTR  UBS UBSI UNP USG VC VLO VLP VLY WM WNS WSO WST WWE XEL
• After-Hours:  ACTG AJG AKS AMZN AQ ARLO AUY AVT BGG BMRN BOOM BOOT BVN BYD CA CBLK CENX CERN CINF CLD CMG COLM CPT CUBE CUBI CVA CXP CY DECK DFS DLR DORM ELLI EMN ENVA EXPE FBHS FE FHB FII FIX FLEX FSLR FTV GCAP GDI GILD GOOG HIG HLI HTA HTH HUBG INT INTC INVA ISBC JEF KEX LEG LMAT LOGM LPLA LSCC MAT MERC MHK MMSI MPWR MSTR NATI NOV NR NTGR OFC OMCL OSIS PFG PFPT POWI PRO PSMT REG RGA RMD RSG SAM SBCF SGEN SIGI SIVB SNAP SPSC SWN SYK TMST UHS VCRA VLRS VRSN VVI WDC WRE

Friday (October 26):

• Pre-Market:  ALV AON B CHTR CL COG COL FELE GBX GRC GT GVA LPNT MCO PFS POR PSX PSXP R ROP SBSI SMP TEN TOT  VRTS VTR WETF WY ZBH

AOL acquired by Verizon (VZ) for $50 per share

• AOL: On May 12, 2015, Verizon Communications (VZ) announced plans to buy AOL for $50 per share in a deal valued at $4.4 billion. The acquisition was completed on June 23, 2015. (In 2000, AOL purchased Time Warner for US$164 billion.)

    

Long trade : VZ +6% (2/15)

AOL reported earnings on 2/11/15 (b/o)

• On May 12, 2015, Verizon Communications (VZ) announced plans to buy AOL for $50 per share in a deal valued at $4.4 billion. The acquisition was completed on June 23, 2015