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Comments for ABB

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CountR	Grid growth	Love	July 18, 2009
barrons3	Headquartered in Zurich, ABB sells large-scale electrical circuitry, robotics and energy-monitoring and automation systems. It seems to land one multimillion-dollar infrastructure contract after another, including a recent $63 million deal to upgrade a power station in Saudi Arabia. Renewable-energy projects will need ABB's products and services, and its technology, including power-management sensors and load-balancing systems, has kept it ahead of most competitors, says Morningstar analyst Daniel Holland. ABB's shares have been cut by almost two-thirds, to 12, from their high last May, and now trade for nine times 2009 estimated earnings of $1.32 a share, a discount to the S&P 500's price/earnings multiple. Granted, last year's earnings were higher, at $1.74 a share, slightly exceeding expectations. Morningstar puts the company's fair value at 19 a share, some 62% above last week's close. Investors can collect a 46-cent annual dividend (for a current yield of 3.8%) while waiting for the global economy to jump-start. ABB recently shed some poorly performing assets in an efficiency drive of its own. The company boasts a strong balance sheet, and net cash (cash minus debt) of $5.4 billion, or $2.40 a share, Holland notes. It has used excess cash to boost its payout and buy in shares. Twelve-month return on equity of 28.39% is more than three times that of its peer group, which includes industrial outfits such as Emerson Electric (EMR) and Danaher (DHR).	Love	February 28, 2009
eggman	someday we will go nucular again	Love	February 05, 2009
RhinoStocks	“Mad Money’s” Pete Najarian liked ABB Ltd as an infrastructure play last week. Despite Najarian’s blessings, Fitzpatrick recommended against taking a position in this stock right now. With a recent breakout below the 50-day moving average (the stock’s average price over the last 50 days), the downside potential is just too great. He recommended waiting for an up day before going long ABB.	Love	January 19, 2009
barrons3	Jordan's portfolio normally includes no more than 25 to 40 names, which means that even the smallest positions can have a big impact on performance. About 35% of the fund's assets go into the top 10 holdings, which currently include oilfield-service specialist Schlumberger (SLB), Internet services provider Google (GOOG), drilling contractor Diamond Offshore (DO), power-systems supplier ABB (ABB), coal producer Peabody Energy (BTU) and entertainment behemoth Walt Disney (DIS).	Love	January 03, 2009
ndflamer	Swiss nuclear plant builder. Low P/E.	Love	January 01, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"Don't pull the trigger. This is one engineering company I don't like. They're a house of pain."	Love	November 07, 2008
High Dividends	4.2%	Love	October 26, 2008
barrons3	This industry is starting to differentiate itself from the minerals extraction business where the orders are being cancelled, as we know from ABB (ABB) this morning.	Love	October 23, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "People are cutting numbers on ABB, but I think the big projects are still on. That being said, I'm tired of fighting and I'm waiting before pulling the trigger."	Love	October 11, 2008
nsbrajesh	Infrastructure company...Good prospect.	Love	October 11, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "People are cutting numbers on ABB, but I think the big projects are still on. That being said, I'm tired of fighting and I'm waiting before pulling the trigger."	Love	October 09, 2008
Felix Penzarella	Quility Co	Love	September 22, 2008
bobbiesgarden	Growth potential seemed undervalued out of U.S. market	Hate	September 21, 2008
DrDrew	solid	Love	August 30, 2008
bmexinv	global giant always on leading edge	Love	August 15, 2008
barrons2	Manu Daftary of Quaker Strategic Growth (No. 9) is the leader in Aggressive Growth this year. Nowadays, Daftary thinks engineering concerns McDermott International (MDR) and ABB (ABB) are attractive.	Love	August 09, 2008
stockerblog	has a nanotechnology research relating to surface structures and material parameters.	Love	August 05, 2008
Khoak	interested in this stock but not sure how stable it is...	Love	July 14, 2008
sellen	I like automation	Love	July 06, 2008
blackflaginvesting	ind leader	Love	June 26, 2008
High Dividends	0.93	Love	May 21, 2008
barrons2	ABB's shares aren't cheap at 32.50, or 18 times forecast earnings. Yet the company's rosy prospects could propel the stock to 40 in a year, then to 50.	Love	May 17, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "I went through their quarter with a fine tooth comb and that's just a great company. You stick with that one."	Love	April 27, 2008
barrons2	Meanwhile, utility-rate caps that held back grid-spending in 23 states are now expiring. Almost no new electrical-generation capacity has been built since 2002, but that will change fast, Croft says. Thus, he is a fan of ABB (ABB), one of the world's biggest producers of electrical transformers (and the biggest seller of such equipment to China). ABB came under pressure this year amid worries about the economic slowdown (about 25% of sales are in industrial robots), and the board replaced the chief executive officer with somebody more eager to make acquisitions. It certainly makes sense to grab share while rivals like Siemens are in distress. ABB forecasts annual sales growth of 8% to 11%, and earnings-per-share growth of 15% to 20%. Meanwhile, it trades at just 13 times consensus forecasts for '09	Love	March 22, 2008
frenmari	they have a good foothold in Europe & USA	Love	March 13, 2008
Jeffrey owns SuckingLess.com	Perfect play on the power grid (along with PCU and PCP), both the decaying ones in the U.S. and the new grids to be build in China, India, Russia, Europe, Mid East, and Latin America. A growth-value. Hard to say that about many stocks.	Love	March 07, 2008
wackypachy	Own it. Foreign. Infrastructure.	Love	March 03, 2008
Torkel	Growth	Love	February 06, 2008
Torkel	Growth	Love	February 06, 2008