SharePost - Private Stocks

I found another place to buy and sell private stock - SharesPost. They also have the nice feature of listing the stocks they deal in, without you needing to register or log in.

S&P Highest Yields

Like a nice dividend?  These stocks have the highest yields of the S&P 500.  (EPS1 is this year's estimated earnings, EPS2 is next year.) Not that they are necessarily a good investment, just saying.

Ticker Price EPS1 EPS2 Div Name Yield PBI $13.87 $2.08 $1.95 $1.49 Pitney Bowes Inc. 10.74% RRD $10.82 $1.81 $1.84 $1.04 R.R. Donnelley & 9.61% DO $59.12 $4.22 $5.20 $3.50 Diamond Offshore 5.92% AVP $16.12 $1.02 $1.19 $0.92 Avon Products, In 5.71% POM $19.43 $1.24 $1.31 $1.08 PEPCO Holdings In 5.56% PBCT $11.43 $0.77 $0.90 $0.63 People's United F 5.55% LEG $20.43 $1.31 $1.57 $1.11 Leggett & Platt, 5.43% HCBK $5.98 $0.57 $0.54 $0.32 Hudson City Banco 5.35% RAI $41.12 $2.95 $3.17 $2.18 Reynolds American 5.30% HCN $55.18 $3.61 $3.93 $2.91 Health Care REIT, 5.27%

Downloading Yahoo! data

One of the things I like best about Yahoo! Finance is the ability to download data from it to a spreadsheet.  Here's a page of tips on downloading Yahoo! data. As an example, I prepared this table of data from today, showing the lowest Price/Earnings ratio among S&P 500 stocks, based on estimated earnings for this year and the latest quoted price.

Ticker  Price      EPS    Name                 P/E
FSLR   $12.28    $4.08    First Solar, Inc.    3.0
HIG    $16.10    $3.63    Hartford Financia    4.4
LNC    $19.34    $4.11    Lincoln National     4.7
GT      $9.44    $1.96    Goodyear Tire & R    4.8
BBY    $18.22    $3.62    Best Buy Co., Inc    5.0
HPQ    $21.06    $4.07    Hewlett-Packard C    5.2
MET    $27.82    $5.22    MetLife, Inc. Com    5.3
CLF    $45.74    $8.40    Cliffs Natural Re    5.4
TSO    $22.17    $4.06    Tesoro Corporatio    5.5
VLO    $20.37    $3.72    Valero Energy Cor    5.5