Our Roth IRA Stock Watch List

The following companies and their common stocks are currently on our watch list. This doesn't mean that we recommend buying or selling any of these right now or at any time in the future.

What it does mean is that we keep ourselves regularly updated on each company's operations, future prospects, and current stock price.

Every once and a while, when the stars align perfectly, we'll move in to buy when we think the opportunity is just right.

The Coca-Cola Company
Ticker Symbol: KO
5-Year Average ROE: 30.13%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 11.20%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 65.86%

Profile: The Coca-Cola Company is a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world. Finished beverage products bearing its trademarks are sold in more than 200 countries. The Company markets nonalcoholic sparkling brands, which includes Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite. The Company owns or licenses more than 450 brands, including diet and light beverages, waters, enhanced waters, juices and juice drinks, teas, coffees, and energy and sports drinks.

Fortune Brands
Ticker Symbol: FO
5-Year Average ROE: 14.48%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 8.57%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 85.43%

Profile: Fortune Brands, Inc. is a holding company with operating companies engaged in the manufacture, production and sale of Spirits, Home and Hardware products, and Golf products.

Hansen Natural Corporation
Ticker Symbol: HANS
5-Year Average ROE: 50.25%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: N/A
Dividend Payout Ratio: 00.00%

Profile: Hansen Natural Corporation (Hansen) develops, markets, sells and distributes alternative beverage category natural sodas, fruit juices and juice drinks, energy drinks and energy sports drinks, fruit juice smoothies and functional drinks, non-carbonated ready-to-drink iced teas, children's multi-vitamin juice drinks, Junior Juice juices and flavored sparkling beverages under the Hansen's brand name. It also develops, markets, sells and distributes energy drinks under brand names, such as Monster Energy, Lost Energy, Joker Mad Energy, Unbound Energy and Ace brand names, as well as Rumba brand energy juice.

The Hershey Company
Ticker Symbol: HSY
5-Year Average ROE: 50.79%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 10.49%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 84.44%

Profile: The Hershey Company is a manufacturer of chocolate and sugar confectionery products. The Company's product groups include confectionery and snack products, gum and mint refreshment products, and food and beverage enhancers, such as baking ingredients, toppings and beverages. The Company manufactures, markets, sells and distributes its products under more than 60 brand names.

Johnson & Johnson
Ticker Symbol: JNJ
5-Year Average ROE: 28.43%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 14.18%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 40.26%

Profile: Johnson & Johnson is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field. Johnson & Johnson has more than 250 operating companies.

Kraft Foods Inc.
Ticker Symbol: KFT
5-Year Average ROE: 9.13%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 11.16%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 90.36%

Profile: Kraft Foods Inc. (Kraft) through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of packaged food products, including snacks, beverages, cheese, convenient meals and various packaged grocery products.

McCormick Co.
Ticker Symbol: MKC
5-Year Average ROE: 24.22%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 13.85%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 40.15%

Profile: McCormick & Company, Incorporated (McCormick) is a diversified specialty food company and manufactures, markets and distributes flavor products, including spices, herbs, extracts, seasonings and flavorings, and other specialty food products to the entire food industry.

McDonald's Corporation
Ticker Symbol: MCD
5-Year Average ROE: 17.42%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 32.36%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 42.27%

Profile: McDonald's Corporation primarily franchises and operates McDonald's restaurants in the food service industry. These restaurants serve a varied, yet limited, value-priced menu in more than 100 countries around the world. All restaurants are operated either by the Company, by independent entrepreneurs under the terms of conventional franchise arrangements (franchisees), or by affiliates and developmental licensees operating under license agreements.

Nike, Inc.
Ticker Symbol: NKE
5-Year Average ROE: 23.36%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 26.51%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 24.73%

Profile: NIKE, Inc. (NIKE) is engaged in the design, development and worldwide marketing of footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products. NIKE sells athletic footwear and athletic apparel. It sells its products to retail accounts, through NIKE-owned retail, including stores and Internet sales, and through a mix of independent distributors and licensees, in over 180 countries around the world.

Pepsico, Inc.
Ticker Symbol: PEP
5-Year Average ROE: 33.86%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 21.24%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 50.36%

Profile: PepsiCo, Inc. (PepsiCo) is a global beverage, snack and food company. The Company manufactures, markets and sells a range of salty, convenient, sweet and grain-based snacks, carbonated and non-carbonated beverages and foods approximately 200 countries, with its operations in North America, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

Proctor & Gamble Co.
Ticker Symbol: PG
5-Year Average ROE: 21.61%
5-Year Average Dividend Growth Rate: 12.08%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 39.47%

Profile: The Procter & Gamble Company is focused on providing branded consumer goods. The Company's products are sold in over 180 countries around the world primarily through mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores and in high-frequency stores, the neighborhood stores, which serve consumers in developing markets. The company sells such products as Tide detergent and Gillette razor blades.

Last Updated: 1/5/2010

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