Top 5 Blue Chip Stocks To Buy Right Now


The stock prices of China’s big internet companies fell Friday after the country’s legislative body adopted a new, strict privacy law to come into force on November 1.

Alibaba shares were down 2.6%, with Tencent Music falling 3% before recovering later in the day. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 1.8% and the CSI 300 composite of Chinese blue chips dropped 2%.

A report by the official Xinhua News Agency said that the law was voted by the National People’s Congress and promulgated immediately by president Xi Jinping.

Its passage marks another step in the Chinese government and regulators’ crackdown on the country’s biggest internet companies, tightening the regulation of cyberspace and strengthening compliance requirements, to better protect user privacy.

Chinese authorities in early July announced a cybersecurity probe of Didi, the ride-hailing app, just three days after the company started listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock price is down 49% since then.

Top 5 Blue Chip Stocks To Buy Right Now: Dean Foods Company(DF)


Dean Foods Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food and beverage company in the United States. It operates in two segments, Fresh Dairy Direct-Morningstar and WhiteWave-Alpro. The Fresh Dairy Direct-Morningstar segment manufactures, markets, and distributes various branded and private label dairy case products, including cream, ice cream mix, and ice cream novelties; creamers and other extended shelf life fluids; yogurt, cottage cheeses, sour creams, and dairy-based dips; fruit juices, fruit-flavored drinks, iced teas, and water; half-and-half and whipping creams; and items for resale, such as butter, cheese, eggs, and milk shakes. This segment sells its dairy case products to retailers, distributors, foodservice outlets, educational institutions, and governmental entities. The WhiteWave-Alpro segment manufactures, develops, markets, and sells various branded dairy and dairy-related products, such as milk and other dairy products; organic dairy products; plant-based beverages, such as soy, almond, and coconut milks; and soy food products, coffee creamers, and creamers and fluid dairy products. It also provides branded soy-based beverages and food products in Europe under the Alpro and Provamel brands. This segment sells its products to various customers, including grocery stores, club stores, natural foods stores, mass merchandisers, convenience stores, drug stores, and foodservice outlets. The company was formerly known as Suiza Foods Corporation and changed its name to Dean Foods Company on December 21, 2001 as a result of merger between the former Dean Foods Company and Suiza Foods Corporation. Dean Foods Company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Daniel Sparks]

    But the stock is getting a break in after-hours trading on Tuesday, following a report that the company is thinking about selling its Breakstone’s business, which sells dairy products like butter and sour cream. Sources “familiar with the situation” told CNBC that the business could be valued at $400 million in a sale. “It could appeal to dairy companies like Dean Foods (NYSE:DF), Saputo, or national milk cooperative Dairy Farmers of America, one of the people said,” wrote CNBC’s Lauren Hirsch.

  • [By Ethan Ryder]

    Shares of Dean Foods Co (NYSE:DF) fell 3.9% during mid-day trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as low as $3.54 and last traded at $3.42. 45,533 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 97% from the average session volume of 1,425,741 shares. The stock had previously closed at $3.56.

Top 5 Blue Chip Stocks To Buy Right Now: Woori Bank(WF)

Woori Bank (the Bank) is a Korea-based company mainly engaged in the provision of commercial banking services and consumer banking services. The Bank mainly provides deposit, loan, fund, foreign currency exchange, payment guarantee, securities investment, trust investment and credit card services. Its deposit service includes ordinary savings, welfare deposits, current deposits and others. Its loan service includes discount of bills, ordinary loans, secured by deposits and others. The Bank also provides Internet banking services, insurance services and others . Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

    Woori Bank (NYSE:WF) and ANZ (OTCMKTS:ANZBY) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and dividends.

  • [By Joseph Griffin]

    News headlines about Woori Bank (NYSE:WF) have been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Woori Bank earned a news sentiment score of 0.19 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned press coverage about the bank an impact score of 46.2147954877183 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the next several days.

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

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Top 5 Blue Chip Stocks To Buy Right Now: Ishares Trust Dj Us Financial (IYF)

iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Sector Index Fund (the Fund) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Financials Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of the financial sector of the United States equity market. The Index includes companies in sectors, such as banks, non-life insurance, life insurance, real estate and general finance. Barclays Global Fund Advisors (BGFA) manages the investment of the Fund.


The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index. Due to the use of representative sampling, the Fund may, or may not, hold all of the securities that are included in the Index.

Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Todd Shriber, ETF Professor]

    The challenges facing EUFN may indicate the ETF will be challenged to deliver compelling risk-reward for investors. EUFN's three-year standard deviation is 18.23 percent, or more than 500 basis points above the same metric on the iShares U.S. Financials ETF (NYSE: IYF).

Top 5 Blue Chip Stocks To Buy Right Now: Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Trust II(VKI)


Van Kampen Advantage Municipal Income Trust II (the Trust) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Trust’s investment objective is to provide a high level of current income exempt from federal income tax, consistent with preservation of capital. The Trust will invest substantially all of its assets in municipal securities rated investment grade at the time of investment. It invests in a diversified portfolio consisting primarily of investment-grade, tax-exempt municipal securities. The Trust may invest up to 20% of its assets in securities that are rated, at the time of investment, BB/Ba or B by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service (S&P), Moody’s Investors Services, Inc. (Moody’s) or Fitch Ratings Ltd. (Fitch), or that are unrated, but deemed to be of comparable quality by the Trust’s investment advisor. These securities are regarded as below investment grade and are commonly referred to as junk bonds.


On January 27, 2006, the Trust acquired Van Kampen Municipal Opportunity Trust II and Van Kampen Value Municipal Income Trust. Van Kampen Advantage Municipal Income Trust II may invest a portion of its assets in inverse floating-rate instruments, either through outright purchases of inverse floating-rate securities, or through the transfer of bonds to a dealer trust in exchange for cash and residual interests in the dealer trust. It invests in sectors, such as hospital, public education, general purpose, airports and public buildings. The Trust’s investment advisor is Van Kampen Asset Management.


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

    Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Tr II (NYSEAMERICAN:VKI) declared a monthly dividend on Tuesday, October 2nd, Wall Street Journal reports. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, October 16th will be given a dividend of 0.0493 per share by the financial services provider on Wednesday, October 31st. This represents a $0.59 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.65%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, October 15th.

  • [By Max Byerly]

    Van ECK Associates Corp increased its position in shares of Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Tr II (NYSEAMERICAN:VKI) by 14.9% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 138,408 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after purchasing an additional 17,899 shares during the period. Van ECK Associates Corp owned 0.31% of Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Tr II worth $1,475,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

    Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Tr II (NYSEAMERICAN:VKI) declared a monthly dividend on Thursday, August 2nd, Wall Street Journal reports. Investors of record on Tuesday, August 14th will be given a dividend of 0.0517 per share by the financial services provider on Friday, August 31st. This represents a $0.62 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.77%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, August 13th.

Top 5 Blue Chip Stocks To Buy Right Now: Okta, Inc.(OKTA)

Okta, Inc. provides identity management platform for enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, universities, non-profits, and government agencies in the United States and internationally. The company offers Okta Identity Cloud, a platform that offers a suite of products to manage and secure identities, such as Universal Directory, a cloud-based system of record to store and secure user, application, and device profiles for an organization; and Single Sign-On that enables users to access their applications in the cloud or on-premise from various devices with a single entry of their user credentials. It also provides Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication, a product that provides an additional layer of security for cloud, mobile, and Web applications, as well as for data; Lifecycle Management, which enables IT organizations or developers to manage a user's identity throughout its lifecycle; API Access Management that enables organizations to secure APIs; Advanced Server Access to secure cloud infrastructure; and Access Gateway that enables organizations to extend the Okta Identity Cloud from the cloud to their existing on-premise applications. In addition, the company offers customer support and training, and professional services. Okta, Inc. sells its products directly to customers through sales force, as well as through channel partners. The company was formerly known as Saasure, Inc. Okta, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By ]

    Some names that I’ve discussed in the past include CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), Okta, Inc. (Nasdaq: OKTA), and CyberArk Software (Nasdaq: CYBR).

    There’s also the exchange-traded fund (ETF) route or those who want instant diversification in this space. Choices include First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF (CIBR), Global X Cybersecurity ETF (BUG), or ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF (HACK).

  • [By ]

    While I’ll reserve the name of my latest pick for my Top Stock Advisor subscribers, some names that I’ve discussed in the past include CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), Okta, Inc. (Nasdaq: OKTA), and CyberArk Software (Nasdaq: CYBR).

  • [By Motley Fool Staff]

    In the realm of cybersecurity, identity management services are only becoming more vital for businesses, and Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA) is one of the leading providers. Its shares have almost doubled in the past year as its client list and revenue have grown. But when it delivered its fourth-quarter results, there was a fly in the ointment. Despite a smaller-than-expected loss, it cut its guidance, and the market dinged the stock.

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