Barron's Top Ten Large Caps

"Right now one can find leading large cap, high quality stocks with growing dividends". Barron's 11/23/2009. Here are the top ten picks with Barron's comments. In alphabetic order.

Banco Santander STD $17.40 4.2 % yld Well run retail bank, global reach (Spain)

Chevron CVX 3.5% Integrated oil giant; dollar hedge

Intel INTC 3.3% Tech leader with scale advantage

Johnson and Johnson JNJ 3.1 % Quintessential dividend stock

McDonald's MDC 3.5 % Good emerging market growth

Nestle ADR NSRGY 2.6 % World's best run food company

Novartis ADR NVS 2.3 % Internationally diversified drug maker

Pepsico PEP 2.9 % Stable income and growth, strong brand

Procter and Gamble PG 2.8 % Hard to find a country where it isn't

Verizon Comm VZ 6.2 % High dividend, biggest U.S. wireless firm

Equities are still 30 % lower than their 1997 tops.