Market cap greater than $10 billion

April 28 2011

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Here are the top stocks, with a market cap greater than $10 billion, that hit 52-week highs in today’s trading:

1. Coach Inc. (NYSE:COH): Up 1.54% to $58.13. Coach, Inc.designs, produces, and markets primarily leather goods. The Company’s products include handbags, business cases, men’s and women’s accessories, luggage and travel accessories, leather outerwear, and gloves. Coach, together with a licensing partner, offers watches, footwear, furniture, and eyewear. Coach Earnings: 50% Increase in the Dividend>>
2. HJ Heinz Co. (NYSE:HNZ): Up 0.43% to $51.23. H.J. Heinz Company manufactures and markets processed food products throughout the world. The Company’s principal products include ketchup, condiments and sauces, frozen food, soups, beans and pasta meals, infant nutrition and other processed food products.
3. Luxottica Group SpA (NYSE:LUX): Up 1.27% to $34.40. Luxottica Group S.p.A. and its subsidiaries design, manufacture, distribute, and market traditional and designer eyeglass frames and sunglasses. The Company’s LensCrafter retail chain of optical stores operates in North America. Luxottica distributes its products around the world. The Company also sells sunglasses through its Sunglass Hut retail chain.
4. General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE:GGP): Up 2.25% to $16.35. General Growth Properties, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company owns, operates, leases, acquires and expands enclosed regional shopping mall centers throughout the United States. The REIT, with its operating partnership also has unconsolidated equity interests in other regional mall companies.
5. Pearson plc (NYSE:PSO): Up 2.86% to $19.40. Pearson plc is a holding company, whose international subsidiaries operate in the education and media sectors. The Company publishes various financial papers, trade books, textbooks and electronic education programs, via their businesses which include the Financial Times, Penguin, and The Economist.
6. Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE:CAH): Up 2.01% to $44.11. Cardinal Health, Inc. provides complementary products and services to healthcare providers and manufacturers. The Company’s services include pharmaceutical distribution, health-care product manufacturing, distribution and consulting services, drug delivery systems development, pharmaceutical packaging, automated dispensing systems manufacturing, and retail pharmacy franchising.
7. Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET): Up 0.3% to $39.81. Aetna Inc. is a diversified health care benefits company that provides healthcare and related benefits, serving health care members, dental members, and group insurance customers. The Company offers medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans.
8. Altera Corp. (NASDAQ:ALTR): Up 4.1% to $48.50. Altera Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets programmable logic devices and associated development tools. The Company’s products, include a variety of programmable logic devices and hardcopy application-specific integrated circuits.
9. Consolidated Edison Inc. (NYSE:ED): Up 0.94% to $51.56. Consolidated Edison, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides a variety of energy related products and services. The Company supplies electric service in New York, parts of New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as well as supplies electricity to wholesale customers.
10. Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE:LO): Up 0.49% to $104.24. Lorillard, Inc. manufactures and sells cigarettes. The Company produces cigarettes for both the premium and discount segments of the domestic cigarette market for sale to distributors and retailers in the United States. Lorillard Earnings: Shareholders Light One Up>>
11. Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC): Up 2.02% to $19.73. Symantec Corporation provides security, storage and systems management solutions to help businesses and consumers secure and manage their information. The Company offers software and services that protect, manage and control information risks related to security, data protection, storage, compliance and management.
12. El Paso Corp. (NYSE:EP): Up 0.36% to $19.32. El Paso Corporation operates natural gas pipeline and storage facilities, transports natural gas, and imports liquefied natural gas. El Paso also explores for and produces natural gas. The Company has operations in the United States, Brazil, and Egypt.
13. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU): Up 3.01% to $6.51. Alcatel-Lucent manufactures telecommunications equipment, and offers telecommunications services. The Company’s telecommunications equipment and services enable its customers to send or receive virtually any type of voice or data transmission. Alcatel-Lucent designs and builds public and private networks, communications systems and software, and data networking systems.
14. Boston Properties Inc. (NYSE:BXP): Up 0.93% to $101.89. Boston Properties, Inc. is a real estate investment trust. The trust owns, manages, and develops office properties in the United States, with a significant presence in Boston, Washington, D.C., Midtown Manhattan and San Francisco.
15. Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBY): Up 0.21% to $57.25. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. operates a nationwide chain of retail stores. The Company, through its retail stores, sells a wide assortment of merchandise principally including domestics merchandise and home furnishings as well as food, giftware, health and beauty care items and infant and toddler merchandise.
16. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE:NLY): Up 0.45% to $17.79. Annaly Capital Management Inc. is a real estate investment trust which owns and manages assets and funds on behalf of institutional and individual investors worldwide. The Company manages a portfolio of mortgage backed securities, including mortgage pass through certificates, collaterized mortgage obligations, and other securities.
17. iShares Silver Trust (NYSE:SLV): Up 6.75% to $47.00. iShares Silver Trust is a trust formed to invest in silver. The assets of the trust consist primarily of silver held by the custodian on behalf of the trust. The objective of the trust is for the shares to reflect the price of silver owned by the trust, less the trust’s expenses and liabilities. Silver Technical Trade Targets You Must Know in Today’s Market>>
18. Progress Energy Inc. (NYSE:PGN): Up 0.21% to $46.95. Progress Energy, Inc. is an integrated electric utility that provides energy and energy-related products and services in the Southeast United States. The Company serves electric and gas customers in the Carolinas and in Florida.
19. PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL): Up 0.88% to $27.37. PPL Corporation is an energy and utility holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, generates electricity from power plants in the northeastern and western United States, and markets wholesale and retail energy primarily in the northeastern and western portions of the United States, and delivers electricity in Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom.
20. Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE): Up 1.05% to $54.89. Sempra Energy is an energy services holding company with operations throughout the United States, Mexico, and other countries in South America. The Company, through its subsidiaries, generates electricity, delivers natural gas, operates natural gas pipelines and storage facilities, and operates a wind power generation project.
21. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP): Up 1.23% to $54.26. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. develops, markets and supports a range of software and hardware products and services for information technology (NYSE:IT) security and offers its customers a network and gateway security solutions, data and endpoint security solutions and management solutions.
22. Limited Brands, Inc. (NYSE:LTD): Up 0.88% to $41.14. Limited Brands, Inc. owns and operates specialty stores throughout the United States. The Company, through its retail stores, offer a wide range of products, including women’s apparel, women’s lingerie, beauty products and accessories, personal care, and home fragrance products. The Company’s stores also offer products via the Internet.
23. Edison International (NYSE:EIX): Up 1.11% to $39.20. Edison International, through its subsidiaries, develops, acquires, owns, and operates electric power generation facilities worldwide. The Company also provides capital and financial services for energy and infrastructure projects, as well as manages and sells real estate projects. Additionally, Edison provides integrated energy services, utility outsourcing, and consumer products.
24. CIGNA Corporation (NYSE:CI): Up 0.92% to $45.92. CIGNA Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides group life and health insurance, managed care products and services, retirement products and services, and individual financial services worldwide. The Company also sells individual life and health insurance and annuity products in selected international locations.
25. Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL): Up 1.97% to $52.75. Ecolab Inc. develops and markets products and services for the hospitality, institutional, and industrial markets. The Company provides cleaning, sanitizing, pest elimination, and maintenance products, systems, and services. Ecolab provides its services to hotels and restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, light industry, and other customers located worldwide. Ecolab Inc Earnings Cheat Sheet: Spring Cleaning is Here>>
26. Millicom International Cellular SA (NASDAQ:MICC): Up 1.53% to $108.60. Millicom International Cellular S.A. develops and operates cellular telephone systems worldwide. The Company has interests in cellular systems primarily in emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa.
27. V.F. Corporation (NYSE:VFC): Up 2.38% to $107.51. VF Corporation is an international apparel company. The Company owns a broad portfolio of brands in the jeanswear, outerwear, packs, footwear, sportswear and occupational apparel categories. VF Corp’s products are marketed to consumers shopping in specialty stores, upscale and traditional department stores, national chains and mass merchants.
28. AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE:ABC): Up 2.31% to $42.03. AmerisourceBergen Corporation is a pharmaceutical services company. The Company distributes pharmaceutical products and services. AmerisourceBergen distributes an offering of brand name and generic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter healthcare products, home healthcare supplies and equipment, and related services to a variety of healthcare providers.
29. Bunge Limited (NYSE:BG): Down 0.88% to $74.34. Bunge Limited is an integrated global agribusiness and food company spanning the farm-to-consumer food chain. The Company processes soybeans, produces and supplies fertilizer, manufactures edible oils and shortenings, mills dry corn and wheat, manufactures isolated soybean protein, and produces other food products. Bunge has primary operations in North and South America.
30. Mylan, Inc. (NASDAQ:MYL): Up 0.12% to $25.23. Mylan Inc. is a global generic and specialty pharmaceuticals company. The Company operates an active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer and runs a specialty business focused on respiratory, allergy, and psychiatric therapies.
31. Avalonbay Communities Inc. (NYSE:AVB): Up 0.63% to $126.63. AvalonBay Communities, Inc. is a self-managed, fully-integrated multi-family real estate investment trust. The Company focuses on the ownership and operation of institutional-quality apartment communities in high barrier-to-entry markets of the United States. The markets are located in Northern and South California and in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Midwest and Pacific Northwest region. AvalonBay Communities Earnings: Net Income Sinks>>
32. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX): Up 4.95% to $55.54. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated discovers, develops, and commercializes novel, small molecule pharmaceuticals for the treatment of diseases for which there are currently limited or no effective treatments. The Company is developing drugs for the treatment of viral diseases, multidrug resistance in cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases.
33. W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE:GWW): Up 0.79% to $150.19. W.W. Grainger, Inc. distributes maintenance, repair and operating supplies, and related information to the commercial, industrial, contractor, and institutional markets in North America. The Company’s products include motors, HVAC equipment, lighting, hand and power tools, pumps, and electrical equipment. W.W. Grainger Earnings: A Stock Up Big in a Down Market>>

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