DOW Stocks YTD at end of First Half 2010

Of the Major indexes, the S&P500 had the worst first half with a 7.6% loss while the Russell 2000 "only" lost 2.5%.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average or "DOW" is down 6.3% YTD.

Name	Ticker	6/30/10	YTD
Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	$DJI	$9,774.02	(6.3%)
S&P 500 INDEX	$INX	$1,030.71	(7.6%)
NASDAQ Composite Index	$COMPX	$2,109.24	(7.0%)
RUSSELL 2000 INDEX	$RUT.x	$609.49	(2.5%)

With a year-to-date (YTD) gain of 15.9%, Boeing (BA) was the best performing stock in the DOW. Alcoa (AA) is at the bottom of the list with a YTD loss of 37.6%.

The following table ranks the performance of the 30 DOW stocks from best to worst.

Rank	Name	Ticker	6/30/10	YTD
1	Boeing Co	BA	$62.75	15.9 %
2	McDonald's Corp	MCD	$65.87	5.5 %
3	Caterpillar Inc	CAT	$60.07	5.4 %
4	Kraft Foods Inc	KFT	$28.00	3.0 %
5	Du Pont de Nemours & Co	DD	$34.59	2.7 %
6	Procter & Gamble Co	PG	$59.98	(1.1%)
7	Travelers Companies Inc	TRV	$49.25	(1.2%)
8	American Express Co	AXP	$39.70	(2.0%)
9	Walt Disney Co	DIS	$31.50	(2.3%)
10	Home Depot Inc	HD	$28.07	(3.0%)
11	Merck & Co Inc	MRK	$34.97	(4.3%)
12	3M Co	MMM	$78.99	(4.5%)
13	Bank of America Corp	BAC	$14.37	(4.6%)
14	Intel Corp	INTC	$19.45	(4.7%)
15	General Electric Co	GE	$14.42	(4.7%)
16	International Business Machines	IBM	$123.48	(5.7%)
17	United Technologies Corp	UTX	$64.91	(6.5%)
18	Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	$59.06	(8.3%)
19	Wal-Mart Stores Inc	WMT	$48.07	(10.1%)
20	Cisco Systems Inc	CSCO	$21.31	(11.0%)
21	Chevron Corp	CVX	$67.86	(11.9%)
22	Coca-Cola Co	KO	$50.12	(12.1%)
23	JP Morgan Chase & Co	JPM	$36.61	(12.1%)
24	AT&T Inc	T	$24.19	(13.7%)
25	Verizon Communications Inc	VZ	$28.02	(15.4%)
26	Hewlett-Packard Co	HPQ	$43.28	(16.0%)
27	Exxon Mobil Corp	XOM	$57.07	(16.3%)
28	Pfizer Inc	PFE	$14.26	(21.6%)
29	Microsoft Corp	MSFT	$23.01	(24.5%)
30	Alcoa Inc	AA	$10.06	(37.6%)

Note, Price Performance does not include dividends.

Disclosure:  My personal portfolio is currently long GE, HPQ, INTC, IBM, MSFT & PFE.  Also, the "Explore portfolio" in "Kirk Lindstrom's Investment Letter" is currently long GE, INTC, IBM,M SFT & PFE.