Q4 Success Stories

A number of companies did manage to improve their year over year profits in Q4 2008.They include Colgate-Palmolive,Amazon,Heinz,Hershey's,Netflix and Verizon Communications.Colgate-Palmolive even raised its dividend,as did Coca-Cola and 3M.General Electric cut its dividend recently,but it is still above average at over 4%.As of last Friday,only IBM had an increased share price,of all the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 2009.