About the company:

Johnson & Johnson is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field. Johnson & Johnson has more than 250 operating companies. The Company operates in three segments. The Consumer segment includes a range of products used in the baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care and women’s healthcare fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. The Pharmaceutical segment includes products in the therapeutic areas, such as anti-infective, antipsychotic, cardiovascular, contraceptive, dermatology, gastrointestinal, hematology, immunology, neurology, oncology, pain management, urology and virology. The Medical Devices and Diagnostics segment includes a range of products distributed to wholesalers, hospitals and retailers. In July 2009, Johnson & Johnson completed the acquisition of Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. with approximately 95.9% interest in Cougar Biotechnology’s outstanding common stock.

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a holding company owning subsidiaries that engage in a number of diverse business activities including property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, utilities and energy, finance, manufacturing, services and retailing. Included in the group of subsidiaries that underwrite property and casualty insurance and reinsurance is GEICO, the third largest auto insurer in the United States and two of the largest reinsurers in the world, General Re and the Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group. Other subsidiaries that underwrite property and casualty insurance include National Indemnity Company, Medical Protective Company,
Applied Underwriters, U.S. Liability Insurance Company, Central States Indemnity Company, Kansas Bankers Surety, Cypress Insurance Company, BoatU.S. and several other subsidiaries referred to as the “Homestate Companies.”  

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Reasoning: I believe this company’s stock should keep going up, at lease until the end of the year.  However, as tuition for school doesn’t pay itself, I needed to take out some money and because I have had gains on this stock, and see it coming down later on anyways, see it at a perfect time to sell to pay off tuition.

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Reasoning: Market is really down today and with the technicals, there appears to be an upside-down hammer, I know with my own intuition that this share price will rise.

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The shares were bought for $45.74 on June 28, 2009 (details).

Reason:  Agrium is a great company, no doubt about that.  I would definitely buy back into Agrium at a lower price.  I just believe, with my own personal intuition, that the resistance price for Agrium is roughly $60/share, and I also can say that it will only rise about this price once the whole economy has risen, or if it makes big news headlines like “Agrium takes over CF Industries”.  Otherwise, its a sell, and that’s exactly that I have done here.

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Because I am in my 4th year, and have many senior courses; plus my part-time job, I have decided to settle down and simply pick up stocks that give a very nice dividend, instead of capital gains.

As you can see my portfolio on the right side, I have bought and been holding stocks such as KCAP and CWX/UN.TO.  These two stocks give out dividends that equate to roughly 12% (KCAP) and 19% (CWX/UN.TO), annually of course, with the DRIP option on both of these stocks.

I am currently going to continue to hold Activision, as I believe that this company will soar with their new games coming out just in time for the holidays.  The story is the same for Agrium; this stock did reach $57/share at one point and that is where I should have sold it, but didn’t, but with their efforts of trying to take over CF Industries, I know this stock is one of the better commodity picks.

And one may have noticed: I used to own SDT/UN.TO, but it recently converted to a mutual fund.  I, of course, got the better deal, and will continue to hold this in my TFSA trading account.

Just thought I’d throw this update out.

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