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With many investors looking for income as well as capital gains, we now publish the top ten yielding stocks in certain industries each week. This week we look at Packaging & Containers (see below for other industries). These stocks have been selected from a screening program. They are not recommendations to buy or sell. If you have an interest in any of them, please investigate them completely before taking any action.
Updated 1/26/12 INDUSTRY: Packaging & Containers Company | Symbol | Div/Yield | EPS | | Grief Inc.* | GEF | 3.5% | $3.71 | | Meadwestvaco Corp. * | MWV | 3.2% | $1.84 | | Bemis Co. * | BMS | 3.1% | $1.99 | | Packaging Corp. of America | PKG | 3.0% | $1.71 | | Sealed Air Corp. | SEE | 2.7% | $1.40 | | Tupperware Brands | TUP | 2.0% | $3.38 | | AptarGroup Inc. | ATR | 1.7% | $2.66 | | Rock-Tenn Co. | RKT | 1.2% | $2.77 | | Silgan Holdings | SLGN | 1.1% | $2.42 | | | Ball Corp. | BLL | 0.7% | $2.67 | |
| * Comments: GEF: Grief, Inc. manufactures and sells industrial packaging products, bulk containers, and containerboard and corrugated products worldwide. The company's Rigid Industrial Packaging and Services segment provides industrial packaging products, including rigid intermediate bulk containers, transit protection products, water bottles, reconditioned containers, and closure systems, as well as steel, fiber, and plastic drums; and services, such as container lifecycle, blending, filling, packaging, logistics, and warehousing services. This segment sells its products to customers in chemicals, paints and pigments, food and beverage, petroleum, industrial coatings, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and mineral industries. Its Flexible Products and Services segment offers flexible intermediate bulk containers; and industrial and consumer shipping sacks and multiwall bag products, which are used to ship industrial and consumer products, such as seed, fertilizers, chemicals, concrete, flour, sugar, feed, pet foods, popcorn, charcoal, and salt primarily in the agricultural, chemical, building products, and food industries. The company's Paper Packaging segment sells containerboards, corrugated sheets, and other corrugated products to customers in the packaging, automotive, food, and building products industries. This segment's corrugated container products are used to ship home appliances, small machinery, grocery products, building products, automotive components, books, and furniture. Its Land Management segment is involved in the harvest and regeneration of timber properties; and sale of timberland and special use land. As of October 31, 2011, this segment owned approximately 267,750 acres of timber property in the southeastern United States and approximately 14,700 acres of timber property in Canada. The company was formerly known as Grief Bros. Corporation and changed its name to Grief, Inc. in 2001. Grief, Inc. was founded in 1877 and is headquartered in Delaware, Ohio. MWV: MeadWestvaco Corporation provides packaging solutions to the healthcare, beauty and personal care, food, beverage, tobacco, and home and garden industries worldwide. The company's Packaging Resources segment produces bleached paperboard, Coated Natural Kraft paperboard, and corrugated packaging products. Its Consumer Solutions segment designs and produces multi-pack cartons and packaging systems primarily for the beverage take-home and tobacco markets. This segment also offers injection-molded plastic packaging for prescription drugs; and dispensing and sprayer systems for personal care, fragrance, healthcare, home cleaning, and garden and lawn maintenance products. In addition, it has a pharmaceutical packaging contract with mass-merchants; and manufactures equipment that is leased or sold to its beverage and dairy customers to package their products. The company's Consumer & Office Products segment manufactures, sources, markets, and distributes school and office products, and time-management products in North America and Brazil through retail and commercial channels. Its Specialty Chemicals segment manufactures, markets, and distributes specialty chemicals derived from sawdust and other by-products of the papermaking process in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. This segment's products include activated carbon used in gas vapor emission control systems for automobiles and trucks, as well as applications for air, water, and food purification; and performance chemicals used in printing inks, asphalt paving, and adhesives, as well as in the agricultural, paper, and petroleum industries. The company's Community Development and Land Management segment involves in real estate development, forestry operations, and leasing activities. MeadWestvaco Corporation was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. BMS: Bemis Company, Inc. manufactures and sells flexible packaging products and pressure sensitive materials in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, and Australasia. The company operates in two segments, Flexible Packaging and Pressure Sensitive Materials. The Flexible Packaging segment manufactures multilayer flexible polymer film structures and laminates for food, medical, and personal care products, and non-food applications utilizing vacuum or modified atmosphere packaging. It also offers blown and cast stretch film products; carton sealing tapes and application equipment; custom thermoformed plastic packaging; multiwall paper bags; printed paper roll stock; and bag closing materials. The Pressure Sensitive Materials segment manufactures pressure sensitive adhesive coated paper and film substrates comprising label market products, such as narrow-Web rolls of pressure sensitive paper, film, and metalized film printing stocks used in printing and die-cutting. This segment also provides graphic market products consisting of pressure sensitive films used for decorative signage through computer-aided plotters, digital and screen printers, and photographic over laminate and mounting materials, including optical films with built-in UV inhibitors; and technical market products, such as micro-thin film adhesives used in delicate electronic parts assembly and pressure sensitive applications. Bemis Company, Inc. distributes its products primarily through its direct sales force to food and beverage, chemical, agribusiness, medical, pharmaceutical, personal care, electronics, automotive, construction, graphic industries, and other consumer goods markets. The company was formerly known as Bemis Bro. Bag Company and changed its name to Bemis Company, Inc. in 1965. Bemis Company, Inc. was founded in 1858 and is based in Neenah, Wisconsin.
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DISCLAIMER: Dividend yields will differ from these tables due to pricing considerations. The table is generated from data that is not as of the close last Friday. Therefore, when you investigate one of these stocks, expect to see a lower or higher yield. Also, not all stocks are included in this list. There may be more in this industry that have a higher yield but due to the methodology of the screening program, they are not listed.
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