The SJC 25 Stock Report, Dec. 25, 2011

Editors Note  – This is the second installment of a new feature for San Juan Capistrano Patch. We may not have any Fortune 500 companies based in our town, but that doesn't mean they don't have a presence. The health of these companies has an impact on our local economy.

 

 Company 

 Ticker 

 Close Friday 

  % Change

 on the Week 

 Bank of America   BAC  5.60

  +7.69

 Big Lots  BIG  38.11   +4.06  Chevron  CVX  107.50   +6.58  Citigroup  C  27.46   +5.49  ConocoPhillips  COP  73.43   +5.89  Costco  COST   84.66   +2.53  Dollar Tree  DLTR  83.26   +0.53  FedEx  FDX  84.92   +0.04  JP Morgan Chase  JPM  33.57   +5.27  The Kroger Co. (Ralphs)  KR  24.48   +3.25  Marriott  MAR  29.71   +4.03  McDonald's  MCD  100.15   +2.73  PetSmart  PETM  51.92   +2.83  Quest Diagnostics  DGX  58.97   +4.85  RadioShack  RSH  9.81   +1.87  Rite Aid  RAD  1.21   -0.82  Ross Stores  ROST  48.24   +2.49  Safeway (Vons)  SWY  21.12   +2.67  Sempra Energy  SRE  54.62   +3.37  Staples  SPLS  14.18   +0.67  Starbucks  SBUX  45.44   +4.52  The TJX Cos. (Marshalls)   TJX  65.31   +5.1  United Parcel Service  UPS  73.47   +2.38  Wells Fargo  WFC  27.78   +6.95  Yum! Brands (KFC, Taco Bell)   YUM  59.03   +1.33

* Financial data provided by Google Finance

 

The markets were full of good cheer this week, pushing the S&P 500 back into positive territory for 2011 and the Dow up 6 percent for the year.

The big winners were in the banking industry, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Only Rite Aid saw a loss on the week. Here's a few news briefs about the companies in our town:

Bank of America is close to settling a U.S. Justice Department probe into whether its Countrywide Financial Corp. unit violated fair-lending practices, Bloomberg News reported. 

The Washington Post did a nice profile on the incoming chief executive officer at Marriott. 

Kroger, America's largest grocery store chain, will stop carrying products sourced by Asia Pulp & Paper because of concerns about deforestation, according to a statement on the company's web site. The move comes after a Greenpeace campaign targeting Paseo, a fast-growing toilet-paper brand APP owns. 

Yum! Brands sold its chain of iconic A&W Restaurants, it was announced Friday in a press release.

Locally, right out of the wall at a Chase Bank in Laguna Hills Friday morning.