The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW)

Another stable rock for your portfolio; and paying you a nice dividend to boot.

A yield above 9% and a merger that will move it into high value, less commoditised chemicals. What's not to like? Reasonable growth prospects over the longer term, plus plenty of dividend to tide you over until then.

like div at this price.

Oversold like everything else

the leader of the industry, it is well positioned during the bull years in 2010 & 2011, i expect the stock will be over $40 by 2010.

This cyclical stock has great momentum. A solid dividend payer it will have performance that is inverse to energy prices as it relies on fossil fuels to make it's products. I would counter this with a big oil company (both DOW and big oil have been beaten up as I write this, so I have purchased both!).

Great dividend, undervalued

CEO has promised to defend the dividend, and the company has the cash to ride out a recession.

Bought today in real life with dividend reinvestment. Long history of solid dividends and is diversifying and bringing joint ventures online.

This is a dividend pick.

Dow Chemical's exposure to "cyclical" commodity chemicals will not be completely erased when its K-Dow JV takes over sometime early in 2009. Assuming the "peak" of the ethylene-polyethylene cycle occurred in late-2006, then late 2009 or early 2010 should be about the right timing for cyclical commodity chemical demand to recover with a vengeance .... and Dow Chemical's bottom line will get a nice upward bump when this begins. And when Dow Chemical fully assimilates its acquisition of Rohm & Haas in 2009, there will be a noticable improvement in stability and growth in Dow Chemical's earnings. Not many other members of the S&P 500 have two great profit engines waiting for the return of normal global demand to spur them to new highs !

Dividend is high and reliable

A great chemical company on its way to even more greatness after taking over Rohm and Haas.

Long term, can't go wrong.

Time to jump in

6% yield with an uprise solid company

I need a large cap in my caps, so here is my submittal. DOW is too cheap at this price.

Greatly undervalued.

Saw the CEO speak on CNN, has me convinced this is totally undervalued because of market fear. No rational reason its been beat up so much.

Killer dividend that probably wont be cut.

5 star on caps.

An environmental disaster but other than its a No brainer.