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Table of Contents

Why Moats Mater. Our Outlook for the Market. Our Outlook for the Financial Sector. Our Outlook for the Consumer Sector. Our Outlook for the Health-Care Sector. Our Outlook for the Energy Sector. Our Outlook for the Hardware Sector. Our Outlook for the Software Sector. Our Outlook for the Media Sector. Our Outlook for the Telecom Sector. Our Outlook for the Utilities Sector. Our Outlook for the Industrials Sector. Harvesting Income with Dividends. Index and Tables. Morningstar Stocks 500-Company Index. Morningstar Stocks 500-Industry Index. Benchmark Performance-Market Index. Industry Performance. Industry Averages. Top- and Bottom-Performing Stocks. Most Attractive Stocks. Least Attractive Stocks. Stocks with Below Average risk Measures. Largest Market Capitalization and Highest Sales. Highest Return on Equity and Return on Assets. Highest Dividend Yield and Cash Return. Lowest and Highest Price Multiples. Companies with Wide Economic Moats. Companies with Narrow Economic Moats. Companies with No Economic Moat. Report Pages. Stock reports. Glossary. Glossary.

Author Biography

Joseph Beaulieu (BA, University of Chicago, 1989) is Morningstar's Director of Equity Research. Previously he led Morningstar's retail industry analysis team. Before Morningstar, Joseph was a stock analyst at ABN AMRO.