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1 started writing this article just as the latest lash news repurt appeared on my television screen with heart-rend- ing images of the New I NY ESTING 101 Stick with your game plan for successful investing Apple and Umted Health Care show promise for the months to come three to five year core holdings. With the aging of our population, health care providers and pharmacy benefit man- agers will stand to do Orleans disaster. 1 real- ized again that what I ews was viewing was not a movie out of Hollywood, but the reality of what was happening in a major American city. | thought to myself how inugmficant is a column on investments in the face of a tragedy of this magnitude, and wondered how might I help those untortunate people in the South I torw arded my conth- By Ted Kaplan and its well: e 1. United Health \ Care (NY Stock tto, Exchange symbol: UNH) which was then at $50.45 per share. It closed on September 9 at - $54.51. ond largest health insurer in the U.S. with services encompassing Medicare and Medicaid optuons. It recently split its shares two for one. management has shown great regard bution to a relief fund and completed this column with a heavy hear, in the hope that by possibly increasing the value of your portfolio | might help enable you to repay the generous response received from around the country after 9/11 and reciprocate by contacting your favorite disaster relief fund. Okay. With that said, let's get on with our game plan. In my last column 1 recommended adding two health care stocks to our for its stockholders as its earnings increase. 2. Caremark (CMX) is the biggest pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) with a retail network of more than 59.000 participating pharmacies and seven mail order pharmacies. When I recom- mended it in my last article its price was $44.60. It closed on September 9 at $48.35. The firm is growing fast, with five straight quarters of double- digit earnings gains. It had triple-digit sales increases in all but one of those United Health Care is the sec- quarters - so latch on and be patient. A little news for those investors still holding Apple Computer (AAPL). It closed on September 9 at $51.31 per share, after dropping to $42.99 during the prior week-to-ten days. 1 recom- mend holding Apple through the Christmas shopping season, as the company has recently introduced its new line of iPod music players - including its first music phone. The new iPod Nano, weighing only 1.5 ounces. will replace the iPod Min. Apple also showed off the much-antic- ipated iTunes phone, a joint effort wuh Motorola (MOT). The Motorola iTunes phone will be available on September 15 at $249 The iTunes phone holds only about 100 songs, unlike the iPod Nano (up to 1000 songs ), but the iTunes has a nifty feature - it pauses automatically to receive a telephone call. Apple should do well during the coming holiday sea- son. and, if the price of gasoline at the pump comes down, it may make even a greater return on our investment. In keeping with the hopes for the holiday season, a good risk/reward stock would be Corning, Inc. (GLW), which closed on September 9 at $20.80 per share. Its earnings growth plan is to remain the world's leading supplier of liquid crystal display glass, or LCD. This high-tech glass is used for flat panel television and computer monitor screens. Corning has approximately 65 percent of the global market for LCD monitors and TVs. Last year LCD went into only 5 per cent of TVs sold around the world. This figure is projected to be 23 percent by the end of this year. People are buying bigger TV monitors, and Corning sells glass by the square foot, therefore. bigger is more prof- itable. Analysts polled projected full- year earnings of 78 cents a share, climbing to 95 cents in 2006. Demand for LCD screens is growing so fast that, in order to increase its capacity to keep up. Coming is starting a second facility in Taiwan among other invest- ments Despite the rosy outlook, the firm is tred to consumer behavior, so slower consumer spending, linked to nsing prices at the pump. would hurt. If you purchase this stock, put a stop loss order in at $17.50 - and lots of luck. Until my next column, continue to follow the game plan and, more importantly, count your blessings, help those currently in desperate need and stay healthy and happy. Ted Kaplan, a former stockbroker, is a longtime investor. The views expressed here are not endorsed by Times Beacon Record Newspapers. /- , SAVE ON GAS TOYOTA Starting @ $4195 Starting @ 316465 m0 $12,995 , RIVERHEAD TOYOTA: Just Around The Corner 1419 Old Country Road e Riverhead, NY - Call 631-727-7722
