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PFE, CVS, HD, VZ, DUK Hit New 52-Week Highs

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List of stocks who have just hit new 52-week highs as of Tuesday, December 20, 2011.

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) hit a new 52 week high of $21.54 in intraday trading and closed at $21.46 +1.51% on 57,970,764 shares traded. Pfizer Inc. is a research-based global pharmaceutical company which discovers, develops, manufactures and markets prescription medicines for humans and animals.

Cvs Corp. (NYSE:CVS) hit a new 52 week high of $39.97 in intraday trading and closed at $39.80 +8.86% on 25,380,462 shares traded. CVS Caremark Corporation is a provider of prescriptions and related health care services in the United States. It operates two business segments: Retail Pharmacy and Pharmacy Services.


Home Depot (NYSE:HD) hit a new 52 week high of $41.99 in intraday trading and closed at $41.95 +4.35% on 20,072,364 shares traded. The Home Depot, Inc. is a home improvement retailer. The Home Depot stores sell an assortment of building materials, home improvement and lawn and garden products and provide a number of services.

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) hit a new 52 week high of $39.35 in intraday trading and closed at $39.21 +1.50% on 19,992,124 shares traded. Verizon Communications, Inc. provides communications services through two reportable segments, Domestic Wireless and Wireline.

Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE:DUK) hit a new 52 week high of $21.43 in intraday trading and closed at $21.40 +2.05% on 17,354,878 shares traded. Duke Energy Corporation is an energy company, which is focused on electric power and gas distribution operations and other energy services in the Americas.

Bristol-myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) hit a new 52 week high of $35.21 in intraday trading and closed at $35.03 +2.22% on 16,470,652 shares traded. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company is a global biopharmaceutical Company, which is engaged in the discovery, development, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sale of pharmaceutical products on a global basis.

Altria Group (NYSE:MO) hit a new 52 week high of $29.98 in intraday trading and closed at $29.86 +1.77% on 12,932,234 shares traded. Altria Group, Inc. through its subsidiaries manufactures and sells cigarettes, other tobacco products, machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco. It also maintains a portfolio of leveraged and direct finance leases.

Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT) hit a new 52 week high of $36.97 in intraday trading and closed at $36.91 +1.91% on 8,353,100 shares traded. Kraft Foods, Inc. through its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets packaged food products, including snacks, beverages, cheese, convenient meals and various packaged grocery products.

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) hit a new 52 week high of $101.50 in intraday trading and closed at $101.35 +2.81% on 6,863,355 shares traded. Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, banks and governments around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of check and cash.

Philip Morris International Inc (NYSE:PM) hit a new 52 week high of $76.82 in intraday trading and closed at $76.70 +0.66% on 6,618,714 shares traded. Philip Morris International Inc is the holding company whose subsidiaries and affiliates and their licensees are engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in markets outside the United States of America.

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