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By Mel Daris:As oil bubbles past $100 a barrel, and the stock market still has the potential to be highly volatile, I take a look at large cap oil and gas companies selling at low price to earnings ratios. I selected the following five stocks to their relatively low betas--indicating these stocks will experience less volatility than the market as a whole. Additionally, these stocks all pay dividends, giving investors further protection from downside risk.

By Vatalyst: Which stocks will thrive in the face of healthcare reform? Which will struggle? I've researched five highly profitable healthcare stocks that I believe can navigate government boondoggles in the healthcare space and thrive over the long term. As always, please use my analysis as a starting point for your own due diligence.

By greg group: As the current market begins to look more like 2011, with the same volatility and the Eurocrisis creeping back into the picture, investors may want to look at low beta stocks. These low beta stocks display less volatility than the overall market, especially stocks with high beta ranks. Couple a low beta with a high dividend growth rate and investors should have a slow, steady total return. We are looking at small capitalization stocks, as they tend to have higher growth rates.

By Dividend Kings:Merck (MRK) has had a strong year, especially since August after it bottomed below $29 a share. It just reached 52-week highs last week and pays a nice juicy dividend for interested parties. Here are six points to look at while considering the case for investing in Merck:

David Ott submits:A few years ago when "fundamental indexing" was the topic de jure, I saw Rob Arnott, chairman and founder for fundamental indexing firm Research Affiliates, debate academic legend and Nobel Laureate Bill Sharpe.During the debate, Sharpe had a great zinger: “I’ve never met a back-test that I didn’t like.” He went a step further when he said that he wanted to invest in a strategy with horrible back-testing results, thinking that t

By Kapitall:Beta measures the linear relationship between a stock and the broader stock market. A beta above 1 implies that the stock often has larger reactions to changes in the business cycle than the broader market, while betas below 1 imply lesser reactions. Therefore, low-beta stocks are considered less volatile. We ran a screen on stocks with betas below 0.5 for those that have seen net buying attention from institutional investors (a.k.a.

Parsimony Investment Research submits:In the current market environment, it is important for income investors to choose their dividend stocks wisely. As volatility increases, investors may want to add some low beta stocks to their holdings to help dampen portfolio volatility.