Murked

Merck & Co (MRK) is a major player in pharmaceuticals.  They pay a dividend that gets anyone that owns their stock high, and they are trading at a major discount right now because of all their Vioxx lawsuits, which have been a mixed bag in terms of victory and settlements. Vioxx was taken off the market in 2004.  As long as owning a company in litigation doesn't give you stomach pangs (which Vioxx was supposed to treat better than other NSAIDS), I'd pick up some Merck from your local stock trader today.

Deep in the heart

of Texas... Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) is undervalued for its asset class.  While everyone knows this household name for the fancy graphing calculators that dominate the market of 7th to 12th graders, T.I. also makes a bunch of its money fabricating semiconductors.  And for those of you that don't know semiconductors, they are in just about anything you use that needs power, from an LED to a high speed computer.  Semiconductors work with electrons flowing from one 'band' to another (and that's your science lesson for the day). To summarize: Everything is bigger in Texas, including earnings.  So cash in on the colossal versatility and demand for the semiconductor; buy T.I. today.