11 Large Cap Stocks Score 52-Week Highs as Dow Jones Rises 180 Points

Wall St. Watchdog reveals information about 11 stocks that hit 52-week highs in today��s trading. Note that this list excludes all stocks with a market capitalization less than $10 billion:

1. Southern Company (NYSE:SO): Down 0.05% to $42.89. Southern Company is a public utility holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, generates, wholesales, and retails electricity in the southeastern United States. The Company also offers wireless telecommunications services, and provides businesses with two-way radio, telephone, paging, and Internet access services as well as wholesales fiber optic solutions.
2. National Grid plc (NYSE:NGG): Up 1.07% to $50.94. National Grid PLC owns, operates and develops electricity and gas networks. The Group’s electricity transmission and gas distribution networks are located throughout the United Kingdom and in the north-eastern section of the United States. They also own liquefied natural gas storage facilities in Britain and provide infrastructure services to the mobile telecom industry.
3. Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX): Up 3.13% to $42.45. Starbucks Corporation retails, roasts, and provides its own brand of specialty coffee. The Company operates retail locations worldwide and sells whole bean coffees through its sales group, direct response business, supermarkets, and on the World Wide Web. Starbucks also produces and sells bottled coffee drinks and a line of ice creams.
4. Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB): Up 0.79% to $71.78. Kimberly-Clark Corporation is a global health and hygiene company that manufactures and provides consumer products. The Company’s products include diapers, tissues, paper towels, incontinence care products, surgical gowns, and disposable face masks. Kimberly-Clark’s products are sold in countries around the world.
5. Enbridge Inc. (NYSE:ENB): Up 2.53% to $34.42. Enbridge Inc. provides energy transp! ortation , distribution, and related services in North America and internationally. The Company operates a crude oil and liquids pipeline system, is involved in international energy projects, and is involved in natural gas transmission and midstream businesses. Enbridge also distributes natural gas and electricity, and provides retail energy products.
6. El Paso Corp. (NYSE:EP): Up 0.86% to $24.66. El Paso Corporation operates natural gas pipeline and storage facilities, transports natural gas, and imports liquefied natural gas. El Paso also explores for and produces natural gas. The Company has operations in the United States, Brazil, and Egypt.
7. Chemical & Mining Co. of Chile Inc. (NYSE:SQM): Up 0.49% to $55.35. Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA produces and markets specialty fertilizers including potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate, and potassium sulfate for the agricultural industry. The Company also produces industrial chemicals, iodine and lithium. SQM markets its products in over 100 countries.
8. Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG): Up 1.83% to $40.04. Dollar General Corp. operates a chain of discount retail stores located primarily in the southern, southwestern, midwestern and eastern United States. The Company offer a broad selection of merchandise, including consumable products such as food, paper and cleaning products, health and beauty products and pet supplies, and non-consumable products such as seasonal merchandise.
9. Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:MMI): Up 0.26% to $38.92. Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. provides advanced mobile media solutions and multi-screen technologies. The Company develops products that include consumer mobile phones, business-ready smartphones accessories, cordless phones, and home networking products.
10. W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE:GWW): Up 7.23% to $166.30. W.W. Grainger, Inc. distributes maintenance, repair and operating supplies, and related inf! ormation to the commercial, industrial, contractor, and institutional markets in North America. The Company’s products include motors, HVAC equipment, lighting, hand and power tools, pumps, and electrical equipment.
11. Nordstrom Inc. (NYSE:JWN): Up 3.88% to $51.97. Nordstrom, Inc. is a fashion retailer of apparel, shoes, and accessories for men, women, and children. The Company operates through multiple retail channels, discount stores, boutiques, catalogs, and on the Internet. Nordstrom, Inc. also offers, through a subsidiary, private label card credit and debit cards.