The Favorite Fifteen

Which common stocks do Wall Street's biggest investors prefer? Last week the New York Stock Exchange compiled a list of the 15 stocks most widely held by insurance firms, pension trusts, college endowment funds and other institutional investors, found all of them were deep blue chips. At the head of the list was Standard Oil (N.J.), which was held in 506 portfolios. The others: General Electric (417 portfolios); E.I. du Pont (393); Union Carbide (391); American Telephone & Telegraph (387); General Motors (360); Gulf Oil (341); Westinghouse Electric (334); Texas Co. (319); Kennecott Copper (301); Phillips Petroleum (282); Socony-Vacuum (269); American Gas & Electric (269); Standard Oil of California (264); Sears, Roebuck (256).

The yield on the stocks ranged from a low of 2.73% (Westinghouse) to a high of 6.89% (Kennecott). In the past year, the bull market rise gave paper profits on stocks from 20% to 90%.

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