Because blue -
chip companies often have a firm footing in the economy with large revenues and total shares worth billions of dollars.
Not exact matches
In these partnerships, Intel provides
chips and designs to the
companies before they are publicly available, and
often builds specialized equipment for each business.
In contrast to a commodity such as oil, though, a
company can produce more
chips at will, and they
often do.
Blue
chip stocks are regarded as less volatile than other stocks and investors
often assume that blue
chip companies will get through harsh economic times better than non-blue
chip companies.
Model 2 — Income Portfolios that are designed to generate income for their owners
often consist of investment - grade, fixed income obligations of large, profitable corporations, real estate (most
often in the form of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs), treasury notes, and, to a lesser extent, shares of blue -
chip companies with long histories of continuous dividend payments.
Such
companies are
often large, old, blue -
chip stocks.
In fact, these
chips are
often called EMV smart
chips, and that stands for Europay, MasterCard, and Visa, the
companies that created this standard.