Ford and GM own some of the best consumer brands around...could they have represented value investments that just went wrong?

A roundup of last week's stock related blog posts.

Barron's latest ranking of the companies most esteemed by investors highlights some familiar favorites, including No. 1-ranked Johnson & Johnson.

Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory and the dollar stopped falling against most of the major currencies, I have been checking the international dividend achievers list for bargains. I came up with the following dividend stocks list, using the followoing screen criteria:

Marty Whitman shares his value investing insights in this latest letter. This master of distressed investing is taking advantage of the situations in the financial and bond insurer sectors.

Bill Allen likes Toyota's decision to face its recent quality concern issues head on. He believes Toyota (TM) is one of the world's best companies and "should be considered a core holding in any portfolio".