SLIDESHOW: 8 Stocks to Benefit From a Repatriation Deal In Congress
Later on Tuesday, President Barack Obama is set to give a speech in Chattanooga, Tennessee where he will outline a "Grand Bargain" plan to hopefully bring together democrats and republicans in a deficit fighting piece of legislation.
As part of this plan, the President is reported to propose cutting the corporate tax rate to 28 percent (from 35 percent) and cutting the rate for domestic manufacturing companies to 25 percent, according to Reuters. The move is aimed at creating jobs domestically and bringing back money from overseas tax havens.
Also as part of the deal, Obama is rumored to propose a one-time deal to allow companies to bring back oversea cash piles cheaply, avoiding repatriation taxes. Eight stocks look set to benefit from this deal.
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1. General Electric
General Electric (NYSE: GE) should benefit from a tax deal.
At the end of 2012, GE had $108 billion held offshore and lower taxes would allow them to bring this money back more cheaply and reinvest it domestically.
GE shares rose 0.45 percent Tuesday.
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2. Pfizer
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) should also benefit from the news with its $73 billion in offshore cash.
Pfizer shares rose 0.88 percent Tuesday.
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3. Apple
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) should also benefit from a deal.
Apple had 82.6 billion in off shore cash as of the end of 2012 and grew its cash pile the most in 2012 of any company by 28.3 billion.
Apple shares rose 1.22 percent Tuesday.
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4. Microsoft
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should also benefit from a deal.
The company had $60.8 billion in cash held offshore as of the end of last year.
Shares rose 0.66 percent Tuesday.
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5. Merck
Merck (NYSE: MRK) should also benefit as the company had $53.4 billion in cash as of the end of last year.
Shares fell 0.27 percent.
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6. Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) had $49 billion in cash offshore as of the end of the year and saw its offshore cash holdings rise $7.4 billion last year.
Shares rose 0.53 percent Tuesday.
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7. IBM
IBM (NYSE: IBM) had $44.4 billion in offshore cash as of the end of 2012 an saw its cash pile increase $6.5 billion from 2011.
Shares rose 0.37 percent Tuesday.
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8. Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) rounds out the list of eight stocks with its $41.3 billion in offshore cash.
Further, Cisco added $4.6 billion to its offshore cash pile in the last year.
Shares rose 2.5 percent Tuesday.
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