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The 2 US Companies With a Better Credit Rating Than Uncle Sam Belong in Every Retirement Portfolio

Yahoo Finance · May 13, 2026, 12:15 PM

Key takeaways

  • That rating tells income-focused investors that these two businesses are structured to survive credit cycles, recessions, and rate shocks while continuing to fund dividends and buybacks.
  • The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 stocks and Johnson & Johnson wasn t one of them.
  • S&P Global rates only two U.S. public companies AAA, one notch above the federal government itself.

The 2 US Companies With a Better Credit Rating Than Uncle Sam Belong in Every Retirement Portfolio Trey Thoelcke Wed, May 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM GMT+7 4 min read JNJ MSFT NVDA Quick Read S&P Global rates Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Microsoft (MSFT) at AAA, one notch above the federal government itself.

That rating tells income-focused investors that these two businesses are structured to survive credit cycles, recessions, and rate shocks while continuing to fund dividends and buybacks.

The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 stocks and Johnson & Johnson wasn t one of them. Get them here FREE.

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