The article suggests investors nervous about a possible stock market pullback could consider low-beta stocks, which tend to move less than the S&P 500. It highlights three defensive picks: Waste Management (NYSE: WM), with a beta of 0.43, a 1.8% dividend yield and second-quarter revenue of $6.7 billion; PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP), with a beta of 0.36, a 4.7% yield and a forward P/E of 14 versus a five-year average of 20; and Realty Income (NYSE: O), with a beta of 0.70, a 6% yield and 98.8% occupancy. The S&P 500 posted double-digit gains in six of the past seven full years and was recently up 15% year to date. The article presents these stocks as reasonably valued with growing dividends, though they are not the fastest growers.
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