3 Companies You Hate But Investors Love
mashable.com | By Charlie White
There's a disconnect between companies that are popular with consumers and companies that are popular with investors. 
This infographic sets out to show you a microcosm of that phenomenon, picking out three companies that are loathed by many but the favorite of many investors, and three companies that are loved by consumers but might cause investors to be more wary.
Created by GreatBusinessSchools.org, the infographic taps sources such as BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, resulting in a boatload of illustrated data. It shows how well the stocks of those disliked companies have done over the past three years, and explains why they've ended up in this list of questionable corporations.
For instance, Philip Morris might be one of the companies you hate. Why? Because it makes cigarettes, a product that kills people. But even though its product (and that of other cigarette companies) causes 5 million people to smoke themselves to death each year, investors seem undaunted. They're apparently more interested in the fact that Philip Morris stock is up 95% over the past three years, beating the S&P 500 index by a mile (it only climbed 19% in the same period). Read More...