The Only 2 Stocks With a Higher Credit Rating Than the U.S. Government

As recently as 30 years ago, investors could buy into more than five dozen publicly traded companies that bore the most coveted of all credit ratings, AAA. According to ratings agency Standard & Poor's, the AAA rating signifies that an "obligator's capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation is extremely strong."

In determining credit ratings, agencies such as S&P take a number of factors into consideration: 

In other words, if you bought into a business that had a AAA rating in the early 1990s, you were perceived to be buying into a company that was viewed as rock-solid.

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