Use these picks to lift your foreign gains

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Each of these Japanese automakers offers investors a good way to expand their foreign exposure given their global customer bases. On top of that, one of the two has handed investors a 22% gain so far this year. Both, however, reward you with above-average dividend yields despite their relatively cheap share prices and strong earnings. TOYOTA MOTOR CO. ADRs, $142, is a buy. The stock (New York symbol TM; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; ADRs outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $198.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.toyota.com) let you tap Japan’s largest carmaker. In the first half of its 2020 fiscal year, ended September 30, 2019, Toyota sold 4.64 million vehicles. Investors should be impressive by that 5.0% rise from a year earlier. Moreover, Toyota sales for all regions rose: Japan (up 10.6%), North America (up 2.5%), Europe (up 6.3%), Asia (except Japan, up 2.2%) and other regions including South America, Australia, Africa and the Middle East (up…