Despite the market's recent resuscitation, many stocks are still trading at fire-sale prices-no surprise given the immense decline that preceded the advance. But which stocks should you buy?
Between July and now, Standard & Poor's 500-stock index surged 34%. Beaten-down "value" stocks and stocks of smaller companies have been the best performers during the recovery.
Top Stocks To Buy For January 2012: Wells Fargo & Company (WFC)
Wells Fargo & Company, through its subsidiaries, provides retail, commercial, and corporate banking services primarily in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Community Banking; Wholesale Banking; and Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement.
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We compiled a list of 24 large scale companies with tremendous market capitalization that also pay fat dividend checks regularly. All companies in this list have a market capitalization above $10 billion and dividend yield of at least 5% . These 24 stocks returned 14.2% (including dividends) during the past 12 months beating government bonds by a large margin.
Best Dividend Stocks 2012: F.N.B. Corporation (FNB)
F.N.B. Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses. The company operates in four segments: Community Banking, Wealth Management, Insurance, and Consumer Finance.
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When I launched The Dividend Machine newsletter, I talked about chasing speculative stocks for gains versus building a boring yet predictable “Dividend Machine” that gives you consistent paybacks in the form of dividends over time. What I said then still resonates as we enter 2012.
My financial system, built over 20 years of market study, provides steady and consistent growth. For instance, during the supposed “lost decade” of 2000-2010 in which the Dow shot wildly up and down, just to land in about the same spot where it began, my personal portfolio was at 19 percent, compounding annually.
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The highlighted stocks demonstrate solid growth at a reasonable price (GARP) that look attractive in four key metrics, with an emphasis on proxies for cash flow growth and ROIC expansion:
• Relative Value
• Operating Momentum
• Analyst Revision Momentum
• Fundamental Quality
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Taking this approach, I selected four stocks that qualify as "swing-for-the-fences" investments. They carry risk, but could also help power up your portfolio, despite the broader market's travails.
Here they are…
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Last week, I told you that Canada’s unloved banking stocks appeared to be forming a bottom. Well, let’s forget about saying “appeared.” It’s now confirmed.
Thanks to a late-week rally, all but two of Canada’s largest banks are now trading above their respective 50-day moving averages.
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Part of the federal government’s plan to stimulate home sales has been to bring mortgage rates down. It is not working.
The Mortgage Bankers Association reports that 30-year fixed mortgage rates are still dropping and hit 5.19% last week, so the effort to get interest rates lower has been successful, but that is where it ends.
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In the Philippine Stock Market, Prince Anthony Yeung of AB Capital Securities advises investors who want to start buying good stocks for short-term and long-term investment to look at these stocks:
Hot Growth Stocks 2012: Braskem S.A. (BAK)
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Energy sector expert Elliott Gue turns to Weatherford International (NYSE: WFT) as his top pick for the coming year. In his The Energy Strategist, he explains, "As with most oil services firms, Weatherford's North American business has been hit hard and the stock now trades at a deeply discounted valuation.
"Weatherford is perhaps best known as an expert provider of services related to mature oilfields. Traditionally, Weatherford has had a strong presence in North America, which has been a proving ground for all sorts of technologies that squeeze oil from older fields.
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Much has been written by not only myself, but a slew of very good authors here, with extremely valuable insight and opinions.
This is what makes Seeking Alpha so compelling and important to so many. Diversity of opinions, suggestions, ideas, as well as a wealth of knowledge to learn from.
This article will focus on actions that can be taken right now, using a hypothetical married couple (which I have used before), a hypothetical amount of available funds for investing, and a "basket" of stocks that are moderate in risk, and might be appropriate for a well balanced core portfolio for retirees, or those on the verge of retiring.
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