Looking for the best buys on the market right now? We may have the investing answer you’ve been waiting for.All stock prices are driven by profit projections, and a handful of American companies just posted impressive 2010 profits. Firms with a clear vision of how to increase value for shareholders could be a terrific buy right now. But companies without a good game plan will likely see their stock prices fall as they fritter away their earnings.
The hardest part? Learning to separate the former from the latter. Here’s a list of the most profitable companies in America, along with our prediction of which direction the stock is heading.
The Most Profitable Companies To Invest In NO.17: Citigroup (NYSE: C) – $10.6 Billion
For many years, Citigroup (NYSE: C) was the most profitable banking firm in the United States. But a series of foolish moves allowed JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) to surpass them.
To get back to the head of the pack, Citigroup is repositioning itself as a key player in fast-growing emerging economies. Indeed, Citigroup now derives more than half its revenue from abroad.
Although the bank’s turnaround is not yet complete, the story should become a lot cleaner with each passing quarter, and eventually, investors should embrace the bank as a way to hedge against a falling dollar and as a way to have greater exposure to more dynamic economies elsewhere.
The Most Profitable Companies To Invest In NO.16: ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) – $11.4 Billion
Despite low profit margins, ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has strengths in many areas: solid stock price performance, attractive valuation levels, robust revenue growth and compelling net income growth.
And if you think oil will continue to be expensive in the future, ConocoPhilips could be the ultimate value stock. The current dividend yield is 3.4% and management has a reputation for allocating capital to shareholders in the form of dividend increases and share buybacks — all good news for investors.
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The Most Profitable Companies To Invest In NO.15: Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) – $11.5 Billion
If you own a smartphone, you are an indirect customer of Intel (Nasdaq: INTC). Though they don’t manufacture or sell any smartphone components, Intel makes processors that help data center servers keep up with the demand, and the smartphone boom has been nothing but good for the company.
In addition to its profit-generating ability, Intel also has huge cash hoards. Using its cash to acquire fast-growing firms can be an effective way to boost its own growth, so look for Intel to get in on the market’s M&A activity in the coming months.
Photo courtesy of Flickr- Josh Bancroft.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.14: General Electric (NYSE: GE) – $11.6 Billion
It’s 2010 profit results are all well and good, but the historical numbers show that General Electric (NYSE: GE) has lost its way and needs a turnaround to return to the growth heyday it experienced while under the fearless leadership of Jack Welch.
GE Capital, GE’s massive finance arm, was a major profit driver under Welch, but it nearly ruined the company during the financial crisis. Back in 2007, GE Capital accounted for 55% of net income. That share fell to 13% in 2009.
Current CEO Jeffrey Immelt has a goal to limit GE Capital to no more than 40% of profits going forward, though it only recovered to 28% of profits in 2010, so it has some way to reach that level. GE will inevitably turn around its operations at some point, but there is no need for investors to wait for the company to find its way.
Photo courtesy of Flickr- Matt Millard.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.13: Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) – $11.8 Billion
The world’s biggest soft drink maker, Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), recently posted strong first quarter results, with a comparable net income of $6.4 million. With a powerful global distribution network, Coca-Cola products are currently sold in more than 200 countries and boast 500 different beverage brands. In the coming years, more than $20 billion will be spent to expand into emerging markets like Africa, Russia, Mexico and China.
Helping drive growth is the recent acquisition of Coca-Cola Enterprises, the company’s largest bottling unit in North America. It will now be cheaper for the company to produce and bottle smaller scale products — like the 100-calorie Coke can — to cater to calorie-conscious consumers.
Through the acquisition, Coke expects to improve business operations by better controlling product distribution so it can more quickly respond to changing market demand. As a result, Coke expects to save more than $350 million a year for the next four years. These savings should mean good news for shareholders.
Photo courtesy of Flickr: Kyle May.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.12: Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) – $12.4 Billion
One thing has been clear about Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC): the San Francisco-based bank seems to have adroitly sidestepped a great deal of the potholes besetting the banking sector the past few years. It hasn’t been immune to the powerful forces of a down economy, but at least its management hasn’t been pilloried by the press (like Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS)), and it didn’t make life-threatening bad investments that led to government handouts (like Citigroup).
Restrictions put in place when the TARP program was in effect have limited the annual dividend, but banking analysts think the payout ratio will eventually rebound to 30%, implying a $1.08 dividend based on 2012 profit forecasts. As the economy improves, the dividend could move even higher, creating the impetus for a dividend yield above 4% when measured against today’s stock price.
And it certainly doesn’t hurt to have Warren Buffett as your co-investor. Buffett’s continued bullishness on the bank should be heartening to even the most bank-ophobic investors.
Photo courtesy of Flickr — Neubie.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.11: Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) – $12.7 Billion
After selling Pringles, Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) is officially out of the foods game. They are currently taking active steps to distance themselves from competition by expanding their health care brands into overseas markets, mainly in China and India.
P&G is also taking advantage of the rise in e-commerce popularity, recently entering the e-commerce market with an e-store. This new strategy has seen significant penetration in North America and Asia, where they are able to extend their reach into under-served, emerging markets.
Photo courtesy of Flickr – Brandon C.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.10: Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK) – $13.0 Billion
Warren Buffett has relayed numerous times that future growth rates at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) will fall below historical growth trends, but he still thinks there is potential for investors to earn above-average returns by investing in the stock. Just take the past two years as an example — book value grew 19.8% in 2009 and 13% in 2010.
This suggests Berkshire is still able to compound wealth at a double-digit rate going forward. And regardless of growth rates, the company is so well-managed that it’s difficult to imagine it even being unable to generate large profits for shareholders.
Last year, Berkshire hired money manager Todd Combs to help reshape the company’s $63.2 billion equity portfolio. Combs didn’t wait long to make his first big move, as Berkshire recently reported a stake in MasterCard, Inc. (NYSE: MA), valued at $54.4 million.
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The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.9: Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) – $13.3 Billion
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has increased its dividends for the past 48 straight years, at an average rate of about 13.4% per year since 2000. If you purchased 200 shares of JNJ in 1980 (an investment of $14,600) and never added new money but just reinvested all the dividends, the position would be worth $1.15 million today. That’s a 7,868% return.
In other words, it’s like buying a house in 1980 for $146,000 that today is worth about $11.5 million. Home values didn’t appreciate anywhere near that much. That’s the power of growing dividends.
Photo courtesy of Flickr – aldinegirl87.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.8: Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) – $14.0 Billion
There is only one large U.S. corporation that can truly be called a growth stock: Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL). The company’s performance was impressive enough that net income rose from $8.2 billion in 2009 to $14 billion in 2010.
What’s more impressive is the road ahead. Merrill Lynch predicts Apple will earn $34 billion by 2013, putting it at a close second behind ExxonMobil for the claim of America’s most profitable company.
Photo courtesy of Flickr — Bacr Aptemob.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.7: Int’l Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) – $14.8 Billion
Int’l Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), affectionately referred to as Big Blue, is a titan in the technology industry. The company generated almost $100 billion in revenue last year and is about as diversified a technology company as can be found, spanning software, services, hardware and financing.
IBM’s presense abroad makes it fantastic play in a weak dollar environment — just over one-third of sales stem from the United States, with the rest being generated in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world.
Photo courtesy of Flickr — Patrick H~.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.6: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) – $16.4 Billion
Despite falling same-store sales in the U.S. for two consecutive years, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) posted a profit in both 2010 and Q1 of 2011. Their average U.S. shopper spent more per visit in Q1 of 2011, and their U.S. same-store sales of groceries and health and wellness items has increased for two consecutive quarters.
Wal-Mart’s domestic foot traffic is down, but international sales are soaring. Their profits have come largely from an 11.5% increase in international sales, offsetting the impact of the domestic slump with strong gains in all countries except Japan.
Wal-Mart is a well-run company that has historically provided long-term value to its stockholders, so don’t be discouraged by the domestic sales slump, they are still turning profits.
Photo courtesy of Flickr — Walmart Stores.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.5: JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) – $17.4 Billion
The entire banking sector is still wheezing back to life, so the next few years could represent a return to traditional banking profit margins. Notably, analysts’ forecasts anticipate subdued lending activity in 2011 and 2012 and, more than likely, bank profits will be meaningfully higher again in 2013 and beyond, granted the economy is truly healthy (and the housing market gets out of the sickbed).
Therefore, the opportunity to buy shares of banks like JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) while they trade for less than 10 times 2012 profits looks quite appealing. Trouble is, some investors are convinced that we haven’t seen the end of the mortgage crisis. So buying these bank stocks today certainly carries some short-term risk that more funds will need to be set aside to cover future liabilities.
Photo courtesy of David R. Tribble.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.4: Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) – $18.8 Billion
There are some who believe that Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) best years are behind it and the company is riding into the sunset. While Microsoft is no longer synonomous with tech’s tomorrow (see Google, Facebook and Apple), there is no denying that company is still a cash cow.
Microsoft just announced its acquisition of Skype in a deal valued at $8.5 billion. Microsoft plans on intregrating its technology with the XBox console, Kinect device and its Windows Phone platform. This may be the deal that yields the strategic benefits Microsoft needs to stop following the leaders in the industry, and start leading again.
Photo courtesy of Flickr — Robert Scoble.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.3: Chevron (NYSE: CVX) – $19.0 Billion
Chevron (NYSE: CVK) is a top-five oil firm, given its vast reserves of oil and natural gas. Growth during the past decade has been stellar, as sales have improved 15.5% and earnings by 17.5% on average each year in the past decade. Growth is projected to continue apace, with the earnings consensus for this year at $12.12 a share, or nearly 30% above last year’s levels.
At the current price, Chevron offers the solid combination of a low earnings multiple, a decent dividend yield of 2.7% and strong projected growth. And nearly 60% of last year’s stales stemmed from overseas, giving the company exposure to faster-growing regions outside of the United States.
Photo courtesy of Flickr — Jonathan McIntosh.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.2: AT&T (NYSE: T) – $19.9 Billion
AT&T (NYSE: T) posted a $19.9 billion 2010 net income, and $1 billion of that money is being invested in the cloud computing business in 2011. This will help AT&T achieve tremendous efficiencies and flexibility in cloud-based environments in order to provide applications for any type of device.
AT&T also just acquired T-Mobile for $39 billion, which helps the company vastly expand its broadband network and possibly position itself as market leader in the U.S. wireless industry.
Photo courtesy of Flickr — Chris Young.
The Most Profitable Companies Invest In NO.1: Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) – $30.5 Billion
There’s no debate over how Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) will use its prodigious profits. The energy giant has spent eight years buying back stock, and there’s no indication that it will stop now. Exxon Mobil has bought back two billion shares since 2002, leading to a 29% reduction in its share count.
Assuming Exxon Mobil will once again focus on stock buybacks, the share count may drop from the current 4.8 billion to just four billion by the middle of 2013. For a company with $30 billion in annual income, the shrinking share count could mean record profits per share.
Best Stocks To Invest in January 2012
My investment strategy seeks out stocks that are cheap relative to their growth rate — referred to as growth at a reasonable price, or GARP. To that end, I seek out stocks that are selling at low price-earnings-to-growth, or PEG, ratios.
The price-to-earnings, or P/E, ratio is a measure of risk. It calculates the multiple of earnings an investor is willing to pay. The higher the multiple, the greater the stock price will react to changes in earnings per share. A stock sporting a lower multiple is considered safer because of the lesser impact that earnings has upon stock price. Lower-P/E stocks tend to compensate investors by paying dividends.
Best Stocks To Buy For 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. The Community Banking segment offers various commercial banking services, including commercial and individual demand, savings, and time deposit accounts; and commercial, mortgage, and individual installment loans. The Wealth Management segment provides a range of personal and corporate fiduciary services, such as the administration of decedent and trust estates. It also offers various alternative products, including securities brokerage and investment advisory services, mutual funds, and annuities. The Insurance segment operates as a full-service insurance agency that offers commercial and personal insurance through various carriers; acts as a reinsurer to underwrite credit life, and accident and health insurance; and offers title insurance products. The Consumer Finance segment involves in making personal installment loans to individuals; and purchasing installment sales finance contracts from retail merchants. As of December 31, 2009, it had 224 community banking offices in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and 57 consumer finance offices in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Tennessee. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Hermitage, Pennsylvania.
Best Stocks To Buy For 2012: STEC Inc. (STEC)
STEC, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets enterprise-class flash solid-state drives (SSDs) for use in high-performance storage and server systems. Its solid-state drive products include ZeusIOPS SSDs, which provide enterprise-class data storage solutions; and MACH-class SSDs that are small form factor storage solutions for mission-critical systems in various industries. The company?s flash cards and flash module products comprise ATA PC Cards for equipment requiring standard form factors and moderate capacities, such as data recorders, avionics systems, and telecommunication applications; CompactFlash products, which provide interoperability with systems based on the PC Card ATA standard by using a passive adapter; flash modules; secure digital memory cards; USB flash drives; and single chip drives. It also offers dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products, which include dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs), small-outline DIMMs, mini-registered DIMMs, very low profile registered DIMMs, and fully-buffered DIMMs for computing, communications, and industrial applications. In addition, the company provides integrated circuit tower stacked components for thin small outline package and ball grid array semiconductor packages for use on memory modules and within high capacity flash products; DRAM modules with stacked components for use primarily in high-performance servers, workstations, switches and routers, and other custom systems; and flash products with stacked components. It sells its products through direct sales force and original equipment manufacturer distributors in the United States and internationally. STEC, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, California.
Advisors’ Opinion:
* Curtis2011-8-26Stec is the only provider qualified and shipping product in the Enterprise Storage Market for Fibre Channel and SAS interface drives. While competition appears inevitable in the market in the future, the brokerage believes the company has a strong technological and qualification lead at the OEMs, which should enable it to maintain market share leadership in the future.”Given our expectation that the Enterprise Storage SSD market is likely to be significantly up in 2011 over 2010, and STEC appears likely to maintain an edge over competition in terms of technology and, hence, market share, we believe STEC shares at current levels do not capture the potential upside in terms of market potential or competitive positioning,” the analysts said.
Best Stocks To Buy For 2012: Imergent Inc. (IIG)
Advisors’ Opinion:
* Zacks2011-10-24iMergent, Inc. (IIG) said it made progress on all fronts and delivered a solid fiscal first quarter performance in early November. The company, which provides eCommerce and software for small businesses and entrepreneurs, stated that strong domestic sales and a reinvigorated international program spawned fiscal first-quarter revenue of $29 million, compared to $11.4 million a year earlier. Furthermore, net income reached 18 cents per share, reversing a year-ago loss. Net dollar volume of contracts written was $32.4 million, compared to $17 million. Shares of iMergent jumped 38% during November and reached a new 52-week high on the 16th of the month.iMergent increased its guidance for full year 2007 due to strong demand and response to its marketing. Net dollar volume of contracts written is expected to grow between 25% and 30% from fiscal 2006.
Best Stocks To Buy For 2012: Modine Manufacturing Company (MOD)
Modine Manufacturing Company engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of heat exchangers and systems for use in on-highway and off-highway original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vehicular applications, and to various building, industrial, refrigeration, and fuel cell markets. It offers power train cooling products, including engine cooling modules, radiators, charge-air-coolers, condensers, fan shrouds, and surge tanks; on-engine cooling products comprising exhaust gas recirculation coolers, engine oil coolers, fuel coolers, charge-air-coolers, and intake air coolers; oil coolers consisting of transmission oil coolers and power steering coolers; and fuel coolers. The company also provides gas-fired, hydronic, electric, and oil-fired unit heaters; indoor and outdoor duct furnaces; infrared units; hydronic products, including commercial fin-tube radiation, cabinet unit heaters, and convectors; roof mounted direct and indirect fired makeup air units; unit ventilators; close control units for precise temperature and humidity control applications; chillers; ceiling cassettes; and condensing units and coils for heating, refrigeration, air conditioning, and vehicular applications. Its customers include truck, automobile, bus, specialty vehicle, agricultural and construction, and heating and cooling OEMs; construction contractors; wholesalers of plumbing and heating equipment; fuel cell manufacturers; engine manufacturers; industrial manufacturers of material handling equipment, generator sets, and compressors; and various end users. The company offers its products primarily in North America, Europe, South America, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific. Modine Manufacturing Company also exports its products. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin.
The price-to-earnings, or P/E, ratio is a measure of risk. It calculates the multiple of earnings an investor is willing to pay. The higher the multiple, the greater the stock price will react to changes in earnings per share. A stock sporting a lower multiple is considered safer because of the lesser impact that earnings has upon stock price. Lower-P/E stocks tend to compensate investors by paying dividends.
Best Stocks To Buy For 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. The Community Banking segment offers various commercial banking services, including commercial and individual demand, savings, and time deposit accounts; and commercial, mortgage, and individual installment loans. The Wealth Management segment provides a range of personal and corporate fiduciary services, such as the administration of decedent and trust estates. It also offers various alternative products, including securities brokerage and investment advisory services, mutual funds, and annuities. The Insurance segment operates as a full-service insurance agency that offers commercial and personal insurance through various carriers; acts as a reinsurer to underwrite credit life, and accident and health insurance; and offers title insurance products. The Consumer Finance segment involves in making personal installment loans to individuals; and purchasing installment sales finance contracts from retail merchants. As of December 31, 2009, it had 224 community banking offices in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and 57 consumer finance offices in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Tennessee. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Hermitage, Pennsylvania.
Best Stocks To Buy For 2012: STEC Inc. (STEC)
STEC, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets enterprise-class flash solid-state drives (SSDs) for use in high-performance storage and server systems. Its solid-state drive products include ZeusIOPS SSDs, which provide enterprise-class data storage solutions; and MACH-class SSDs that are small form factor storage solutions for mission-critical systems in various industries. The company?s flash cards and flash module products comprise ATA PC Cards for equipment requiring standard form factors and moderate capacities, such as data recorders, avionics systems, and telecommunication applications; CompactFlash products, which provide interoperability with systems based on the PC Card ATA standard by using a passive adapter; flash modules; secure digital memory cards; USB flash drives; and single chip drives. It also offers dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products, which include dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs), small-outline DIMMs, mini-registered DIMMs, very low profile registered DIMMs, and fully-buffered DIMMs for computing, communications, and industrial applications. In addition, the company provides integrated circuit tower stacked components for thin small outline package and ball grid array semiconductor packages for use on memory modules and within high capacity flash products; DRAM modules with stacked components for use primarily in high-performance servers, workstations, switches and routers, and other custom systems; and flash products with stacked components. It sells its products through direct sales force and original equipment manufacturer distributors in the United States and internationally. STEC, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, California.
Advisors’ Opinion:
* Curtis2011-8-26Stec is the only provider qualified and shipping product in the Enterprise Storage Market for Fibre Channel and SAS interface drives. While competition appears inevitable in the market in the future, the brokerage believes the company has a strong technological and qualification lead at the OEMs, which should enable it to maintain market share leadership in the future.”Given our expectation that the Enterprise Storage SSD market is likely to be significantly up in 2011 over 2010, and STEC appears likely to maintain an edge over competition in terms of technology and, hence, market share, we believe STEC shares at current levels do not capture the potential upside in terms of market potential or competitive positioning,” the analysts said.
Best Stocks To Buy For 2012: Imergent Inc. (IIG)
Advisors’ Opinion:
* Zacks2011-10-24iMergent, Inc. (IIG) said it made progress on all fronts and delivered a solid fiscal first quarter performance in early November. The company, which provides eCommerce and software for small businesses and entrepreneurs, stated that strong domestic sales and a reinvigorated international program spawned fiscal first-quarter revenue of $29 million, compared to $11.4 million a year earlier. Furthermore, net income reached 18 cents per share, reversing a year-ago loss. Net dollar volume of contracts written was $32.4 million, compared to $17 million. Shares of iMergent jumped 38% during November and reached a new 52-week high on the 16th of the month.iMergent increased its guidance for full year 2007 due to strong demand and response to its marketing. Net dollar volume of contracts written is expected to grow between 25% and 30% from fiscal 2006.
Best Stocks To Buy For 2012: Modine Manufacturing Company (MOD)
Modine Manufacturing Company engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of heat exchangers and systems for use in on-highway and off-highway original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vehicular applications, and to various building, industrial, refrigeration, and fuel cell markets. It offers power train cooling products, including engine cooling modules, radiators, charge-air-coolers, condensers, fan shrouds, and surge tanks; on-engine cooling products comprising exhaust gas recirculation coolers, engine oil coolers, fuel coolers, charge-air-coolers, and intake air coolers; oil coolers consisting of transmission oil coolers and power steering coolers; and fuel coolers. The company also provides gas-fired, hydronic, electric, and oil-fired unit heaters; indoor and outdoor duct furnaces; infrared units; hydronic products, including commercial fin-tube radiation, cabinet unit heaters, and convectors; roof mounted direct and indirect fired makeup air units; unit ventilators; close control units for precise temperature and humidity control applications; chillers; ceiling cassettes; and condensing units and coils for heating, refrigeration, air conditioning, and vehicular applications. Its customers include truck, automobile, bus, specialty vehicle, agricultural and construction, and heating and cooling OEMs; construction contractors; wholesalers of plumbing and heating equipment; fuel cell manufacturers; engine manufacturers; industrial manufacturers of material handling equipment, generator sets, and compressors; and various end users. The company offers its products primarily in North America, Europe, South America, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific. Modine Manufacturing Company also exports its products. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin.
7 Metal and Mining Stocks to Sell in 2012
7 Metal and Mining Stocks to Sell in 2012
Precious metals are in focus as uncertainty reigns in the market, but don’t think it means that all metal and mining stocks are a good investment. Many of these companies also deal with base metals like aluminum and copper — commodities in scarce demand as the global manufacturing sector continues to see headwinds.
I watch more than 5,000 publicly traded companies with my Portfolio Grader tool, ranking companies by a number of fundamental and quantitative measures. This week, I’ve got seven metal and mining stocks to sell.
Here they are, in alphabetical order. Each one of these stocks gets a “D” or “F” according to my research, meaning it is a “sell” or “strong sell.”
Agnico-Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) is a Canadian-based international gold producer. AEM stock has had a rough year, down 44% since the start of 2011.
Aluminum Corp. of China (NYSE:ACH) produces alumina, primary aluminum and aluminum fabrication in the People’s Republic. Like other metal and mining stocks, ACH has dropped big — 50% year-to-date.
ArcelorMittal (NYSE:MT) is a global steel producer that shipped approximately 85 million tons of steel in 2010. MT stock has been one of the biggest losers, down 60% year-to-date.
HudBay Minerals Inc. (NYSE:HBM) owns copper, zinc and gold mines, ore concentrators and zinc production facilities all across North America. A 50% loss year-to-date for HBM stock has shareholders questioning their initial investment.
Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (NYSE:FCX) is a mining company that works with copper, gold and other metals. Since the start of 2011, FCX stock has dipped 42%.
United States Steel (NYSE:X) is a producer of integrated steel products headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa. Year-to-date, its stock has dropped 60% compared to a loss of just 1% for the Dow Jones.
Vale (NYSE:VALE) works with nickel, iron ore and iron ore pellets, manganese ore, ferroalloys, aluminum, fertilizers, copper and coal. VALE stock is down 34% year-to-date, compared to much smaller losses by the broader markets.
Get more analysis of these picks and other publicly traded stocks with Louis Navellier’s Portfolio Grader tool, a 100% free stock-rating tool that measures both quantitative buying pressure and eight fundamental factors.
Precious metals are in focus as uncertainty reigns in the market, but don’t think it means that all metal and mining stocks are a good investment. Many of these companies also deal with base metals like aluminum and copper — commodities in scarce demand as the global manufacturing sector continues to see headwinds.
I watch more than 5,000 publicly traded companies with my Portfolio Grader tool, ranking companies by a number of fundamental and quantitative measures. This week, I’ve got seven metal and mining stocks to sell.
Here they are, in alphabetical order. Each one of these stocks gets a “D” or “F” according to my research, meaning it is a “sell” or “strong sell.”
Agnico-Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) is a Canadian-based international gold producer. AEM stock has had a rough year, down 44% since the start of 2011.
Aluminum Corp. of China (NYSE:ACH) produces alumina, primary aluminum and aluminum fabrication in the People’s Republic. Like other metal and mining stocks, ACH has dropped big — 50% year-to-date.
ArcelorMittal (NYSE:MT) is a global steel producer that shipped approximately 85 million tons of steel in 2010. MT stock has been one of the biggest losers, down 60% year-to-date.
HudBay Minerals Inc. (NYSE:HBM) owns copper, zinc and gold mines, ore concentrators and zinc production facilities all across North America. A 50% loss year-to-date for HBM stock has shareholders questioning their initial investment.
Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (NYSE:FCX) is a mining company that works with copper, gold and other metals. Since the start of 2011, FCX stock has dipped 42%.
United States Steel (NYSE:X) is a producer of integrated steel products headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa. Year-to-date, its stock has dropped 60% compared to a loss of just 1% for the Dow Jones.
Vale (NYSE:VALE) works with nickel, iron ore and iron ore pellets, manganese ore, ferroalloys, aluminum, fertilizers, copper and coal. VALE stock is down 34% year-to-date, compared to much smaller losses by the broader markets.
Get more analysis of these picks and other publicly traded stocks with Louis Navellier’s Portfolio Grader tool, a 100% free stock-rating tool that measures both quantitative buying pressure and eight fundamental factors.
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