Barron’s 400 - Stock Picks

This week’s Barron’s offered insight on how they find a lot of their stock picks. You don’t have to be a subscriber to see the contents of the page which I recommend you visit. Just because a stock is listed here doesn’t guarantee it’ll go up, but at least they’ve done a lot of the leg work for you in narrowing down which stocks to further research.

As I use the print edition for new investment ideas each week, I’ll use this page to give me more ideas mid-week when I have time to do my digging.

I copied the below picks from their page to give you a hint of what they offer. You can also see the full view of all of the 400 companies on the list along with charts of how the Barron’s 400 has compared to the major indexes.

Largest companies in the Barron’s 400*

Ticker	Grade	Name
XOM	63.57	EXXON MOBIL CORP
MSFT	78.18	MICROSOFT CORP
CSCO	71.23	CISCO SYSTEMS INC
CVX	70.76	CHEVRON CORP
WMT	69.32	WAL-MART STORES INC

*By market capitalization. As of September 4, 2007

Smallest companies in the Barron’s 400*

Ticker	Grade	Name
USAP	77.09	UNVL STAINLESS & ALLOY PRODS
EGY	64.27	VAALCO ENERGY INC
ANEN	63.00	ANAREN INC
CPE	49.49	CALLON PETROLEUM CO/DE
CPSI	53.73	COMPUTER PROGRAMS & SYSTEMS

*By market capitalization. As of September 4, 2007
Highest grades in the Barron’s 400

Ticker	Grade	Name
NE	87.86	NOBLE CORP.
GLF	86.17	GULFMARK OFFSHORE INC.
VPHM	85.80	VIROPHARMA INC.
HP	85.75	HELMERICH & PAYNE INC.
WDC	84.67	WESTERN DIGITAL CORP.

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1 Comment

Comment by Kadena

thanks for barron’s tips, and for the Q chart. it sounded reasonable, but it’ cool how you can capture the chart and input it into the blog for us. down moves are very tough to see, but likely very lucrative, of course i prefer the steady upward trend, it is so much easier for investing i suppose
my dad closed 3 option plays, 2 over 30% and one a loser making the total about 24% on 1,000 dollars in play in a matter of days, maybe one week or so, i’ll pass on if he can keep it up

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