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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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