Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Top Stocks To Own 2012

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 2012 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.

Top Stocks To Own 2012:China Recycling Energy Corporation (CREG)

 China Recycling Energy Corporation provides energy saving and recycling products and services in the People's Republic of China. The company engages in the design, sale, installation, lease, and operation of top gas recovery turbine systems (TRT) and other renewable energy products. It also builds cement low temperature heat power generator (CHPG) and waste gas power generator (WGPG) systems. The company, through a joint venture, Inner Mongolia Erdos TCH Energy Saving Development Co., Ltd, with Erdos Metallurgy Co., Ltd., recycles waste heat from Erdos Metallurgy Co.?s metal refining plants to generate power and steam. China Recycling Energy Corporation offers its products and services to enterprises in the iron and steel, cement, coking, and metallurgy industries. The company was formerly known as China Digital Wireless, Inc. and changed its name to China Recycling Energy Corporation in March 2007. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Xi An City, the People?s Republic of China.

Top Stocks To Own 2012:Famous Dave's of America Inc. (DAVE)

 Famous Dave?s of America, Inc. engages in the development, ownership, operation, and franchising of restaurants under the Famous Dave?s name in the United States. The company operates full-service and counter-service restaurants. As of July 12, 2011, it owned 52 locations and franchised 130 additional units in 37 states. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Top Stocks To Own 2012:Intrepid Potash Inc (IPI)

 Intrepid Potash, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and marketing of muriate of potash or potassium chloride, and langbeinite under the Trio brand name primarily in the United States. It also offers by-products, including salt, magnesium chloride, and metal recovery salts. Intrepid serves agricultural, industrial, and feed markets. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Top Stocks To Own 2012:Jacksonville Bancorp Inc. (JXSB)

 Jacksonville Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Jacksonville Savings Bank that provides various banking products and services in Illinois. Its deposit products include interest-bearing and non interest-bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, term certificate accounts, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit. The company?s loan portfolio comprises one-to four-family mortgage loans; commercial and agricultural real estate, and multi-family residential real estate loans; commercial and agricultural business loans; and consumer loans, such as home equity loans and lines of credit, and automobile loans. It operates through its main office, as well as through six branches located in Jacksonville, Virden, Litchfield, Chapin, and Concord, Illinois. The company was founded in 1916 and is based in Jacksonville, Illinois. Jacksonville Bancorp, Inc. is a subsidiary of Jacksonville Bancorp, MHC.

Top Stocks To Own 2012:Exelon Corporation (EXC)

 Exelon Corporation operates as a utility services holding company in the United States. The company primarily engages in the generation of electricity. It generates electricity from nuclear, fossil, hydroelectric, and renewable energy sources. The company also involves in wholesale energy marketing business; and purchasing and retailing electricity and natural gas, as well as in the provision of transmission and distribution services. It serves residential, commercial, industrial, and wholesale customers. As of December 31, 2010, it owned generation resources with an aggregate net capacity of 25,619 megawatts. The company provides electricity to approximately 3.8 million customers in northern Illinois and approximately 1.6 million customers in southeastern Pennsylvania; and natural gas to approximately 490,000 customers in Pennsylvania. Exelon Corporation was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Top Stocks To Own 2012:AT&T Inc. (T)

 AT&T Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunication services to consumers, businesses, and other service providers worldwide. Its Wireless segment offers wireless voice communication services, including local wireless communications service, long-distance service, and roaming services. This segment also sells various handsets, wirelessly enabled computers, and personal computer wireless data cards; and accessories comprising carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, battery chargers and, other items. This segment sells its products through its own stores, or through agents or third party retail stores. The company?s Wireline segment provides voice services, including local and long-distance services, calling card, 1-800 services, conference calling, wholesale switched access service, caller ID, call waiting, and voice mail services; and application management, security service, integration services, customer premises equipment, outsourcing, government-related services, and satellite video services. This segment also offers data services, such as switched and dedicated transport, Internet access and network integration, data equipment, and U-verse services; high-speed connections comprising private lines, packet, dedicated Internet, and enterprise networking services, as well as DSL/broadband, dial-up Internet access, and WiFi products; businesses voice applications over IP-based networks; and local, interstate, and international wholesale networking capacity to other service providers. In addition, its Advertising solutions segment publishes yellow and white pages directories; and sells directory advertising and Internet-based advertising and local search. The company was formerly known as SBC Communications Inc. and changed its name to AT&T Inc. in November 2005 as a result of merger with AT&T Corp. AT&T Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

  • By JON C. OGG At 2011-12-6

    AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T) closed at $28.93 and the analyst consensus price target is $32.78.  It carries a 5.9% dividend yield and the stock is down 9.4% from its 52-week high. The price to book value is 1.5 and its return on equity is 18%.  S&P gives a “A-” local long-term credit ranking.  Our only caveat on AT&T is the pending T-Mobile deal, which could result in a multi-billion charge if the buyout fails to win approval.  The yield is amazing here and it did not have the iPhone defections at a rate that many expected.

  • By Putnam At 2011-10-6

    AT&T is headquartered in Texas, USA and is the world's largest communications holding company by revenue. AT&T has America's fastest 4G network & 17.8 million broadband connections. In its 2010 annual report, the company reports it paid $9.9 billion in dividends to stockholders. The company also increased its dividend for the 27th consecutive year from 42 cents/share to 43 cents / share. AT&T also has 24,000 Wi-Fi hotspots nationwide, the most of any U.S. provider. The company currently has a market capitalization of $170 billion and sports a 5.96% dividend yield. The company has 96 million wireless subscribers across the United States, the largest of any telecom company. AT&T offers voice coverage in more than 220 countries, data roaming in more than 200 countries and mobile broadband in more than 130 countries.

  • By Chuck At 2011-10-6

    AT&T is a provider of telecommunications services in the United States and worldwide. Cramer holds 500 shares of T stocks. T has a dividend yield of 5.94% and returned 1.76% since the beginning of this year. It has a market cap of 1.22B and a P/E ratio of 8.80. Phill Gross and Robert Atchinson hold the largest T position.

  • By Toby At 2011-9-10

    A major provider of telecommunications services to consumers and businesses in the United States and internationally, this household name fell from a high of almost $43 in 2007 to under $21 at the bear-market low.?This blue chip took almost two years to consolidate following its fall, but in July it broke from resistance at $26.50 beginning a series of bullish stairsteps that recently took AT&T (NYSE:T) to just under $32.

    The stock shows a solid and regular pattern of steady buying, has positive momentum, and if it can break from its recent descending triangle could, within six months, easily challenge its old high at $43.?S&P has AT&T rated as a “Strong Buy 5-Stars,” its highest rating.?The annual dividend is $1.72 providing a yield of 5.59%.

  • By Jim Cramer At 2011-9-7

    This one has had a huge move already and will be losing exclusive selling rights for the iPhone to Verizon (VZ). That's going to freeze the market and cause the company's growth rate to slip a tad, maybe to below 6%. If that happens the $2.50 estimates might come down, but just a few pennies. I worry more though that it will finally break its linkage with Verizon and get a tad less of a multiple. It will be bailed out by its bountiful yield but I don't see the company trading above $32 given the rate of rate of change upward and a small dividend boost. Still worth owning for the combined return however.

Top Stocks To Own 2012:Cost Plus Inc. (CPWM)

 Cost Plus, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of casual home furnishings and entertaining products in the United States. It offers home decorating items that include furniture, rugs, pillows, bath linens, lamps, window coverings, frames, and baskets; and furniture products, which comprise ready-to-assemble living and dining room pieces, handcrafted case goods, occasional pieces, and outdoor furniture made from various materials, such as rattan, hardwood, and metal. The company also provides tabletop and kitchen items, including glassware, ceramics, textiles, and cooking utensils; gift and decorative accessories comprising collectibles, candles, framed art, and holiday and other seasonal items; and jewelry, fashion accessories, and personal care items. In addition, it offers gourmet foods and beverages, including wine, microbrewed and imported beer, coffee, tea, and bottled water. The company operates stores under the names of World Market, Cost Plus World Market, Cost Plus Imports, and World Market Stores. Cost Plus, Inc. also sells its products through its Web site, worldmarket.com. As of May 19, 2011, it operated 259 stores in 30 states. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

  • By Keith At 2011-9-11

    Cost Plus, Inc. is a specialty retailer of casual home furnishings and entertaining products in the United States. Its EPS forecast for the current year is 0.55 and next year is 0.93. According to consensus estimates, its topline is expected to grow 4.23% current year and grow 3.54% next year. It is trading at a forward P/E of 10.94. One analyst covers the company and has a buy recommendation.

Top Stocks To Own 2012:Silver Wheaton Corp (SLW)

 Silver Wheaton Corp., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a silver streaming company worldwide. The company has 14 long-term silver purchase agreements and 2 long-term precious metal purchase agreements whereby it acquires silver and gold production from the counterparties located in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Greece, Sweden, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Portugal. Silver Wheaton Corp. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Advisors' Opinion:

  • By Christopher Barker At 2012-2-22

    Parallel to my selection of major producer Goldcorp among my top 10 gold stocks for 2012, Silver Wheaton might appear a relatively conservative pick as compared to the stable of smaller-cap growth stories that fill out the rest of the list. But don't let Silver Wheaton's hefty market capitalization fool you; this is a stock from which I continue to expect multi-bagger gains as this long-term bull market for silver matures. What's more -- with an enterprise value that equates to just $5.63 per total-resource ounce of silver (or $10.77 per ounce of proven and probable silver reserves) the stock remains dirt cheap! It's not quite as cheap as it was when I treated readers to a truly uncommon opportunity just over 3 years ago, but just watch how this stock responds as the market comes to terms with the likelihood of silver penetrating the all-time high near $50 per ounce and blasting into fresh record territory. Keep in mind, Fools, that Silver Wheaton is targeting about a 70% production surge by 2015, to reach a monumental 43 million ounces of silver per year!

    Silver Wheaton has been a bit quiet lately with respect to adding new silver stream agreements to the pipeline, and personally I suspect the hiatus is likely linked to an adjustment of its signature rate structure (paying roughly $4 per ounce delivered into a stream agreement) to account for a much-transformed silver price environment. But I do note with interest the company's recent appointment of mining analyst Haytham Hodaly -- as senior vice president for corporate development -- to aid in the negotiation of new silver streams. I do not expect the pause to last through 2012, and view the prospects for one or two major new stream announcements as likely stock catalysts for 2012. And as Silver Wheaton's newly established dividend policy of distributing 20% of cash from operations collides with a rising silver price, I expect Silver Wheaton to remain a major focal point of global silver investment demand.

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