Looking for a shopping list of new stock ideas for 2010? Each year for 27 years, TheStockAdvisors.com has turned to the nation's most respected and well-known newsletter advisors and asked them for their single favorite stock or fund ideas for the coming 12 months.
With 80 advisors participating in this year's survey, there's something for every type of investor, from high-quality blue chips to speculative home runs.
While past performance is never a guarantee of future results, we would note that the stocks chosen by the 75 advisors participating in last year's report outperformed the general market by over 80%.
The 75 stocks and funds selected for last year's report showed an average year-to-date gain of 35.7%, versus a 19% gain by the broad market over the same period (as of 12/24/09).
Gainer's Today tracks stock picks and ranks the accuracy of 120 investment research firms -- and for last year, our 2009 Top Picks report was ranked #1. Kudos to all the participating advisors.
Importantly, we caution you to only use these ideas as a starting place for your own research and only buy stocks that meet your personal investing criteria, risk parameters and time horizon.
- AECOM (Geoffrey Seiler)
- AeroVironment (Gregg Early)
- Aflac (Dirk Van Dijk)
- AgFeed Industries (Ian Wyatt)
- Altria (Kelley Wright)
- Amdocs (Melvin Pasternak)
- Amedysis (J. Royden Ward)
- American Superconductor (Jim Oberweis, Jr.)
- American Superconductor (Mike Cintolo)
- Annaly Mortgage (Jack Adamo)
- AOL (Bernie Schaeffer)
- AsiaInfo (Mark Skousen)
- Atlantic Power (Carla Pasternak)
- Becton, Dickinson (Jonas Elmerraji)
- BCE (Vivian Lewis)
- Blue Coat (Leo Fasciocco)
- BMC Software (Richard Moroney)
- Brazil Small Cap Market Vectors (Nicholas Vardy)
- ChemTrade Logistics (Roger Conrad)
- China Advanced Construction (Keith Fitz-Gerald)
- China Digital TV (Glenn Cutler)
- China Mobile (John Reese)
- China Tel (Toby Smith)
- Continental Minerals (Tom Bishop)
- Dataram (Kevin Kennedy)
- DB Agriculture (Doug Fabian)
- Diamond Foods (Sy Harding)
- Dollar Tree (Michael Vodicka)
- Eldorado Gold (Martin Hutchinson)
- Electronic Arts (Kim Rahemtulla)
- Emerson Radio (Bill Matthews)
- Equinix (Stephen Quickel)
- EZchip (Paul McWillams)
- Fidelity Select Health Care (Jim Lowell)
- Ford Motor (Mark Skousen)
- FPL Group (Vita Nelson)
- Gafisa (Paul Goodwin)
- General Mills (Chuck Carlson)
- Global Crossing (George Putnam)
- Goldcorp (Curtis Hesler)
- Hard Asset Producers Market Vectors (Nathan Slaughter)
- IMAX (Dennis Slothower)
- ImmunoGen (John McCamant)
- iShares Germany (Mark Salzinger)
- iShares Silver (Gene Arensberg)
- Jinpan International (Tracey Ryniec)
- Keegan Resources (Brien Lundin)
- Kinder Morgan (Amy Calistri)
- Legend International (Mark Leibovit)
- Level 3 Communications (Gene Inger)
- Longtop Financial (Timothy Lutts)
- MannKind (Nate Pile)
- Matthews Asia Dividend (Mark Salzinger)
- Medifast (Mike Turner)
- Mindray Medical (Alan Newman)
- Monsanto (Sy Harding)
- National CineMedia (Nathan Slaughter)
- Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (Dave Dyer)
- Noble (Charles Mizrahi)
- Oceaneering International (Brandon Clay)
- Otelco (Neil George)
- Peabody Energy (Hannah Choe)
- PepsiCo (Jim Stack)
- Perfect World (Alex Kolb)
- PMC Sierra (Marcie Wilmot)
- Powershares US Dollar Bullish (Alex Green)
- Proshares UltraShort Gold (Jim Lowell)
- Proshares UltraShort Russell (Ken Kam)
- Servotronics (Tom Vass)
- SmartHeat (Brendan Coffey)
- SPDR Small Cap Emerging (Ron Rowland)
- Standard Chartered (Yiannis Mostrous)
- T. Rowe Price New Asia (Walter Frank)
- Universal Insurance (Neil Macneale)
- Verenium (Andy Obermueller)
- Virginia Mines (Adrian Day)
- Virtual Radiologic (Richard Moroney)
- Vivo Participacoes (Bill Wilton)
- Vodafone (Amy Calistri)
- Weatherford International (Elliott Gue)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
12-24-2009 @ 12:54PM
bob schick said...
GREAT NOW WE KNOW WHAT NOT TO BUY
12-24-2009 @ 3:35PM
Duke said...
Oil stocks should continue to do very well since there are no major price gouging suits filed them. Same with pharmaceuticals since they continue to gouge the American consumer. The new kids making huge profits on the block will be health care insurance companies poised to profit big time after Obamacare is passed into law.
12-24-2009 @ 7:04PM
Thomas Fess said...
Human-Nights:
Health care will be the big hitter followed by teck and energy. This health care bill will bankrupt the country in time. Health care cost will sore so make some money of it. The senate corruption in washington will be making money from the providers. PIRATES on the POTOMAC!!!!
12-25-2009 @ 2:12AM
Shelly said...
I think 2010 will be the year of penny stocks doing well. especially Bio and green companies. Obama is pushing banks to make loans to start up companies and job creation.
Large comapnies are very poor at new technologies and very slow and often unwilling to do what is required to keep up with the ever changing world. However they are not dumb, they will be buying out alot of small start up companies that look like they have a good business plan and product. They could do a better job at marketing and make a ton of money by doing this.
Trust me. lol..
12-25-2009 @ 3:51PM
Tony said...
Some good stock picks. It's just the man in the white
house inspires such a bleak future. He doesn't believe
in competition or in American exceptionalism.
12-25-2009 @ 5:42PM
Tony said...
It's to bad we've got a fascist leading the country.
12-31-2009 @ 12:16PM
erheault said...
With the cold decending on the nation after flooding the food yeild this year will be short so food producers and ag products should be on the rise for investments.
12-26-2009 @ 2:48PM
dave said...
I picked about 10 of the listed mid and large cap stocks stated in the article and gave 250 shares of each to my grandchildren as xmas presents this is what my father and grandfather did for me and I have forever been grateful for their generosity as I was able to finance my own education with no debt.
12-26-2009 @ 6:43PM
mj@mcmo.net said...
So if you are a small investor which of about 3 stocks would the rest of you investors recommend. Do any of you use ZACKS priority software for stock selection? Curious and thanks
12-26-2009 @ 11:02PM
Alexis said...
BUY GOLD....it's the only way to make a quick profit. It was recently reported that a major investor was planning to invest 2.5 billion in GOLD in January of 2010. I want in on that! I've bought my GOLD, buy yours. Let's take money matters into our own hands. To heck with banks. You can't make any money off of them now.
12-27-2009 @ 12:05AM
James said...
These people needed to write an aricle because they lost all their money in the stock market : )
12-27-2009 @ 7:35AM
danzillo4 said...
Fanny and freddy got a xmas bonus from the criminals in DC, they are to recieve another 111 BILLION, thanks to Geithner and company...Taxpayer MONEY AGAIN!
12-27-2009 @ 10:23AM
clem said...
as long as the government controls the value of the market ie: tax credits , housing, 401Ks, banks ect. hold on in 2010. It could have been one of the best times in our country history. after all affordable housing would do the most to spur the economy. currently there is not much left after housing cost, we need the american public to spend, big business and the ultra wealthy needs the masses of china to spend.
12-27-2009 @ 10:53AM
cessnatx said...
I'd like to know where these "Advisors" get the guts to even "Speak"..???? Best advice...Don't invest in the Stock Market at all...I think if they can't make it without "NEW MONEY" coming in all the time...then they should "GO"...My 2 cents
12-27-2009 @ 12:40PM
Howard said...
Wall street is just a DEN OF THIEVES!
12-27-2009 @ 3:05PM
Ann said...
Alexis has it right: forget banks. They don't represent the people who bank with them. Same with the companies we work for; they're not interested in enabling us to have a decent retirement, so it's up to us to get it ourselves. The crash in 2008 really drove that reality home for me. Since then I've changed the strategy of how I invest. Most investment companies will tell younger people to invest in things like mutual funds etc. that will generate money slowly over the long haul, but this strategy may not apply anymore considering how many seemingly solid financial institutions have gone belly-up. Having taken a large loss in 2008, I've started to invest more in stocks that financial analysts predicted to go up over a period of time, dropping them immediately when their status went to "hold". By milking stocks this way I've been able to recover much of the money I've lost and am planning to continue investing like this. Pointing out stocks like these is good, but one does have to take politics into consideration before investing. A safe bet is oil. Although you won't see gains like we've seen since spring of this year prices for oil will continue to go up as countries like China will consume more and oil reserves get lower. Also good: cell phone companies, pharmaceutical and chemical companies (i.e. Monsanto, although I wouldn't invest my money in their stocks for ethical reasons). Happy investing in 2010!
12-27-2009 @ 6:58PM
Rich39 said...
LESSON: What a stock broker told me about 40 years ago. I asked a stock broker what was the best stock to in vest in? He said.. Hell, I don't know, I'm a stock broker, if I knew what was the best stock, I would be an invester not a broker.
Never forget what he said. He was an honest person.
Stock brokers are like used car salesmens, they just want to sell you stock and get a commission.
12-27-2009 @ 10:00PM
catherine pierce said...
I wonder WHO is going to pay for health care for ALL? since Congress doesn't collect as much as it spends?
I wonder why we are paying Congress six figures with full benefits while they wreck the economy and legislate everything for us while they exempt themselves?
just wondering?
12-28-2009 @ 10:18AM
mckenz707 said...
PERSONALY I LIKE CHICKEN STOCK, MAKE'S A GREAT SOUP!
12-28-2009 @ 3:50PM
Max said...
Don't tell Obama what comes after trillion....