Best Stocks to Buy Now: "Buy on the Cannons, Sell on the Trumpets"

Best stocks to buy for the week ending March 28, 2014: The Nasdaq last week saw its worst performance since October 2012, finishing down 2.8%. Largely to blame were sell-offs concentrated in the tech sector, including Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), which has lost about one-fifth of its value over the last 18 sessions.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.12% last week, while the S&P 500 fell 0.48%.

Money Morning keeps readers current on the best stocks to buy now, and despite a less-than-stellar market performance last week, our experts were able to root out some very promising opportunities. Here's where they found the latest, biggest profit opportunities.

Money Morning's Best Stocks to Buy Now

  • There's an old French proverb that says: Achetez aux canons, vendez aux clarions. That's "buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets." Contrarian investing takes advantage of market overreactions, and the showdown in Ukraine has sparked just that - investors are just about trampling one another to get out of Russian stocks. But Russian stocks - especially Russian tech stocks - offer some of the biggest profit opportunities today. On Friday, Money Morning Executive Editor William Patalon III showed readers how to take advantage of the market overreaction with a "great, great company on the cheap" - it's a Russian tech stock that's fallen from its 52-week high of $45.52...
  • The marijuana legalization movement is opening new doors for investors to cash in. San Francisco-based market research firm ArcView Group predicts the national legal marijuana market will reach $2.57 billion in 2014, up from $1.53 billion last year. Money Morning Defense & Tech Specialist Michael A. Robinson warned readers on Thursday to "ignore the hyped" marijuana stocks that have already gotten too pricey. Instead, Robinson highlights this developer of cannabinoid therapeutics that's got plenty of room to grow - its price/earnings to growth (PEG) ratio is .47, a rate that makes it half the "fair value" ratio of 1...

  • During the last five-plus years of a near-zero interest rate environment, dividend-paying stocks have been an attractive option for investors. But with rising rates on the horizon, high yield is becoming increasingly less important versus dividend growth potential. That's because historically, dividend growers outperform dividend nonpayers after initial federal funds rate hikes. To help readers take advantage of companies with dividend growth potential, last week we identified 25 dividend stocks that recently boosted their payouts...

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