Best stocks to buy for the week ending June 27, 2014: Each week our experts dish out the latest profit plays and asset-protection moves for our Money Morning Members - all for free.
Last week, Money Morning's best stocks to buy included two ways to cash in on sub-Saharan Africa's $1 trillion resource rush, a leader-turned-laggard that's about to reverse course and bring tremendous upside to investors, a way to profit from the end of the U.S. oil export ban, a smart silver exchange-traded fund (ETF), and more.
Here's the full list of our best stocks to buy now.
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- Targeting growth stocks is a great way to become financially independent. But you can't ignore "value" stocks - especially since "special situation" plays such as corporate turnarounds can generate windfall gains for your portfolio. Last week, Money Morning Defense & Tech Specialist Michael A. Robinson introduced readers to a slumbering tech giant that is the embodiment of a special-situation value play. For years, it was the quintessential growth play, but when the growth phase came to an end, its stock fell off the investment radar. Mainstream investors ignore it altogether - but not Robinson. He sees the huge profit potential ahead...
- Also last week, Robinson showed readers how to apply his rules-based "screens" to analyze a stock. That way, you can use his system yourself to identify the hottest tech stocks to buy. Robinson illustrated his method by picking a stock as a "mini case study" - it's a semiconductor stock that he highlighted for readers about a year ago. Since then, shares have gone up 109% - that's more than five times the 18% return of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index during the same period.
- On Friday, Money Morning Global Energy Strategist Dr. Kent Moors alerted readers to the end of the four-decades-long ban on U.S. crude oil exports. Late Tuesday evening, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it would allow exports of ultra-light oil (essentially condensate after very minimal processing) by two companies - Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (NYSE: PXD) and Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD). Both requested the exports from production at tight/shale oil plays in the Eagle Ford basin of South Texas, and other companies are certain to follow suit. The change in policy promises to open up new opportunities for investors, and Moors knows just the place to look...
- Suppliers in China are set to start producing iPhones with bigger screens in July. In 2011 and prior, all iPhones had a 3.5-inch screen. Then, Apple launched the iPhone 5 and 5s, which sported 4-inch displays. But the newest offerings are reported to have 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch screens. That's important for AAPL stock because 40% of smartphones sold recently in China had 5-inch displays or larger. Watch Robinson's appearance on FOX Business' "Varney & Co." last Tuesday to see how the larger iPhone display offering will affect Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) stock...
- After 117 years, the current London Silver Fix is shutting down on August 14. Free marketeers are excited; for years, many have maintained that silver prices are being manipulated. Money Morning Resource Specialist Peter Krauth said on Friday that he's hopeful a true price discovery will emerge. "After all, that's what everyone dealing in gold - investors, speculators, and would-be manipulators - truly deserves," Krauth said. As market forces begin to reassert themselves, Krauth told readers to look for silver prices to rise in tandem. Then he recommended an ETF to play the secular silver bull market - not only does it provide instant diversification within the space, but it also acts as a call option on the silver price that never expires...
- This isn't on the investing public's radar at all - in fact, as far as most investors are concerned, this place doesn't even exist. But right now, the World Bank, along with a small, publicly traded company, is on a $1 billion quest to map sub-Saharan Africa's mineral wealth. That's a big, expensive job, but the inevitable payoff will reach into the trillions. And $1 trillion never came so cheaply. Last week, Krauth told readers the perfect opportunity to play along, before anyone else even realizes this is happening...
- Investing in gold is a great way to diversify investment portfolios, hedge against a financial crisis, and even protect against inflation. But with so many different types of gold to buy, finding the right gold investment can be a difficult task for retail investors. That's why Krauth gave Money Morning readers a snapshot of some of the best ways to invest in physical gold...
- A total of 422 companies in the S&P 500 Index currently pay a cash dividend - the most since September 1998's tally of 423. And barring any unexpected cuts, S&P 500 dividend stocks are on track to post a 10.5% increase in annual cash dividends paid in 2014, according to Howard Silverblatt, S&P Dow Jones Indices senior index analyst. Silverblatt estimates that S&P 500 members will pony up $38.7 billion in dividends this year, more than double the $16.3 billion shelled out in 2001.We compiled a list of the 23 dividend enrichments announced during the week ending June 20, including a Hoboken, N.J.-based company that's raised its quarterly payout for 21 consecutive years...