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3 Best Penny Stocks to Buy in May 2018

By Money Morning News Team, Money Morning • May 1, 2018

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For investors looking for quick gains, penny stocks are an easy solution. But finding winners can be incredibly hard. In order to give Money Morning readers an advantage, we're bringing you the three best penny stocks to buy in May 2018.

Best penny stocks to buy in May

While a select few penny stocks have tremendous growth potential, many of these cheaper stocks have little chance of generating good returns for investors. In order to protect your portfolio, it's important to identify penny stocks that have strong financials and a good chance for growth.

In order to protect our investments, we follow five rules for investing in penny stocks - take a look at them on the right.

Rules for Safely Trading Penny Stocks

  • No more than 2% of your overall stock portfolio should consist of penny stocks.
  • Avoid stocks with average daily trading volume of less than 500,000 shares.
  • Avoid penny stocks being aggressively promoted on public discussion forums or websites not focused on investing.

Here are the top three warning signs of a shell company scam, according to the SEC and FINRA...

  • If a company has been dormant for many years and then brought back to life.
  • If a company has changed its name and, especially, business focus multiple times.
  • Check for massive reverse stock splits like 1-for-20,000 or 1-for-50,000.

We also use the Money Morning Stock VQScore™ to make sure our investments have great growth potential.

The VQScore system identifies undervalued stocks with the highest profit potential by looking at a company's earnings potential, growth rate, earnings-per-share acceleration, and market volume.

The VQScore system runs on a scale of 1 to 4, with 4 indicating a stock with strong growth potential.

Our three top penny stocks for May have VQScores of 4, indicating that they have strong underlying value and a high chance of providing significant gains for investors.

In fact, our top pick is on track to provide returns of over 400% in the near future.

Here are our top penny stocks to buy for May...

Top Penny Stock to Buy, No. 3: McDermott International Inc.

McDermott International Inc. (NYSE: MDR) is an American engineering company that specializes in construction and installation oil drilling infrastructure across the globe.

Thanks to rising global economic activity and increasing demands from the transportation industry, international demand for oil has steadily risen. According to OPEC, worldwide demand for oil rose to 97 million barrels a day in 2017, up by 1.6 million from just the previous year.

As a result, McDermott has had plenty of business, as oil drillers boost output to maintain a steady global supply of oil.

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Just last month, McDermott signed a deal to build 13 jackets - the underwater structures for shallow water oil platforms - for oil giant Saudi Aramco Co. The deal is worth upward of $250 million. This recent deal comes on the heels of three other large Middle Eastern construction contracts that the company has signed over the last year.

McDermott has given clear signs that the company is setting aggressive growth objectives.

Last month, the company rejected a $2 billion hostile takeover bid from Norway drilling company Subsea 7 (OTCMKTS: SUBCY). While Subsea was prepared to offer investors $7 a share for McDermott's stock, McDermott argued that the proposal "significantly undervalued" the company's growth potential and market value.

The company's numbers back this opinion up. McDermott recently revised its 2017 fiscal year guidance - the company expects to generate between $0.60 and $0.63 per share, up from its previous estimate of $0.53. And Wall Street analysts have given the company a high price target of $14.00 - a 48% increase over today's price of $9.40.

As oil production continues to boom, McDermott has tremendous growth coming its way in 2018.

However, our next penny stock is even more profitable...

Top Penny Stock to Buy, No. 2: Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE: CLF) is a mining company that specializes in the mining and refinement of iron ore. The company owns mines across North America and Western Australia.

The company produces 32.9 million gross tons of iron ore annually in five iron ore mines in Michigan and Minnesota alone.

Much of the company's recent growth has been the result widespread anticipation over growing domestic steel demand.

While the United States only produces 5% of the global steel supply, that figure is expected to rise as domestic demand continues to grow. According to the World Steel Association, North American steel demand is expected to rise by 3% in 2018 and an additional 1.9% in 2019.

Plus, U.S. President Donald Trump is slapping tariffs on steel imports, which will further bolster domestic companies like CLF.

Cleveland Cliffs is certainly anticipating as much - in its 2018 outlook summary, the company sees ore pellet prices jumping from $97 per ton to $107 - a 10% increase.

And analysts sees this increase playing out in the company's bottom line. Cleveland's earnings per share was recently up to $1.23 from $0.89 - an increase of 38%.

Cleveland currently trades for $7.43. However, with such strong growth behind the company, analysts see the price heading 62% higher, to $12.

Both McDermott and Cleveland have some excellent profit prospects. But our favorite penny stock to buy blows them out of the water.

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Saulo J Barranco
Saulo J Barranco
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what company is the first one?

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Saul Flores
Saul Flores
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Is this stock guarantee 'd to go up or is it a stroke of luck. Meaning that maybe one in a billion would have a chance of making money?

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William Kraft
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I hope your promises turn out to be true.

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