|
Brokerage
Firms' Top Picks
The
following stocks recommendations from the Zacks Advisor newsletter,
1 year, 12 issues, $199, www.zacksadvisor.com, are based on our
analysis of the research produced by 230 brokerage firms and
do not necessarily correspond to the stocks that the brokerage
firms themselves are recommending. If you would like to know
what stocks the brokerage firms are directly recommending, we
offer for your consideration the following two lists of stocks
based on Wall Street recommendations. We make no claims as to
the future performance of these stocks.
|
Top
Firm Recommended Stocks
Most brokerage firms
in the United States maintain a recommended list which consists
of their top 20 to 30 stock picks. These stock picks are actively
sold to their institutional and retail clients, so, when a stock
is added to these lists, its price may rise simply because it
is on the list. These stocks are generally selected by a committee
at the broker firm and tend to be large-cap stocks. The following
companies currently appear on the recommended lists of at least
three of the top 15 brokerage firms.
|
|
Top
Analyst Recommended Stocks
In addition
to maintaining a list of 20 to 30 recommended stocks, most brokerage
firms require their analysts to rate each of the stocks they
follow. since each of the brokerage firms can employ 10 to 100
analysts, each of whom may follow 5 to 20 stocks, the firm may
maintain Buy/Hold/Sell ratings on 50 to 200 stocks. The following
is a list of stocks that are followed by more than three brokerage
firms and are currently recommended as a "Strong Buy"
by each of the analysts following the company. These companies
tend to be smaller cap than the companies in the Top Firm Recommended
Stocks list.
|
| Company |
Market
Cap ($mil) |
| Amer
Home Prods (AHP) |
$51,250 |
| Amer
Intl Grp (AIG) |
$167,404 |
| America
Online (AOL) |
$169,618 |
| Appld
Matls Inc (AMAT) |
$47,940 |
| Bank
Of Amer Cp (BAC) |
$86,694 |
| Carnival
Corp (CCL) |
$29,343 |
| CBS
Corp (CBS) |
$48,746 |
| Cisco
Systems (CSCO) |
$345,273 |
| Dell
Computer (DELL) |
$130,148 |
| Du
Pont (Ei) De (DD) |
$68,808 |
| Electr
Data Sys (EDS) |
$31,513 |
| Enron
(ENE) |
$31,755 |
| Genl
Electric (GE) |
$507,217 |
| Gillette
Co (G) |
$44,180 |
| Intel
Corp (INTC) |
$275,071 |
| Intl
Bus Mach (IBM) |
$194,499 |
| Lucent
Tech Inc (LU) |
$229,798 |
| MCI
Worldcom (WCOM) |
$149,088 |
| Medtronic
(MDT) |
$42,760 |
| Merck
& Co Inc (MRK) |
$157,046 |
| Microsoft
Corp (MSFT) |
$604,081 |
| Motorola
Inc (MOT) |
$89,689 |
| Oracle
Corp (ORCL) |
$159,540 |
| Pepsico
Inc (PEP) |
$51,313 |
| Pfizer
Inc (PFE) |
$125,574 |
| Royal
Dutch Pet (RD) |
$129,864 |
| Schering
Plough (SGP) |
$62,252 |
| Schlumberger
Lt (SLB) |
$30,734 |
| Time
Warner Inc (TWX) |
$84,779 |
| Tyco
Intl Ltd (TYC) |
$64,799 |
| Walgreen
Co (WAG) |
$29,352 |
| Wal-Mart
Stores (WMT) |
$307,865 |
|
|
| Company |
Market
Cap ($mil) |
| Audiovox
Corp (VOX) |
$525 |
| Brauns
Fashions (BFCI) |
$137 |
| Capital
Automtv (CARS) |
$263 |
| Chicos
Fas Fnc (CHCS) |
$318 |
| Clark/Bardes
(CLKB) |
$138 |
| Corinthian
Col (COCO) |
$247 |
| Dixie
Grp Inc (DXYN) |
$79 |
| Engineered
Supp (EASI) |
$83 |
| Evergreen
Res (EVER) |
$277 |
| First
Finl Hldg (FFCH) |
$213 |
| Gilat
Comm (GICOF) |
$218 |
| InterVoice-Brite
(INTV) |
$672 |
| Ipsco
Inc (IPS) |
$794 |
| Javelin
Systems (JVLN) |
$81 |
| Key
Production (KP) |
$87 |
| Metamor
Worldwd (MMWW) |
$997 |
| Mobile
Mini Inc (MINI) |
$244 |
| Modem
Media Pop (MMPT) |
$386 |
| Movado
Grp Inc (MOVA) |
$284 |
| Natl
Rv Hldgs (NVH) |
$202 |
| Rehabcare
Group (RHB) |
$141 |
| Rowecom
Inc (ROWE) |
$528 |
| Salton
Inc (SFP) |
$345 |
| Specialt
(SCHS) |
$264 |
| Scotts
Co Cl A (SMG) |
$739 |
| Skywest
Inc (SKYW) |
$688 |
| Source
Info (SORC) |
$279 |
| Taco
Cabana Cla (TACO) |
$109 |
| THQ
Inc (THQI) |
$414 |
| Webstakes.Com
(IWIN) |
$281 |
| Wilsons
Leather (WLSN) |
$203 |
| WSFS
Finl Corp (WSFS) |
$143 |
|
|
