i want to invest.. What are some good stocks to invest right now?

Question

suppose i have 1000000 $ and i have to use 1/3 of them by next friday.. but eventually i will be using all the money...but in the end i have to have more money then with i started... of course thats the point of investing to make more money...SO HELP!!!

Answer 1

The challenge here is that I dont' know what timeframe that you're looking at. There would be different recommendations for 1 wk, vs. 1 mo, vs. 1 yr or more. That said,

How bout DRQ, AAPL, and MRK.

These stocks unlike some others that have been recommended, are actually heading up. They should do well this year.

GNBT which peaked with an intraday high of 5.02, on 3/22 is now trading at around $1.50. Up until yesteray, it's been in a big downtrend. Now fundamentally, it might move, but you'd be taking a risk until such time it finds some support.

AAPL has the ipod and now it's dual processors are totally kicking butt.

MRK not only has withstood the lawsuits, but already has a new drug getting approval to replace VIOXX.

DRQ is a nice channeling stock at support about to move up.

Now if you actually wanted to learn how to invest, that's a different story. See some of the resolved questions related to that.

Good luck!

Answer 2

The only way to guarantee that you will have more when you need the money is to place the funds into a relatively risk free investment--T-bills. Currently paying 5+%. Any other investment is subject to the risk that you will not have as much money as when you started. With the increased risk however also comes the increased chance of making a greater return.

What you must decide is the amount of risk you are willing to accept and then invest accordingly. If it will be sometime before you will need the funds, you may wish to consider equities which given a long enough period of time normally will provide an increase return over t-bills. By investing in a diversified portfolio of equities, you will reduce the risk of picking a dog so to speak. Currently index funds are very popular for that very reason.

Index funds are a pool of unmanaged stocks that will track a particular average such as the S&P 500. By purchasing shares of such a fund, you are tying your investments into the overall growth of the economy so to speak. There are hundreds of different index funds currently available tracking different sectors of the economy.

There are ones that track energy stocks, ones that track oil producers, ones that track European stocks, health care stocks, and on and on.

Answer 3

Let me recommend a stock company called GNBT. It's manufactures vaccines, diabetes materials and other virral antiboitics. While you may not fully understand completly what I'm saying, this company has an impressive history. August, last year, the company had stock shares selling for about .50 cents a share, and were incredibly good priced. Then when the bird-flu craze struck the world, in just 6 months, the price of the stock rose all the way to 5.15 dollars a share. I watched it for over 2 years, and I'v never seen such a raise in prices. I expect the craze to be just as bad, if not worse this year, and you should trully expect this stock to at least bring a profit again this year. If you don't believe me, check out the ticker GNBT. At the end of the bird-flu season, I nearly kicked myself. I couldn't believe I missed out. Oh well. I'm only 16, so I don't have much money to place in stocks, but I'll recommend it to anyone who is interested. Go check it out.

Answer 4

Enron...lol

Really though, the best anyone can tell you are solid stocks and to diversify your portfolio and even then there are still no absolutes, a risk. That said, I'd check MSN Money and do some research for yourself. Take into consideration your personal attachments to the company (ie does the company make something that you consume frequently like Coca Cola perhaps), dividends, growth potential (if the ir 52-week low/high is $25/30 maybe its not the best stock if your looking for a big ROI), consider sales, earnings and P/E.

Answer 5

Easy. Buy a large cap dividend payer or a midcap regional bank that has a nice yield (say, at or above 3%). Reinvest dividends that you receive and you will receive more and more shares and the dividend reinvestment will keep paying out dividends on top of those shares that you are buying. It's the best way to wealth.

Answer 6

Good stocks imo: Apple, Amylin, Google, and Pepsico are some promising stocks. You should have a few more and stay diversified.

Answer 7

first you need to decided what brokerage needs to represent you. They are trained to look after your money so you dont have to. Edward Jones is the most repected out there. They recieved JG Edwards award this year..that should tell you something.