Pleae recomend a good stock to buy, one that will go up so I can make some money in the stock market.?

Question

There are so many choices, and I do not know which one to pick. I can buy more than one, so if you have several recommendations please share them.

Answer 1

I can give you great stocks, but you'll want to know how to trade them.

Before you buy any stocks, you should know how to trade them too!

Buy and hold and pray does not work anymore since blue chip stocks of yesteryear is a thing of the past. So, I'm going to presume you'll do your own analysis of the stocks I give you and that you know how to both buy AND SELL stocks with a plan.

That said, I don't know your timeframe, so I'm going to guess shorter term (through year end) for now.

So, for this timeframe, I like stocks in several sectors:

Healthcare
BAX, HUM

Broker dealer
MS, GS

Retail
AEOS, ANF, JWN, KSS

I also like AAPL.

Stay out of oil, energy, metals for now

That should get you started.

Hope that helps!

27Sep2006!

Answer 2

If you are asking that question in this forum, you are obviously a naive investor. You should avoid buying individual stocks and put your money in a no-load mutual fund.

The fact is that if anyone knew of a stock that was undervalued, they would buy it & that would bid up the price, making it less likely to be undervalued for later investors.

Academic studies show that new information gets imbedded in prices almost immediately. This means that if someone tells you here that there is good news for a company, then that good news is already priced in.

The only way to beat the market on a regular basis is to have private information. There are three ways to get private information. One is to have insider information (which is usually illegal to use in trading). One way is to pay for it -- taking away the advantage. The third way is to gather up all public information on your own & glean information from it -- leading you to realize the private information that causes the public information. In other words -- use fundamental analysis. Since there are other people doing this analysis on big firms -- the payoff isn't going to be high, since they will probably get the information before you.

All of this means that profits can be made in smaller firms where no analyst is covering the company. You can be the first to learn what the public information means. Unfortunately, doing this involves a skill and knowledge that most people don't possess. And it is certainly a knowledge that you aren't going to learn asking here.

No load mutual funds are your best bet.

Answer 3

Stock is not a loan. It doesn't diminish the way a loan amortizes. When you buy a stock you buy an ownership stake in the company. The return on investment is a combination of both the dividend and the increase in stock price. If things go according to plan, you can sell that stock later for the same price at which you bought it or higher.

Answer 4

I just bought some SYK, BLUD, and AMGN today. These are some possibilities for you to research. I'm kind of nervous about the possibility of a recession, but people will still need health care in good times or bad. If you want stock tips, there are dozens of websites for you. Check out Morningstar, Zacks, Motley Fool. Try reading RULE #1 by Phil Town, for the best method of finding profitable stocks.

Answer 5

You might want to take a look at CAPS at the Motley Fool site. There, you can find recommendations which are weighted. I'm a picker on that site and am in the top 10% right now. Regardless of my choices, you can get a community consensus and the ratings on the stocks weigh the best pickers' choices more heavily.

Answer 6

If you are unable to make a decision, perhaps you should not be investing in the stock market at all. There are no sure bets as to making investments. You evaluate the company base on either technical or fundamental data and you either decide that it is a good investment or not. Do your homework!

Answer 7

Do yourself a big favor and buy a 5% or higher CD and make a profit instead of gambling.