Hot Stocks To Own 2012

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The political uproar from the debt-ceiling negotiations has resulted in high volatility and heavy selling in the past week. But despite the uncertainties, along with an economic slowdown in Europe and the United States, stocks are still confined to a trading range that began early this year.

But offsetting the uncertainties is the fact that with more than three-quarters of all companies reporting earnings, almost three-quarters of them have exceeded Q2 earnings estimates. Thus, it appears that the current trading range will be maintained. Patient investors should use the current pullback as an opportunity to acquire undervalued securities.

Here are your top stocks to invest in March:

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:Continucare Corp. (CNU)

 Continucare Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides primary care physician services on an outpatient basis in the United States. It provides medical services to patients through physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician?s assistants. The company also provides practice management services, including assistance with medical utilization management, pharmacy management, and specialist network development to independent physician affiliates (IPAs). As of June 30, 2009, the company operated a network of 18 medical centers, and provided practice management services to IPAs at 21 medical offices in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Hillsborough counties, Florida. In addition, Continucare Corporation operates and manages sleep diagnostic centers at 13 locations in South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Colorado, and Ohio. These centers conduct sleep studies to determine whether patients suffer from sleep disorders and the severity of the condition. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:Pervasive Software Inc. (PVSW)

 Pervasive Software, Inc. provides embeddable software and SaaS services for data management, data integration, B2B exchange, and analytics. Its embeddable Pervasive PSQL database engine provides database reliability in a near-zero database administration environment for packaged business applications. Pervasive Software?s multi-purpose data integration platform, available on-premises and in the cloud, accelerates the sharing of information between multiple data stores, applications, and hosted business systems, and allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. Pervasive DataRush is an embeddable parallel-processing platform enabling data-intensive applications, such as claims processing, risk analysis, fraud detection, data mining, predictive analytics, sales optimization, and marketing analytics. The company serves customers in approximately 150 countries. Pervasive Software, through Pervasive Innovation Labs, also invests in the exploration and creation of solutions for the data analysis and data delivery challenges. Pervasive Software, Inc. has a strategic alliance with A.D.A.M. Inc. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas with additional offices in Greenville, South Carolina; Brussels, Belgium; Frankfurt, Germany; Paris, France; and London, the United Kingdom.

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:Frontline Ltd. (FRO)

 Frontline Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of oil tankers and oil/bulk/ore (OBO) carriers. It primarily transports crude oil; and raw materials, such as coal and iron ore. The company?s OBO carriers transport dry cargo. Its very large crude carriers (VLCCs) primarily transport crude oil from the Middle East Gulf to the Far East, northern Europe, the Caribbean, and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, as well as Suezmax tankers trade in the Atlantic Basin, Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Frontline Ltd. also involves in the charter, purchase, and sale of vessels. As of December 31, 2010, it operated 44 VLCCs which are owned or chartered in between 200,000 and 320,000 deadweight ton (dwt); 21 Suezmax tankers that are owned or chartered in 200,000 and 320,000 dwt; and 8 Suezmax OBOs, which are chartered in, as well as had 3 VLCCs under its commercial management. Frontline Ltd. was founded in 1948 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:Giga-tronics Incorporated (GIGA)

 Giga-tronics Incorporated designs, manufactures, and markets various test and measurement equipment used in the development, test, and maintenance of wireless communications products and systems, flight navigational equipment, electronic defense systems, and automatic testing systems worldwide. Its products are primarily used in the design, production, repair, and maintenance of commercial telecommunications, radar, and electronic warfare equipment. The company operates in two segments, Giga-tronics Division and Microsource. The Giga-tronics Division segment produces signal sources, generators and sweepers, and power measurement instruments for use in the microwave and radio frequency range of 10 kilohertz to 50 gigahertz. This segment also manufactures switch modules and interface adapters that operate with a bandwidth from direct current to optical frequencies for defense, aeronautics, communications, satellite, electronic warfare, commercial aviation, and semiconductor markets. The Microsource segment develops and manufactures a line of Yttrium, Iron, and Garnet tuned oscillators, filters, and microwave synthesizers, which are used in various microwave instruments or devices. The company markets its products through various independent distributors and representatives to commercial and government customers. Giga-tronics Incorporated was founded in 1980 and is based in San Ramon, California.

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:DCT Industrial Trust Inc (DCT)

 DCT Industrial Trust Inc. operates as a publicly owned real estate investment trust. The firm provides its services to companies. Through its fund, it engages in the ownership, operation, and development of real estate properties. The firm specializes in the ownership, acquisition, development, and management of institutional capital management program. It invests in the real estate markets of United States and Mexico. The firm is also invests in selected international markets. It primarily invests in commercial real estate properties, including generic distribution warehouses and light industrial properties. The firm was formerly known as Dividend Capital Trust Inc. DCT Industrial Trust was founded in 2002 and is based in Denver, Colorado with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas, Texas.

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. (HE)

 Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc., through its subsidiaries, primarily engages in electric utility and banking businesses primarily in Hawaii. Its Electric Utility business engages in the production, purchase, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, photovoltaic, geothermal, wave, hydroelectric, sugarcane waste, municipal waste, and other biofuels, as well as from fuel oil. It distributes and sells electricity on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, and Molokai, as well as serves suburban communities, resorts, the U.S. armed forces installations, and agricultural operations. The company?s Banking business engages in accepting savings accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, and certificate of deposits; and providing residential and commercial real estate, residential mortgage, construction and development, multifamily residential and commercial real estate, consumer, and commercial loans. As of December 31, 2010, it owned 138 automated teller machines. The company was founded in 1891 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:Philip Morris International Inc (PM)

 Philip Morris International Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in markets outside of the United States. Its international product brand line comprises Marlboro, Merit, Parliament, Virginia Slims, L&M, Chesterfield, Bond Street, Lark, Muratti, Next, Philip Morris, and Red & White. The company also offers its products under the A Mild, Dji Sam Soe, and A Hijau in Indonesia; Diana in Italy; Optima and Apollo-Soyuz in the Russian Federation; Morven Gold in Pakistan; Boston in Colombia; Belmont, Canadian Classics, and Number 7 in Canada; Best and Classic in Serbia; f6 in Germany; Delicados in Mexico; Assos in Greece; and Petra in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It operates primarily in the European Union, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Canada, and Latin America. The company is based in New York, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

• By Stephen At 2012-1-11

  Philip Morris (PM, $75.92). Cigarette maker has strong free cash flow, pricing power, a yield of roughly 4% plus dividend growth. Share buybacks a plus.

• By L! ouis Nav ellier At 2011-11-17

  Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM) is involved with the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in over 180 countries across the globe. Year to date, PM stock is up 16%, compared to a loss of nearly 2% for the Dow Jones.

• By Fitz Gerald At 2011-10-17

  Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM), through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in markets outside of the United States. The company has raised dividends every year since it was spun-off from Altria (MO) in 2008 and yields 3.70%.

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:JMP Group Inc (JMP)

 JMP Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment banking, asset management, and corporate credit management company in the United States. The company provides various investment banking products and services, such as capital raising, mergers and acquisitions transaction, and other strategic advisory services to corporate clients. It also offers sales and trading services, which include distributing equity research products, communicating proprietary investment recommendations, executing equity trades on behalf of institutional clients, and marketing the securities of companies, as well as related brokerage services to institutional investors. In addition, the company provides proprietary equity research in five industries, including consumer, financial services, healthcare, real estate, and technology industries. Further, it provides asset management products and services to institutional investors, and high net-worth individuals; and involves in the management of collateralized loan obligations. JMP Group Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; and Alpharetta, Georgia.

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:Micron Technology Inc. (MU)

 Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR2 and DDR3; and other specialty DRAM memory products, including DDR, SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 mobile low power DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. In addition, it provides NOR flash memory products that are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices; phase change memory products; and image sensor products. Micron Technology?s products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as through a Web-based customer direct sales channel. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

Advisors' Opinion:

• By Fitz Gerald At 2011-8-26

   

  The company's management has indicated a positive and more-balanced DRAM and NAND flash demand/supply outlook for 2011. The company also indicated a more-resilient near-term business model with low exposure to the weak PC DRAM segment (25 percent of revenues).

  Micron also indicated strong demand for NAND flash and price reductions consistent with learning curve cost reductions. With many smartphone and iPad/new Web tablets ramping, Micron management expects the benign pricing environment for NAND flash to continue in 2012.

Hot Stocks To Own 2012:Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY)

 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, a global biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and delivers innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. The company focuses on areas of serious unmet medical needs, such as cardiovascular disease, mental illness, cancer, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C, rheumatoid arthritis, type 2 diabetes, solid organ transplantation, and Alzheimer's disease. Its principal products include PLAVIX for protection against fatal or non-fatal heart attack or stroke; AVAPRO/AVALIDE for the treatment of hypertension and diabetic nephropathy; ABILIFY, an agent for adult patients with schizophrenia, bipolar mania disorder, and depressive disorder; and REYATAZ for the treatment of HIV. The company?s principal products also comprise SUSTIVA for the treatment of HIV; BARACLUDE, an inhibitor of hepatitis B virus; ERBITUX to target and block the epidermal growth factor receptor; SPRYCEL for treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia in adults; IXEMPRA to treat breast cancer; ORENCIA to severe rheumatoid arthritis in adults; and ONGLYZA for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Its products under Phase III clinical trials include ELIQUIS to prevent and treat venous thromboembolic disorders and stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation; NULOJIX to prevent solid organ transplant rejection; Brivanib to block the VEGF and the FGF receptors; Dapagliflozin to treat diabetes; YERVOY to treat metastatic melanoma; and Necitumumab for anticancer treatment. The company sells its products to wholesalers, distributors, retailers, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, and pharmacies. It has strategic alliances with sanofi-aventis; Pfizer, Inc.; AstraZeneca PLC; Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Eli Lilly and Company; and Gilead Sciences, Inc. The company was formerly known as Bristol-Myers Company and changed its name to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in 1989. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

B y Tom Hutchinson At 2011-9-20

Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) markets drugs worldwide and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The company sells at a higher price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio (14) than most Big Pharma companies (the industry average is 13), but still lower than the overall market (15.4). Bristol also pays a solid 5.2% dividend yield, compared with 2.1% for the overall market and 4.5% for the pharmaceutical industry.

Like most major drug companies, Bristol faces costly patent expirations.  Blockbuster drugs Plavix (cholesterol) and Abilify (anti psychotic drug), which account for nearly half of net sales, will lose patents in 2011 and 2012. Also, most of Bristol's sales are generated in the United States, meaning the company will be negatively affected by the new health-care reform bill, which requires discounts on drugs for patients using Medicaid. However, these problems are already reflected in the stock price and the company has solid prospects going forward.

Bristol Meyers has sold off most of its noncore businesses and is focusing exclusively on drugs. The company has cut $2.5 billion in operation expenses in the past few years as well, and has more than $5 billion in cash that it can use for acquisitions. It also has a robust pipeline of cancer drugs with a strong track record of FDA approval. The stock has an excellent chance to impress going forward, and the dividend is well supported with a 61% payout ratio.

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