77 Ways to Zig While the Market is Zagging

by Louis Navellier | February 4, 2014 10:32 am

I were to have a catch phrase of the day, it would be, “As January goes, the year goes.” And it’s no secret as to why this is on everyone’s mind. With the benchmark indices closing down over 2% today, the general fear is that February will go the way of last month–which was the first negative January in four years.

Between the emerging market jitters[1] to the Fed’s tapering activity[2] to mixed economic reports[3], Wall Street has found plenty of excuses to justify a correction. But where others see a bad omen, I see a good opportunity. That’s because this is still the best quarter for earnings that I have seen in over three years, and earnings are expected to improve over the next several quarters.

It all boils down to looking past the day-to-day market moves and zeroing in on the top stocks. We’re in the thick of a memorable fourth-quarter earnings season and I’d hate for folks to get caught up in the winter doldrums and miss out.

As always, an excellent place to start is with Portfolio Grader[4], which rates over 5,000 publicly-traded companies on fundamental health as well as their risk-to-return prospects. And this weekend was a big one for Portfolio Grader.

When I screened for large-cap stocks, I found no fewer than 77 blue chips that were on the move. You’ll want to review this list to see if you currently own any of these companies or are thinking about it.

77 Recommendations Straight Out of Portfolio Grader

Upgrades

Last Week’s Holds, Now Buys

Symbol	Company Name	Quantitative Grade	Fundamental Grade
ALXN	Alexion Pharmaceuticals	B	B
AON	Aon plc	B	B
BAC	Bank of America	B	B
BCR	C. R. Bard,	B	B
BWA	BorgWarner	B	B
CERN	Cerner Corporation	B	C
CHKP	Check Point Software Technologies	B	B
CMCSA	Comcast	B	C
CMCSK	Comcast Corporation Special	B	C
COF	Capital One Financial	B	C
DOW	Dow Chemical	B	B
DTV	DIRECTV	B	B
EPD	Enterprise Products Partners L.P.	B	B
HCA	HCA Holdings	B	C
HRL	Hormel Foods	B	B
IRE	Bank of Ireland	B	C
KR	Kroger	B	C
LYG	Lloyds Banking Group	B	C
MHK	Mohawk Industries	C	B
NSC	Norfolk Southern	B	B
PFG	Principal Financial Group	B	C
PNR	Pentair Ltd.	B	B
SKM	SK Telecom Co	B	B
SNDK	SanDisk	C	B
SNN	Smith & Nephew plc	B	C
STX	Seagate	B	C
TEVA	Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited	B	C
TYC	Tyco International Ltd.	B	B
XLNX	Xilinx	C	B

Last Week’s Sells, Now Holds

Symbol	Company Name	Quantitative Grade	Fundamental Grade
BHI	Baker Hughes	C	C
BK	Bank of New York Mellon	D	C
CNI	Canadian National Railway	D	C
CNQ	Canadian Natural Resources	D	C
CSX	CSX	C	C
DUK	Duke Energy	D	C
EIX	Edison International	D	B
F	Ford	D	C
IP	International Paper	D	B
ITW	Illinois Tool Works	C	C
JPM	JPMorgan Chase	C	C
KEP	Korea Electric Power Corporation	C	C
KRFT	Kraft Foods Group	D	C
PH	Parker-Hannifin	D	C
RCL	Royal Caribbean Cruises	C	C
ROST	Ross Stores	D	C
SLB	Schlumberger	D	B
SYK	Stryker Corporation	C	C
TI	Telecom Italia S.p.A.	C	D
VMW	Vmware	D	B

Downgrades

Last Week’s Buys, Now Holds

Symbol	Company Name	Quantitative Grade	Fundamental Grade
AAPL	Apple	C	B
AMAT	Applied Materials	C	B
BBT	BB&T	C	C
DOV	Dover	C	C
FMS	Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA	C	C
MDT	Medtronic	C	B
MMC	Marsh & McLennan	C	C
RF	Regions Financial	C	C

Last Week’s Holds, Now Sells

Symbol	Company Name	Quantitative Grade	Fundamental Grade
ABB	ABB	D	C
ALL	Allstate Corporation	D	C
BUD	Anheuser-Busch InBev	F	B
DISCK	Discovery Communications	D	C
GWW	W.W. Grainger	D	C
HES	Hess Corporation	D	D
HOT	Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide	D	B
KO	Coca-Cola	D	C
LBTYA	Liberty Global	D	C
MAT	Mattel	F	C
MO	Altria Group	D	B
MS	Morgan Stanley	D	C
MTU	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.	D	B
NMR	Nomura Holding	D	C
PG	Procter & Gamble	D	C
PHG	Royal Philips NV	D	C
SNE	Sony	D	D
SYMC	Symantec	D	B
TD	Toronto-Dominion Bank	D	C
TSM	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing	D	C

Source URL: https://investorplace.com/2014/02/stocks-to-buy-stocks-to-sell/

---