Stocks to Buy

Identifying winning stocks requires more than scanning headlines. InvestorPlace analysts focus on long-term themes, market timing, and structural shifts shaping where capital is flowing next, highlighting stocks positioned to benefit from those trends.

How to Invest in the Baby Boom

Baby boomers are retiring at a record-setting pace, and a glut of late-2000s babies are now young children. Here's how to play both.

Top 6 Stocks to Buy for January

An improving picture could result in a breakout by the sectors most severely impacted by the recent recession. See which stocks top this month's buy list.

Top 5 Blue-Chip Stocks for January

For a smooth ride into the new year, purchase these five conservative blue-chip stocks that thrive during the late winter months.

New January Stock to Buy Is Almost Science Fiction

Intuitive Surgical's robotic surgery system is a hit that'll get hotter. The company's earnings and stock are set to soar in 2012.

2 Plays on Ole King Coal

As China -- the world's biggest coal consumer -- outstrips is own supplies, these two U.S. companies could benefit.

Time to Explore Discover Financial Services

The credit card company still doesn't get the respect that its more popular, well-known rivals do -- but it should.

6 Hot Semiconductor Stocks

Semiconductors have become essential to the gadgets, smartphones and other technologies we use on a daily basis. Stocks including INTC have benefited immensely.

InvestorPlace Experts’ Big Winners of 2011 and Top Trades for 2012

When the "smart money" is on, it's on. Here's a look at some of our experts' best calls of 2011 -- and the stocks they think will boom in 2012.

Vanguard: An Energy Stock Leading the Way

Vanguard Natural Resource's oil and gas reserves and output are leaping, it has sharp management -- and it yields over 8%.

Hard-to-Find Bargain Stock Buys

The stock market's brisk fourth-quarter rally (which has since begun to stall) has made bargains more difficult to find, but here's a few.

9 Software Stocks to Buy

Despite Nasdaq's overall decline year-to-date, some tech stocks providing in-demand products are making a successful push into 2012.

7 Biotech and Health Care Stocks to Buy

Biotechnology and health care companies are growing at an alarming rate. Do not miss the boat on some of fastest-growing companies among them.

FedEx Delivers Holiday Cheer for Shareholders

Booming e-commerce and wider margins are paying off now. A rate hike next year and new, fuel-efficient planes on order will help in the future.

How to Profit From Oil’s Likely Rise in 2012

Forecasting oil prices is a crapshoot, but one company -- Brazil's Petrobras -- could do well no matter happens in Europe and the global economy.

6 Retailers on the Ups

Picking retail stocks during a recession is a difficult prospect. Here's six retailers from all walks of business that have performed well and could go further.

4 Trucking Stocks That Will Keep Rolling

Next year won't be perfect, but two trends -- a pickup in manufacturing and lean inventories at retailers -- offer promise for the right stocks.

5 Aerospace and Defense Stocks to Buy

Even as the troops have officially left Iraq, companies like Boeing and Lockheed are still receiving contracts and adding muscle.

6 Clothing and Accessories Stocks to Buy

The retail sector moves at the slightest hint of market volatility. However, 2011 has been forgiving for clothing and accessory stocks like Coach.

Pair of Asset Managers Poised for a Rebound

Asset managers' stocks have been whittled away this past year, but Invesco and Ameriprise are setting themselves up to reverse the trend.