F - Ford Motors

F (Ford Motors)

• Entry price: $7.4
• Risk Level: 8
• Profit Potential: 9
• 1 yr Target Price: $11 - $13

Ford’s sales catches up, but still wait and watch

As the US government supported ‘clunkers’ program came to an end, encouraging signs are emerging for troubled US carmaker Ford Motor Company.

Till some days back, the company was high above in the list of top-10 stocks, one should never buy. But now with the US government’s relief program it seems that the situation is changing for the Detroit company.

Amidst economic meltdown, Ford was the only carmaker in US that steered itself of bankruptcy and emergency federal funding.

And it was the ‘$1 billion clunker’s’ program with which the company made a turnaround. According to this program, existing Ford customers will get an incentive if they want to exchange their monstrous gas guzzlers with brand new fuel-efficient cars.

Recent figures have shown that due to this program, Ford’s sales rose by 17 percent last month. The increase in sales was the second consecutive in two months, Ford said in a statement Tuesday.

The carmaker revealed that there was also an increase in its F-Series pickup trucks. It happened for the first time since October 2006, and signs are encouraging that the US economic is in its recovery stage.

Ford said that it had sales of all its brands increased to 182,149 in August, as compared to 155,690 vehicles last year. Due to the ‘clunkers’ program, Ford’s July sale rose by 2.3 percent.

Sales of Ford Motor’s premium brands like Ford, Mercury and Lincoln increased by 16.8 percent to 176,323 units. The carmaker said that there was also an increase in the sales of Volvo, which saw a hike of 24.8 percent to 5,826 vehicles.

The company said that it is witnessing a steady decline in sales of SUV, which slumped t0 33.7 percent while sales of trucks and vans increased to 12.2 percent.

From Ford’s stable, the biggest hit has been its Focus compact cars. A record 25,547 Focus cars were sold in August and the figures were 56 percent higher than last year’s figures. The Focus was also the highest selling car in the ‘clunkers’ program and customers are moving to more energy efficient cars.

Ford strongly feels that the numbers would improve by the end of the 2009 and feels that nearly 12.5 million cars would be sold next year as consumers will get to buy more since the pressure on spending is likely to get eased.

Despite the increase in sales, Ford’s stocks dipped to $7.40. But with the sales expected to become stronger the stocks are also going to improve.  This makes Ford a good selection for our Hot Stocks to Buy portfolio.

We wish you luck on your investments and as always do your own research prior to purchasing or selling a stock. We make recommendations based on our own research and this site is solely for the purpose of entertainment reading. Thank you for visiting Hot Stocks to Buy.

AMZN - Amazon.com, Inc.

AMZN (Amazon.com, Inc.)

• Entry Price: $83.49
• Risk Level:9
• Profitability Level:8
• 1year Target Price: $125-$135

Amazon has a product called Kindle, which has been featured on the Oprah Show that could be very profitable. A Cowen analyst Jim Friedland increased his expectations for sales of the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader. Friedland now expects Amazon to end 2009 with 1.5 million active Kindle units increasing revenue to $266 million, up 13% from their previous estimate of $235 million. For 2010, he increased his sales forecast by 11% to 1.8 million units. By the end of 2010, he expects 3 million Kindles to be in service. Within 5 years, he estimates, 17% of active Amazon customers will own Kindles which will account for 10% of Amazon’s North American sales, or $2.3 billion in GAAP revenues.

Yahoo Finance analyst predictis positive growth for next quarter as well as a 28.6% growth for next year. This in addition to the increased kindle purchases makes Amazon a hot stock to buy.

We wish you luck on your investments and as always do your own research prior to purchasing or selling a stock. We make recommendations based on our own research and this site is solely for the purpose of entertainment reading. Thank you for visiting Hot Stocks to Buy.

PCLN Priceline, Inc.

PCLN (Priceline, Inc.)

• Entry Price: $150.24
• Risk Level: 8
• Profitability Level: 8
• 1year Target Price: $180
  

  Despite the recession, consumers are still demanding for summer leisure travel but at a more manageable price. Priceline has offered the ability for many families to take their summer vacation at deep discounted prices. As a result online booking on Priceline.com has risen by13% to $2.38 billion increasing revenue to 17.5% to $603.7 million. Priceline said it expects the value of its travel bookings to increase in the third quarter by 20 percent.

  With reported second-quarter earnings increasing by 35%, income reached $25 million compared to $13.8 million last year. Priceline’s better than expected earnings price of $2.02 per share beat Wall Street analyst’s forecasted price of $1.79 per share.

  Beating analysts forecasted figures by.22 cents and improving conditions in the economy makes Priceline.com a hot stock to buy.

S - Sprint Nextel Corp.

[S] Sprint Nextel Corp. - Hot Stocks to Buy Entry Price $5 - $5.50

• Risk level: 5
• Profit potential: 7
• Price Target 6 months: $7 - $8
• Price Target 12 months: $10 - $12
• We expect Sprint to outperform the market in the short and long term.

Today we are selecting Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) as a hot stocks to buy. Since bottoming out on November 20th, 2008 at the price of $1.37 per share, Sprint has more than quadrupled in price to $5 per share. The share price has somewhat been stagnant the past month and a half as share holders await the recently released Palm Pre. The debut of the Palm Pre on June 8th has to be considered successful as it is expected to sell over 50,000 units in it’s first day of release. For the quarter, Palm expects to sell over450,000 units.  This is good news for Sprint as roughly 80-90% of all Palm Pre customers are expected to use Sprint’s service.

The additional customers gained from the Palm Pre release should add to the bottom line for Sprint when they report in the third quarter later this year. We see Sprint as a well established company that took a big punch in November of 08 and withstood it. Sprint is still in it’s early stage of recovery and with some bumps along the way, we expect the stock to eventually get above $12 per share over the next 12 months.

We wish you luck on your investments and as always do your own research prior to purchasing or selling a stock. We make recommendations based on our own research and this site is solely for the purpose of entertainment reading. Thank you for visiting Hot Stocks to Buy.

BAC - Bank of America - UpDATED

We are closing our BAC position at $14.55. The run from our initial entry price of $10.25 on April 17th has been great. The shares may continue to rise but it has hit our price target of $15. We may return to this stock if conditions present itself. Those that followed our recommendations, we congratulate you! Nice two week profit of over 40%!!!!

AMR - American Airlines Inc.

[AMR] American Airlines Inc. - Hot Stocks to Buy Entry Price $5.75 - $6.25

• Risk level: 6
• Profit potential: 9
• Price Target 6 months: $11 - $12
• Price Target 12 months: $16 - $18
• We expect AMR to outperform the market in the short and long term.

AMR Corp, owns and operates in the airline industry.  Through American Airlines Inc., AMR provides scheduled jet service to approximately 150 destinations throughout North America, South Ameria, Europe and Asia.  AMR also owns AMR Eagle Holding Corp, which operates two regional airlines that provides service throughout North America.

The airline industry has been decimated by many factors ranging from the economy, oil’s onetime $150 price to the recent swine flu outbreak in Mexico.  We feel that all the negative news for the airline sector has reached it’s peak and the bleeding of the stock price should be coming to an end.  AMR’s stock fell from it’s Jan. 8th, 2009 price of $12.29 to a recent 52 week low of $2.40 on March 6th.  Since then it has more than doubled in price over the last month and a half.  We feel the recovery in AMR and airline stocks is still in the early stages and expect the stocks to continue moving higher.  We list a few highlights as to why we have added AMR to our Hot Stocks to Buy list.

Swine flu pandemic is turning out to be a bust and consumers will begin to travel again

Travel loads shows signs of improvement as April’s travel data shows fuller planes (MarketWatch)

Increases in miscellaneous fees and additional services (Expected addition of Wi-Fi service in the near future (Wall Street Journal) will add to the bottom line

Oil’s recent price increases are showing very little effect on AMR’s stock price

Summer travel months are approaching

Possible buyout canidate as consolidation in the industry continues

In our opinion the risk level for AMR is moderate with high growth potential.  A  medium size holding would be appropriate for AMR stock.  A good entry price for AMR is anything below $6.5 in the near term.  The stock may continue to fall another 5% in the short term.

We wish you luck on your investments and as always do your own research prior to purchasing or selling a stock. We make recommendations based on our own research and this site is solely for the purpose of entertainment reading. Thank you for visiting Hot Stocks to Buy.

GERN - Geron Corp. - Updated

5/05/2009 Very Unusual price and volume increase on shares of GERN. Very bullish signal that there is a news leak not yet known to the general public. Strong buy signal.

[GERN] Geron Corp. - Hot Stocks to Buy entry price $5.10

• Risk level: 7
• Profit potential: 9
• Price Target = $11
• Geron is a medium risk stock with maximum profitability
  • Geron is the known leader in stem cell research and is the biggest
  • Geron and other stemcell companies did not participate in the recent runup by financials and every other market industry
  • Geron was oversold
  • Secondary offering was at 6.6 - 6.85 meaning the large investors putting money into the secondary must have a strong belief that the technology works and are willing to gamble at such a premium price

Today we examine a stock that we feel is worthy to be added to our Hot Stocks to Buy list. The first hot stock is GERN (Geron):


We are recommending GERN for a few reasons. The first reason is that we feel it’s been oversold from it’s high of above $8 a share in early January. The main factor for a selloff was due to a secondary offering that was made on Feb. 12th, 2009. The secondary was for 7.25 million shares at a price range of $6.60 - $6.85. This secondary offering plus an article from TheStreet.com’s columnist Adam Feuerstein encouraging share holders to sell the stock, pushed the stock from above $8 to under $4.5 in just a few days. These two reasons may be valid for a 10 to 15% point decrease but definitely not a 50% hair cut.

Reasons GERN is added to Hot Stocks to Buy

The entry price that we have started on this stock is $5.10. We are looking for at least a 125% gain on this stock in the near term (within 6 months). Any entry below $6 is recommended in the near term.

We wish you luck on your investments and as always do your own research prior to purchasing or selling a stock. We make recommendations based on our own research and this site is solely for the purpose of entertainment reading. Thank you for visiting Hot Stocks to Buy.

DNDN - Dendreon Corp. - Updated

Original Upgrade to Hot Buy on 4/18/09.
[DNDN] Dendreon stock - Hot stocks to buy entry price: $17 - $18.5 Updated to $21 - $24 04/28/09

• Risk level: 9
• Profit potential: 10
• Price Target = $50
• Very risky in the near term, keep an eye on April 28th 2:20pm (CT)

Data from IMPACT trails are successful we are upgrading DNDN to a Super Hot Buy. Price target in the short term is now $60 and long term is now set to $150 (Possible stock split by Mid Summer.)

On April the 16th we added Dendreon Corp. (DNDN) to our hot stocks to buy portfolio at the price of $18.15. Below you will see a few pointers as to why we have chosen to add Dendreon to our list of Hot Stock to buy. We’ve followed this stock for years and feel this is a great time to enter into the stock for those who have missed the previous purchase price of below $5. The recent news on Dendreon’s IMPACT results is just what the company needed and if the details on the news is as expected, this stock can see a rise to above $35 in the short term. Please also consider the risk that if Dendreon’s news on the 14th of April is revealed to be misleading, this stock can take a massive plunge back to below $5.

• Upgraded to from Sell to HOLD by Rodman & Renshaw on April 14th, 2009
• Upgraded by from Mkt Perform to Mkt Outperform by Brean Murray on April 16th, 2009
• Potential buyout candidate by big pharma (possibly Merck)
• On April 14th Dendreon issued a press release announcing that the pivotal Phase 3 IMPACT study of Provenge in men with advanced prostate cancer met its primary endpoint of improving overall survival compared to placebo control.
• On April 28th (2:20pm CT)the results from the IMPACT studies will be presented during a plenary session at the American Urological Association’s Annual Meeting
• Dendreon’s other drug Neuvenge is on the horizon

Hot Stock to Buy recommends taking a small holding in Dendreon and increasing the holding on any non news related dips in the next week. Dendreon is an extremely high risk stock with high potential in the near term. Price target within 6 months is $50.