Still Very Bearish on Stock Market

Last week’s stock market trading pattern did not look very healthy for the Bulls. It’s starting to look like the market bulls are happy with their bull run from March 9th and are taking their money off the table for the time being. Who can really blame them, after a blistering two months. As more join in on the profit taking this week, we can expect the stock market to continue it’s retreat in the early part of the week. Unless some staggering news hit the the market, we see no good reasons to be buying any stocks at this time.

As always 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.

HANS - Hansen Natural Corp.

[HANS] Hansen Natural Corporation - Hot stock to buy entry price: $39.5 - $42

• Risk level: 7
• Profit potential: 7
• Price Target: $65 - $75
• We expect HANS to outperform the market in the near term with moderate downside risk.

We are placing a hot buy recommendation on Hansen Natural Corporation for a few reasons.

• Hansen Natural Corporation develops, markets and distributes beverages worldwide. Their flagship product is their Hansen natural drink products and Monster energy drink. Today we decided to add Hansen (HANS) to our hot stocks to buy list for the reasons listed below:
• The health craze is pushing healthy drinks like Hansen’s all natural to new levels. This will not change as more and more people choose to drink healthy natural drinks over carbonated sodas like Coke and Pepsi. (Recent report by Beverage Digest shows carbonated softdrink sales volume to decline by close to %3 percent while small companies like Hansen saw an increase in sales.
• Monster “Hitman Sniper” is a great tasting drink and has been a favorite of the local teenages and young adults, as observed at malls and dance clubs.
• HANS’s stock chart shows a very bullish picture. At its current projection, HANS should expect to see a rise to $55 in the next few months. The breakout to new highs on April 23rd also points to a very bullish sign.

While most analysts are downgrading HANS, we at hot stocks to buy have decided to place a HOT buy on HANS with a price target of $65 within 6 months.

AMD - Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

[AMD] Advanced Micro Device Stock - Hot stock to buy entry price: $2.85 - $3.35

• Risk level: 6
• Profit potential: 7
• Price Target: $5.5 - $6
• We expect AMD to outperform the market in the longterm.  Expect a little price drop after earnings date due to negative earnings report.  Will represent a good buying opportunity.

We are selecting AMD as our next Hot Stocks to Buy.  On April 21st, AMD reported deeper than expected 1Q loss of $416 million.  After their report and disappointing guidance AMD sold off in afterhours and loss approximately 5% in share price.  The .66 cents loss was not as wide as expected and some of the loss can be attributed to one-time charges due to the company’s biggest restructuring in it’s 40 year history.  Without the one time charges, AMD would have had a loss of 62 cents per share.  Their sales for the year dropped 21 percent to $1.18 billion, which was above the estimates of $978 million.  Reasons why we are adding AMD to our hot stocks to buy portfolio:

• As bad as their earnings report seem, it’s actual beat the esitmates of most analyst and in our view should be seen as a positive instead of a negative.
• The afterhour drop of 5% was mainly due to feelings that they may lose market share to Intel.  This was something that CEO Dirk Meyer quickly knocked down and we agree.  We do not expect AMD to lose much market share to Intel in future quarters as more computer buyers look for lower cost systems which AMD can help supply with their less expensive CPUs in comparison to Intel’s.
• The drop in afterhour and possible drop on Wednesday morning will be a golden opportunity for buyers to purchase the stock at a discount.
• Newer computers will be required as Windows 7 is released during the 4th quarter of 2009

We plan to add AMD to our hot stocks to buy portfolio at a price range between $2.85 - $3.35.  over the next few quarters, we expect to see a price of $5.5 - $6 per share.

As always, please perform your own due diligence and make your decisions based on that due diligence.  Our stock portfolio is for entertainment purposes and do not represent a recommendation on the actual stock.

CSCO - Cisco Corp.

[CSCO] Cisco Systems stock - Hot stocks to buy entry price: $17 - $18.5

• Risk level:  3
• Profit potential: 6
• Price Target = $25
• Cisco systems is rated a minimal risk stock

We have a special stock that we are adding to our Hot Stocks to Buy portfolio. Cisco Systems will be added to the portfolio as we believe this to be the best positioned stock to own in the technology hardware arena. Cisco as with the rest of the market has been hit with the financial meltdown of 2007. We feel that Cisco was unjustly taken down with the rest of the market and is on the right path to recovery. After hitting a low of $13.62, Cisco has bounced back quite nicely to $18 a share. We expect the stock to continue it’s upwards trend to approximately $25 by the end of the year. The following are highlights of recent events affecting Cisco:

Analyst recent upgrades and downgrades:

• March 11, 2009 – Wedbush Morgan Initiated at Hold
• March 2, 2009 – Argus Upgraded from Hold to Buy
• Feb 3, 2009 – Stifel Nicolaus Upgrade from Hold to Buy

Future stock events:

• May 6^th, 2009 – Earnings Announcement

Stock positives:

• Cisco is leveraging India’s work force to lower cost on engineering help.
• We are expecting Cisco to post good numbers on their earnings announcements coming up on May 6^th as their projections have been lowered dramatically.
• EPS for the next 5 years is expected to be about 8.6%
• Microsoft’s release of Windows 7 in the fourth quarter of 2009 will add a boost to technology stocks. This will also lead to infrastructure changes in many organizations.
• Obama’s plan to pump money into the education technology field will lead schools to buy more technology.

Hot Stocks to Buy recommends taking a medium holding in Cisco systems as it is a stable investment with strong growh potential.  Cisco’s stock price may not rise 20% on a daily basis but it’s gradual increase will be realized at the end of the year.  Our stock price target on Cisco systems by years end is $25.  We recommend you perform your own due diligence prior to making any stock purchase.