With many investors looking for income-producing stocks, we decided to look at the Merrill Lynch research universe for stocks, including master limited partnerships (MLPs), that yield 8% or better and are rated Buy.
The UBS Dividend Ruler portfolio continues to outperform the overall market on a long-term basis, and we continue to think that the outperformance will stay in place for the rest of this year and…
These five stocks pay solid distributions, are not trading at all-time highs and are rated Buy at Merrill Lynch. They make good sense should a big sell-off hit the market.
Legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller got out of gold after the election in November, but now he has reversed course and is buying the precious metal again.
Everybody that follows the cloud space knows who the big players are. The question for investors is who are the major suppliers to these mega-technology leaders that keep things running?
With OPEC cutting production for the first time in years, demand increasing and very few new oil discoveries, the prospects for crude pricing continues to look bright for 2017 and beyond.
With long-term rates looking like they will stay at historically low levels for the next couple of years, dividend-paying stocks make even more sense than ever.
Jefferies analysts have focus on five top outstanding growth stories for investors that have patience and a touch more risk tolerance.
Just 14 stocks have created 20% of all stock market gains in dollars since 1924. That is phenomenal, considering the sheer number of companies that have come and gone in that time, and the…
It is worth noting that insider selling volume has dwarfed insider buying for weeks and could be signalling a top in the market, which has had a huge run since last November's election.
The number of insiders selling stock still dwarfed the buyers, and it could ramp back up as insider transaction windows start to open again following fourth-quarter earnings reports.
If the border adjustment tax were to be put into place, Baird thinks it would be a windfall for domestic oil producers. These five companies fit the bill.
Jefferies has made a third big change for 2017 by adding Marathon Petroleum to the Franchise Picks list. Plus, three more top dividend-paying stocks from the list.
The more speed, latency, gaming, cloud computing, storage and streaming demand of the internet, the more the top companies working on the metro build-outs and 100G may continue to blow out earnings.
If these Merrill Lynch sector picks provide total return and alpha, the upside potential for investors is outstanding.
If any industry has strong growth potential for 2017 and beyond, it is the data centers, with cloud computing and storage skyrocketing, and demand for streaming video and audio growing exponentially.
With the industry looking to the Permian Basin to provide annual production growth, the plunging wellhead breakeven costs in the region are a huge positive.
In a new report, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analysts are focused on upcoming catalysts for biotech stocks in their coverage universe.
Five companies with stocks rated Buy at Merrill Lynch and that do all of their business in the United States, which is critical, given the stronger dollar.
2017 is almost a month old, and fourth-quarter earnings are almost through. The additions and subtractions to the high conviction stock offerings from the top firms on Wall Street are coming faster now.
