Some investors might be thinking that the safety and income from utilities already has seen its upside. Merrill Lynch does not feel that way at all.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday included Chipotle Mexican Grill, Delphi Technologies, Dollar General, Facebook, Ingersoll-Rand, Nike, Okta and Quest Diagnostics.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday included American Electric Power, Apple, Boeing, Coca-Cola, Eli Lilly, RingCentral, Tellurian, Tesla and Vonage.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday included Benefitfocus, Chubb, Dominion Energy, Home Depot, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Mylan, Philip Morris and Weight Watchers.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Friday included Chesapeake Energy, CME, Constellation Brands, Dominion Energy, Electronic Arts, Gap, Netflix, Starbucks, Viacom, Yum! Brands and Zynga.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included American Express, Dick's Sporting Goods, Dominion Energy, Grubhub, Intel, McDonald's, Microsoft, Nvidia and Total.
Office Depot, Dominion Energy, EyeGate, and Sphere 3D all posted new 52-week lows on Friday.
Bed, Bath & Beyond, Mallinckrodt, New Gold, and Dominion Energy all posted new 52-week lows Thursday.
Franklin Resources, Dominion Energy, vTv Therapeutics, and Tupperware all posted new 52-week lows Wednesday.
Globalstar, Dominion Energy, Sibanye Gold, and Trivago all posted new 52-week lows Thursday.
Paul Ausick The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Wednesday include Amazon, ADP, BHP Billiton, Cloudera, Expedia, Facebook, Hasbro, Mattel, Tesla and Transocean.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Tuesday include AK Steel, BHP Billiton, Dominion Energy, JB Hunt, KLA-Tencor, Micron Technology, Nucor, Oracle, Roku and U.S. Steel.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Friday include Bank of America, Broadcom, Dominion Energy, Netflix, Pegasystems, 21st Century Fox, Thor Industries and Western Digital.
These five companies could be great total return stories in 2018 that also offer investors a degree of safety in what has become a very volatile stock market.
Why now could be a good time to rotate from multinationals to companies like these that do almost all of their business in the United States.
