Good Stocks To Invest In 2012

"Buy low and sell high" is more than just a trite investing axiom - it's the formula for investing success.

But exactly what do we mean when we say "buy low?"

Take that $1-a-share stock. If a company has falling profits, negative net worth and a dying product line (e.g., typewriters), that $1.00 stock could actually be quite expensive.

But if the company whose shares are trading at a buck has cash in the bank, no debt, a high "intrinsic value" and a growing market for its trendsetting products, it could easily be a real bargain at $100.

The key in both cases, of course, is value. Finding stocks that are selling at a cheap price relative to their true worth can be an investors' next big portfolio winner.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:American Income Fund Inc. (MRF)

 American Income Fund Inc. is a closed-ended fixed-income mutual fund launched and managed by FAF Advisors, Inc. It is co-managed by Nuveen Asset Management. The fund invests in fixed income markets of the United States. It seeks to invest in companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in combination of mortgage-backed securities and higher-yielding corporate bonds. It maintains an average minimum credit quality of BBB and effective duration of the portfolio at five years. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolios against Lehman Brothers High Yield Index and Lehman Brothers Government/Mortgage Index. American Income Fund Inc was formed on December 30, 1988 and is domiciled in United States.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Ross Stores Inc. (ROST)

 Ross Stores, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates off-price retail apparel and home accessories stores under the Ross Dress for Less and dd?s DISCOUNTS brand names in the United States. Its Ross Dress for Less brand stores sell brand and designer apparel, accessories, footwear, and home fashions for the entire family at everyday savings of 20 to 60 percent off department and specialty store regular prices; and dd?s DISCOUNTS brand stores sell apparel, accessories, footwear, and home fashions for the entire family at everyday savings of 20 to 70 percent off moderate department and discount store regular prices. As of January 29, 2011, the company operated 1,055 stores, of which 988 were Ross Dress for Less brand stores in 27 states and Guam, and 67 were dd?s DISCOUNTS brand stores in 6 states. Its Ross Dress for Less brand stores primarily target middle income households and dd?s DISCOUNTS brand stores target moderate income households. Ross Stores, Inc. was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Bristow Group Inc (BRS)

 Bristow Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides helicopter services to the offshore energy industry primarily in Europe, West Africa, North America, Australia, and internationally. Its helicopters are used principally to transport personnel between onshore bases and offshore platforms, drilling rigs, and installations, as well as to transport time-sensitive equipment to offshore locations. The company also offers helicopter flight training services to commercial pilots and flight instructors through its Bristow Academy with facilities in Titusville, Florida; Concord, California; New Iberia, Louisiana and Gloucestershire, England. In addition, it provides military training; and helicopter repair, engineering support, aircraft leasing, airport management, and search and rescue services. Bristow Group provides its helicopter services to integrated, national, and independent oil and gas companies. As of March 31, 2011, it operated a fleet of 569 aircraft. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Bank of Nova Scotia (The) (BNS)

 The Bank of Nova Scotia, together with its subsidiaries, offers various personal, commercial, corporate, and investment banking services in Canada and internationally. It has four segments: Canadian Banking, International Banking, Global Wealth Management, and Scotia Capital. The Canadian Banking segment includes retail and small business banking, which provides mortgages, loans, credit cards, investments, and day-to-day banking products to individuals and small businesses; and commercial banking business that delivers a product suite to medium and large businesses, including banking, cash management, lending, and leasing. This segment operates in Canada through a network of 1,024 branches and 2,998 automated banking machines (ABMs), as well as telephone, Internet banking, and third party channels. The International Banking segment provides retail and commercial banking services to customers located in the Caribbean and Central America, Mexico, Latin America, and Asia. It operates through a network of approximately 2,000 branches and offices, 3,686 ABMs, telephone and Internet banking, in-store banking kiosks, and specialized sales forces. The Scotia Capital segment provides corporate lending, equity and debt underwriting, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services, as well as capital markets products and services, such as fixed income, derivatives, prime brokerage, securitization, foreign exchange, equity sales, and trading and research services to corporate, government, and institutional investor clients. This segment also provides precious and base metals related banking services, through ScotiaMocatta. The Global Wealth Management segment comprises wealth management, insurance, and global transaction banking businesses. It collaborates and works in partnership with Canadian Banking, International Banking, and Scotia Capital segments. The Bank of Nova Scotia was founded in 1832 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Acme United Corporation. (ACU)

 Acme United Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops and markets cutting, measuring, and safety products to the school, home, office, hardware, and industrial markets in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Its cutting device products include scissors, shears, guillotine paper trimmers, rotary paper trimmers, rotary cutters, knives, hobby knives and blades, utility knives, pruners, loppers, saws, manicure products, medical cutting instruments, and pencil sharpeners. The company?s measuring instruments products comprise rulers, math tools, tape measures, erasers, compasses and protractors, and rulers and math kits; and safety products that consist of first aid kits, personal protection products, over-the-counter medication refills, emergency care responder kits, and flu care kits. It sells its products through its independent manufacturer representatives and directly under the Westcott, Clauss, Camillus, and PhysiciansCare brand names. The company serves wholesale, contract, and retail stationery distributors; office supply super stores; school supply distributors; drug store retailers; industrial distributors; wholesale florists; mass market retailers; and hardware chains. Acme United Corporation was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Skystar Bio-Pharmaceutical Company (SKBI)

 Skystar Bio-Pharmaceutical Company engages in the research, development, production, marketing, and sale of veterinary healthcare and medical care products in the People?s Republic of China. Its products include veterinary medicine for poultry and livestock; micro-organism products; bio-pharmaceutical veterinary vaccines; and feed additives. The company offers its products through distributors and directly to customers. Skystar Bio-Pharmaceutical Company is headquartered in Xi?an, the People?s Republic of China.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Desarrolladora Homex (HXM)

 Desarrolladora Homex, S.A.B. de C.V. operates as a vertically integrated home development company principally engaged in the development, construction, and sale of affordable entry-level, middle-income, and tourism housing in Mexico; and affordable entry-level housing in Brazil. As of December 31, 2010, the company had land reserves of approximately 82.3 million square meters, which include the titled land and land in the process of being titled. It operates in 34 cities located in 21 Mexican states, including Mexico City metropolitan area and Jalisco. The company was founded in 1989 and is based in Culiacan, Mexico.

Best Stocks to Invest in Right Now

Many experts are saying that the stock market is cheap right now. This includes great investors like Warren Buffett who thinks that equities are cheap. That is prompting a lot of investors to find the best stocks to buy right now as the market is still cheap. That is of course unless you are part of the crowd that things there will be a contraction once the quantitative easing measures are over.

I’ve heard Target as a good stock to buy recently. Their fundamentals are strong. They are profitable and the rest of the financial statements show a pretty strong company. They also look like they could potentially be undervalued from doing a business valuation based on discounted cash flows.

Ford is another good company right now. They are a strong company and were able to bounce back after they refused government bailout money. They are profitable in an industry that is bouncing back as a whole. More and more people will start buying cars again, and they already have. There is a lot of pent up demand that will be released on this market and Ford is one of the strongest players to profit off of this move.

More of the best investment options would be to be in technology stocks as well. You can see the fastest trending ones will be the likes of Apple and Google. Also look for Facebook to come out as an IPO at some point down the line. They have made some moves recently that have indicated that they may be interested in going public.

The healthcare industry is also good as well. Find strong companies that are growing with lots of future potential market growth. These would be niche markets like elderly care or the retirement industry. But really, most healthcare companies that are strong and growing will be good as this rising tide raises the good ships in this sector.

After the Cloud: Top Tech Trends for 2012

Last year belonged to Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). The company’s share price rose to almost $350 over the course of 2010, making the company the most valuable tech entity on the planet.

Even more significantly, Apple’s touchscreen portable devices defined the industry. Even as the iPhone continued to grow and the iPad’s popularity spurred competitors to build their own tablet PCs, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) was able to surpass Apple in at least one regard: More people bought Android phones than other kind. That wealth was spread across multiple manufacturers like HTC and Motorola (NYSE:MMI), but it showed that smartphone technology was now a mass-market force.

If 2010 was the year of smartphones and tablets, 2011 is proving itself to be the year of so-called cloud-based services (accessing applications via the Internet) for those devices. Google Music, Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) CloudPlayer, and Apple’s iCloud are just three of the new cloud businesses that will open before the year is out, each one of them allowing access to whatever entertainment or stored information, like documents and pictures, without the need of a hard drive.

The question now: What technology trends will define 2012? Here are three contenders:

The smaller, cheaper smartphone

AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) may be talking about how faster data transfer speeds will keep the smartphone market humming over the next 18 months, but the real hot commodity will be feature-light, cheap smartphones that can compete with the best iPhone and Android devices available now. AT&T and retailers like Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) have had tremendous success selling older model iPhones for $50 with new contracts. A smaller iPhone intended for teenagers that sells for $99 and runs as smoothly as the current iPhone model will be even more popular. Unsurprisingly, Apple is said to be working on just such a device.

Internet Television

Google bet big on its Google TV service being one of its biggest hits in 2010, but poor reviews of the service itself and complete consumer disinterest in the two major devices it came packed in, Sony’s (NYSE:SNE) Internet HD TV and the Logitech (NASDAQ:LOGI) Revue, put the kibosh on the company’s ambitions. Google plans to take another shot, though, and cable providers like Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) are exploring multiple ways to allow access to the same content over mobile devices that people can get in the living room. Whether it’s as a service or a new type of living room TV set-top box like the kind made by Google and Roku, Internet TV will come into its own in 2012.

Hybrid PCs

The PC market has had a rough 2011 so far, with PC sales dropping more than 1% over the first quarter. That doesn’t mean the industry is done for, however — it’s merely in a state of transition. Next year will bring the introduction of more low-cost PCs like Google’s Chromebook as well as PCs that offer more functionality in line with those in the iPad. Hewlett-Packard (NASDAQ:HPQ) has had modest success with its all-in-one touch screen Omni PCs. Apple will likely introduce its own version of the Omni next year. The industry-changer will be the company that introduces an affordable hybrid that can act as both a portable tablet and a feature-rich PC.

Top Stocks of 2012 Aflac (AFL)

Top Stocks of 2012
“Aflac (NYSE: AFL) is best known in the U.S. for its ‘duck ads,’ but actually earns over 75% of its money from Japan,” says Dirk Van Dijk.

In selecting the stock as his top pick for 2012, the strategist for Zacks.com, recalls “Aflac happens to be an old favorite of mine, a stock that I first recommended back in 1991.” Here’s his current update.

“In the U.S., its policies are sold through employers on a payroll deduction, as part of companies ‘cafeteria plans’. They are pretty straight forward. If you get sick and can’t work, or are in the hospital, it pays out a set mount directly to the insured.

“It is thus not at risk for rising health care costs (but is if more people get sick). The U.S. unit was under some pressure as payrolls shrank, but with some positive news on the employment front, that should turn around.

“In Japan, once people get AFL insurance they don’t drop it (which is very important in the life and health insurance industry) with a persistency rate of 95%.

“The firm has a superb track record, but came under big pressure during the crash last year due to fears about its investment portfolio. I think those fears are being assuaged over time.

“It has already realized $1.7 billion (pre-tax) in investment losses. Some of those are not going to come back, like its holdings in Lehman Brothers and WAMU, but other parts of the holdings that were written down just might come back.

“Aflac did however write down $380 million as other than temporary losses in holdings of some Ford debt, and Ford has been doing much better of late, certainly much better that it looked back at the end of the first quarter when GM and Chrysler were going down for the count.

“The company has generated an ROE of 33.4% over the last 12 months, and its five year average ROE is 20.84% (it has leveraged up a bit, from having no debt to a still very manageable and conservative 22% debt to capital. As that happens AFL should return to its historic valuations.

“How much upside potential is that? A Lot. Over the last five years (which of course included the big sell o? last year) AFL’s P/E has averaged 15.4x.

“Based on 2010 earnings estimates it is going for 9.5x now, and 8.7X 2012 consensus estimates, and those estimates have been rising.

“AFL also has a habit of beating the estimates. It has done so the last three times out, and in 17 of the last 28 quarters, with only five disappointments.

“AFL currently yields 2.4%, which is nice. It has however, increased that dividend in each of the last 27 years, and over the last 15 years it has done so at a compound annual rate of 20.7%.

“AFL happens to be an old favorite of mine, a stock that I first recommended back in 1991, and was a core holding for most of my tenure at C.H. Dean. I know the management team well from those days, and they are amongst the best I know in the industry.”

Best Stocks (multibaggers) to invest in 2011-2012

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Below are the multibaggers of year 2011-2012 with good fundamentals and trading on low price and PE. Investor can keep the stocks for 18-24 months perspective.

1. Choksi Imaging Ltd

cmp – 55.00
PE ratio 4.52
EPS (Rs) 12.28 till Mar, 10
Sales (Rs crore) 38.61 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 10
Net profit margin (%) 3.35 Mar, 10
Last dividend (%) 20

2. Diana Tea Company Ltd

cmp – 23.00
PE ratio 4.82 14/09/10
EPS (Rs) 4.72 Dec, 09
Sales (Rs crore) 11.02 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 5
Net profit margin (%) 13.03 Dec, 09
Last bonus 3:2 14/07/05
Last dividend (%) 10 31/03/10

3. Zenith Birla (India) Ltd

cmp – 16.00
PE ratio 6.83 14/09/10
EPS (Rs) 2.23 Mar, 10
Sales (Rs crore) 129.83 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 10
Net profit margin (%) 2.36 Mar, 10
Last bonus 1:5 24/06/10
Last dividend (%) 20 25/06/10

4. Shalimar Paints Ltd

cmp – 380
PE ratio 13.77 14/09/10
EPS (Rs) 26.44 Mar, 10
Sales (Rs crore) 82.73 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 10
Net profit margin (%) 2.70 Mar, 10
Last bonus 3:10 11/09/82
Last dividend (%) 75 03/06/10

5. Alfa Transformers Ltd

cmp – 37.00
PE ratio 26.84 13/09/10
EPS (Rs) 1.41 Mar, 10
Sales (Rs crore) 3.66 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 10
Net profit margin (%) 3.52 Mar, 10

6. DMC Education Ltd

cmp – 11.50
PE ratio 13.22 13/09/10
EPS (Rs) 0.81 Mar, 10
Sales (Rs crore) 3.21 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 5
Net profit margin (%) 14.99 Mar, 09
Last bonus 1:1 14/05/07

7. Disa India Ltd

cmp – 1400
PE ratio 21.59 13/09/10
EPS (Rs) 65.30 Dec, 09
Sales (Rs crore) 18.57 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 10
Net profit margin (%) 13.30 Dec, 09
Last dividend (%) 2000 20/02/08

8. MVL Industries

cmp – 31
PE ratio 5.17 14/09/10
EPS (Rs) 6.34 Jun, 10
Sales (Rs crore) 134.60 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 10
Net profit margin (%) 2.71 Jun, 09

9. Medi-Caps Ltd

cmp – 83
PE ratio 7.41 14/09/10
EPS (Rs) 11.34 Mar, 10
Sales (Rs crore) 6.29 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 10
Net profit margin (%) 16.48 Mar, 09
Last dividend (%) 15 27/08/10

10. N R Agarwal Industries Ltd

cmp – 76
PE ratio 6.02 14/09/10
EPS (Rs) 12.71 Mar, 10
Sales (Rs crore) 113.87 Jun, 10
Face Value (Rs) 10
Net profit margin (%) 5.52 Mar, 10
Last dividend (%) 18 30/07/10