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What are some "hot" industries in the stock market right now? A few months ago it was copper and before that it was Google, etc. I have a finance class project that I'm working on and I need some help to get going in the right direction. The areas of interest that I think might be peaking is steel? Drilling exploration? Coal? I dunno. :dunno:
Does anyone have any ideas as to the next "hot" industry? All ideas would be greatly appreciated! :wavey: Thanks GTers! :supergrin:
PeterJasonMN
08-30-2008, 08:55
****, I'm a finance major (along with accounting) and I've had a hard time really pinning anything down. I'm just waiting for the boomers to start kicking the bucket so my SCI stock will start going up.
Easterbrook
08-30-2008, 08:57
If I knew what was going to be the next hot industry, I'd be making a lot of money. :)
****, I'm a finance major (along with accounting) and I've had a hard time really pinning anything down. I'm just waiting for the boomers to start kicking the bucket so my SCI stock will start going up.
I've been researching and it seems like coal, fertilizer and steel are all up there.......and drilling exploration is big too, but it's hit or miss with that one. I'm not trying to find out the next big company.....just areas of possible booming industry. You're a finance major.......you're supposed to know this! :tongueout:
What are some "hot" industries in the stock market right now? A few months ago it was copper and before that it was Google, etc. I have a finance class project that I'm working on and I need some help to get going in the right direction. The areas of interest that I think might be peaking is steel? Drilling exploration? Coal? I dunno. :dunno:
Does anyone have any ideas as to the next "hot" industry? All ideas would be greatly appreciated! :wavey: Thanks GTers! :supergrin:
What about "energy"? Coal, natural gas, bio-fuels. A lot of people are keeping an eye on these companies since we are looking to break away from our dependence on gas and move towards alternative fuels.
I would not say the energy sector is hot, but sure is a lot of buzz on what companies will be on the forefront of new fuels. I live in Fort Worth, TX and wind and natural gas make the front page of our paper every day.
PeterJasonMN
08-30-2008, 09:08
XEL has been pissing me off lately. I know utilities are usually slow movers, but jeez louise. They slow-gain up, but they have no problem dropping off in a hurry.
Tiffany & Co. was up over 10% on Thursday.
PeterJasonMN
08-30-2008, 09:09
If you're active in the market and really want to kick yourself, check out CLF from between February and call it...May/June.:faint:
Big Bird
08-30-2008, 09:16
Look to blue chip large cap growth stocks. The fundamentals of the large cap growth sector are very good and this area has largely fallen out of favor with investors since the 2001 market declines. Since then investors have largely favored small, mid and international stocks. But these stocks have had their run IMO and the international economy is not nearly as favorable as our own.
Commodities are done for a while. The speculation bubble has popped and the money that could be made in the commodities market is made. If you do anything with commodities it should be shorting the market.
AS things begin to improve and money begins to flow back into the equities markets you will see a flight to quality--that means large blue chip companies.
As long as you steer clear of most financials you should do great. While I think the worst of the housing bubble, credit crisis, whatever, is behind us--the financial sector will be reeling for quite some time as they simply don't have to capital to generate growth nor do they have enough investor confidence to raise that capital.
Remember the Oracle of Omaha's advice: Buy when people are fearful and sell when people are greedy!
Buy low.
Sell high.
(You're welcome.)
:supergrin:
buster55
08-30-2008, 11:31
Companies that are in the solar energy business have been on the upswing
sjfrellc
08-30-2008, 11:48
Tristan,
You can't look at the current stock marked and tell the industries that will lead. Reason is the market is currently in a correction and the companies sitting at the top of the leader board are there by default.
If the developing countries are able to proceed full steam ahead, yes materials, metals, fertilizers will be hot, but the world is slowing down this year and investors are rightly taking profits in these industries.
Here is an overview of industries at the top now. They are not the next big thing. A correction is underway and what brings the next big thing is a multivariate equation. Sorry, but when looking at the market you have to look at what it is doing, not at what you want it to do.
August 29, 2008
August Shuffle Bumps Oil Out Of Top Groups
By ALAN R. ELLIOTT
As August whimpers to a close, half the top 20 ranked groups are new to the list in the past month.
Oil and gas groups, which ended July with four top slots, slipped entirely out of the leading ranks.
Four new medical groups have climbed into leadership roles. Med groups now hold a total of five top 20 slots.
Three of those medical groups, detailed in earlier articles this week, present a number of stocks with high EPS ratings.
A number of groups, some of them new to the list, have risen as defensive plays. That could signal dollars rotating out of riskier growth stocks in search of safer bets.
Dairy products, ranked No. 2 in Friday's paper, bagged the best rank among new entrants. It vaulted from No. 29 three weeks ago, up from 164 in mid-June.
But the group holds only two stocks with an EPS Rank above 80.
Wimm Bill Dann Foods, (WBD) a Russia-based juice and dairy producer, is mired deep in a three-month correction.
China-based Synutra Internation, a maker of infant and children's nutritional formulas, has posted big gains since July, but is thinly traded.
Two groups, truckers and games/toys/hobby makers, have advanced but hold no stocks with an EPS Rank above 80. Three others — discount & variety retailers, building maintenance services and insurance brokers — carry only one stock apiece with an EPS Rank above 80.
Steel producers toppled out of the top 20 to below 100. Fertilizer makers dropped almost as far. The Energy-Other group still ranks in the top 20, but gave up the top slot it had held through most of this year.
I sure wish I had invested 100K in uranium in 2003. That would be worth 1.6 million today as uranium has gone up 13 times since then. It is too late to take advantage of that one.
PeterJasonMN
08-30-2008, 15:34
I had some money in Cameco, which is a uranium mining company.
Key word: Had
Trademark
08-30-2008, 16:26
What are some "hot" industries in the stock market right now? A few months ago it was copper and before that it was Google, etc. I have a finance class project that I'm working on and I need some help to get going in the right direction. The areas of interest that I think might be peaking is steel? Drilling exploration? Coal? I dunno. :dunno:
Does anyone have any ideas as to the next "hot" industry? All ideas would be greatly appreciated! :wavey: Thanks GTers! :supergrin:
Canned goods.
ScarFace88
08-30-2008, 16:29
Alternative fuels.
Electrical storage components, aka batteries.
You can thank me later.
straightblast
08-30-2008, 16:51
Tristan---smart kid:)
Fertilizer and coal are in fact hot and appear to be getting hotter. Check some coal mine service companies too, those that supply major parts to mines.
Of course, I am a goldbug, but not necessarily as an industry.
A good site to look at with great charting is www.barchart.com
You can look at all the sectors, strength, volume etc.
You can make your own portfolio by using your e mail address and will track all your stock picks.
Another great site that is good is www.finviz.com
Good luck!!
I'm a John Bogle index fund buy-and-hold guy these days. Back in the tech bubble days not only was I working in the tech sector but I'd a large chunk of my jack invested in tech funds and some individual issues. Boy, did I get burned in the bust. I was talking with a fellow developer one day and he was telling me about some telecommunications outfit that was ripping and, on a lark - right then and there, I picked up the phone and called my broker and had him purchase 6K of it for me. I later sold it for something like $300. Jackass me that I be. I feel particularly bad for bragging so much about how my scudder tech fund was doing and my boss, a Yale grad, was dumb enough to listen to me and plunked down a reasonable chunk and got burned along with dumbell me.
Of course, I always went with (and still do) "concentration to build wealth, diversification to preserve it." Sometimes it works out, sometimes not.
PJMN, accounting is a real good major and that is the area in which I took my undergraduate degree, and should serve you well. I liked the study of accounting in school, but upon graduation I went to work at a cpa firm and did not like it in practice and went back to school and picked up an ms in comp sci and worked as a developer and really dug it (many Eureka experiences.)
PeterJasonMN
08-30-2008, 18:28
If I was REALLY into computers, I would have gone Accounting and MIS. Know how to crunch the numbers, and move them along. The way it stands, we HAVE to have either a minor, or a 2nd major. It was actually cheaper for me to do a Finance major, because so many of our classes are cross-compatible.
If I was REALLY into computers, I would have gone Accounting and MIS. Know how to crunch the numbers, and move them along. The way it stands, we HAVE to have either a minor, or a 2nd major. It was actually cheaper for me to do a Finance major, because so many of our classes are cross-compatible.
If you're bent on business MIS is the way to go. I went comp sci which is decoupled from any application area (you're doing data structures, building assemblers, compilers, etc) and it really make you think - it's pretty much problem solving. Despite my undergraduate degree in accounting, I was usually the guy who did the most low level technical work and other guys did the higher level business application stuff. Many a night I went to sleep thinking about how to solve a problem and work up at 3:00am with "Eureka! I have it."
uneasyrider
08-30-2008, 18:51
Electrical storage components, aka batteries.
You can thank me later.
I so agree with you. The demand for batteries is going to be gigantic.
Dandapani
08-30-2008, 19:06
Shooting for sector stocks is a crap shoot. Buy major index stock mutual funds like S&P 500, mid-cap, small-cap, etc.
Shooting for sector stocks is a crap shoot. Buy major index stock mutual funds like S&P 500, mid-cap, small-cap, etc.
Big +1 on that.
I used to buy individual shs on margin and it's fun when everything's going up. The downside can get a little nasty, though. Index funds or etf's that ape the indexes is the way to go for most I'd think.
geminicricket
08-30-2008, 19:55
You want "hot" industries?
IBD has hot industries,
1. GHM Mfgs eqpmt for Petrochemical, Oil Refinery, and Power Gen Inds.
2. GMRX Exploration for oil and natgas in TX, LA, NM.
3. TITN Sells agricultural/construction machinery
4. BUCY Mfg eqpmnt for surface mining.
5. CNQR Software.
6. POT Fertilizer and feed products in U.S. and Canada
7. CF Nitrogen and Phosphate fertilizers in North America
8. KSU Rail networks in U.S., Mexico, Panama
9. DXPE Mfg eqpmnt for industrial customers
10. FLS Mfg pumps/valves/mechanical seals
So it looks like the "hot" industries are engaged in either providing domestic fossil fuel energy, domestic alternative fuel, equipment for the first two industries, or transportation for their products.
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Faulkner
08-30-2008, 22:20
Here's a hot lead; Sulphco - symbol SUF
Do a google search on it, but basically they have technology called sonocracking that can help the throughput of sour grade crude in the refining process.
It's hovering around $3.00 per share now, it's going to $50 in the near future. Remember, you heard it here first.
jakemccoy
08-30-2008, 22:22
Anybody who really knows will not post here. Also, the market may have already corrected for certain things that sound like a good idea. You're just going to lose everything. It's best not to get involved with any kind of investments. There's no money to be gained. Just stay indoors and go back to sleep.
What are some "hot" industries in the stock market right now? A few months ago it was copper and before that it was Google, etc. I have a finance class project that I'm working on and I need some help to get going in the right direction. The areas of interest that I think might be peaking is steel? Drilling exploration? Coal? I dunno.
What are the exact goals of this class project?
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