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Growing Your Profits With Ag, Healthcare & Pipelines

Topics:Earnings | Nasdaq | NYSE | Stock Picks | Stock Market

By: Brooke Sopelsa,, Video Producer | 18 Jun 2008 | 02:51 PM ET

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To give investors an edge, CNBC asked the market experts for their best stock picks now.

Making Money in Healthcare

“It’s been a brutal marketplace, the healthcare sector, so Express Scripts is in a space, the pharmacy benefit management area, that has kind of been a part of the solution…they’re helping firms and organizations lower their overall medical costs. So as the rhetoric around the healthcare systems increases, we see Express Scripts [EXRX Loading... () ] as a firm that can benefit from that.”

Paul Alan Davis, Schwab Portfolio Manager

Davis also likes: Baxter International [BAX Loading... () ]

Ag Plays

"We like all the fertilizer stocks...In particular, we like the ones that have the potash exposure, and that includes Mosaic [MOS Loading... () ], Potash [POT Loading... () ], and Agrium [AGU Loading... () ]."

Michael Judd, Greenwich Consultants

Judd also likes: Monsanto [MON Loading... () ]

Betting on Pipelines

"I really like the pipeline area...Enterprise Product Partners [EPD Loading... () ] is a pipeline of natural gas across the United States is a great one. One other would be Enbridge Energy Partners [EEP Loading... () ], which is an oil pipeline, which is bringing the oil from the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, down into the U.S."