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Jul.10
11:44 AM ET
Thursday, 10 Jul 2008
Stock Picks: Timber, the Grid & Cisco (Pt. 1)

Basic materials and the power to use them offer strong opportunities for investors, according to Kent Croft.

He's also enthusiastic about a familiar technology name.

His five-star Croft Value Fund is up an average of 12.37 percent per year over the last five years.

Recommendations:

His basic-materials theme focuses on timber.

"We think there's a number of stocks there -- Weyerhaeuser [WY  Loading...      ()   ], Plum Creek [PCL  Loading...      ()   ], Potlatch [PCH  Loading...      ()   ], where the...values of the timber assets are not being realized in the share price," he said.  "These companies...look very cheap, especially on a long-term basis."

Croft also likes what he sees as the under-appreciated companies likely to be involved in the rehabilitation of the nation's electric grid.

Disclosures:

Disclosure information for Kent Croft was not immediately available.

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