The "Big Bank Theory" Of Picking Stocks

CNBC's "Power Lunch" team asked some of the best and the brightest from America's big financial firms to list the most promising stocks. Strategists from Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Cowen & Co. and Deutsche Bank offered CNBC their stock picks.

Here are a few of Citigroup's top choices:

Nike

Aon

Celgene

Honeywell

Ecolab

Time Warner

NuStar Energy

Apple

Sempra Energy

Goldman Sachs' Picks

Goldman Sachs offered these selections in the consumer staples sector:

WalMart

CVS Caremark

General Mills

Kroger

Safeway

Alberto-Culver

In the health-care sector, Goldman Sachs offered these picks from investment strategist David Kostin's report on January 29th:

Centene

Community Health Systems

Lifepoint Hospitals.

Cowen & Co. Picks

Cowen & Co. recommended these:

Energy Conversion Devices

King Pharmaceuticals

Life Technologies

Teva Pharmaceutical

Vertex

Verigy

Deutsche Bank's Picks

Deutsche Bank recommended these beverage stocks:

Molson Coors Brewing

Pepsico

Pepsi Americas

In the pharmaceutical sector, Deutsche Bank recommended:

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Merck

Pfizer

And in tobacco, Deutsche Bank recommended:

Altria Group

Reynolds American.

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