20 Stocks with the Potential to Pop (Q4 2009)
Companies:Southwestern Energy Company | El Paso Corp | Halliburton Co | Fluor Corp | Macy's | MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. | Tenet Healthcare Corp | KB Home | Iron Mountain Incorporated | Electronic Arts Inc | Lennar Corp | MetroPCS Communications Inc. | Pactiv Corporation | Gannett Inc | Quanta Services, Inc. | Gamestop Corporation | Chesapeake Energy Corp | Apollo Group Inc | Novell Inc
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Source: ThomsonReuters This story has been updated. For the newest version, please click here. It's the basic question when investing in a stock: is it on the way up or will it go down? To answer this question, the street has developed numerous ways of attempting to predict what will happen, estimating various attributes tied to stock performance in order to determine what the future holds for a company's valuation.After dissecting the data, analysts following a particular stock produce a price target of where they believe the stock is headed. From the entire S&P 500, which stocks are analysts expecting to have the biggest pops? With data from ThomsonReuters, we took a look at which stocks have mean consensus estimates farthest above their stock prices (as of market close on 12/4/09).So, which stocks do analysts on average predict will have the biggest pop? Click ahead to find out!By Ariel Nelson & Paul ToscanoPosted 4 Dec 2009 |
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Closing Price (12/4): $42.95Price Target: $58.05Potential to Pop: 35.2%Get SWN Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $9.50Price Target: $12.90Potential to Pop: 35.8%Get EP Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $42.57Price Target: $58.68Potential to Pop: 37.8%Get FLR Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $45.18Price Target: $62.46Potential to Pop: 38.2%Get RRC Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $24.00Price Target: $33.33Potential to Pop: 38.9% Get IRM Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $27.81Price Target: $38.73Potential to Pop: 39.3%Get HAL Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $13.60Price Target: $18.95Potential to Pop: 39.3%Get KBH Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $15.98Price Target: $22.31Potential to Pop: 39.6%Get M Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $10.29Price Target: $14.5Potential to Pop: 40.9% Get GCI Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $16.20Price Target: $22.93Potential to Pop: 41.5%Get ERTS Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $12.75Price Target: $18.05Potential to Pop: 41.6%Get WFR Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $24.16Price Target: $ 34.3Potential to Pop: 42.0%Get PTV Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $6.60Price Target: $9.38Potential to Pop: 42.1%Get PCS Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $12.43Price Target: $17.82Potential to Pop: 43.4%Get LEN Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $4.06Price Target: $5.83Potential to Pop: 43.6%Get NOVL Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $21.33Price Target: $30.73Potential to Pop: 44.1%Get GME Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $4.75Price Target: $6.87Potential to Pop: 44.6%Get THC Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $54.76Price Target: $80.69Potential to Pop: 47.4%Get APOL Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $18.34Price Target: $27.09Potential to Pop: 47.7%Get PWR Real Time Quote |
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Closing Price (12/4): $22.57Price Target: $34.19Potential to Pop: 51.5%Get CHK Real Time Quote |
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