CNBC Stock Blog

ABOUT THE CNBC STOCK BLOG

The CNBC Stock Blog is a cross-section of expert opinions and insights from our TV and Web site coverage. This blog includes posts written by and about top analysts and strategists, super-investors and CNBC's own market mavens. You'll find stock picks, news about publicly-traded companies, commodities, hot sectors, ETFs and the latest options action.

STOCKS

» More

MARKET MOVERS

» More

ART CASHIN

Art Cashin on the Markets
Art Cashin, Director of Floor Operations at UBS, shares his analysis and pulse of the market with CNBC viewers.

RSS FEED

» Help

Subscribe to this RSS feed
Stay up to date with the CNBC Stock Blog.

CNBC EXPLAINS

Dividend Stocks That Look Attractive: Strategist

Published: Tuesday, 9 Mar 2010 | 1:13 PM ET

Text Size

By: JeeYeon Park
CNBC.com Writer

Markets rose after a lower open on Tuesday amid some profit taking on this 1-year anniversary of the March 2009 lows. Patrick Becker, chief investment officer at Becker Capital Management, and Alec Young, equity strategist at Standard & Poor’s, said there's still further room for growth.

“We think we can go higher,” Becker told CNBC.

“Dividend-paying stocks look attractive and we also think you’re going to see flows into the markets.” (Scroll down for Becker's stock picks.)

In the meantime, Young said he expects to see a trading range over the short term, but markets will eventually make new recovery highs on the S&P within the year. (See Young's sector picks & pans, below.)

“We’d expect the market to keep churning around for a while,” he said. “We need a little more evidence that the private sector’s healthy enough to keep this recovery going, as governments around the world start to pull the stimulus away.”

“Last week’s job report was a step in the right direction, but we need a bunch more of that as well as a very good first quarter earnings season to really help us punch through,” he added.

Recommendations:

Becker Likes:

Microsoft [MSFT Loading... () ]