Friday Feb 6th, 2009 dailystocktracking

Street - Top 5 small-caps, American Physicians Service Group(AMPH), NCI(NCI), Balchem(BCPC), Thompkins Financial(TMP), Aceto(ACET). Fast Money - like JPMorgan Chase(JPM), Cisco(CSCO), Exxon Mobil(XOM), Potash(POT), HP(HPQ), Oil Services HLDRS(OIH). Upgrades - Costco(COST) target $52, NVR(NVR) target $450, Burger King(BKC) target $25, Cigna(CI) target $25, Monsanto(MON) target $91. Bull - Southern Peru Copper(PCU), Dollar Tree(DLTR), Family Dollar Stores(FDO), United Parcel Service(UPS), Southern Co(SO), Patriot Coal(PCX), Peabody Energy(BTU), Corning(GLW). Obama health care stocks, CR Bard(BCR) cardiac stents, Gilead Sciences(GILD) HIV drugs, Cerner(CERN) electronic health care records. Health ETFs.
HEALTH/BIOTECH ETFs -- NOT ACTING SICK OVER NEW ADMINISTRATION
NAME, TICKER & TheStreet.com RATINGS GRADE TOTAL NET ASSETS ($MIL.) TOTAL EXPENSE RATIO (%) 1-MO. TOTAL RET'N (%) 3-MO. TOTAL RET'N (%) 12-MO. TOTAL RET'N (%)
First Trust AMEX Biotechnology (FBT) C 49.6 0.60 -1.93 -5.67 -15.71
First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX (FXH) D 8.5 0.70 2.38 1.25 -23.64
Health Care Select Sector SPDR (XLV) B+ 2,377.1 0.22 -1.21 -0.79 -20.61
HOLDRS Biotech (BBH) A- 1,370.8 0.00 -1.22 0.07 7.72
HOLDRS Pharmaceutical (PPH) A+ 1,037.7 0.00 -3.23 -0.56 -16.96
iShares DJ US Medical Devices Idx (IHI) C- 291.4 0.48 3.40 -12.09 -30.41
iShares DJ US Pharmaceuticals (IHE) B 71.5 0.48 -3.29 2.61 -13.50
iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare (IYH) B+ 857.7 0.48 -1.62 -2.60 -19.99
iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology (IBB) C+ 1,754.9 0.48 -0.45 -0.95 -9.34
iShares S&P Global Healthcare (IXJ) A 675.1 0.48 -5.08 -4.22 -21.52
PowerShares Dynamic Biotech&Genome (PBE) C- 199.0 0.63 0.44 -5.88 -20.81
PowerShares Dynamic Hlthcare (PTH) C- 119.0 0.66 -2.55 -6.25 -31.58
PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals (PJP) B 106.6 0.63 -4.84 -0.38 -11.83
PowerShares FTSE RAFI Health Care (PRFH) C 14.2 0.75 -4.25 -3.97 -22.13
SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) C- 264.3 0.35 -1.59 -1.33 -4.73
SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF (XPH) A- 9.3 0.35 -2.82 8.27 -6.44
Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT) B 614.0 0.20 -1.71 -2.51 -20.47
S&P 500 Total Return Index - - -8.21 -13.76 -38.26
Source: TheStreet.com Ratings & Bloomberg (Data as of 1/31/2009)

Fool - Reading list.
Elementary School:
One Up On Wall Street, by Peter Lynch
Buffett: The Making of An American Capitalist, by Roger Lowenstein
Value Investing With the Masters, by Kirk Kazanjian
Junior High:
The 5 Keys to Value Investing, by J. Dennis Jean-Jacques
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, by Philip Fisher
High School:
John Neff on Investing, by John Neff
The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
University:
Stocks for the Long Run, by Jeremy Siegel
Quality of Earnings, by Thornton Oglove
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius, by Joel Greenblatt
Grad School:
Value Investing: A Balanced Approach, by Martin Whitman
The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek

Zacks - Baxter International(BAX), Fuel Systems Solutions(FSYS).
Investment U - two ways to play the coming water boom, Veolia Enviroment(VE) and Calgon Carbon Corporation(CCC).
TheStockAdvisors - Loews(L) is the holding company of the Tisch family, a way of buying a collection of good stocks at a discount, is a value investor stock of buying quality assets cheaply when they are out of favor, a recent value calculation for Lowes puts it at $39 a share, and trading at a 38% discount to its Net Asset Value. Now at 7x earnings. McDonald's(MCD) is earning a lot of cash, and is a Buy.