Stock Market: A Fresh, New Year

What to expect for 2022

Micah Shin, Senior Correspondent, USA

12.00AM, January 4, 2022

Rapid Fire Pointers: Stocks to look out for in 2022

Lowe’s (LOW)

-Boom in home improvement sales during the pandemic

-11% upside potential

-Stock up 52% in one year

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

-Forecast: high pharmaceutical sales growth through 2025 (5% annually to $60 billion)

-Has 13 drugs with annual sales of at least $1 billion

-One of just two U.S. corporations with triple-A credit rating

Alphabet (GOOGL)

-Significant growth opportunities (increased focus on AI, investments in an array of different innovations, opportunities to reinvest in capital)

-Up 67% YTD

-Impressive ROE (29%)

General Motors (GM)

-Scalable platform

-Moving into EV (huge potential in this sector, valued at less than a tenth of Tesla; well-positioned)

-30% upside potential

Salesforce.com (CRM)

-Economic acceleration in cloud-based industries and digital transformation companies this year

-Increased profit margins after acquiring Slack

-Anticipated revenue growth of 20%+ and 33% upside potential

Visa (V)

-Increase in a shift towards digital payments (acquisition of CurrencyCloud)

-16% increase in payment volume

-Dividends increased by 17%

Apple (AAPL)

-Solid balance sheet and returns

-Expected to release first AR/VR device in 2022 (Often garners attention when entering in a new product category)

-Most valuable company in the world in terms of market capitalization

Meta Platforms Inc. (FB)

-Largest social media platform (3 billion monthly active users)

-Metaverse/Web3

-Currently trading at a relatively low price

Others: Charles Schwab, Applied Materials, Coca-Cola, Altria Group, Chevron, Suncor Energy, JD.com, Zynga, Fisker, Sonos, Under Armour, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Bank of America, Crowdstrike, The Trade Desk, AT&T, Berkshire Hathaway, Hertz Global Holdings, IBM, Nordstrom, Royal Dutch Shell, Unity Software

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Happy New Year! Wishing you a prosperous 2022!

Disclaimer: This article is not, in any sense or form, a form of financial advice. This article is not written by professional financial advisors and should be interpreted as containing merely opinions of our writers, not credible financial advice.