Rating And Ranking The S&P500

We can use our data to track individual stocks, industries, sectors, and indices. For today's bulletin, we present key metrics for the top picks in the S&P 500. The companies listed below represent the top-ten STRONG BUY stocks within the index. They are presented below according to their one-month forecast target prices.

The components of this list are little changed since the last time we presented the top S&P picks a month ago.  PSX and GILD are newcomers--they replaced AAL and UAL. Tesoro Corp remains the overall leader.

Ticker

Company Name

Market Price

Valuation

Last 12-M Retrn

1-M Forecast Retn

1-Yr Forecast Retn

P/E Ratio

Sector Name

Last Month Top Ten

TSO

TESORO CORP

104.79

-3.84%

41.21%

1.60%

19.40%

7.50

Oils-Energy

TSO

LYB

LYONDELLBASEL-A

88.93

-17.91%

24.29%

1.52%

18.40%

8.58

Basic Materials

VLO

VLO

VALERO ENERGY

70.2

9.93%

49.27%

1.46%

17.63%

7.93

Oils-Energy

GM

MPC

MARATHON PETROL

49.7

-5.46%

20.92%

1.41%

17.04%

8.49

Oils-Energy

DAL

GM

GENERAL MOTORS

35.14

-6.20%

14.35%

1.35%

16.32%

7.26

Auto-Tires-Trucks

MPC

PSX

PHILLIPS 66

83.06

9.28%

23.90%

1.16%

13.99%

10.47

Oils-Energy

AAL

DAL

DELTA AIR LINES

52.12

-6.27%

14.85%

1.10%

13.26%

11.55

Transportation

UAL

GT

GOODYEAR TIRE

33.33

22.57%

25.73%

1.05%

12.57%

10.87

Auto-Tires-Trucks

LYB

GILD

GILEAD SCIENCES

103.34

-3.30%

2.87%

1.01%

12.10%

8.69

Medical

LUV

LUV

SOUTHWEST AIR

44.8

-9.09%

13.19%

0.99%

11.85%

13.07

Transportation

GT

Below is today's data on newcomer PSX:

Phillips 66 is a downstream energy company. It operates in three segments: Refining & Marketing, Midstream and Chemicals. The Refining and Marketing segment purchases, refines, markets and transports crude oil and petroleum products, mainly in the United States, Europe and Asia and also engages in power generation activities, lubricants and other specialty products businesses. The Midstream segment gathers, processes, transports and markets natural gas and fractionates and markets NGL, predominantly in the United States. The Chemicals segment manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics. Phillips 66 is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

VALUENGINE RECOMMENDATION: ValuEngine continues its STRONG BUY recommendation on PHILLIPS 66 for 2015-12-16. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that PHILLIPS 66 has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE Sharpe Ratio and Company Size.

ValuEngine Forecast

 

Target
Price*

Expected
Return

1-Month

84.03 1.16%

3-Month

86.17 3.74%

6-Month

89.01 7.16%

1-Year

94.68 13.99%

2-Year

97.85 17.81%

3-Year

100.53 21.04%

ValuEngine Market Overview

Summary of VE Stock Universe

Stocks Undervalued

55.21%

Stocks Overvalued

44.79%

Stocks Undervalued by 20%

27.2%

Stocks Overvalued by 20%

15.69%

ValuEngine Sector Overview

Sector

Change

MTD

YTD

Valuation

Last 12-MReturn

P/E Ratio

Consumer Staples

1.48%

-1.05%

4.16%

7.03% overvalued

2.79%

23.56

Business Services

0.89%

-2.97%

0.99%

2.94% overvalued

-2.48%

24.86

Multi-Sector Conglomerates

1.17%

-4.67%

-13.48%

2.67% overvalued

-9.87%

16.68

Computer and Technology

0.80%

-3.35%

0.40%

2.34% overvalued

0.70%

28.17

Medical

1.45%

-2.99%

2.59%

2.18% overvalued

3.07%

28.76

Finance

1.02%

-2.85%

0.28%

0.53% overvalued

-1.54%

16.19

Aerospace

0.50%

-4.19%

-0.53%

0.05% undervalued

-0.88%

22.44

Construction

1.16%

-5.25%

-0.90%

1.99% undervalued

-2.08%

20.33

Utilities

2.07%

-3.18%

-8.82%

2.10% undervalued

-6.75%

21.93

Consumer Discretionary

1.27%

-2.66%

-0.91%

3.22% undervalued

-1.37%

24.70

Industrial Products

1.18%

-5.33%

-10.16%

5.91% undervalued

-8.39%

17.96

Retail-Wholesale

1.25%

-1.92%

-8.54%

6.45% undervalued

-4.81%

23.37

Auto-Tires-Trucks

1.56%

-4.70%

-8.07%

10.98% undervalued

-9.31%

13.08

Transportation

1.59%

-6.32%

-17.49%

15.58% undervalued

-21.94%

13.05

Basic Materials

1.49%

-4.98%

-20.98%

15.59% undervalued

-18.68%

22.55

Oils-Energy

0.91%

-11.37%

-28.64%

16.78% undervalued

-34.82%

23.76

VALUATION WATCH: Overvalued stocks now make up 44.79% of our stocks assigned a valuation and 15.69% of those equities are calculated to be overvalued by 20% or more. Six sectors are calculated to be overvalued.

Disclosure: None.

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