Traveler's Regains Position As Top Stock On S&P 500

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.

ValuEngine tracks more than 7000 US equities, ADRs, and foreign stock which trade on US exchanges as well as @1000 Canadian equities.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 BUY/STRONG BUY stocks within the index. They are presented below according to their one-month forecast target prices.

For the first time in a while, we have a good bit of turnover in our list. Traveler's returns to the top while Tyson Foods and Hartford Financial move up from the last time we presented the top S&P picks in April Assurant has declined to third position. Meanwhile, Goodyear, Valero, LAM Research, Delta Airlines, and Southwest Airlines have fallen out of the top-ten. second-place spot. Our newcomers this week are DR Horton, Chubb LTD, AFLAC, Broadcom LTD, and KLA-Tencor.

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

TRV

TRAVELERS COS

111.97

-1.97%

9.54%

1.10%

13.24%

10.55

Finance

GT

DHI

D R HORTON INC

29.12

-5.26%

14.47%

1.07%

12.86%

13.22

Construction

AIZ

AIZ

ASSURANT INC

86.39

29.76%

33.13%

1.06%

12.71%

14.24

Finance

VLO

CB

CHUBB LTD

123.76

6.18%

14.30%

1.00%

12.06%

13.06

Finance

TRV

TSN

TYSON FOODSA

68.48

13.18%

65.53%

1.00%

12.04%

17.59

Consumer Staples

LRCX

T

AT&T INC

39.18

2.21%

16.99%

0.99%

11.92%

14.06

Utilities

TSN

AFL

AFLAC INC

68.76

15.60%

7.62%

0.95%

11.34%

10.74

Finance

T

HIG

HARTFORD FIN SV

44.26

8.60%

6.39%

0.91%

10.87%

11.75

Finance

DAL

AVGO

BROADCOM LTD

143.85

-9.51%

17.13%

0.88%

10.59%

16.71

Computer and Technology

LUV

KLAC

KLA-TENCOR CORP

69.7

-13.25%

16.93%

0.86%

10.33%

17.27

Computer and Technology

HIG

NOTE: New stocks are in BOLD

Below is today's data on one of our newcomers, KLA-Tencor (KLAC):

KLA-Tencor Corporation is one of the world's leading suppliers of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries. Its comprehensive portfolio of products, software, analysis, services and expertise is designed to help integrated circuit manufacturers manage yield throughout the entire wafer fabrication process.

VALUENGINE RECOMMENDATION: ValuEngine continues its BUY recommendation on KLA-TENCOR CORP for 2016-05-11. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that KLA-TENCOR CORP has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE Company Size and Momentum.

You can download a free copy of detailed report on TSN from the link below.

ValuEngine Forecast

 

Target
Price*

Expected
Return

1-Month

70.30 0.86%

3-Month

70.11 0.59%

6-Month

69.88 0.26%

1-Year

76.90 10.33%

2-Year

65.51 -6.01%

3-Year

51.97 -25.43%

ValuEngine Market Overview

Summary of VE Stock Universe

Stocks Undervalued

58.16%

Stocks Overvalued

41.84%

Stocks Undervalued by 20%

25.4%

Stocks Overvalued by 20%

13.6%

ValuEngine Sector Overview

Sector

Change

MTD

YTD

Valuation

Last 12-MReturn

P/E Ratio

Utilities

-0.31%

-0.10%

6.74%

8.45% overvalued

-0.43%

23.51

Consumer Staples

-0.73%

-0.20%

5.58%

8.02% overvalued

-0.82%

24.06

Basic Materials

0.62%

-3.78%

28.76%

7.80% overvalued

10.52%

28.71

Industrial Products

-0.40%

-1.39%

5.58%

4.20% overvalued

-11.58%

20.12

Multi-Sector Conglomerates

-0.63%

-1.27%

3.48%

3.30% overvalued

-8.36%

17.14

Aerospace

-0.02%

0.02%

-2.57%

0.78% overvalued

-8.46%

18.63

Oils-Energy

0.63%

-6.02%

8.48%

1.53% undervalued

-37.61%

21.64

Construction

-0.49%

-0.74%

17.00%

2.16% undervalued

-5.85%

20.66

Finance

-0.49%

-0.57%

0.65%

3.09% undervalued

-5.93%

15.78

Business Services

-0.80%

-0.04%

8.29%

4.44% undervalued

-9.12%

22.32

Consumer Discretionary

-1.09%

-0.84%

1.17%

5.16% undervalued

-10.75%

22.02

Computer and Technology

-0.68%

-2.03%

3.64%

5.43% undervalued

-10.02%

26.06

Auto-Tires-Trucks

-1.78%

-3.28%

-1.99%

9.10% undervalued

-17.44%

11.57

Medical

-1.40%

-3.37%

-6.50%

10.65% undervalued

-21.61%

26.22

Transportation

-0.63%

-3.29%

1.39%

11.67% undervalued

-28.97%

13.70

Retail-Wholesale

-2.52%

-2.93%

-3.17%

13.58% undervalued

-16.43%

21.70

VALUATION WATCH: Overvalued stocks now make up 41.84% of our stocks assigned a valuation and 13.6% of those equities are calculated to be overvalued by 20% or more. Six sectors are calculated to be overvalued.

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