Fast Money Stock Picks – January 31, 2008 – Retail & Financials

Adami:
GOOG – Google – Buy
MOT – Motorola – Buy, if you have a taste for risk
WB – Wachovia – Buy
TGT – Target – Sell
HD – Home Depot – Sell
WMT – Wal-Mart – Sell
RTH – Retail ETF – Sell
BNI – Burlington Northern – Buy sometime soon
FRO – Frontline – Watch
MA – MasterCard – Buy on a dip
MCD – McDonald’s – Buy – “Final Trade”
LAZ – Lazard – Buy as an M&A play
JEC – Jacobs Engineering – Buy
FLS – Flowserve – Buy

Najarian:
GOOG – Google – Buy
XLF – Financial Select Sector SPDR – Buy
WFC – Wells Fargo – Buy
USB – US Bancorp – Buy
CMC – Commercial Metals – Buy
ANR – Alpha Natural Resources – Buy – “Final Trade”

Finerman:
COF – Capital One – Sell
TGT – Target – Sell
HD – Home Depot – Sell
WMT – Wal-Mart – Sell
RTH – Retail ETF – Sell
BR – Broadridge – Buy – “Final Trade”
*Merger & Acquisition plays:
LAZ – Lazard – Buy
GHL – Greenhill – Buy
GS – Goldman Sachs – Buy

Macke:
GOOG – Google – Buy, but get out if it drops to a 4-handle  – “Final Trade”

Pops (stocks that jumped up):
ADBL – Audible (22%) – Macke: overpaid, but cornered the book market
CVS – CVS Caremark (8%) – Adami: not thrilled with this stock
HOT – Starwood Hotels & Resorts (6%) – Finerman: nice day for a company that hasn’t had a nice year
MAT – Mattel (11%) – Macke: stay away
RTN – Raytheon (3%) – Adami: I like this stock
PZN – Pzena Investment Management (23%)
WU – Western Union (7%)
JBLU – Jet Blue (9%)

Drops (stocks that slid lower):
ADBE – Adobe (3%) – Najarian: not so bad
CDNS – Cadence Design Systems (33%) – Najarian: they don’t have many orders
TSO – Tesoro (4%)
BMY – Bristol Myers Squibb (1%)