10 Best Stocks to Invest in 2019.

The strive to make money through investment in stocks of companies has become a dominant measure in the choices of investors and entrepreneurs. More individuals and corporate organizations look towards owning stakes in the ownership of companies rather than establishing and running one themselves. Investments, like many other endeavors, requires a professional guide to minimize and manage the risk involved. Company strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats especially, that emerging from new technologically savvy enterprises that tend to put existing companies to extinct, past history of operations, financial records, company stability stage, the quality of management team and their wealth of experience, environment of operation, among others are some of the vital factors a professional investment guide would look at before making recommendations for potential investors.  

Making money in stocks amid an uncertain market will require careful choices by the investors. It will be difficult to top the revenue and earnings growth rates in 2019, for instance, and economic growth is expected to slow down. That kind of environment requires investors to be discerning when it comes to their stock picks.

Investors looking for the best stocks to buy for 2019 should start with these 10 companies. These firms, ranging from a money-center bank to a bargain-basement retailer, have solid prospects in this year 2019. Check these companies stock out.

1.    Alibaba

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52-week low/high: $130.06/$211.70

Market value: $372.5 billion

P/E ratio: 32

Yield: --

Alibaba is best-known for running China's most popular online marketplaces. However, like America's Amazon.com, it has expanded its scope into additional businesses, such as electronic payments services, cloud computing, and the media.

Because of concerns about the Chinese economy, shares are down more than 30% since June despite the company's sharply rising revenues, presenting what looks like a good buying opportunity. Since its market is largely domestic, it's also unlikely to be affected by trade troubles.

It's the top holding (10% of assets) of MCHFX Matthews China an asset and fund management company that knows the region well. Investing in alibaba stocks with a higher potentiality of returns on investment in this year would be a good decision to take.

2. Amazon.com

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 52-week low/high: $1,121.63/$2,050.50

 Market value: $837.3 billion

P/E ratio: 74

Yield: --

Amazon.com started out as an online bookseller, and now it's America's largest e-commerce company that even sells its own generic-brand products to her customers worldwide. It also boasts other revenue streams, such as its Amazon Web Services cloud offerings, Echo smart speakers and Amazon Prime streaming content.

Amazon also is the top holding of well-known Fidelity Contrafund helmed by Will Danoff since 1990.

Third-quarter earnings disappointed investors, who marked the stock down in the fall. But CEO Jeff Bezos doesn't care about short-term profits. He wants to grab market share.

3.Brookfield Asset Management

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52-week low/high: $37.22/$45.04

Market value: $41.5 billion

P/E ratio: N/A

Yield: 1.4%

Brookfield Asset Management is what you buy when you want to invest in something other than stocks and bonds. Brookfield owns a global portfolio of office, apartment and retail properties; it also owns 840 power plants that run on hydroelectricity, wind and other renewable technologies. Its infrastructure division invests in ports and railroads, and its private equity unit offers limited partnership stakes in real estate and energy. Brookfield benefits from large inflows from institutional investors, says Brian Milligan, of Ave Maria Growth Fund "It has plenty of money to put to work." Investing with this asset management company is a good step towards financial multiplication and growth.

4. Celgene

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52-week low/high: $70.09/$110.81

Market value: $51.8 billion

P/E ratio: 7

Yield: --

Celgene a pharmaceutical enterprise has a variety of drugs that fight cancer and autoimmune diseases. Its biggest seller, Revlimid, treats multiple myeloma; analysts at research firm CFRA believe the blockbuster drug can maintain sales growth rates in the teens through 2021. The firm also has a robust pipeline of new drugs, and Celgene bulls base on their positive outlook for the stock on new-product launches expected in 2019 and 2020 that should diversify the company's revenue base. CFRA analysts rate the stock a "strong buy" and say the market is underestimating the strength of Celgene's lineup. A potential of a steady growth that would translate to higher returns on investments for her investors would like be seen, owing to the higher sales and acceptability of her new products by consumers.

5. Cognizant Technology

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52-week low/high: $65.14/$85.10

Market value: $40.7 billion

P/E ratio: 15

Yield: 1.1%

This IT consulting and services firm isn't the small, meteoric-growth name it once was known, Cognizant Technology still finds ways to steadily boost company earnings and revenues. Cognizant is focusing on its lucrative digital business, which helps clients with analytics, cloud computing and cybersecurity. The firm's digital revenue logged a growth rate of more than 20% in the third quarter of 2018 compared with the same period a year earlier, but it still represents just 30% of Cognizant's overall sales. That implies a "long runway of growth ahead" for Cognizant, according to CFRA, which rates the stock a "strong buy."

6. Computer Programs and Systems

52-week low/high: $24.57/$34.65

Market value: $0.4 billion

P/E ratio: 18

Yield: 1.5%

Alabama-based Computer Programs and Systems is a provider of software for community hospitals. For instance, it offers and electronic health records (EHR) product that helps medical providers keep accurate hospital records while also remaining compliant with changing industry regulations.

A micro cap with a market value of just $373 million, the stock is in a niche with considerable potential. The firm is a top holding of Seven Canyons Advisors whose lead portfolio manager, Josh Stewart, searches for mid- and small-cap technology stocks to invest and recommend to investors.

7. Coupa Software

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52-week low/high: $30.65/$84.53

Market value: $3.7 billion

P/E ratio: N/A

Yield: --

Coupa Software - which connects businesses with suppliers and manages procurement, billing and budgeting - is a choice for adventurous investors, and profits are only on the verge of showing up. The company says revenues for the 12 months ending Jan. 31, 2019, will be up about one-third over 2018.

But the firm is a "buy" recommendation from Terry Tillman, a software analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. The stock also received a price-target hike, from $72 to $80 per share, from Loop Capital analyst Joseph Vafi, who has COUP at "buy." He likes the company's "modest acceleration to subscription revenue growth, combined with solid leverage in sales and marketing spread."

8. DowDuPont

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52-week low/high: $51.32/$77.08

Market value: $134.4 billion

P/E ratio: 12

Yield: 2.6%

DowDuPont will split into three in 2019. The agricultural group will break off as Corteva Agriscience, the materials division will be called Dow, and the specialty products businesses will be DuPont. Buy DowDuPont now, and you'll receive shares in all three new firms. That's a good thing: Spin-off shares tend to beat the market over the first two years, with the sum of the parts often adding up to more than the value of the whole.

Even pre-split, the firm has good prospects. Analysts expect 16% profit growth in 2019 for the consolidated firm. The shares trade at just 12 times expected 2019 earnings.

9. Home Depot

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52-week low/high: $162.93/$215.43

Market value: $192.5 billion

P/E ratio: 19

Yield: 2.2%

Only a handful of stocks gain the top ratings for timeliness and safety as well as for financial strength from the Value Line Investment Survey. One is Home Depot , the powerhouse home-improvement retailer, whose earnings per share have risen each year since 2009.

Over the next three to five years, Value Line projects that Home Depot's profits will rise 12.5% annualized and the dividend, now $4.12, will roughly double. Wall Street in general is bullish on the stock's prospects, with 24 of the 33 analysts covering it considering it a "buy" or "strong buy."

10. IHS Markit

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52-week low/high: $42.55/$55.80

Market value: $20.9 billion

P/E ratio: 26

Yield: --

A London-based Company. IHS Markit which provides data and analytics to financial, transportation and energy firms, is one of the most respected companies in a burgeoning 21st-century sector. The company boasts 80% of Fortune 500 companies among its more than 50,000 clients. they have branch offices in many countries including African nations.

THE BOTTOM LINE

The fact remains that there's hardly an investment without some level of risk involved, thus the need for prospective investors to do a thorough background checking, to know much about the company they are investing in is paramount especially some terms and conditions of the company which would most time include their policies and regulations. thus prospective investors would want to leverage on the recommendations of financial experts and capital analysts most especially as an institution. The information compiled in this article are facts and knowledge gathered from seasoned investment analysts, however, I would like to categorically state here clearly as a disclaimer that; readers and prospective investors should understand that they are responsible for any action taken towards investments they made based on the information gotten on this site. An investor, as an entrepreneur is a risk taker and should be responsible for the risks as well as he/she enjoys the returns on investments made in companies of his choice. see you in the next articles for the continuation of the very best promising investment you would never want to miss in 2019 and beyound. thanks for reading. I would like to read and respond to your comments.