Below are stocks in the S&P 500 index with a "Strong Buy" average rating given by Wall Street analysts. Each analyst rating is assigned a number ranging from 1 to 5, with 1 being the highest rating (Strong Buy) and 5 being the lowest rating (Strong Sell). Then the average is calculated to represent the overall rating of a stock.
RANKING | STOCK | AVERAGE RATING VALUE | AVERAGE RATING
1 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO) 1.44 Strong Buy
2 The AES Corporation (NYSE:AES) 1.50 Strong Buy
3 Flowserve Corporation (NYSE:FLS) 1.50 Strong Buy
5 DaVita Inc. (NYSE:DVA) 1.53 Strong Buy
6 International Paper Company (NYSE:IP) 1.54 Strong Buy
7 Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) 1.55 Strong Buy
8 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) 1.55 Strong Buy
9 Covidien plc (NYSE:COV) 1.57 Strong Buy
10 American Tower Corporation (NYSE:AMT) 1.57 Strong Buy
11 Carnival Corporation (NYSE:CCL) 1.57 Strong Buy
12 Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) 1.58 Strong Buy
13 United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX) 1.58 Strong Buy
14 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) 1.60 Strong Buy
15 National-Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV) 1.60 Strong Buy
16 Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) 1.61 Strong Buy
17 The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) 1.61 Strong Buy
18 Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (NYSE:SWK) 1.62 Strong Buy
19 Express Scripts, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESRX) 1.63 Strong Buy
20 Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT) 1.63 Strong Buy
21 QEP Resources, Inc. (NYSE:QEP) 1.63 Strong Buy
22 Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) 1.64 Strong Buy
23 Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE:WYN) 1.64 Strong Buy
24 MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) 1.65 Strong Buy
25 Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ:CTSH) 1.65 Strong Buy
26 EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) 1.66 Strong Buy
27 Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE:SLB) 1.68 Strong Buy
28 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE:FCX) 1.70 Strong Buy
29 Williams Companies, Inc. (NYSE:WMB) 1.70 Strong Buy
30 Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE:PWR) 1.71 Strong Buy
31 SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) 1.71 Strong Buy
32 UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH) 1.71 Strong Buy
33 Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) 1.71 Strong Buy
34 Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU) 1.71 Strong Buy
35 United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE:UPS) 1.71 Strong Buy
36 Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) 1.73 Strong Buy
37 FMC Corporation (NYSE:FMC) 1.73 Strong Buy
38 Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) 1.73 Strong Buy
39 Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) 1.73 Strong Buy
40 Stryker Corporation (NYSE:SYK) 1.74 Strong Buy
41 Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL) 1.74 Strong Buy
42 Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) 1.74 Strong Buy
43 Cameron International Corporation (NYSE:CAM) 1.74 Strong Buy
44 Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE:APD) 1.75 Strong Buy
45 Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU) 1.75 Strong Buy
46 CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE:CVS) 1.75 Strong Buy
47 Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT) 1.75 Strong Buy
48 Loews Corporation (NYSE:L) 1.75 Strong Buy
49 WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE:WLP) 1.75 Strong Buy
50 MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) 1.76 Strong Buy
51 Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) 1.76 Strong Buy
52 Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE:CAH) 1.76 Strong Buy
53 TE Connectivity Ltd. (NYSE:TEL) 1.77 Strong Buy
54 Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI) 1.77 Strong Buy
55 Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA) 1.78 Strong Buy
56 PNC Financial Services (NYSE:PNC) 1.78 Strong Buy
57 Precision Castparts Corp. (NYSE:PCP) 1.78 Strong Buy
58 Noble Corporation (NYSE:NE) 1.79 Strong Buy
59 Kohl's Corporation (NYSE:KSS) 1.79 Strong Buy
60 The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) 1.79 Strong Buy
61 Ball Corporation (NYSE:BLL) 1.80 Strong Buy
62 Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES) 1.80 Strong Buy
63 Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE:RSG) 1.80 Strong Buy