Best US Stocks To Watch For 2014

The broader stock market has been on a great run so far in 2013, but a few stocks are soaring past the market.�On its road to recovery, shares of Genworth Financial (NYSE: GNW  ) are up over 40% year to date. However, with shares are still trading at a huge discount to book value, is there more room to run?

In this video, Motley Fool financial analysts David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer discuss the troubled insurer, as well as a newly public company that is fast out of the gates.�

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Best US Stocks To Watch For 2014: SPX Corporation(SPW)

SPX Corporation provides flow technology products, test and measurement products, thermal equipment and services, and industrial products and services worldwide. The company?s Flow Technology segment provides products and solutions that are used to process, blend, filter, dry, meter, and transport fluids. This segment?s primary offerings include engineered pumps, mixers, process systems, heat exchangers, valves, and dehydration and drying technologies for food and beverage, general industrial, and power and energy markets. Its Test and Measurement segment provides diagnostic service tools, fare-collection systems, and portable cable and pipe locators for the transportation, telecommunications, and utility industries. The company?s Thermal Equipment and Services segment engineers, manufactures, and services cooling, heating, and ventilation products, including dry, wet, and hybrid cooling systems for the power generation, refrigeration, HVAC, and industrial markets, as well as boilers, heating, and ventilation products for the commercial and residential markets. This segment also provides thermal components and engineered services. Its Industrial Products and Services segment designs, manufactures, and markets power systems; industrial tools and hydraulic units; precision machine components for the aerospace industry; crystal growing machines for the solar power generation market; television, radio, and cell phone and data transmission broadcast antenna systems; communications and signal monitoring systems; and precision controlled industrial ovens and chambers. SPX Corporation markets its products through various channels, including stocking distributors, manufacturing representatives, third-party distributors, direct sales, and retailers. The company was formerly known as Piston Ring Company and changed its name to SPX Corporation in 1988. SPX Corporation was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Best US Stocks To Watch For 2014: StoneMor Partners L.P.(STON)

StoneMor Partners L.P., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of cemeteries in the southeast, northeast, and west regions of the United States. It offers funeral and cemetery products and services in the death care industry. The company sells interment rights, caskets, burial vaults, cremation niches, markers, and other cemetery related merchandise; provides opening and closing that is the digging and refilling of burial spaces to install the vault and place the casket into the vault; and various other services, including the installation of other cemetery merchandise and the perpetual care related to interment rights. It also offers various funeral-related services, such as family consultation, the removal of and preparation of remains, and the use of funeral home facilities for visitation. As of December 31, 2011, it operated 274 cemeteries, including 253 own cemeteries in 26 states and Puerto Rico; and owned and operated 69 funeral homes in 18 states and Puerto Rico. StoneMor GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. StoneMor Partners L.P. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Levittown, Pennsylvania.

5 Best Retail Stocks To Buy Right Now: MineFinders Corp. Ltd.(MFN)

Minefinders Corporation Ltd. engages in the exploration, development, and mining of precious and base metal properties. The company?s principal project includes the Dolores gold and silver mine, which consists of 7 claims in 3 concessions totaling an area of 27,700 hectares, located in the Madera Mining District in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. It also has property interests in Sonora, Mexico; and in Nevada and Arizona, the United States. The company was formerly known as Twentieth Century Explorations Inc. and changed its name to Minefinders Corporation Ltd. in May 1979. Minefinders Corporation Ltd. was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Paul]

  As a pure play, small cap stock, Minefinders could greatly benefit from a jump in silver prices, yet fall just as easily.

  That said, MineFinders is more of speculative play.

  ACE Investments' Chang says if silver jumps, Minefinders, currently trading at about $10.80, could hit $13 to $15 almost instantly. “This one could go up like crazy,” he said.

  “By the same token, I think there is a risk that the stock could be at about $7 to $7.50. So before you know it, it could have 30 per cent downside risk.”

  For the third-quarter ended Sept. 30, Minefinders reported loss of 7 cents a share; above BMO's estimate of 9 cents loss a share, but below the consensus estimate of loss of 2 cents a share, as sales of gold and silver fell due to ongoing production problems. But the negative production impact was offset by lower-than-expected cash expenses.

  BMO analyst Andrew Kaip told clients that the company's weak production had a “slightly” negative impact on his view of the stock and maintained his market perform rating for Minefinders.

  Minefinders, precious metals mining and exploration company, currently operates the multi-million ounce Dolores gold and silver mine in northern Mexico. In late 2010, Minefinders received credit approval from The Bank of Nova Scotia for the renewal of its existing US$50-million revolving credit facility.