Top 10 Stocks to Sell Now- NJ, MFG, WMT, TGT, BP, CSCO, TM, SNE, S and PC


Mitsui & Co. Ltd (MITSY)- Mkt cap- 30.59B, P/E- 7.61, Div/yield- 2.45/1.21, EPS- 43.94
Competitors- Itochu Corporation (ITOCY), Marubeni Corp (MARUY), SUMITOMO CORPORATION (SSUMY)- Shoei Utsuda- Chairman of the Board , Masami Iijima- President, Chief Executive Officer, Junichi Matsumoto- Chief Financial Officer. Electric motor manufacturer Mitsui & Co. Ltd is down -22% in the last 12 months. A quarterly earnings growth of -15% in its last income statement only strengthens the argument against this stock.

Mizuho Financial Group (MFG)
Mkt cap- 33.67B, P/E     -, Div/yield- 0.17/5.59
Competitors- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MTU), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Grp (SMFG), Shinhan Financial Group Co. (SHG), Takashi Tsukamoto- President. While Mizuho Financial Group stock had posted strong gains before the Earthquake, but with disarray of Japan's market, it's worth noting that MFG saw annual revenue slide 16% from 2008 to 2009 and then 16% again from 2009 to 2010.

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT)- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. operates discount stores, supercenters, warehouse membership clubs, and neighborhood markets. The Company's stores sale products like general merchandise, apparel, electronics and groceries. Wal-Mart operates the warehouse membership stores under the Sam's Club name, where the company sell assorted merchandise including its private label products.

Target Stores (TGT)- Target is one of today's notable stocks in decline, down 0.2% to $50.13. The S&P is currently trading 1.6% lower to 1,298 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading 1.7% lower to 12,126. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day MA has fallen 0.82% while the 200-day MA has remained constant. In the past 52 weeks, shares of Target have traded between a low of $48.23 and a high of $60.97 and are now at $50.13, which is 4% above that low price.

BP PLC (BP)- BP plc percentage change dropped -1.09%, to close at $44.47 and its overall traded volume was 7.94M shares in the last trading session. BP opened at $44.27 and is trading within the range of $44.04-$44.64. The stock has a 52 week low of $26.75 and 52 week high of $60.70. At current market price, the market capitalization of the company stands at $139.83B and it has 3.14B outstanding shares.BP p.l.c. (BP) is an international oil and gas company.

Cisco Systems (CSCO)- Cisco Systems hit a new 52-week low Monday as it is currently trading at $16.67, below its previous 52-week high of $27.74 with 15.9 million shares traded as of 10:06 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 78.9 million shares over the past 30 days.

Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) - Toyota Motor Corp closed Friday's trading session at $77.64. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $67.56 and 52-week high of $93.90. Toyota stock has been showing support around $77.11 and resistance in the $78.35 range. Technical indicators for the stock are Bearish and S&P gives TM a neutral 3 STARS (out of 5) hold rating.

Sony Corp. (SNE)- Sony Corporation percentage change fell -1.48%, to close at $29.25 and its overall traded volume was 876,065.00 shares in the last trading session. SNE opened at $28.95 and is trading within the range of $28.91-$29.32. The stock has a 52 week low of $25.85 and 52 week high of $36.97. The market capitalization of the company stands at $29.39B and it has 1.00B outstanding shares.  Looking in the longer term, Sony Corp. stock is down -17% so far this year and -22% in the last 52 weeks. That's compared to gains of +13% for the Dow Jones and S&P 500 in the last year and modest gains in 2011.

Sprint Nextel (S)- Sprint Nextel Corporation S stock opened lower this morning one day away from final trading for the week yet ‘S' stock has nearly managed to reclaim all of March 21st's massively bearish price gap.  Shares have done well gradually to chip away at the gap but this is so far the largest chunk removed to date.

Panasonic Corp. (PC)- Panasonic is one of today's notable stocks in decline, down 0.9% to $12.02. The S&P is currently trading 1.6% lower to 1,298 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading 1.7% lower to 12,126.  Panasonic posted a full-year loss of -54 cents per share in fiscal 2010, stock dropped -22% year to date – more than half of that decline coming before the recent crisis. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day MA has fallen 1.22% while the 200-day MA has remained constant.

Other news (these are not Stocks to Sell Now except BP Plc), Natural gas stocks were mostly down yesterday. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) was falling 0.4% to $74.91, BP Plc. (BP) was down 1.8% to $44.16, Devon Energy (DVN) was falling 2.3% to $85.80, Newfield Exploration(NFX) was losing 2.2% to $69.49, Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P.(CQP) was 1% lower to $18, Cheniere Energy, Inc.(LNG) was falling 2.2% to $8.21 and EOG Resources(EOG) was down 1.5% to $109.36.

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