The Wall Street Journal-20080113-Sunday Investment Dartboard- New Choices Vary From Pharmaceuticals to Sportswear
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Sunday Investment Dartboard: New Choices Vary From Pharmaceuticals to Sportswear
Here are the new picks and the Dec. 31 starting prices for Sunday Journal's 30th Investment Dartboard contest, running through June.
Apple (AAPL, $198.08) Retired federal employee Robert Hobkirk says that although its "products are not of [his] generation," he sees consumers going "gaga over Apple." The firm's Asian expansion is promising, the Sacramento Bee reader in Elk Grove, Calif., adds.
GeoEye (GEOY, $33.65) Neil Porter, an energy marketer in Apex, N.C.,who reads the Raleigh News and Observer, picked this provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information because of its "new satellite launch and its prospects for securing government contracts."
Javelin Pharmaceuticals (JAV, $3.74) Louis Awamy, a retired marketer of defense equipment in Delray Beach, Fla., thinks this company's new morphine inhaler will be a boon to people in pain and "will start to move stocks." He reads the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Marathon Oil (MRO, $60.86) Tacoma News Tribune reader Mario V. San Filippo, a semi-retired construction-firm employee in Olympia, Wash., says he is watching this firm's oil-sands exploration. "Their dividends are also quite high," he says.
Under Armour (UA, $43.67) As a former college football player, Fred Schattall of Bluffton, S.C., says he knows this sportswear firm offers "a dynamite product to keep sweat off your body." The retired owner of a landscape design company reads the Island Packet.
VistaPrint (VPRT, $42.85) Myrtle Beach Sun News reader Len Sokoloff, a retired teacher from Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., says this online printing company "seems to be increasing its market share by hooking up with big-box stores and users world-wide."
Where the Darts Landed
Darts thrown by Sunday Journal staffers hit health-care provider Centene (CNC, $27.44) in St. Louis, Mo.; Dallas-based home builder Centex (CTX, $25.26); personal-products company Colgate-Palmolive (CL, $77.96) in New York; Germany's Deutsche Telekom (DT, $21.67); electrical-equipment company General Cable (BGC, $73.28) in Highland Heights, Ky.; and medical-supplies company I-Flow (IFLO, $15.78) in Lake Forest, Calif.
