5 Top Stocks for March

Welcome to StockUp, the investing newsletter that missed you all very much last week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [View this email in your browser]( Welcome to StockUp, the investing newsletter that missed you all very much last week. This week, we’re kicking off a new month with five potential investment ideas for an unpredictable market. Plus, learn how to build up your brain’s immunity to money-mangling viral lies, and discover a brand-new place to get great financial insights. — Nathan Alderman, StockUp Editor IN LIKE A LION Our 5 Top Stocks for March --------------------------------------------------------------- As we wave goodbye to winter and watch for the first blooms of spring, our Foolish contributors have handpicked a garden of intriguing investments that, if planted at the right time, might just blossom in future seasons. Their ideas include: - An under-the-radar, under-the-hood e-commerce contender. You might not have heard of this stock, but its pivot toward digital sales appears to be revving up its prospects. - A real estate stock that’s about to get a booster shot. This company kept raking in rent even as the COVID-19 crisis cleared out offices, and a few shrewd sales have left it well positioned to come roaring back in healthier times. - The online store that we think isn't afraid of Amazon. Even the mighty Bezos empire can’t seem to lay a finger on this site, thanks to its focus on hard-to-duplicate offerings. - A ridesharing road warrior ripe for a revival. Leaner, meaner, and maybe ready to actually, for real stop losing staggering amounts of money, investors’ faith in this company might finally be about to pay off. - A pandemic-punished hospitality opportunity. COVID-19 tried to clobber this company, but it held up better than you’d think, and it’s ready to lay out the welcome mat for better times to come. Dig deeper into each of these little sprouts when you [read the rest](. --------------------------------------------------------------- Already subscribed to a premium service? [Click here]( to view your subscriptions. Not a member yet? [Click here]( to sign up! --------------------------------------------------------------- JARGON DECODER Intrinsically Interesting They don’t call it “Wall Street” for nothing; the big banks there build bigger barriers of baffling terminology to keep regular Fools like you intimidated, underconfident, and ready to fork over your cash to a broker. Each week, Jargon Decoder translates one of those worrisome words or phrases into plain English, helping you get a leg up on the Wall Street Wise. This week’s term: Intrinsic value. As Warren Buffett put it: “Price is what you pay; value is what you get.” A stock’s price measures what the market’s willing to pay for it. But its intrinsic value tries to measure what each piece of a company’s really worth. If you find a stock trading below its intrinsic value, you may have stumbled on a great bargain. In that scenario, you could take advantage of other investors’ mistake to snap up shares at a discount, serene in your evidence-backed belief that eventually, the market will come to its senses and match each share’s price closer to its true worth. And if you find a stock trading above its intrinsic value, that might signal that investors have gotten a little too excited about it. (In fairness, those investors might also just be pricing in its potential for future growth.) Alas, there’s no single magic way to perfectly know a stock’s intrinsic value. But we can offer you several pretty decent ways to make a good guess: - Discounted cash flow: With this method, you estimate what kind of cash the company might be cranking out in the future, then figure out what you’re willing to pay right now in return for collecting that cash later on. - P/E ratios and other metrics: This method uses the price at which a stock's currently trading, its earnings per share, and its expected future growth rate to generate a ballpark figure of its real value. - Asset-based valuation: This method’s the simplest, but also the most limited. Adding up all the assets in a company’s favor, then subtracting all the liabilities working against it, can give you a reasonable idea of what it’s worth right this second. But it can’t tell you what the company might be worth down the road. 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