Barron's Recap: Sunny Skies For Home Depot

This weekend in

online: why it is time to buy Home Depot, the 100 best financial advisors in the United States, as well as the prospects for Raytheon, Sarepta, ClubCorp and more.

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" by Avi Salzman. As the housing market revives, shares of

could rally 25 percent, says this week's cover story in

. After an unusually harsh winter, the nation's largest home-improvement chain is prepared for high demand. But the stock has underperformed the S&P 500 in both 2013 and so far this year, and it also underperformed rival

last year. But, as the article details, there are hopeful signs of a turnaround. See how Home Depot got started and how it fared through the housing bust. See what analysts forecast for earnings this year and for long-term growth. The article shows how the company stacks up, not only against rival Lowe's, but against Blue Chips and against other retailers. A graphic sidebar provides a look at the numbers, as well as evidence of the housing recovery.

"America's Top 100 Financial Advisors" by Steve Garmhausen presents the results of

annual ranking of the best financial advisors and their top recommendations. See the 20 names that are new to the list and the 15 that are always on it. Jack Hough's "Expensive but Worth It: Google, Red Hat" suggests that though momentum stocks have taken a big hit recently, that does not mean it is time to buy. See why

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and others still may be too pricey. In "Raytheon Plays Offense as Defense Tightens," Sandra Ward discusses how defense contractor

has a hot hand in cybersecurity and also sells lots of missile systems overseas. See why upside for the stock may be as much as 30 percent. Shares of orphan drug maker

could soar, suggests "A High-Profile Decision for the FDA" by Andrew Bary. All it needs is for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to OK the company's drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. "Smead Value: Worth the Wait" by Sarah Max offers a profile of William Smead of Smead Capital Management. He shares why he is willing to wait for the stocks of companies that provide customers with products they cannot live without. In Lawrence C. Strauss's "Rob Arnott: Demographics Are the Markets' 800-Pound Gorilla," the chairman and CEO of money manager Research Affiliates is interviewed. Arnott indicates that demographics is one big reason why he now likes emerging markets for the long term. Even though shares are up 30 percent since its initial public offering, golf-course and country-club operator

looks ready to bound still higher, suggests David Englander's "Why ClubCorp Could Stay on the Leaderboard." In "CEO Spotlight: Cisco's John Chambers" by Dyan Machan, the focus is on the current state of technology, as well as on Chambers' strategy to return

to its leadership position. "Progress or Progressivity" is an editorial commentary by Thomas G. Donlan that suggests that growing inequality is not as dangerous as doing something about it.

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