[Foreign]More Red Hot Brazil Stocks

Red Hot Brazil Stocks The brazil stocks are red hot now as the benchmark Bovespa index in Sao Paolo rose 767.92 points or 2.1% to 37,399.67, passing the 37,000 mark for the first time. Although we have already listed several Brazil stocks in two previous articles - first one on December 20 and second one on December 27, there are still a lot of Brazil stocks that we haven't talked about. Here we will introduce more Brazil stocks that are what you may want to have in your emerging market portfolio.

• Net Servicos de Comunicacao (NETC): the Sao Paulo, SP based copmany offers cable television, pay-per-view programs and broadband internet services in Brazil. It has 1.4 million tv subscribers and 189,000 internet subscribers as of December 31, 2004. The company has generated 574 million in revenue in 2004 up 70 million from previous year. The stock is trading at new 52 week high of $5.4 up 100% from early last year.
• Embraer-Empresa Brasileira De Aeronautica (ERJ): the Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP based firm designs and makes commercial aircraft and general aviation aircraft for Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Asia. Think of it as Boeing of Brazil. The company has generate 3.4 billion in revenue in 2004, up from 2.1 billion in previous year. The stock is trading at 52 week high of $40.1 per share.
• Tele Norte Leste Participacoes (TNE): the Rio De Janeiro, RJ based company provides telecommunications services in Brazil including local, long distance and mobile. In 2004 the telecom firm generated $5.9 billion in revenue versus $4.8 billion in 2003 and $3.3 billion in 2002. The stock has rose about 30% for the year and is now trading at P/E ratio of 16 at $18.06 per share.