This Is 2017's Smartest Aerospace Play

There are a lot of opportunities all over the market in 2017 - technology, biotech, small caps, financials - but we're especially excited about aerospace. A "perfect storm" of regulation, innovation, and competition gives it the potential to be a standout boom sector, with profit plays right and left in the commercial and military segments.

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, the most efficient and advanced commercial aircraft ever, overcame early high-profile battery fires to win the global long-haul, wide-body battle over Airbus' A380 "superjumbo," the largest commercial aircraft ever flown. But the short-hop market is still very much up for grabs.

The sector's two heavyweight giants right now, Airbus and Boeing, are neck and neck in another race to the top. December airframe deliveries for both firms broke longstanding records, and demand is high for both the Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737-MAX "next-gen" narrow-bodies.

But... the biggest gains for investors will come to those who back the ultimate winner in this struggle for the skies.

So CNBC World's "The Rundown" asked our Technical Trading Strategist, D.R. Barton, Jr., to name the stock he thinks is going to come away with the most upside and why, and give his "Buy" recommendation for everyone...

Tags:Stocks to Buy Now

To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here

About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free. Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors.

Disclaimer:© 2017 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201.

The post This Is 2017's Smartest Aerospace Play appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable.