Each year for 35 years, our editorial team has surveyed the nation's leading newsletter advisors and investment experts asking for their favorite stocks for the year ahead.

This year's report — Top Picks 2018 — features 100 investment ideas for the new year. The advisors who participate in MoneyShow's Top Pick reports are among the nation's most respected and knowledgeable investment experts.

Each has a time-tested reputation for in-depth research, integrity and a track record of long term investment success. Most of these advisors have been participating in these reports for many years; indeed, many have participated for decades!

If you are a reader of our free newsletter, you will be familiar with many of these advisors as they are ongoing contributors to our Top Pros Top Picks — which offers a daily glimpse into the stock, fund and ETF recommendations of the nation's best financial newsletters.

We would like to emphasize to our readers that these annual reports are not contests. The goal is not to compile a list of high risk, high-flyers (and potential big losers).

Each year’s Top Picks report certainly includes a variety of fast-growing stocks with high potential. But the report also includes many conservative dividend-paying stocks and blue chips chosen for safe and steady returns.

This year's report features ideas that range the gamut from out-of-favor value plays and turnarounds to growth stocks on the leading edge of biotech, technology and social media. The report also features under-the-radar small caps to some of the world's most best known and iconic names.

From retail and consumer favorites to energy and commodities, from REITs and MLPs to manufacturing and industrial, from healthcare to financials and ETFs, this report features intriguing ideas for investors of all stripes.

Our goal at MoneyShow — and the main objective of these leading advisors — is to provide you with a well-rounded and diverse shopping list of investment ideas for you to consider as you build your personal long-term portfolios.

We caution that the recommendations presented in this report should be viewed as a starting place for your own research. Any stock you buy should match your own investment strategy and time horizon — and fit your personal levels of risk tolerance. Thank you for being a part of the MoneyShow family. We wish you the very best for investment success in 2018.