Stocks to watch this week - top 10 best stocks to buy

Eli Lilly has a StockScouter rating of 9, meaning the stock is expected to significantly outperform the market over the next six months with very low risk.

StockScouter top 10
Company	Sector	Dividend yield	Forward P/E	Scouter score
Apple (AAPL +0.62%, news)	Consumer technology	N/A	12.4	9
Barrick Gold (ABX -4.80%, news)	Mining	1.0%	8.3	9
Yamana Gold (AUY -6.92%, news)	Mining	1.1%	10.9	10
American Express (AXP -0.39%, news)	Credit and travel services	1.5%	11.0	10
DuPont (DD -2.86%, news)	Chemicals	3.9%	9.0	10
Oracle (ORCL +1.98%, news)	Software	0.9%	11.3	10
ConocoPhillips (COP -0.57%, news)	Oil and natural gas	4.2%	7.0	10
Microsoft (MSFT 0.00%, news)	Software	3.2%	8.0	10
Eli Lilly (LLY -1.34%, news)	Pharmaceuticals	5.4%	8.5	9
Annaly Capital Management (NLY -0.46%, news)	Mortgage-backed securities	13.7%	6.9	9

StockScouter beats the market

At MSN Money, we think our StockScouter rating system is about as good as it gets when you're trying to decide where to invest. Scouter rates stocks on a scale of 1 to 10. Since it was launched on Aug. 1, 2001, a portfolio of Scouter's top 50 picks has generated a total return that has clobbered the return of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX +0.61%) over the same period.
StockScouter looks for stocks whose business fundamentals, price behavior, valuation and stock-ownership characteristics appear to predict a rising price in the future, based on how those factors have influenced stock prices in the past. The system assigns each stock an expected six-month return and balances that return against the stock's expected volatility.