Top Energy and Industrials Stocks for 2021

In this episode of Industry Focus: Energy, we’re continuing our theme week on Top Stocks for 2021 with Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall and host Nick Sciple, each sharing two of their favorite stocks for 2021. Find out what the growth opportunities are for these companies, what the challenges are, and why they are a good buy at the moment.

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This video was recorded on January 7, 2021.

Nick Sciple: Welcome to Industry Focus. I’m Nick Sciple. Today we’re continuing our Top Stocks week on the podcast, with Jason Hall joining me to share some of his favorite energy and industrial stocks for 2021. Jason, welcome back to the podcast.

Jason Hall: It’s good to be on. Belated happy birthday and happy new year, my good friend.

Sciple: Thank you. It’s great to be in 2021. I’d be remiss if we didn’t mention, obviously, the news yesterday, with the Capitol Building being stormed by rioters, shutting down Congress’ certifying of the election results of the 2020 presidential election. Not exactly what I asked for on my birthday, we watched the Capitol Building. We got a view of the Capitol Building outside of our window here in Alexandria. I was telling my fiance yesterday, I was like, “Hey, if this building lights on fire, we’re going to see this, right?” I don’t think when I moved into my apartment, I ever thought I would be saying that, much less on my birthday. But we’re here, we’re not a political show, we don’t have any special insight on politics. That’s beyond what any informed citizen has, but we are citizens of America, and the citizens of the world are watching this. Jason, what was your reaction from an investment point of view, and from a citizen’s point of view seeing the events yesterday?

Hall: Well, we’re human too. This isn’t the sort of thing Americans of this generation have had to deal with. You have to go back to Vietnam the last time there was anything like this happening in the presence, in the halls of Capitol Hill, and certainly nothing like what we saw yesterday. I was flabbergasted. I was absolutely flabbergasted. I don’t want to say anything partisan here, that’s not what anybody is here to hear from me. But I think it’s pretty easy to say that it was disgraceful and shameful, but to your point, what happened this morning?

Sciple: Sun came up.

Hall: Democracy worked. I think my favorite quote is ”Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all of the others.” Government is ugly. It’s hard, it doesn’t always work, and nobody ever gets exactly what they want. Sometimes the…