Top 7 Energy Stocks to Own in 2017

TheStreet looked at recommendations from analysts and broke it down even further, looking at seven of the best energy stocks from Credit Suisse's U.S. Focus List.

Author:: Edward Hardy
Publish date:: Apr 5, 2017 11:29 AM EDT

Energy stocks have rebounded well off their lows as oil prices have recovered, but with investment strategists expecting higher crude prices in the years ahead, energy stocks should be set to outperform.

Credit Suisse has put together a list of 140 "top ideas" covered by its analysts, using several parameters to weed out weaker companies and pick only the best ideas.

As part of the investment process, each analyst ranked up to three stocks on a six and twelve month time horizon, picking only "high conviction ideas." Since not every analyst had three stocks that could make the list, they were allowed to select fewer than three names.

TheStreet looked at some of the recommendations from analysts and broke it down even further, looking at seven of the best energy stocks from Credit Suisse's U.S. Focus List.