Solar Pick Wins, but Darts Beat the Readers

South Florida Sun Sentinel reader Jack Newman's pick, solar-innovation company ReneSola, surged 46% between June 30 and Dec. 31, 2010, making him the winner of the contest.

Salesforce.com Retired university housing director Roger Frichette of Eugene, Ore., sees this as a stock of the future. Large companies, he says, will use cloud computing, where servers provide resources, software and data to computers. He reads the Eugene Register-Guard.

The darts hit trucking

The darts hit trucking and logistics firm Con-way; financial-services holding company Cullen/Frost Bankers; American depositary shares of Chinese innovation manufacturer Hollysys Automation Technologies; media and education company Pearson; property-management software firm Realpage; and semiconductor maker Entropic Communications.