The top auto analysts in this year’s Best on the Street survey had to look long and hard to find winners in a struggling industry. Detroit’s Big Three auto makers and many of their suppliers are losing money, and vehicle sales in the U.S. were down last year.
The winning stock pickers trained their sights on [...]

Timken Net Rises 37% on Shift to Aerospace, China (Update4)
By Rob Delaney
Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — Timken Co., the supplier of bearings
to the world;s top five automakers, said fourth-quarter profit
rose 37 percent as it benefited from orders from the aerospace
industry [...]