The publicly held companies with interests in the electrical or distribution markets generally don't attract as much interest as Wall Street's trendy tech stocks. While many investors are going ga-ga over companies like Apple, Netflix, Priceline, Baidu and Amazon, manufacturers of electrical products or publicly held distribution companies for the most part are safe and solid investments over the long haul that don't produce the meteoric returns — or mind-bending losses — of many tech stocks.

Over the past few years, EM's editors have gotten calls from investment analysts looking for market insight into distribution companies like WESCO, Houston Wire & Cable, Fastenal and Grainger because they popped up on analysts' screens as intriguing and potentially profitable plays. We also get calls from analysts regarding wire and cable companies when the copper market starts going whacky.

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