As corporate earnings season reaches its peak in the coming weeks, Morgan Stanley advises traders to look for certain stock plays. A third of the S&P 500 companies are due to report earnings this week, as is 40% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Investors will be keeping a close eye on mega-cap tech names Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft, all of which have seen their shares rise this year amid the tech rally. Oil giants Chevron and ExxonMobil are also set to report quarterly results, as are major telecom and consumer names. Morgan Stanley chief equity strategist Mike Wilson said in a note Monday that he expects “performance dispersion to widen” as more companies report earnings. Wilson advises investors to choose stocks that exhibit high earnings quality, strong free cash flow generation and improving earnings revisions. The firm screened stocks that fell into the following criteria: Top 1,000 U.S. stocks by market capitalization 2 quintiles of earnings stability 2 quintiles of earnings quality Overvaluation rating by the firm’s research analysts Take a look at some of the names on the list and where they could be headed next. The names of health care providers UnitedHealth Group, Humana and Elevance Health appeared on Morgan Stanley’s screen. UnitedHealth Group, which is the largest healthcare company in the US, is also one of the names listed on the 30 Dow stocks. The company’s second-quarter results beat analysts’ expectations on both the top and bottom lines. Investor sentiment was further boosted by the company raising the lower end of its full-year adjusted earnings outlook. To be sure, the stock is still down 4% year-to-date, underperforming the health care sector SDPR fund, which traded near the flat line in 2023. T-Mobile, another Morgan Stanley pick, will report its quarterly results on Thursday. The stock has gained just 1% in 2023, trailing the broad market index’s 18.3% gain over the same period. However, according to Refinitiv, more than 90% of analysts covering the stock rate the stock as a buy. The consensus price target for the stock implies a nearly 26% upside from Friday’s close. General Motors also made the list. The company is set to report earnings on Tuesday before the bell. Wall Street will be looking to see if GM can continue its outperformance from the previous quarter, during which it posted higher profit and raised its outlook for 2023. Analysts polled by Refinitv estimated GM’s second-quarter earnings jumped more than 60%. The stock is up more than 16% this year. Household products maker Colgate-Palmolive, another of Morgan Stanley’s picks, will report results later this week. Colgate-Palmolive has pared some of its early 2023 losses, but is still trading down 2% year-to-date. Analyst Dara Mohsenian upgraded the stock to overweight from equal weight in January and also named it his top pick in the home and personal care sector. Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal and CNBC. —CNBC’s Michael Bloom contributed to this report.