Best Logistics Companies To Watch In Right Now

Following Werner Enterprises, Inc.’s (WERN) third quarter earnings warning, analysts at KeyBanc downgraded the transportation and logistics company on Tuesday.

The analysts downgraded WERN from “Buy” to “Hold.”

KeyBanc analyst Todd Fowler said, “We downgrade WERN from Buy to HOLD following its negative 3Q pre-ann’ct, which reflected a number of company-specific issues that we expect to limit upside going forward; we would focus investors on other, stronger-performing names within the truckload space, specifically, BUY-rated Swift Transportation Company (SWFT), Marten Transport Ltd. (MRTN), and Knight Transportation Inc. (KNX).”

Best Logistics Companies To Watch In Right Now: COLT TELECOM GROUP S.A. ORD EUR1.25(COLT.L)

Colt Group S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides business communications and information technology (IT) solutions and services in Europe. The company operates in three segments: Enterprise Services, Communication Services, and Data Centre Services. The Enterprise Services segment provides a range of technical solutions, including managed networking, managed IT services, and unified communication solutions through its information delivery platform to medium and large sized corporates in the financial, public, media, and professional services sectors. The Communication Services segment offers a range of voice, broadband, and data communications services, such as IT and network services for fixed and mobile network operators, Internet service providers, and telecoms and IT resellers through indirect sales channels. The Data Centre Services segment serves enterprises and corporates that require data centre space to support their compute infrastructure. This segment d esigns, builds, and operates data centers. The company offers its services through resellers, agents, and franchises. COLT Group S.A. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Best Logistics Companies To Watch In Right Now: Newalta Income Fd (NAL.TO)

Newalta Corporation provides engineered environmental solutions that enable customers to reduce disposal, enhance recycling, and recover resources from industrial residues. It offers environmental services, including drilling waste management, environmental assessments/monitoring/remediation, reclamation, emergency spill response, water well assessments, environmental projects management, and facility decommissioning. The company also provides waste processing services, such as collection, consolidation, and processing of organic and inorganic industrial wastes. In addition, it offers recycling and product recovery services for crude oil, fuels and drilling fuels, lead-bearing materials, lubricants, greases, hydraulic fluids, re-refined base oils, household batteries, solvents and antifreezes, and water; onsite processing and technical services at customers� plants and operations, and oil and gas drilling locations; and collection and transportation services for industria l waste, used lubricants, automotive waste, and drummed materials. Further, the company operates landfills, water disposal wells, and salt caverns for disposing non-hazardous and solid industrial wastes, wastewater, and difficult waste. Additionally, it provides clean oil terminalling and custom treating, crude oil marketing, dust control, emergency response, equipment rental, ice control, laboratory analysis, tank and truck wash, and waste brokering and tracking services. The company serves customers in oil, natural gas, petrochemical, refining, lead, manufacturing, and mining markets through a network of 85 facilities, as well as onsite directly at their operations in Canada and the U.S. Newalta Corporation was founded in 1995 and is based in Calgary, Canada.

Hot Financial Companies To Watch In Right Now: Bank Linth LLB AG (LINN)

Bank Linth LLB AG (the Bank) a Switzerland-based bank engaged in banking activities in the region of Linth in Switzerland. The Bank's customers are shareholders, private account holders, businesses and associations. Its product range includes account products, such as fixed savings accounts, foreign currency accounts, SparkontoPLUS, Privatkonto Ausbildung, Kapitaleinzahlungskonto and Geschenksparkonto, investment products, which covers investment trusts, trust savings and medium-term bonds and shares, and pension plan products, which are based on the Swiss three pillar concept (state, corporate and private pension) and offer a variety of schemes, such as a fixed savings product, capital life insurance and pension investment trust. In addition, the Bank offers real estate financing solutions and a variety of loans for its business customers. Bank Linth LLB AG operates a network of approximately 20 branches and is majority owned by Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG.

Best Logistics Companies To Watch In Right Now: United States Steel Corporation(X)

United States Steel Corporation produces and sells steel mill products in North America and Central Europe. It operates in three segments: Flat-rolled Products (Flat-rolled), U. S. Steel Europe (USSE), and Tubular Products (Tubular). The Flat-rolled segment offers slabs, rounds, strip mill plates, sheets, and tin mill products, as well as iron ore and coke. This segment serves service center, conversion, transportation, construction, container, and appliance and electrical markets in North America. The USSE segment offers slabs, sheets, strip mill plates, tin mill products, and spiral welded pipes, as well as heating radiators and refractory ceramic materials. This segment serves the European construction, service center, conversion, container, transportation, and appliance and electrical, as well as and oil, gas, and petrochemical markets. The Tubular segment offers seamless and electric resistance welded steel casing and tubing; and standard, and line pipe and mechanical tubing. It primarily serves customers in the oil, gas, and petrochemical markets. The company also provides transportation services, including railroad and barge operations. In addition, it owns, develops, and manages various real estate assets, which include approximately 200,000 acres of surface rights primarily in Alabama, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania; participates in joint ventures that are developing real estate projects in Alabama, Maryland, and Illinois; and owns approximately 4,000 acres of land in Ontario, Canada. The company was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Victor Selva] ant with a long-held dominance in the American market. Instead, I would choose to go long on Gerdau SA (GGB), the second-largest producer in the sector.

  Why Not No. 1?

  Brazil-based Gerdau has three main advantages. Size ��though it�� a strong pro ��is not necessarily one of them. To start with, Gerdau is a highly integrated company, with annual iron ore production capacity totaling 11.5 million metric tons, enabling it to be over 80% and 40% self-sufficient in Brazil and the U.S., respectively, and thus hedging itself from volatility in raw material prices.

  Second, the company has a relatively modern fleet of furnaces, mainly composed of electric arc furnaces (EAFs), which are more energy-efficient than traditional blast furnaces and should result on a more flexible supply.

  Last, the location is also a positive factor: with a high geographical diversification, Gerdau has still managed to maintain a strong leadership in the markets where it operates (particularly in Brazil and the U.S.). This allows it, on the one hand, to supply many different markets and therefore reduce risks of local economic underperformances and, on the other hand, to profit from low-cost labor in Brazil. In addition, the upcoming sporting events ��2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics ��are expected to generate a strong inflow of investments in infrastructure in the country, with Gerdau as a potential beneficiary of this.

  In spite of being the biggest worldwide, I believe that ArcelorMittal doesn�� count with these characteristics. Further, as players in the industry are so atomized, being the No. 1 producer implies having only 6% of the global market share, which doesn�� give ArcelorMittal a superior bargain power than its peers. And though it�� still a very diversified and vertically integrated group, its costs will tend to be higher than those of Gerdau, since its furnaces are primarily blast furnaces and its labor expenses are higher as

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  U.S. Steel (NYSE: X  ) will release its quarterly report on Tuesday, and investors have hoped that the worst could be over for the steel industry. Yet even as rivals Nucor (NYSE: NUE  ) and ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT  ) have seen some signs of relative strength, U.S. Steel recently had some bad news that could force it to play catch-up to participate in a long-awaited steel recovery.

• [By John Udovich]

  On Monday, Goldman Sachs upgraded the whole steel sector from Cautious to Neutral and specifically upgraded small cap and mid cap steel stocks AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE: AKS), United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) and Steel Dynamics Inc. (NASDAQ: STLD) to Buy with price targets of $6, $30 and $22, respectively, but should you go for one of these individual steel stocks or for the Market Vectors Steel ETF (NYSEARCA: SLX)? To begin with, Goldman Sachs says that the�supply-demand fundamentals for steel are starting to look more appealing as some supply has been taken out plus they have a very bearish view on input costs (as in iron ore)���which bodes well for steel producers in the long run. Moreover, recently filed trade cases could provide some tailwind���if they are successful.�Of course a rising tide can lift all ships, but Goldman Sachs suggests that you go for the following�small cap or mid cap steel stocks:�

• [By Eric Volkman]

  One of the longest-serving top executives at U.S. Steel (NYSE: X  ) will soon depart. The company announced that CFO Gretchen Haggerty has served notice that she is to enter retirement later this year, and that it has launched a "comprehensive search" to find a replacement.

Best Logistics Companies To Watch In Right Now: Cache Exploration Inc (CAY.V)

Cache Exploration Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties, primarily rare-earth metals in Canada. It holds options to acquire 70 % interest in certain mineral claims in the Bluff Lake property located in the Quesnel trough area of British Columbia; 80 % interest in the Welsford rare earth property located in New Brunswick; and 80 % interest in two property claims, such as the Cross Hills and the Louil Hills rare earth properties located in Newfoundland. The company also has options to acquire 100% interest in the Inner Welsford property claims in southern New Brunswick; and 160 claims in the Long Lake property located in northern New Brunswick. Cache Exploration Inc. is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Best Logistics Companies To Watch In Right Now: Aberdeen International Inc (AAB.TO)

Aberdeen International Inc. operates as an investment and merchant banking company focusing on small capitalization companies in the resource sector. It intends to acquire equity participation in pre-IPO and early stage public resource companies with undeveloped or undervalued resources. The company also offers various merchant banking services, including short-term investments, bridge financing, and advisory works, as well as listing vehicles, such as shell companies. In addition, it invests in mineral properties, primarily gold. The company was formerly known as International Catalyst Ventures Inc. and changed its name to Aberdeen International Inc. in November 2001. Aberdeen International Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Best Logistics Companies To Watch In Right Now: DTS Inc.(DTSI)

DTS, Inc. provides audio technologies that are incorporated into various consumer electronics devices worldwide. Its audio technologies enable the delivery and playback of clear and compelling high-definition audio. The company?s technologies are used in various product applications, including audio/video receivers, soundbars, Blu-ray disc players, DVD based products, personal computers, car audio products, video game consoles, network capable televisions, digital media players, set-top-boxes, mobile phones, tablets and home theater systems. It also offers products and services to motion picture studios, radio and television broadcasters, game developers, and other content creators to facilitate the inclusion of compelling and realistic DTS-encoded soundtracks in their content. In addition, the company provides a suite of audio processing technologies to enhance the entertainment experience in televisions, personal computers (PC), and mobile electronics. It serves home au dio/video, automotive, PC, broadcast, mobile electronics, professional content, and other consumer electronics markets. The company was formerly known as Digital Theater Systems, Inc. and changed its name to DTS, Inc. in May 2005. DTS, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Calabasas, California.

Best Logistics Companies To Watch In Right Now: Maxtech Ventures Inc. (MVT.V)

Maxtech Ventures Inc., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral resource properties in Canada and internationally. The company holds an option on a 100% interest in the Ariane and Guercheville gold properties consisting of 40 claims totaling approximately 5,464 acres in the Abitibi region of Quebec, Canada. It also has an option to acquire a 50% interest in the Julia property comprising claims covering 6,850 acres in the Atlin Mining Division of British Columbia, Canada, as well as holds a reconnaissance permit in the Lalitpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India to explore for iron, platinum group minerals, nickel, cobalt, chromium, lead, zinc, copper, diamonds, gold, and silver mineralization. The company is headquartered in Surrey, Canada.

Best Logistics Companies To Watch In Right Now: Scientific Learning Corporation(SCIL)

Scientific Learning Corporation develops, distributes, and licenses technology worldwide that accelerates learning by enhancing the processing efficiency of the brain. It offers the Fast ForWord language products for elementary learners; the literacy products for adolescent learners; the Fast ForWord reading products, which focus on phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, spelling, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension; and Reading Assistant, a software that combines advanced speech verification technology with scientifically-based interventions to help elementary and secondary students strengthen their reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. It also provides Progress Tracker, an Internet-based data analysis and reporting tool, which analyzes student learning results to provide diagnostic and prescriptive intervention information and allows educators to track and report their students? learning progress; Reading Progress Indicator that assesses student?s readi ng skills; BrainSpark products that target learners of age 5 to 13 who are at or above grade level and want to enhance their overall learning potential; and BrainPro targeted at learners who are below grade level. In addition, the company offers KinderSpark series that collects iPad games for children aged 3 to 6 for building readiness skills and excel in learning. Scientific Learning Corporation offers its products to educational institutions, speech and language clinics, learning centers, and parents. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.