For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today�� Ahead of Wall Street article.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) gained 3.38 points to close the day at 15,464.30. The S&P 500 added 0.3% to finish Friday�� trading session at 1,680.19. The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.6% to end at 3,600.08. The fear-gauge CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) declined 1.2% to settle at 13.84. Consolidated volumes on the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq were roughly 5.4 billion shares, below 2013�� average of 6.4 billion shares. Declining stocks marginally outnumbered the advancers. For the 49% that declined, 48% advanced.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Accretive Health Inc. (AH)
Accretive Health, Inc. provides revenue cycle management services for hospitals and healthcare providers in the United States. It offers integrated revenue cycle management services that help healthcare providers to manage their revenue cycles, which encompass patient registration, insurance and benefit verification, medical treatment documentation and coding, bill preparation, and collections; quality and total cost of care services, which enable healthcare providers to manage the health of a defined patient population by identifying those individuals who are most likely to experience an adverse health event; and physician advisory services. Accretive Health, Inc. serves multi-hospital systems, including faith-based or community healthcare systems, academic medical centers, independent ambulatory clinics, and physician practice groups. The company was formerly known as Healthcare Services, Inc. and changed its name to Accretive Health, Inc. in August 2009. Accretive Healt h, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jon C. Ogg]
Accretive Health Inc. (NYSE: AH) was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Beam Inc. (NYSE: BEAM) was downgraded to Hold from Buy based on valuation at Argus.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Phos (FOS.TO)
PhosCan Chemical Corp., a development stage company, engages in acquiring, exploring, and developing mineral and natural resource properties in Canada. It holds a 100% interest in the Martison Phosphate project consisting of phosphate deposits located in north of Hearst, Ontario. The company was formerly known as MCK Mining Corp. and changed its name to PhosCan Chemical Corp. in July 2006. PhosCan Chemical Corp. was founded in 1994 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Hot Energy Companies To Watch In Right Now: Red Eagle Mining Corp (RD.V)
Red Eagle Mining Corp (Red Eagle) is engaged in exploration and development of mineral properties located in Colombia. The Company has two mineral properties: Santa Rosa and Pavo Real, both of which are located in Colombia. The Company, though its 70% owned subsidiary Rovira Mining Limited, is earning in to an option agreement on the Pavo Real property in Tolima province, Colombia. On October 6, 2010, the Company entered into letter agreement to acquire 100% of the Santa Rosa Project, which is consisted of concession contracts in Colombia. The Company�� subsidiaries include Red Eagle Mining de Colombia Limited and Rovira Mining Limited. Effective September 3, 2013, Appian Natural Resources Fund LP, a unit of Appian Capital Advisory LLP, raised its interest to 15.323% from 9.297%, by acquiring a further 6.025% interest in Red Eagle Mining Corp.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Sernova Corp. (SVA.V)
Sernova Corp., a health sciences company, focuses on the development and commercialization of medical technologies in the United States and Canada. Its proprietary platform technologies include Cell Pouch System, a device providing a natural organ-like environment for therapeutic cells, such as insulin producing islets for diabetics; and Sertolin, a cell-based technology providing an immune-privileged environment for donor cells, reducing or eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. The company also focuses to commercialize products for the treatment of Parkinson�s, spinal cord injury, and haemophilia diseases. Sernova Corp. is headquartered in London, Canada.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Syndicated Metals Ltd(SMD.AX)
Syndicated Metals Ltd engages in the exploration of mineral resources in Australia. It primarily explores for base metals, including copper, gold, molybdenum, rhenium, uranium, zinc, and phosphate. The company owns interest in the Mount Remarkable Project, including the Barbara copper deposit comprises contiguous tenements covering around 1100 square kilometers located in the Mount Isa Region in northwest Queensland. It also holds interests in the Kalman South Project located in northwest Queensland; and the Exmouth Project comprising three granted exploration licenses covering a total area of 480 square kilometres and an exploration license application of 180 square kilometers located in Perth. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Subiaco, Australia.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOX.O)
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., formerly News Corporation, incorporated on October 23, 2003, has a portfolio of cable, broadcast, film, pay television and satellite assets spanning six continents across the globe. The Company is home to a global portfolio of cable and broadcasting networks and properties, including FOX, FX, FXX, FS1, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox Sports, Fox Sports Network, National Geographic Channels, Fox Pan American Sports, MundoFox, STAR and 28 local television stations; film studio Twentieth Century Fox Film; and television production studios Twentieth Century Fox Television and Shine Group. The Company also provides content to millions of subscribers through its pay-television services in Europe and Asia, including Sky Deutschland, Sky Italia and its equity interests in BSkyB and Tata Sky.
Cable Network Programming
The Company's Cable Network Programming business includes Fox Networks, Big Ten Network, Bi g Ten Network, Fox Business Network, Fox Deportes, Fox News Channel, Fox International Channels, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports Networks, FX Networks and Productions, MundoFox, National Geographic Channels, STAR India and YES Network. Fox Networks is a unit of Fox Networks Group (FNG) and includes 43 domestic programming services in which FNG holds interests. FOX Business Network (FBN) is a financial news channel delivering real-time information. FOX Deportes is a Spanish-language sports media. FOX Deportes features soccer programming with coverage of Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League, Barclays Premier League, Copa Bridgestone Libertadores, Copa Bridgestone Sudamericana; coverage of the Major League Baseball regular season, All-Star Game, American League Championship Series and World Series; Golden Boy Promotions Boxing, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR).
FOX News Channel (FN C) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to! d! elivering breaking news, as well as political and business news. A joint venture between the Big Ten Conference and Fox Networks, BTN is the distributed network. FOX International Channels (FIC) is the Company�� international multi-media business. It develops, produces and distributes 300 wholly owned and majority owned entertainment, factual, sports, movie and lifestyle channels across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, in 44 languages. FOX Sports 1 is a national 24-hour multi-sport channel. Fox Sports Networks (FSN) is the provider of local sports.
FX Networks and Productions is the flagship general entertainment basic cable network from Fox. MundoFox is a joint venture between Fox International Channels (FIC),the Company�� international multi-media business, and RCN, the Latin American television network and production company belonging to OrganizaciUn Ardila Llle (OAL). Based at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, D.C., the National Geographic channels the United States are a joint venture between National Geographic and Fox Cable Networks. Star India is a media and entertainment company operating nearly 40 channels in seven languages, including its flagship Star Plus. The YES Network is a regional sports network.
Filmed Entertainment
Filmed Entertainment business includes Twentieth Century Fox, Twentieth Century Fox Television, Fox 2000, Fox 21, Fox Animation/Blue Sky Studios, Fox Home Entertainment, Fox International Productions, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Television Studios and Shine Group. Twentieth Century Fox is a producers and distributors of motion picture. Twentieth Century Fox Television is a supplier of primetime television programming and entertainment content. Fox 2000 is a division of Twentieth Century Fox and the home of films such as LIFE OF PI, DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, among others.
Fox 21 is a production company ho used within Twentieth Century Fox Television. Fox Anima! tion ! an! d Blue ! Sky Studios are Twentieth Century Fox's animation arm. TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions, as well as all third party distribution partners. Fox International Productions is a division of Twentieth Century Fox that focuses on regional film productions in dozens of local marketplaces around the world. Fox Searchlight Pictures is a specialty film company that both finances and acquires motion pictures. Fox Television Studios produces scripted and unscripted programming for the United States broadcast and cable networks, and international broadcasters.
Television
The Company�� Television business includes Fox Broadcasting Network, Fox Sports, Fox Television Stations Group and MyNetworkTV. Fox Broadcasting Network is producers and distributors of motion pictures. FOX Sports is the flagship network of the FOX Sports Media Group. FOX Televi sion Stations is a network broadcast group, consist of 28 stations in 18 markets. MyNetworkTV is a broadcast programming service.
Direct Broadcast and Satellite TV
Direct Broadcast and Satellite TV business consists of BSkyB, Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia. Sky operates the television service in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sky Deutschland AG is a pay television company in Germany and Austria with over 3.4 million subscribers. Sky offers more than 70 channels with live sports, current films, television series, kids programs, and documentaries. Sky Italia is a pay- television platform in Italy, reaching almost five million subscribers.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Rare Earth Metals Inc (RA.V)
Rare Earth Metals Inc., a development stage company, focuses on the acquisition and development of mineral properties in North America. The company explores for rare earth elements, niobium, beryllium, zirconium, and iron ore deposits, as well as bituminous coal deposits. Its flagship properties include the Clay-Howells Prospect consisting of 45 patented claims and 49 unpatented claims totaling 11,781 hectares located in northeast of Kapuskasing, Ontario; and the Red Wine project with a total of 1360 claim units comprising 340 square kilometers located in west central Labrador. The company is based in Thunder Bay, Canada.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: RF Micro Devices Inc.(RFMD)
RF Micro Devices, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets radio frequency (RF) components and compound semiconductor technologies in the United States and internationally. Its products enable mobility, as well as provide connectivity and support functionality in the cellular handsets, wireless infrastructure, wireless local area networks, cable television /broadband, Smart Energy/advanced metering infrastructure, and aerospace and defense markets. The company offers products that range from single-function components to highly integrated circuits and multi-chip modules (MCMs). Its integrated circuit products include gain blocks, low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers (PAs), receivers, transmitters, transceivers, modulators, demodulators, attenuators, switches, frequency synthesizers, and voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs); MCM products consist of PA modules, switch-filter modules, active antenna products, VCOs, phase-locked loops, coaxial resonator oscillators , active mixers, variable gain amplifiers, hybrid amplifiers, power doublers, and optical receivers; and passive components consist of splitters, couplers, mixers, and transformers, as well as isolators and circulators. The company markets its products to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers. RF Micro Devices, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By alicet236]
RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD): President and CEO Robert A. Bruggeworth Sold 50,000 Shares
President and CEO of RF Micro Devices, Inc. (RFMD) Robert A. Bruggeworth sold 50,000 shares on 10/10/2013 at an average price of $6. RF Micro Devices Inc. has a market cap of $1.68 billion; its shares were traded at around $5.97 with and P/S ratio of 1.60.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: CenturyLink Inc.(CTL)
CenturyLink, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated communications company. The company provides a range of communications services, including voice, Internet, data, and video services in the continental United States. Its services include local exchange and long distance voice telephone services, as well as enhanced voice services, such as call forwarding, caller identification, conference calling, voicemail, selective call ringing, and call waiting; wholesale local network access services; and data services, including high-speed Internet access services, data transmission services over special circuits and private lines, and switched digital television services, as well as special access and private line services. The company also offers fiber transport, competitive local exchange carrier, security monitoring, and other communications, as well as professional and business information services. In addition, it provides other related services, such as leasing, selling, installing, and maintaining customer premise telecommunications equipment and wiring; payphone services; and network database services, as well as participates in the publication of local telephone directories. Further, the company offers printing, direct mail services, and cable television services; and wireless broadband Internet access services and satellite television services. As of December 31, 2010, it operated approximately 6.5 million telephone access lines. CenturyLink, Inc was founded in 1968 and is based in Monroe, Louisiana.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Dan Caplinger]
You can find many examples of this phenomenon recently:
Late last month, Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI ) cut its dividend in half after announcing worse-than-expected sales and income. The stock had suffered from weakness in Pitney Bowes' core mailing and enterprise business solutions segments, and the company chose to sacrifice its former double-digit yield in order to shore up its financial condition. Even after the cut, the stock still yields a fairly high 5%. In February, CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL ) cut its dividend by about 25%, again after reporting weak guidance for its earnings for the remainder of 2013. Even though the rural telecom company chose simply to put cash previously earmarked to pay its former yield of 7% toward share buybacks instead, the stock plunged more than 20% in response to the move, although it has rebounded significantly since then as investors recognized the fundamental benefits to the company from the capital reallocation. Until three months ago, Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE: CLF ) had a high dividend yield approaching 7% despite terrible conditions in its iron-ore and metallurgical-coal businesses. After announcing earnings in mid-February, the company cut its dividend by more than three-quarters in a move that will conserve cash for the ailing producer of raw materials for steel production. Now, the stock yields just 2.6%.That's not to say that all of the highest dividend paying stocks are doomed to reduce their payouts. Businesses that are designed to focus on maximizing cash flow rather than seeking growth can often sustain very high yields for years. Vanguard High Dividend Yield (NYSEMKT: VYM ) and other dividend ETFs use a combination of factors beyond simple yield to choose stocks with sustainable high payouts.
- [By Lauren Pollock]
CenturyLink Inc.(CTL) swung to a steep third-quarter loss as the telecommunications company recorded a $1.1 billion impairment charge tied to its data-hosting segment, while revenue fell for the fifth consecutive quarter. Shares declined 2.6% to $33 premarket.
- [By Jim Fink]
Year-to-Date Performance
Industry Diamond Offshore (NYSE: DO) $55.39 $7.7 billion 3.3 -14.2% Oil Drilling HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) $36.22 $16.5 billion 3.5 -16.0% Healthcare REIT American Realty Capital Properties (Nasdaq: ARCP) $12.64 $2.4 billion 8.6 1.9% Retail and Office REIT Southern Co. (NYSE: SO) $40.88 $36.1 billion 9.8 -0.1% Electric Utility Cooper Tire & Rubber (NYSE: CTB) $22.01 $1.4 billion 10.3 -11.8% Automobile Tires CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) $31.36 $18.5 billion 11.8 -14.5% Telecommunications Quest Diagnostic (NYSE: DGX) $54.05 $7.8 billion 13.4 -5.4% Medical Diagnostic Tests Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP) $79.57 $34.9 billion 15.4 6.0% Energy pipeline MLP Altera (Nasdaq: ALTR) $31.98 $10.3 billion 15.9 -5.6% Semiconductors ADT Corp. (NYSE: ADT) $40.01 $8.0 billion 16.8 -12.9% Home SecuritySource: Bloomberg
- [By Laura Brodbeck]
Next week investors will be waiting for several key earnings reports including�Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL), Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN)
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Horizon Bancorp(IN)
Horizon Bancorp operates as the bank holding company for Horizon Bank, N.A., which provides commercial and retail banking products and services in northwestern Indiana and southwestern Michigan. It offers demand deposits, savings accounts, interest-bearing checking accounts, and money market and term deposits. The company also provides loans, such as commercial, financial, agricultural, and commercial tax-exempt loans; mortgage warehouse loans; real estate mortgage loans; installment loans; consumer loans; and non-performing loans. In addition, it offers corporate and individual trust and agency services, and investment management services, as well as holds title to various company owned life insurance policies. The company operates 19 full service facilities. Horizon Bancorp was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Michigan City, Indiana.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Ingles Markets Incorporated(IMKTA)
Ingles Markets, Incorporated operates a supermarket chain in the southeast United States. Its supermarkets offer food products, including grocery, meat and dairy products, produce, frozen foods, and other perishables; and non-food products, such as fuel, pharmacy products, health and beauty care products, and general merchandise, as well as provides private label items. The company?s stores also offer products and services, such as home meal replacement items, delicatessens, bakeries, floral departments, video rental departments, and greeting cards, as well as a selection of organic, beverage, and health-related items. In addition, it engages in the fluid dairy processing and shopping center rental businesses. The company operates 203 supermarkets, including 74 in Georgia, 69 in North Carolina, 36 in South Carolina, 21 in Tennessee, 2 in Virginia, and 1 in Alabama. As of September 24, 2011, it operated 74 in-store pharmacies and 70 fuel centers; owned and operated 70 shop ping centers of which 58 contain an Ingles supermarket; and owned 94 additional properties that contain a free-standing Ingles store; and owned 13 undeveloped sites. The company was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Dan Caplinger]
Ingles Markets (NASDAQ: IMKTA ) will release its quarterly report on Monday, and investors have been pleased to see shares of the regional grocery-store chain rise to levels not seen since before the financial crisis. Yet from its vantage in the Southeastern U.S., Ingles Markets has to be concerned about the impact that Kroger's (NYSE: KR ) proposed buyout of Harris Teeter (NYSE: HTSI ) might have on the competitive landscape in the region, with a potential threat to Ingles' future prospects looming over the company's stock.
- [By Russ Krull]
Ingles Markets (NASDAQ: IMKTA ) rang up $700 million from 10-year, 5.75% high-yield notes. The money will fund a tender offer for all $575 million of its 2017 8.75% notes. At the tender offer price, retiring all the existing debt will cost about $600 million, and the deal will save Ingles about $10 million per year in debt service. Any money left after paying for the tender offer goes "to repay certain other debt, to fund capital expenditures and for general corporate purposes."
- [By Geoff Gannon]
To understand a grocer ��any grocer ��it helps to have an understanding of the industry. Of all the real life ways different species of grocers differ. It helps to be able to look at Arden and Village and Ingles (IMKTA). It helps to see three different approaches. And see which elements of each work and which don��.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Royce Micro-Cap Trust Inc.(RMT)
Royce Micro-Cap Trust, Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed Royce & Associates, LLC. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It primarily invests in value stocks of companies with market capitalization of less than $500 million. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolios against Russell 2000 Index. Royce Micro-Cap Trust, Inc was formed on December 14, 1993 and is domiciled in the United States.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Stevia Corp(STEV.OB)
Stevia Corp., a farm management company, provides various agricultural consulting and solutions to contract growers and other industry growers. It develops Stevia, a zero calorie sweetener used in approximately 6,000 products, including beverages, foods, and medicines. The company also offers farm management services, including research and development, plant breeding, agricultural methodologies, and post-harvest techniques. It has two grower supply contracts and three nursery fields in Vietnam. Stevia Corp. offers its stevia products across 35 countries and 38 categories. The company was formerly known as Interpro Management Corp. and changed its name to Stevia Corp. in March 2011. Stevia Corp. was founded in 2007 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Prospect Global Resources Inc (PGRX)
Prospect Global Resources Inc. (Prospect), incorporated on July 22, 2008, is an exploration and development of a potash deposit located in the Holbrook Basin of eastern Arizona, which it refers to as the Holbrook Project. The Holbrook Project consists of permits and leases on 147 mineral estate sections in the Holbrook Basin of eastern Arizona, along the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau.
The Company holds interest and control the Holbrook Project through its wholly owned subsidiary, AWP. Through AWP, the Company holds potash exploration permits on 38 Arizona state sections, own the mineral rights on eight private sections and hold leases for the mineral rights on 101 private sections which, in total, cover approximately 90,000 acres.
The Holbrook Project
The Company�� Holbrook Project consists of permits and leases on 147 mineral estate sections spanning approximately 90,000 acres in the Holbrook Basin of eastern Arizona. The Holbrook Project is surrounded by the Navajo Reservation to the north and north-east, some Apache and Hopi Reservation grounds to the south, and the Petrified Forest National Park to the west. The Holbrook Basin is a 5,000 square mile kidney-shaped sedimentary basin in east-central Arizona located along the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau. The potash beds in the Holbrook Basin are hosted within the Permian Supai Salt Formation. The mineralized zones are located at relatively shallow depths, generally less than 1,600 feet.
Top 10 High Tech Stocks For 2015: Britton & Koontz Capital Corporation(BKBK)
Britton & Koontz Capital Corporation operates as the holding company for Britton & Koontz Bank, National Association that provides commercial and consumer banking services in Adams and Warren Counties, Mississippi, and East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, as well as in the adjoining counties and parishes in Mississippi and Louisiana. The company offers various deposit products, including personal and commercial checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts, non-interest bearing deposits, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial, financial, and agricultural loans; real estate construction, residential, and other loans; installment loans; consumer loans; and overdrafts. In addition, the company provides automated clearinghouse services; safe deposit box facilities; brokerage services; automated teller machines; cash management services, including remote deposit, money transfer, direct de posit payroll, and sweep accounts; VISA credit cards; and letters of credit. As of May 17, 2011, it operated three full service offices in Natchez, two in Vicksburg, Mississippi; three in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and a loan production office in Central, Louisiana. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Natchez, Mississippi.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Tim Melvin]
HBCP recently announced a deal to buy Britton & Koontz Capital Corporation (BKBK) in a deal that will add eight branches and more than $300 million of assets to the bank. It also gains access to the Mississippi marketplace and increases Home Bancorp’s deposit base in Baton Rouge.
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