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10 Best Prefered Stocks To Watch For 2014: New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc.(NHTB)
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Lake Sunapee Bank, fsb that provides banking and other financial services in New Hampshire and Vermont. The company accepts various deposit products, including business checking, money market accounts, savings, negotiable order of withdrawal, and certificate accounts. Its loan portfolio comprises real estate loans, real estate construction loans, consumer loans, commercial loans, and municipal loans. The company also sells brokerage, securities, and insurance products. It operates 28 branches in Grafton, Hillsborough, Sullivan, Chester, and Merrimack counties in west central New Hampshire; and in Rutland and Windsor counties in Vermont. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in Newport, New Hampshire.
10 Best Prefered Stocks To Watch For 2014: The Advisory Board Company(ABCO)
The Advisory Board Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of best practices research and analysis, business intelligence and software tools, and management and advisory services primarily in the United States. The company offers various programs and services, including best practices research services that focus on identifying best-demonstrated management practices, critiquing widely-followed but ineffective practices, and analyzing emerging trends in the health care and education industries; business intelligence and software tools, which allow members to pair their own operational data with the best practices insights; and management and advisory services programs for assisting member institutions to adopt and implement best practices to enhance performance. As of June 30, 2011, it provided 51 distinct membership programs to hospitals, health systems, colleges, universities, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, health care insurers, medical de vice and supply companies, and other educational institutions. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.
Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Watch For 2014: Uranium Resources Inc.(URRE)
Uranium Resources, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and mining of uranium properties, using the in situ recovery or solution mining process. It owns developed and undeveloped uranium properties in South Texas; and undeveloped uranium properties in New Mexico. The company?s primary customers include utilities who utilize nuclear power to generate electricity. Uranium Resources, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is based in Lewisville, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Louis]
Uranium exploration, mine development and production company Uranium Resources Inc.(URRE) has watched its stock value skyrocket 179% in the past 12 months -- and it is still trading for less than $2 per share! This is even more impressive when you consider that investors fled the sector in March after the nuclear power plant crisis in Japan, causing URRE to lose close to 50%. Since its March 16 low, shares have climbed 38% to $1.92. With a 52-week trading range of 38 cents to $3.98, look for shares to make their way higher as the sector continues to rebound.
10 Best Prefered Stocks To Watch For 2014: SportingBet.com(SBT.L)
Sportingbet Plc operates as an online sports betting and gaming company. The company offers online sports betting services, including sportsbook; and gaming products comprising casino and poker, as well as other games, such as roulette, blackjack, slots, and live dealer games. It operates Websites in 21 languages; and accepts bets in 20 currencies. The company is also involved in telephone and mobile betting businesses. It operates in Europe, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Chile, and South Africa. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.
10 Best Prefered Stocks To Watch For 2014: Stratasys Inc.(SSYS)
Stratasys, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, and servicing of three-dimensional (3D) printers, rapid prototyping (RP) systems, and related consumable materials for office-based RP and direct digital manufacturing (DDM) markets. The company offers its products as integrated systems consisting of an RP machine and the software to convert the CAD designs into a machine compatible format, and modeling and support materials. Its products enable engineers and designers to create physical models, tooling, jigs, fixtures, prototypes, and end use parts out of production grade thermoplastic directly from a CAD workstation. The company also offers rapid prototyping and production part manufacturing services; and maintenance, leasing/renting, training, and contract engineering services for 3D production systems and 3D printers. Its products are used by design and manufacturing organizations in aerospace, architecture, automotive, business machines, consumer products, defense, direct digital manufacturing of custom parts, educational institutions, electronics, fixtures, jewelry, heavy equipment, medical systems, tooling, medical analysis, mold making, and dental markets. The company markets its products through a network of value-added resellers and distributors in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and China. Stratasys, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
10 Best Prefered Stocks To Watch For 2014: Sportech plc(SPO.L)
Sportech PLC, through its subsidiaries, operates as a pools and tote gaming company primarily in the United Kingdom, North America, and rest of Europe. Its Football Pools segment engages in the operation of football pools and associated games through various distribution channels including direct mail, telephone, agent-based collection, retail, and the Internet. The company?s Sportech Racing segment provides pari-mutuel wagering services and systems principally to the horseracing industry; and manages off-track betting venues. Its e-Gaming segment operates a portfolio of online casino, poker, bingo, and fixed-odds games. This segment supplies games through third-party software providers. The company owns and operates a portfolio of gaming brands in football, horseracing, sports, casino, poker, bingo, and lotteries. Sportech PLC was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in the London, the United Kingdom.
10 Best Prefered Stocks To Watch For 2014: Food Empire Holdings Limited (F03.SI)
Food Empire Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, produces and markets instant beverage products, frozen convenience food, confectionery, and snack food primarily in Russia, eastern Europe, central Asia, and internationally. The company�s beverage products comprise regular and flavored coffee mixes and cappuccinos, chocolate drinks, instant breakfast cereal, and flavored fruit teas; frozen convenience food includes bite-sized morsels of seafood, dim sum, spring rolls, tail-on shrimp dumplings, seafood deli, butterfly seafood wantons, curry puffs, and cocktail samosas; confectionery consists of chewy candies and sugar-free breath strips; and snack food products include potato crisps, apple chips, and rice crackers. It offers approximately 400 types of products primarily under the MacCoffee, Petrovskaya Sloboda, Klassno, Hyson, OrienBites, Kracks, FesAroma, B茅same, and MacCandy brand names. Food Empire Holdings Limited also engages in property investment holding activities; real estate activities relating to property owning or leasing; the import, export, and trading of food and beverages; and the provision of management and finance support, royalty and trade-mark contract, packaging, and trade and marketing services. The company also exports its products to approximately 60 countries, including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, Indochina, the Middle East, Mongolia, and the United States. Food Empire Holdings Limited is based in Singapore.
10 Best Prefered Stocks To Watch For 2014: (TCS.NS)
Tata Consultancy Services Limited provides information technology (IT) services, business solutions, and outsourcing services primarily in the Americas, Europe, and India. The company offers IT services, including custom application development and management, migration and re-engineering, system integration, testing, and performance engineering; and IT infrastructure services comprising IT service desk, data center and end user computing services, application management services, managed security services, converged network services, enterprise system management, IT service management, and transformation solutions. It also provides enterprise solutions consisting of supply chain and customer relationship management, as well as RFID, call management, Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP; and consulting services. In addition, the company offers business process outsourcing services; platform BPO solutions; business intelligence and performance management; engineering and industrial s ervices; assurance services; asset leveraged solutions; and eco-sustainability services, as well as various services to small and medium businesses. Further, it provides various software products, which include financial solutions under TCS BaNCS brand name; technology products; and other products for enterprises in the insurance, health, and life science industries. The company serves banking and financial services, energy, resources, utilities, government, health care and life sciences, high tech, insurance, manufacturing, media and information services, retail and consumer products, telecom, travel, transportation, and hospitality industries. It has strategic partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, EMC, Google Enterprise, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, NetApp, RIM, and SAP, as well as with JDA Software Group, Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Xerox Corporation. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Mumbai, India. Tata Consultancy Services Limited is a subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Hesler]
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) belongs to the Tata Group, which is widely respected in India for adhering to business ethics and consistent notable performance. The Mumbai-based TCS is one of the frontline software companies in India. This software giant with a turnover of over US$ 1.50 billion has been in operation since 1968 and has facilities in 34 countries across the globe.
TCS has delivered excellent results for four consecutive quarters during the financial year 2009-10. Tata Consultancy Services announced that the net profit rose by 50.1 per cent to Rs 2,001 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2010.
10 Best Prefered Stocks To Watch For 2014: Pozen Inc.(POZN)
POZEN Inc., a pharmaceutical company, develops products for the treatment of acute and chronic pain, and other pain-related conditions in the United States. Its products include Treximet for acute treatment of migraine attacks with or without aura in adults; and VIMOVO for the relief of the signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis, as well as to decrease the risk of developing gastric ulcers in patients at risk of developing non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID)-associated gastric ulcers. The company also develops PA32540, a product candidate, which is under 2 pivotal Phase 3 trials for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients at risk for gastric ulcers. It has collaborations with GlaxoSmithKline for the development and commercialization of proprietary combinations of a triptan and a long-acting NSAID; and with AstraZeneca AB for the development and commercialization of proprietary fixed dose combi nations of the proton pump inhibitor esomeprazole magnesium with the NSAID naproxen. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
10 Best Prefered Stocks To Watch For 2014: Fisher Communications Inc.(FSCI)
Fisher Communications, Inc., an integrated media company, through its subsidiaries, engages in television and radio broadcasting businesses. The company owns and operates network-affiliated television stations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California, as well as engages in Internet business; and radio stations and managed radio stations in Washington and Montana. It also owns and operates Fisher Plaza, a commercial building that includes a data center designed to enable companies to distribute analog and digital media content through various distribution channels, including broadcast, satellite, cable, Internet, broadband, and other wired and wireless communication systems, as well as houses various companies, including media and communications companies. The company owns and operates 13 full power television stations, 7 low power television stations, and 10 owned and managed radio stations in the Western United States. Its television stations reach 4.2 million househo lds. The company was formerly known as Fisher Companies, Inc. and changed its name in March 2001. Fisher Communications, Inc. was founded in 1910 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
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