Top 5 Mid Cap Companies To Own In Right Now

Just as Las Vegas boomed years ago, Macau is booming today for the same reason; it�� the only place in China where gambling is legal.

All the big names in the industry are there, including Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts. And Melco Crown Entertainment (MPEL) -- our latest stock of the month pick -- is thriving right along with them.

The big driver of revenue for Melco is its City of Dreams resort casino complex, a massive conglomeration of casinos, hotels, theaters, 20 restaurants and bars, 175,000 square feet of high-end shopping venues and 550 gambling tables and 1,500 gaming machines.

Top 5 Mid Cap Companies To Own In Right Now: Weir Grp(WEIR.L)

The Weir Group PLC engages in minerals, oil and gas, and power and industrial businesses worldwide. Its Minerals segment designs and manufactures slurry handling equipment, including pumps, hydrocyclones, valves, and other complementary equipment primarily for the mining, flue gas desulphurization, and oil sands markets. The company?s Oil & Gas segment designs and manufactures pumps and ancillary equipment for upstream and downstream oil and gas markets, as well as engages in aftermarket service and support activities. Its Power & Industrial segment designs, manufactures, and provides aftermarket support for rotating and flow control equipment to the power sector. The company also offers equipment to the liquefied petroleum gas marine and onshore markets. The Weir Group PLC was founded in 1871 and is headquartered in Glasgow, the United Kingdom.

Top 5 Mid Cap Companies To Own In Right Now: Charles Stanley Grp(CAY.L)

Charles Stanley Group Plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides investment and financial services in the United Kingdom. The company operates in three segments: Private Clients, Financial Services, and Charles Stanley Securities. The Private Clients segment offers investment management services to individuals, trusts, and charities. The Financial Services segment provides corporate finance and wealth management services; pension administration services; and markets unit trusts, open ended investment company units, and packaged financial products to private clients. The Charles Stanley Securities segment offers stock broking, financial planning and benefit consultancy, and small and mid-cap advisory and institutional broking services. The company also provides life and health assurance, and tax advisory services. Charles Stanley Group Plc was founded in 1792 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Top 10 Undervalued Companies To Buy For 2014: China Life Insurance Company Limited(LFC)

China Life Insurance Company Limited provides life, annuities, accident, and health insurance products in China. Its individual life insurance and annuity products consist of whole life and term life insurance, endowment insurance, and annuities. The company also engages in the writing of life insurance business. In addition, it offers group life insurance products, including group annuity products, and group whole life and term life insurance products to enterprises and institutions, as well as universal life products. Further, the company provides short-term insurance products comprising short-term accident insurance and short-term health insurance products; accident insurance products, such as individual accident insurance and group accident insurance; and health insurance products, including defined health benefit plans, medical expense reimbursement plans, and disease specific plans. It distributes its products through its direct sales representatives and exclusive ag ents, as well as through intermediaries comprising insurance agencies and insurance brokerage companies, non-dedicated agencies, bancassurance arrangements, travel agencies, and hotels and airline sales counters. The company was founded in 1949 and is based in Beijing, China. China Life Insurance Company Limited is a subsidiary of China Life Insurance (Group) Company.

Top 5 Mid Cap Companies To Own In Right Now: Euro/Swiss(RF)

Regions Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for Regions Bank that provides a range of commercial, retail, and mortgage banking services in the United States. It offers various deposit products, including savings and transaction accounts; demand deposit accounts; money market accounts; and time deposits, such as certificate of deposits and individual retirement accounts. The company?s loan portfolio comprises commercial loans, such as commercial and industrial, and owner occupied commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans; investor real estate loans, including commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans; and consumer loans, which consist of residential first mortgage, home equity, indirect, consumer credit card, and other consumer loans. Regions Financial Corporation, through other subsidiaries, also provides regional brokerage and investment banking products and services, such as securities brokerage, trust, asset management, finan cial planning, mutual funds, securities underwriting, sales and trading, and investment banking services for individual and institutional investors; and insurance brokerage services for various lines of personal and commercial insurance comprising property, casualty, life, health, and accident. In addition, the company offers credit-related insurance, including title, term life, credit life, environmental, crop, and mortgage insurance; debt cancellation products; and equipment financing products primary for commercial clients. As of December 31, 2011, it operated approximately 2,100 ATMs and 1,726 banking offices in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Bret Jensen]

  Regions Financial (RF) operates as the holding company for the Regions Bank that provides a range of commercial, retail, and mortgage banking services in the United States. It offers various deposit products, including savings accounts, transaction accounts, and money market accounts, as well as time deposits, such as certificate of deposits and individual retirement accounts." 

   

  4 reasons Regions Financial is a buy at just under $5 a share:

  1. Insiders bought over 100,000 shares in August which is good vote of confidence.

  2. The technicals are improving rapidly . 

  3. After losing $.79 a share in FY2010, RF is expected to book $.19 a share of profit in FY2011 and analysts project $.48 a share in FY2012.

  4. The company has taken solid steps to improve its credit quality and capital levels since 2009. In addition, Regions is selling at less than 2 times the $2.67 a share it made in FY2006.

• [By John Grgurich]

  Some surprise, as we move far away from Wall Street for our No. 2 performer: This Alabama-based regional star closed up 63.91% for the year, moving from its low of $4.35 per share to $7.13. Again, except for a dip into the summer doldrums, which saw Regions share price hit $5.50, the stock was a steady climber throughout 2012; it hit its high of $7.62 on September 19. 

  Some bad news for Regions surfaced just last month, with Reuters reporting that the bank is currently, or has been, investigated by no less than five federal and state entities for the possibility it misclassified loans that went south during the financial crisis. No charges have yet been filed, but this development for Regions might mean regulators and prosecutors are shifting their legal gaze from financial-crash shenanigans at the big banks to financial-crash shenanigans at the regional banks.

Top 5 Mid Cap Companies To Own In Right Now: Intact Financial Corp (IFC.TO)

Intact Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty insurance products for individuals and small to medium size businesses primarily in Canada and the United States. It underwrites standard and non-standard automobile, home, and commercial property insurance products. The company markets its products through a network of insurance brokers or directly under the Intact Insurance, belairdirect, GP Car and Home, JEVCO, and Novex Group Insurance brands. The company was formerly known as ING Canada Inc. and changed its name to Intact Financial Corporation in May 2009. Intact Financial Corporation was founded in 1809 and is based in Toronto, Canada.