Top Financial Stocks For 2014

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX  ) has a lot going for it as an investment: sector leadership, loyal fan base, expanding global footprint, and strong financial fundamentals. Is that enough to justify its addition to your portfolio today? After all, we don't invest based on where a company has been but where it's going. The past offers a useful guide to the shape of a company's future, but it can't paint in too many details. We've got to do that ourselves.

Let's take a closer look at Starbucks' fundamentals to see if it really is the top-notch investment it's held up to be.

Under the lid
My fellow Fool Sean Williams has already given a bullish take on Starbucks, focused on the company's ability to handle new challenges and find new sources of growth. I'd like to look at the numbers behind that growth. Let's start with some fundamentals -- revenue, earnings per share, and free cash flow:

Top Financial Stocks For 2014: DayStar Technologies Inc.(DSTI)

DayStar Technologies, Inc., a development stage company, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of solar photovoltaic products to the grid-tied and ground-based photovoltaic markets. The company offers solar photovoltaic modules to convert sunlight into electricity. It provides monolithically integrated copper indium gallium selenide modules on glass laminate substrates for centralized utility power plants, commercial building roof tops, and smaller residential roof tops. DayStar Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Smith]

  Daystar Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ: DSTI) closing price in the stock market Tuesday, Jan. 3, was $0.22. DSTI is trading -21.76% below its 50 day moving average and -29.42% below its 200 day moving average. DSTI is -88.30% below its 52-week high of $1.88 and 69.23% above its 52-week low of $0.13. DSTI ‘s PE ratio is N/A and its market cap is $2.10M .

  Daystar Technologies, Inc. is a development stage company. DSTI engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of solar photovoltaic products to the grid-tied and ground-based photovoltaic markets.

Top Financial Stocks For 2014: Medallion Resources Ltd. (MDL.V)

Medallion Resources Ltd., a junior resource company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and evaluation of mineral properties. It evaluates the potential of rare earths, primarily mineral sand-based monazite deposits in the Indian Ocean basin. The company holds interests in the Red Wine heavy-rare-earth elements project, which consists of 7 mineral licenses in 4 groups covering an area of 46.5 square kilometers in southern Labrador, Canada. Medallion Resources Ltd. is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Top Promising Stocks To Watch For 2014: TF Financial Corporation(THRD)

TF Financial Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Third Federal Bank that provides various financial products and services in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Its deposit products include regular savings, non-interest bearing checking, NOW checking, money market, and certificate accounts. The company?s loan portfolio primarily comprises adjustable-rate and fixed-rate first mortgage loans secured by one-to-four family residences; commercial real estate and multi-family loans; construction loans; consumer and other loans, such as home equity, second mortgage, automobile, and student loans; and commercial business loans, which include short-term loans for equipment, working capital, business expansion, and inventory financing. As of December 31, 2010, it operated 14 branch offices in Bucks and Philadelphia Counties, Pennsylvania; and Mercer County, New Jersey. The company was founded in 1921 and is based in Newtown, Pennsylvania.