Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Best Performing Companies To Watch For 2014

J.D. Power and Associates released its eight annual U.S. Retail Banking Satisfaction Study�last week, and results point to greater customer satisfaction at banks of all sizes. Over 50,000 customers across the country were surveyed regarding their banking experiences, with each bank ranked by region based on overall satisfaction. The top performing banks per region are:

Region

Award Recipient

Overall Satisfaction Score*

California

Rabobank

825

Florida

Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD  )

Best Performing Companies To Watch For 2014: Nex Metals Exploration Ltd (NME.AX)

Nex Metals Explorations Ltd engages in the exploration and mining of mineral properties in Western Australia. The company primarily explores for gold, copper, and nickel deposits. It principally holds a 100% interest in the Kookynie gold project that consists of 44 tenements covering approximately 70 square kilometers of land located to the south of Leonora; and a 70% interest in the Yundamindera gold project that comprises 9 granted mining leases covering an area of 46.2 square kilometers located to the southeast of Leonora. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in East Perth, Australia.

Best Performing Companies To Watch For 2014: Sanmina-SCI Corporation(SANM)

Sanmina-SCI Corporation provides integrated electronics manufacturing services worldwide. It offers product design and engineering services, including initial development, detailed design, prototyping, validation, preproduction, and manufacturing design; volume manufacturing of complete systems, components, and subassemblies; final system assembly and testing services; direct order fulfillment and logistics services; and after-market product service and support services. The company also manufactures various system components and subassemblies consisting of printed circuit boards, printed circuit board assemblies, backplanes and backplane assemblies, enclosures, cable assemblies, precision machine components, optical components and modules, and memory modules. It provides its services to original equipment manufacturers primarily in the communication, enterprise computing and storage, multimedia, industrial and semiconductor capital equipment, defense and aerospace, medica l, clean technology, and automotive industries. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in San Jose, California.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Sam Collins]

    Sanmina-SCI Corporation (NASDAQ: SANM ) is independent global provider of customized, integrated electronics manufacturing services. The stock has been in an intermediate downtrend since April, but recent accumulation and a host of buy recommendations from more than 20 analysts puts this stock back in the spotlight.

    SANM recently crossed over its 50-day moving average, and its stochastic flashed a buy. Since it is technically still in a downtrend, stop-loss orders at $10 should be entered. The average target of the fundamental analysts is $24, and S&P rates the stock a "five-star buy" with a 12-month target of $20.

5 Best Forestry Stocks To Watch For 2014: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc(TMO)

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software, and services for research, manufacture, analysis, discovery, and diagnostics. Its Analytical Technologies segment offers analytical instruments to analyze prepared samples, software interpretation tools, laboratory information management systems, and laboratory automation systems; environmental instruments and integrated systems for environmental monitoring, safety, and security applications; and process instruments, integrated systems, and measurement solutions. It also provides diagnostics products used in healthcare laboratories to prepare and analyze patient samples; and biosciences products comprising reagents and consumables used in life science research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical production. The company?s Laboratory Products and Services segment offers laboratory equipment, including sample preparation, environment storage and handling equipment, and laboratory workstations; laboratory consumables; research market solutions consisting of chemicals, instruments and apparatus, liquid handling pumps and devices, and capital equipment and consumables; and healthcare market products comprising analytical equipment, diagnostic tools, and reagents and consumables. It also provides workplace and first responder equipment, protective gear, and apparel; and packaging, warehousing, distribution, labeling, pharmaceutical and biospecimen storage, and analytical laboratory services in the area of drug discovery and pharmaceutical clinical trials. The company serves pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions, government agencies, and environmental and industrial process control settings primarily in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Mark]  

    TMO sells analytical instruments. After a successful first quarter where profits rose 55%, TMO looks to continue the streak. TMO’s P/E ratio of 13 reflects a significant discount compared to industry averages, making a strong case for TMO to rise to $65.

Best Performing Companies To Watch For 2014: Digital River Inc.(DRIV)

Digital River, Inc. provides end-to-end global cloud-commerce and marketing solutions. The company offers a range of services that enables its customers to establish an online sales channel. Its services include design, development, and hosting of online stores and shopping carts; store merchandising and optimization; order management; denied parties screening; export controls and management; tax compliance and management; fraud management; digital product delivery via download; physical product fulfillment; subscription management; online marketing, including email marketing; management of affiliate programs; paid search programs; payment processing services; Web site optimization, Web analytics, and reporting; and CD production and delivery services. The company also provides paid search advertising, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, store optimization, multi-variant testing, and Web analytic and e-mail optimization services. In addition, it offers a range of payment processing services, such as multiple payment methods, fraud management, tax management, cloud-based billing, and other payment optimization services. The company sells its products and services through Internet and direct sales force. It serves software, consumer electronics, and computer and video game product manufacturers, as well as online channel partners, including retailers and affiliates in the United States, Austria, Brazil, China, Germany, Korea, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. Digital River, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Best Performing Companies To Watch For 2014: Ultra Clean Holdings Inc.(UCTT)

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, engineering, manufacture, and sale of critical modules and subsystems primarily to original equipment manufacturers in semiconductor capital equipment, flat panel, medical, energy, and research industries. It offers gas delivery systems that control the flow, pressure, sequencing, and mixing of specialty gases into and out of the reaction chambers of semiconductor manufacturing tools; chemical mechanical planarization modules; chemical delivery modules, which deliver gases and reactive chemicals from a centralized subsystem to the reaction chamber; and top-plate assemblies that form the top portion of the reaction chamber. The company also provides frame assemblies that form the support structure to which other assemblies are attached and include pneumatic harnesses and cables that connect other critical subsystems together; process modules, which are subsystems of semiconductor manufacturing tools that process integrated circuits onto wafers; and other high level assemblies for use in semiconductor manufacturing, research, flat panel, energy, and medical equipment industries. It sells its products through its direct sales force primarily in North America, Asia, and Europe. Ultra Clean Holding, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Hayward, California.

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