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10 Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2014: Telular Corporation(WRLS)
Telular Corporation designs, develops, and distributes products and services that utilize wireless networks to provide data and voice connectivity among people and machines primarily in the United States and internationally. It provides machine-to-machine and event monitoring services, including Telguard that comprises a specialized terminal unit, which interfaces with commercial security control panels and communicates with event processing servers to provide real-time transport of alarm signals from residential and commercial locations to an alarm company?s central monitoring station; and TankLink solution that combines a cellular communicator, wireless data services, and a Web-based application into a single offering, which allows end-users to monitor the product level in a given tank vessel. The company also offers fixed cellular terminals for voice, fax, and Internet access over the wireless networks. It sells its products to security equipment distributors, cellular carriers, and value added resellers. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Arohan]
Telular provides wireless connectivity solutions to home alarm and industrial segments for monitoring, security and data applications. The $89 million market value company currently can be bought at 2.42 PE ratio and offers a 6.8% dividend yield. The company reported a revenue growth of 16.6% in the latest quarter and is expected to grow earnings 16.7% this year and 43% the next. The company does not have analyst following so a deeper due diligence is advised.
10 Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2014: Cost Plus Inc.(CPWM)
Cost Plus, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of casual home furnishings and entertaining products in the United States. It offers home decorating items that include furniture, rugs, pillows, bath linens, lamps, window coverings, frames, and baskets; and furniture products, which comprise ready-to-assemble living and dining room pieces, handcrafted case goods, occasional pieces, and outdoor furniture made from various materials, such as rattan, hardwood, and metal. The company also provides tabletop and kitchen items, including glassware, ceramics, textiles, and cooking utensils; gift and decorative accessories comprising collectibles, candles, framed art, and holiday and other seasonal items; and jewelry, fashion accessories, and personal care items. In addition, it offers gourmet foods and beverages, including wine, microbrewed and imported beer, coffee, tea, and bottled water. The company operates stores under the names of World Market, Cost Plus World Market, Cost P lus Imports, and World Market Stores. Cost Plus, Inc. also sells its products through its Web site, worldmarket.com. As of May 19, 2011, it operated 259 stores in 30 states. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Keith]
Cost Plus, Inc. is a specialty retailer of casual home furnishings and entertaining products in the United States. Its EPS forecast for the current year is 0.55 and next year is 0.93. According to consensus estimates, its topline is expected to grow 4.23% current year and grow 3.54% next year. It is trading at a forward P/E of 10.94. One analyst covers the company and has a buy recommendation.
Top 10 Warren Buffett Companies To Watch In Right Now: Alleghany Corporation(Y)
Alleghany Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the property and casualty, and surety insurance business in the United States. It underwrites specialty insurance coverages in the property, umbrella/excess, general liability, directors and officers liability, professional liability lines of business, and homeowners insurance. The company also writes surety products, such as commercial surety bonds and contract surety bonds. In addition, Alleghany Corporation owns and manages improved and unimproved commercial land, and residential lots in the Sacramento, California. As of December 31, 2010, the company owned approximately 320 acres of property in various land use categories. Further, it engages in the oil and gas exploration and production business. The company was founded in 1929 and is based in New York, New York.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Rahemtulla]
Alleghany(Y) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from buy to hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including feeble growth in the company's earnings per share, deteriorating net income and disappointing return on equity.
Alleghany Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the property and casualty, and surety insurance business. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.1, equal to the average insurance industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Alleghany Corp DEL has a market cap of $2.6 billion and is part of the financial sector and insurance industry. Shares are down 7.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday.
10 Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2014: Odyssey Resources Limited(ODX.V)
Odyssey Resources Limited, a junior exploration company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral resource properties, primarily precious metals properties. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is based in Longueuil, Canada.
10 Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2014: China Yunnan Copper Australia Ltd(CYU.AX)
Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Limited engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Australia, Chile, and Laos. The company focuses on copper, gold, and uranium tenements covering an area of 1,000 square kilometers in Queensland, Australia, as well as explores for silver and rare earth elements. It has a strategic alliance with (Group) Co Ltd. The company was formerly known as China Yunnan Copper Australia Limited and changed its name to Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Limited in May 2011. Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Limited was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia.
10 Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2014: Synalloy Corporation(SYNL)
Synalloy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells pipes and piping systems in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Metals and Specialty Chemicals. The Metals segment manufactures pipe and piping systems from stainless steel, carbon, chrome, and other alloys for use in the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, waste water treatment, LNG, mining, power generation, water treatment, brewery, food processing, petroleum, alternative fuels, and pharmaceutical sectors. The Specialty Chemicals segment produces specialty chemicals and dyes for the carpet, chemical, paper, metals, mining, agricultural, fiber, paint, textile, automotive, petroleum, cosmetics, mattress, furniture, janitorial, and other industries. Synalloy Corporation sells its metal products through outside and inside sales employees, manufacturers? representatives, and authorized stocking distributors, as well as directly to engineering firms, construction companies, and project owners. It markets its specialty chemicals directly to various industries through outside sales employees and manufacturers' representatives. The company was formerly known as Blackman Uhler Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Synalloy Corporation in July 1967. Synalloy Corporation was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
10 Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2014: Niocan Inc Com Npv(NIO.TO)
Niocan Inc. engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties in the province of Quebec, Canada. It holds interest in the Niobium mining property consisting of 49 claims covering 1,604 acres and surface rights on 231 acres located in Oka, Quebec. The company also owns a 100% interest in the Great Whale Iron property that includes 71 claims covering 17,098 acres in Hudson Bay and 69 claims. Niocan Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Oka, Canada.
10 Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2014: Smith(wh)
WH Smith PLC operates retail stores under the Travel and High Street names primarily in the United Kingdom. The company sells newspapers, magazines, books, confectionery, and impulse products, as well as entertainment products. It also offers a range of books, stationery, magazines, and gifts through whsmith.co.uk; and personalized cards and gifts through funkypigeon.com. The company operates approximately 561 travel units and 612 high street stores in various locations, including high streets, shopping centers, airports, train stations, motorway service areas, hospitals, and workplaces. It also has operations in the Republic of Ireland, Denmark, India, Australia, and Oman. The company was founded in 1792 and is based in Swindon, the United Kingdom.
10 Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2014: China Sunsine Chem Hldgs Ltd. (CH8.SI)
China Sunsine Chemical Holdings Ltd., an investment holding company, engages in the manufacture and sale of rubber chemical products in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company primarily offers rubber accelerators comprising Accelerator MBT for dry rubber and latex applications; Accelerator MBTS and Accelerator MBS used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber and natural rubber; Accelerator CBS for use in the manufacture of tires, shoes, tubes, cables, and other rubber goods; Accelerator TBBS for use in rubber products and tires; Accelerator DCBS for the manufacture of tires, belts, and shock absorbers; Accelerator DPG for the production of tires, boards, shoes, and other industrial rubber goods; and Accelerator TMTD that is used in the production of tires, inner tube of tires, shoes, and cables, as well as used as germicides and insecticides in agriculture, and lubricant additives. Its products also include anti-scorching CTP, an anti-scorching agent for the vulcanization process to prevent rubber materials from burning; anti-oxidant RD for the manufacture of tires, motorcycles births, bicycles births, rubber, plastics, adhesive tapes, wires, cables, and other rubber products; and insoluble sulphur, a vulcanizing agent for rubber. China Sunsine Chemical Holdings Ltd. offers its products under the Sunsine brand. It serves tire manufacturers; manufacturers of other related products, such as shoes, belts, and hoses; and rubber chemicals distributors. The company is based in Singapore. China Sunsine Chemical Holdings Ltd. is a subsidiary of Success More Group Ltd.
10 Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2014: Rockgate Capital Corp (RGT.TO)
Rockgate Capital Corp., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in West Africa. It primarily explores for uranium, silver, copper, and gold. The company owns a 100% interest in the Falea uranium-silver-copper property covering an area of approximately 225 square kilometers located in southwestern Mali. It also owns interests in various properties, including the Manalo/Mansaya, Koninko, and Balandougou mineral properties, as well as a 51% interest in the Ixtapan gold property covering approximately 4,190 hectares located in southwestern Mali; and the Telwa Gada property situated in Niger. Rockgate Capital Corp. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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