10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now

Yesterday's stock market drop was a healthy reminder that stocks do, on occasion, go down. This morning U.S. stocks opened higher, with the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC  ) and the narrower, price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI  ) up 0.51% and 0.35%, respectively, at 10:15 a.m. EDT.

Gold: It's game over
For gold bugs, gold's sharp decline this year has been a bit confounding. Not for long, however, as they can always reach up their sleeve and pull out a trump card: The decline is a result of coordinated central-bank action to suppress the price of gold! This is a perfect example of pseudoscientific analysis. When gold prices are rising, the data confirms your bullish thesis for the precious metal. When gold prices are falling, you reject the data as unrepresentative -- it has been corrupted (and, by the way, the reason for which the data is corrupted is unverifiable). In other words, there is no way to falsify a bullish thesis on gold; that's the way pseudoscience operates.

10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now: Guthrie Gts Ltd (G33.SI)

Guthrie GTS Limited, an investment holding company, engages in property, engineering, and leisure businesses in Singapore, Indonesia, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Property, Engineering, and Leisure. The Property segment engages in the investment, development, and management of retail, commercial, and residential properties; and project management, as well as retail planning, consultancy, marketing, leasing, and mall management. The Engineering segment is involved in undertaking engineering contracts, and trading related products; and the provision of professional services to the transport, telecommunications, air-conditioning, electrical, and fire protection, as well as building and facility management sectors. The Leisure segment invests in, and operates hotels and a golf resort, which comprise the Mercure Vientiane hotel in Laos, the Pullman Jakarta Indonesia hotel in Jakarta, the Novotel Bali Benoa hotel in Bali, and the Indah Puri G olf Resort in Batam. It also offers warehousing facilities; and marketing services to golf clubs and hotels. The company was formerly known as Mulpha (Singapore) Ltd. and changed its name to Guthrie GTS Limited in 1988. Guthrie GTS Limited was founded in 1821 and is headquartered in Singapore.

10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now: Los Andes Copper Ltd. (LA.V)

Los Andes Copper Ltd. engages in the identification, acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Latin America. It focuses on the Vizcachitas porphyry copper�molybdenum project located 120 kilometers north of Santiago, Region V, Chile. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Best Wireless Telecom Companies To Invest In Right Now: Forest Place Group Ltd(FPG.AX)

Forest Place Group Limited engages in the ownership, development, and operation of retirement villages and residential aged care facilities (nursing homes) in south-east Queensland, Australia. The company?s portfolio comprises five retirement villages located in Albany Creek, Clayfield, Cleveland, Durack, and Taringa. It leases and re-leases 102 accommodation units in its owned retirement villages. The company is based in Brisbane, Australia.

10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now: Layne Christensen Company(LAYN)

Layne Christensen Company provides drilling, water treatment, and construction services, and related products to water infrastructure and mineral exploration markets. The company?s Water Infrastructure division offers a range of water-related products and services, including soil stabilization, hydrological studies, well design, drilling and development, pump installation, sewer rehabilitation, pipeline construction, and well rehabilitation services; and environmental drilling services to assist in assessing, investigating, monitoring, and characterizing water quality and aquifer parameters. This division also provides water treatment equipment engineering services; systems for the treatment of regulated and nuisance contaminants, such as iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide, arsenic, radium, nitrate, perchlorate, and volatile organic compounds; wastewater pipeline and structure rehabilitation services; and geotechnical construction services to the heavy civil, industrial, a nd commercial construction markets, as well as designs and constructs water and wastewater treatment plants, and pipeline installations. Its Mineral Exploration division offers exploratory and definitional drilling services for the global mineral exploration industry. The company?s Energy division involves in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas primarily in the Midwestern United States. As of January 31, 2011, Layne Christensen Company had approximately 244,000 gross acres under lease and 643 gross producing wells. It also provides energy services. The company offers its services to municipalities, investor-owned water utilities, industrial and mining companies, consulting engineering firms, heavy civil construction contractors, oil and gas companies, and agribusiness. It has operations in North America, Africa, Australia, Europe, and Brazil. Layne Christensen Company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Mission Woods, Kan sas.

10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now: USG Corporation(USG)

USG Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of building materials worldwide. The company offers gypsum and related products, including gypsum wallboard, joint compounds used for finishing wallboard joints, cement boards, glass mat sheathing, gypsum fiber panels, poured gypsum underlayments, ultra light panels, and various construction plaster products. Its gypsum products are used in various building applications to finish the interior walls, ceilings, and floors in residential, commercial, and institutional constructions, and repair and remodel constructions. The company also produces gypsum-based products for agricultural and industrial customers to use in various applications, including soil conditioning, road repair, fireproofing, and ceramics. In addition, it manufactures ceiling grid and acoustical ceiling tile for electrical and mechanical systems, and air distribution and maintenance applications. USG Corporation distribut es its gypsum products through specialty wallboard distributors, building materials dealers, home improvement centers and other retailers, contractors, and a network of distributors. Further, it distributes other manufacturers? gypsum wallboard, joint compound and other gypsum products, as well as drywall metal, insulation, and roofing products and accessories. The company sells its products under SHEETROCK, DUROCK, FIBEROCK, SECUROCK, LEVELROCK, RED TOP, IMPERIAL, DIAMOND, SUPREMO, AURATONE, ACOUSTONE, DONN, DX, FINELINE, CENTRICITEE, CURVATURA, and COMPASSO brands. The company was founded in 1901 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By seekingalpha.com]

  USG is a worldwide producer of building materials, primarily gypsum wallboard, which is used for repair and construction.
  
  Shares are trading at $8.17 at the time of writing, at the lower end of their 52-week trading range of $7.88 to $19.91. At the current market price, the company is capitalized at $860.22 million. Earnings per share for the last fiscal year were -$3.87, and it paid no dividend.

  These earnings are expected to remain negative through the next couple of years, though the loss per share is expected to reduce to $1.60 in 2012. Revenue during this time is forecast to increase to around $3.25 billion.

  The story with USG is all about its debt. With $2.31 billion of debt under its belt, it has very little room to maneuver. With a patchy economy going forward, the company may find it hard to cut its loss per share by the amount that it needs to. Consequently, it may struggle to return to profitability. Given its debt, the book value of the shares is $5.01. Action looks to be time critical now. With S&P (MHP) recently cutting USG’s credit rating, it may soon be time for the company to go to the market to raise cash.

  If the company can address its burgeoning debt, then it may look attractive. Until then, avoid.

10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now: Pacific Premier Bancorp Inc(PPBI)

Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Pacific Premier Bank that provides various commercial banking services to businesses and consumers in Southern California. The company?s deposit products include passbook savings, checking accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises multi-family real estate, commercial non-owner occupied real estate, one-to-four family real estate, commercial owner-occupied business, commercial and industrial, and U.S. small business administration loans, as well as other loans, such as saving accounts and auto loans. In addition, the company offers cash management, electronic banking, and on-line bill payment services. As of July 27, 2011, it operated nine full-service depository branches in the cities of Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Los Alamitos, Newport Beach, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, San Bernardino, and Seal Beach, Southern California. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California.

10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now: OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd.(OB)

OneBeacon Insurance Group, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty property and casualty insurance company in the United States. Its businesses include International Marine Underwriters, which offers ocean marine insurance products; OneBeacon Technology Insurance that provides professional and products liability, data privacy, property, and business income policies for the technology sector; Specialty Accident and Health, which offers accident and health insurance products; OneBeacon Government Risks that provides property, casualty, and professional liability products for municipalities and counties, and special districts; and OneBeacon Energy Group, which offers property, inland marine, and casualty products for the energy industry. The company?s businesses also comprise OneBeacon Professional Insurance that provides professional, employment practices, and management liability policies, as well as healthcare provider excess insurance and HMO reinsurance; OneBeacon Property and Inland Marine, which offers monoline property and inland marine products; OneBeacon Specialty Property that provides excess property and inland marine coverage; and OneBeacon Excess and Surplus, which offers insurance products in the excess and surplus market. In addition, its businesses include Collector Cars and Boats that provide insurance for collectible vehicles and wooden boats, automotive museums, and restoration shops; A.W.G. Dewar, which offers tuition reimbursement insurance; OneBeacon Entertainment that provides commercial insurance for entertainment, sports, and leisure industries; and AutoOne, which offers automobile insurance products in the assigned risk market. It markets its products through independent agencies, regional and national brokers, wholesalers, and managing general agencies. The company was founded in 1831 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota. OneBeacon Insurance Group, Ltd. is a subsidiary of White Mountains Insu rance Group, Ltd.

10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now: Physicians Formula Holdings Inc.(FACE)

Physicians Formula Holdings, Inc. develops, markets, and sells cosmetic and skin care products for the mass market channel. Its cosmetic products include face powders, bronzers, concealers, blushes, foundations, eye shadows, eyeliners, mascaras, and brow makeup; and skin care products comprise cleansers, moisturizers, and treatments. Physicians Formula Holdings, Inc. sells its products to various retailers in the food retail, drug chain, mass volume, specialty retail, and wholesale channels in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, El Salvador, and Panama. The company, formerly known as PFI Holdings Corp., was founded in 2003 and is based in Azusa, California.

10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now: Amazon.com Inc.(AMZN)

Amazon.com, Inc. operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. It operates retail Web sites, including amazon.com and amazon.ca. The company serves consumers through its retail Web sites and focuses on selection, price, and convenience. It also offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Web sites, and their own branded Web sites. In addition, the company serves developer customers through Amazon Web Services, which provides access to technology infrastructure that developers can use to enable virtually various type of business. Further, it manufactures and sells the Kindle e-reader. Additionally, the company provides fulfillment; miscellaneous marketing and promotional agreements, such as online advertising; and co-branded credit cards. Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By J. Royden_Ward]

  Many were disappointed when Amazons earnings came out at 38 cents a share last quarter. Yes they beat analyst estimates. But this was way below the 91 cents in the comparative quarter the year previous. If earnings are tanking, why buy Amazon in a pullback?

  I see an incredible opportunity in Amazon. The low earnings was a smoke screen that is starting to clear. What is really happening? Amazon is doing its best to saturate the market with the Kindle Fire at an ultra-competitive price. Are earnings going to hurt short-term due to the pricing that must have a razor thin profit margin? Yes. But once you have people hooked on your device the real money comes from books, movies, apps and anything else you can offer.

  Is the above scenario playing out or is Amazon a dying company? Look to the revenue for your answer. Quarterly growth (comparing year over year) has been robust the trailing four quarters:

  • 43.9%
  • 51%
  • 38.2%
  • 36%

  Rapidly growing revenue but artificially low profit margins - for now - means that when the product saturation phase is over the profit will start to pour in. Amazon is using the printer selling approach where the hardware is almost given away when the real money is made on the ink.

  Investors are starting to realize the massive earning potential of Amazon and time is running out to accumulate. Since the beginning of 2012 Amazon has begun a new uptrend. There may be few opportunities left to pick up shares at these levels. If a small pullback comes with Amazon - take it.

• [By Rebecca Lipman]

  Together with its subsidiaries, supplies technology, integrated project management, and information solutions to the oil and gas exploration and production industries worldwide. Market cap of $91.49B. EPS growth (5-year CAGR) at 24%. According to Morgan Stanley: "Thanks to an estimated $1 billion investment per year in R&D, Schlumberger has what we consider the most advanced technology portfolio in the industry."

• [By Michael]

  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN): On 3/31/11 Viking Global Investors reported holding 416,100 shares with a market value of $74,952,095. This comprised 0.65% of the total portfolio. On 6/30/11, Viking Global Investors held 2,031,800 shares with a market value of $415,482,793. This comprised 3.48% of the total portfolio. The net change in shares for this position over the two quarters is 1,615,700. About the company: Amazon.com, Inc. is an online retailer that offers a wide range of products.? The Company’s products include books, music, videotapes, computers, electronics, home and garden, and numerous other products.? Amazon offers personalized shopping services, Web-based credit card payment, and direct shipping to customers.

10 Best Forestry Stocks To Buy Right Now: NAPCO Security Technologies Inc.(NSSC)

Napco Security Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells security products for intrusion, fire, video, wireless, access control, and door locking systems. The company offers intrusion and fire alarms, building access control systems, and electronic locking devices for commercial, residential, institutional, industrial, and governmental applications. Its access control systems comprise identification readers, control panel, personal computer-based computer, and electronically activated door-locking devices; alarm systems include automatic communicators, control panels, combination control panels/digital communicators and digital keypad systems, door security devices, fire alarm control panels, and area detectors; and video surveillance systems consists of video cameras, control panel, and video monitor or personal computer. The company also markets peripheral and related equipment manufactured by other companies. It sells and markets its pro ducts to independent distributors, dealers, and installers of security equipment worldwide. The company was formerly known as NAPCO Security Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Napco Security Technologies, Inc. in January 2009. Napco Security Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Amityville, New York.