Hot Financial Companies To Buy Right Now

LONDON -- The shares of�Pearson� (LSE: PSON  ) (NYSE: PSO  ) were flat at 1,146p early this afternoon after the�Financial Times�publisher reported first-quarter sales rising 3%, to 拢1.2bn.

Pearson, which also publishes the�Penguin�books, revealed it expects operating profits for 2013 to be broadly similar to 2012, or 82p per share, in line with market expectations.

The company confirmed that profits will be lower in the first half of 2013, however, due to the phasing-in of 拢150m of restructuring costs to�"reshape the company,"�and tackle new opportunities in digital print and developing markets.

The�Financial Times�segment of Pearson's business reported a 4% increase in digital subscriptions to 328,000, but faced�"weak trading conditions for advertising"�according to the company.

Hot Financial Companies To Buy Right Now: Heritage Financial Group(HBOS)

Heritage Financial Group, Inc. operates as the holding company for HeritageBank of the South that provides retail and commercial banking services in southwest Georgia and north central Florida. It offers savings and checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, NOW and demand accounts, and certificates of deposit. The company?s loan portfolio consists of one- to four-family residential real estate loans; commercial and multi-family real estate loans; farmland loans; construction and development loans; commercial business loans; and consumer loans, including home equity lines of credit, new and used auto loans, boat and recreational vehicle loans, and loans secured by deposit accounts. In addition, it engages in the sale of securities and insurance products to customers through an agreement with a third-party broker-dealer. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Albany, Georgia.

Hot Financial Companies To Buy Right Now: Oremex Resources Inc. (ORM.V)

Oremex Silver Inc., a development stage company, engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Mexico. The company primarily holds interest in the Tejamen Silver property consisting of 22 exploration concessions covering approximately 1,672 hectares located northwest of the city of Durango, Mexico. It also holds interest in the San Lucas silver-lead-zinc property consisting of 18 mineral concessions covering approximately 925 hectares located north of the city of Durango, Mexico. The company was formerly known as Oremex Resources Inc. and changed its name to Oremex Silver Inc. in September 2011. Oremex Silver Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Best Value Companies For 2014: GFI Group Inc. (GFIG)

GFI Group Inc. provides wholesale brokerage, clearing, electronic execution, and trading support products for financial markets. The company offers brokerage and trade execution services, clearing services, market data and trading platform, and other software products to institutional customers. The company provides brokerage services in fixed income derivatives, bond instruments, and other related products; financial instruments, including foreign exchange options, exotic options, non-U.S. Dollar interest rate swaps and options, repurchase agreements, forward and non-deliverable forward contracts, and government and municipal bond options; cash-based and derivative equity products, such as the U.S. domestic and international equity stocks, global depositary receipts, American depositary receipts, and equity derivatives; and cash-based and derivative commodity, and energy products comprising oil, natural gas, biofuel, electricity, wet and dry freight derivatives, dry physi cal freight, precious metals, coal, property derivatives, emissions, ethanol, and soft commodities. It also offers clearing, brokerage, settlement, and back-office services to proprietary traders, brokers, market makers, and hedge funds; provides capital to start-up trading groups, small hedge funds, market-makers, and individual traders; licenses multi-asset class electronic trading and order management software to brokers, exchanges, and traders in the commodities, fixed income, currencies, and equities markets; and offers FENICS Professional, a suite of price discovery, price distribution, trading, risk management, and straight-through processing components. The company primarily serves investment and commercial banks, large corporations, asset managers, insurance companies, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and Asia. GFI Group Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, New York.