Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now

The tech industry is the second largest exporting industry in the U.S. But in the recent time, low-cost substitutes have shifted production to others countries like China or Taiwan. The industry is capital-intensive and requires investments to advance in technology and reduce manufacturing costs. Also, it is a concentrated industry, with the top 50 companies holding more than 70% of total market share.

Having said that let's take a look at Karr麓s last trade and try to explain to investors the reasons of this investment opportunity.

On Nov. 21, Robert Karr bought Veeco Instruments Inc. (VECO), a company that designs, manufactures and markets equipment to make light emitting diodes (LEDs), solar panels, hard-disk drives and other devices.

The company operates through the LED & Solar segment (70% of 2012 revenues) which designs and manufactures metal organic chemical vapor deposition ("MOCVD") and molecular beam epitaxy ("MBE") systems and components sold to manufacturers of LEDs, wireless components, power semiconductors, and concentrator photovoltaics, as well as to R&D applications. The other segment is Data Storage (30% of 2012 revenues) which designs and manufactures systems used to create thin film magnetic heads ("TFMH"s) that read and write data on hard disk drives.

Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: MedAssets Inc.(MDAS)

MedAssets, Inc. provides technology enabled products and services for hospitals, health systems, and other non-acute healthcare providers in the United States. It operates in two segments, Spend and Clinical Resource Management, and Revenue Cycle Management. The Spend and Clinical Resource Management offers a suite of cost management services, supply chain analytics, and data capabilities; medical device and clinical resource consulting, which includes implantable physician preference items, utilization management, and service line consulting; supply chain outsourcing and procurement services; capital equipment lifecycle management; lean process and workforce optimization solutions; process improvement consulting; business intelligence tools; and performance analytics and data management tools, such as service line analytics, spend analytics and strategic information services, e-commerce, client master item file services, electronic contract portfolio catalog, and decision support services. The Revenue Cycle Management segment provides a suite of products and services spanning the revenue cycle workflow from patient access and financial responsibility; case management, coding, and documentation; charge capture and revenue integrity; strategic pricing; claims processing; denials management and reimbursement integrity; revenue cycle and supply chain integration; revenue recovery and accounts receivable management; and outsourced services. It delivers technology-enabled solutions primarily through the company-hosted software, software-as-a-service, or Web-based applications. As of December 31, 2011, the company served approximately 4,200 acute care hospitals and 100,000 ancillary or non-acute provider locations. MedAssets, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Psion(PON.L)

Psion plc, through its subsidiaries, provides enterprise mobile computing solutions, integration services, and product support and maintenance services worldwide. It offers hardware and software, professional services, and customer services and support. The company?s products include hand held computers; rugged vehicle mount computers; connectivity solutions comprising access points, network management products, emulators, and utilities; and companion products, such as printers, speech solutions, imagers and scanners, and tablet PCs. It also provides professional services, including assessment and consultation, infrastructure development, project management, and installation and deployment services. In addition, the company offers reconditioned and rental products, as well as repair services. It serves airport, automotive, cold chain, field service, public sector, passenger management, port and container yard, postal and courier, retail, and warehouse and distribution ind ustries. The company sells its products through a network of third party resellers, distributors, and system integrators, as well as through its direct sales force. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Top 5 Asian Stocks To Buy For 2015: Hemispherx Biopharma Inc (HEB)

Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. (Hemispherx) is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the clinical development of new drugs therapies based on natural immune system enhancing technologies for the treatment of viral and immune based chronic disorders. Hemispherx focuses on two core pharmaceutical technology platforms Ampligen and Alferon N Injection.The commercial focus for Ampligen includes application as a treatment for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and as an influenza vaccine enhancer (adjuvant) for both therapeutic and preventative vaccine development. Alferon N Injection is a United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved product with an indication for refractory or recurring genital warts. Alferon LDO (Low Dose Oral) is a formulation under development targeting influenza. It has three subsidiaries BioPro Corp., BioAegean Corp., and Core BioTech Corp. The Company's foreign subsidiary is Hemispherx Biopharma Europe N.V./S.A.

Ampligen

Ampligen is an experimental drug, which is undergoing clinical development for the treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Over 1,000 patients have participated in the Ampligen clinical trials representing the administration of more than 90,000 doses of this drug. The Company is also engaged in ongoing, experimental studies assessing the efficacy of Ampligen against influenza viruses.

Alferon N Injection

Alferon N Injection is the registered trademark for the Company's injectable formulation of natural alpha interferon. Interferons are a group of proteins produced and secreted by cells to combat diseases. The Company's natural alpha interferon is produced from human white blood cells. Alferon N Injection [Interferon alfa-n3 (human leukocyte derived)] is a highly purified, natural-source, glycosylated, multi-species alpha interferon product.

Alferon LDO (Low Dose Oral)

Alferon LDO [Low Dose Oral Interferon Alfa-n3 (Human Leukocyte Derived)]! is an experimental low-dose, oral liquid formulation of Natural Alpha Interferon and like Alferon N Injection should not cause antibody formation, which is a problem with recombinant interferon. It is an experimental immunotherapeutic that works by stimulating an immune cascade response in the cells of the mouth and throat, enabling it to bolster systemic immune response through the entire body by absorption through the oral mucosa.

The Company competes with Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, AstraZeneca, Baxter International, Fletcher/CSI, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, AVI BioPharma and Genta.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By MONEYMORNING.COM]

  Hemispherix Biopharma Inc. (NYSE: HEB) is a specialty pharmaceutical company. It engages in the clinical development of new drug therapies based on natural immune system enhancing technologies and targets the treatment of viral and immune-based clinical disorders. The Philadelphia, Pa.-headquartered company gained widespread attention over the last several months for its work on flu research. Its flagship products include Alferon N Injection, approved by the FDA for a category of sexually transmitted disease infection. Experimental treatments include Ampligen and Oragens, in development stages for the potential treatment of global viral diseases and disorders of the immune system including human papilloma virus, human immunodeficiency virus, chronic fatigue syndrome, hepatitis, and influenza. Shares have traded as low as $0.18 and as high as $0.55 over the last year. At last check, shares were changing hands around $0.50 on volume of 2 million shares.

Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Telus Corporation(TU)

TELUS Corporation provides telecommunications products and services primarily in Canada. Its telecommunications products and services include wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, and television. The company operates through two segments, Wireless and Wireline. The Wireless segment provides digital personal communications, equipment sales, and wireless Internet services. The Wireline segment offers voice local and voice long distance services; data services, which include television, and managed and legacy data services, as well as Internet, enhanced data, and hosting services; and other telecommunications services. TELUS Corporation was founded in 1993 and is based in Burnaby, Canada.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Tom Taulli]

  Big competitors for BCE include Rogers Communications (RCI) and Telus (TU), though it also faces niche players such as Public Mobile, Wind Mobile and Mobilicity. Until recently, there was buzz that Verizon (VZ) might enter the market by buying up the latter two, though VZ apparently scrapped plans for Canadian expansion until 2014.

• [By Rich Duprey]

  Continuing with its practice of raising its dividend payment every year, Canadian telecom�Telus� (NYSE: TU  ) �announced today�its second-quarter dividend of $0.34 Canadian per share. Last quarter�the payout was $0.32 Canadian per share. That's a 6.25% increase.
  

• [By Ben Levisohn]

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• [By Anders Bylund]

  Last week, Canadian cable company TELUS (NYSE: TU  ) CEO Darren Entwistle said that Netflix might be as much of an opportunity as a competitor. The company could sell rebranded Netflix services under its own banner to get a leg up on its mostly larger head-to-head competitors. Pairing with local cable providers is a strategy that Netflix hasn't considered (at least not publicly), but it's a wrinkle that's worth keeping a watchful eye on.

Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Concur Technologies Inc.(CNQR)

Concur Technologies, Inc. provides integrated travel and expense management solutions for companies of various industries, sizes, and geographies. It offers the Concur Connect platform, a cloud computing software solution primarily on a subscription basis, which enables customers, partners, suppliers, and third-party developers to connect. The company provides various solutions to streamline the travel procurement, itinerary management, expense management, and invoice management processes. Its solutions include online travel procurement solutions, which automate corporate travel booking and processing; itinerary management solutions that enable individual business travelers and their organizations to manage and share travel itinerary information; and automated expense management solutions, which simplify the expense reporting process. The company also offers other value-added and extended services that leverage its integrated cloud offerings, including expense reimbursemen t; expense report auditing services to streamline the process of managing and substantiating expense receipts; business intelligence that enable customers to use captured data to analyze trends, influence budget decisions, improve forecasting, and monitor for fraudulent activity; and invoice management solutions to automate, simplify, and reduce the costs associated with the process of entering, approving, and managing the payment of vendor invoices. In addition, it provides consulting; and various extended services, such as site administration, audit and compliance services, advanced analytics, and customized integration in connection with its integrated travel and expense management solutions. Concur markets and sells its solutions worldwide through direct sales organizations; and indirect distribution channels, such as strategic resellers and referral partners, as well as through its Website. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Lee Jackson]

  The Lazard trading desk said that active traders may want to look at software stocks that still had unusually high short interest. Those included Concur Technologies (NASDAQ: CNQR), Tangoe Inc. (NASDAQ: TNGO), Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE), Marketo Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTO), VeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) and VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW). Stocks with high short interest can explode to the upside if the company gets back on track and short sellers are forced to cover.

• [By Matt Jarzemsky]

  Salesforce is up 33% year-to-date. Workday Inc.(WDAY) has rallied 38% and expense-accounting software provider Concur Technologies(CNQR) is up 44%, to name a few.

Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc (ASX)

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. is principally engaged in the manufacture, assembly, processing, testing and distribution of integrated circuits (ICs). The Company provides semiconductor packaging and testing services, including plastic leaded chip carriers (PLCCs), quad flat packages (QFPs) and flip chip packaging technology, among others, which are applied in the manufacture of household electrical appliances, communication devices, automobile components, personal computers, set top boxes, servers, memory integrated circuits (ICs), mobile phones, digital cameras, game consoles, projectors, high definition (HD) televisions, wireless communication network products and power management ICs, among others. The Company operates its businesses primarily in Taiwan, Europe and the Americas. In August 2010, the Company acquired a 100% interest in EEMS Test Singapore.

The Company is focused on packaging and testing logic semiconductors. The Company offers its customers turnkey services, which consist of packaging, testing and direct shipment of semiconductors to end users designated by its customers. The Company�� global base of over 200 customers includes semiconductor companies across a range of end use applications, including Altera Corporation, ATI Technologies, Inc., Broadcom Corporation, Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited and Microsoft Corporation. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company�� packaging revenues accounted for 77.7% of its net revenues and its testing revenues accounted for 20.1% of its net revenues.

Packaging Services

The Company offers a range of package types to meet the requirements of its customers, with a focus on packaging solutions. Within its portfolio of package types, the Company focuses on the packaging of semiconductors. These include advanced leadframe-based package types, such as quad flat package, thin quad flat package, bump chip carrier and quad flat no-lead package, and package types based on substrates, such a! s flip-chip ball grid array (BGA) and other BGA types, as well as other packages, such as wafer-bumping products. Leadframe-based packages are packaged by connecting the die, using wire bonders, to the leadframe with gold wire. The Company�� leadframe-based packages include quad flat package (QFP)/ thin quad flat package (TQFP), quad flat no-lead package (QFN)/microchip carrier (MCC), advanced quad flat no-lead package (AQFN), bump chip carrier (BCC), small outline plastic package (SOP)/thin small outline plastic package (TSOP), small outline plastic j-bend package (SOJ), plastic leaded chip carrier (PLCC) and plastic dual in-line package (PDIP). Substrate-based packages employ the BGA design, which utilizes a substrate rather than a leadframe. It also assembles system-in-a-package products, which involve the integration of more than one chip into the same package. The Company�� substrate-based packages include Plastic BGA, Cavity Down BGA, Stacked-Die BGA, Flip-Chip BGA and land grid array (LGA).

The Company�� wafer-level packaging products include wafer level chip scale package (aCSP) and advanced wafer level package (aWLP). The Company offers module assembly services, which combine one or more packaged semiconductors with other components in an integrated module to enable functionality, typically using surface mount technology (SMT) machines and other machinery and equipment for system-level assembly. End use applications for modules include cellular phones, personal digital assistant (PDAs), wireless local area network (LAN) applications, bluetooth applications, camera modules, automotive applications and toys.

The Company provides module assembly services primarily at its facilities in Korea for radio frequency and power amplifier modules used in wireless communications and automotive applications. Interconnect materials connect the input/output on the semiconductor dies to the printed circuit board. Interconnect materials include substrate, which is a multi-layer m! iniature ! printed circuit board. The Company produces substrates for use in its packaging operations.

Testing Services

The Company provides a range of semiconductor testing services, including front-end engineering testing, wafer probing, final testing of logic/mixed-signal/radio frequency (RF) and memory semiconductors and other test-related services. The Company provides front-end engineering testing services, including customized software development, electrical design validation, and reliability and failure analysis. The Company provides final testing services for a variety of memory products, such as static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), single-bit erasable programmable read-only memory semiconductors and flash memory semiconductors.

The Company provides a range of additional test-related services, including burn-in testing, module sip testing, dry pack, tape and reel, and electric interface board and mechanical test tool design. The Company offers drop shipment services for shipment of semiconductors directly to end users designated by its customers.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Adam Haigh]

  ASX Ltd. (ASX) posted the biggest weekly loss in 3 1/2 years, falling 6.1 percent to A$33.15, amid a A$553 million ($530 million) capital raising at the operator of Australia�� main stock exchange to ensure its clearing business complies with new regulations.

• [By Alexis Xydias]

  The FTSE 100 Index (UKX) gained 53.93 points, or 0.8 percent, to 6,683.93 at 8:58 a.m. in London, rebounding from a 1.4 percent loss yesterday. The benchmark has rallied 13 percent this year as central banks around the world commit to maintain monetary stimulus to nurture economic growth. The broader FTSE All-Share Index (ASX) increased 0.8 percent today, while Ireland�� ISEQ Index advanced 0.5 percent.

• [By David Dittman]

  Crown Resorts is a buy all the way up to USD16.50 on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) using the symbol CWN and on the US over-the-counter (OTC) market using the symbol CWLDF.

• [By Seth Jayson]

  Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (NYSE: ASX  ) is expected to report Q2 earnings around July 7. Here's what Wall Street wants to see:

Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Travelzoo Inc(TZOO)

Travelzoo Inc., an Internet media company, together with its subsidiaries, publishes travel and entertainment deals from travel and entertainment companies, and local businesses in North America and Europe. Its publications and products include the Travelzoo Websites, such as travelzoo.com, travelzoo.ca, travelzoo.co.uk, travelzoo.de, www.travelzoo.es, and travelzoo.fr; the Travelzoo Top 20 e-mail newsletter; and the Newsflash e-mail alert service. The company also operates SuperSearch, a pay-per-click travel search tool; Travelzoo Network, a network of third-party Websites that list deals published by Travelzoo; and Fly.com, a travel search engine that allows users to find the best prices on flights from various airlines and online travel agencies. In addition, it provides Local Deals and Getaways services that allow its subscribers to purchase vouchers for deals from local businesses, such as spas, hotels, and restaurants through the Travelzoo Website. As of December 31, 2011, the company?s advertiser base included approximately 2,000 travel companies, entertainment companies, and local businesses, including airlines, hotels, cruise lines, vacations packagers, tour operators, destinations, car rental companies, travel agents, theater and performing arts groups, restaurants, spas, and activity companies. Travelzoo Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Smith]

  If you are a Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO  ) shareholder but own fewer than 25 shares, management would really appreciate it if you would just go away.

• [By Tom Taulli]

  Valuation: Even with after the Expedia stock sell-off, shares of EXPE remain far from cheap. EXPE stock is trading for a trailing P/E of 46 vs. 33 for Priceline and 23 for Travelzoo (TZOO).�And considering the recent volatility, investors are certainly jittery about EXPE stock. As a result, another earnings disappointment could have a severe impact.

Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Zynga Inc (ZNGA)

Zynga Inc. (Zynga), is a provider of social game services with 240 million average monthly active users over 175 countries. The Company develops, markets and operates online social games as live services played over the Internet and on social networking sites and mobile platforms. The Company�� games are accessible on Facebook, other social networks and mobile platforms to players globally, wherever and whenever they want. It operates its games as live services. All of its games are free to play, and it generates revenue through the in-game sale of virtual goods and advertising. In March 2012, the Company acquired New York-based social game developer OMGPOP, makers of the cultural hit mobile game, Draw Something, and over 35 additional social games. In 2012, the Company launched several new games, including Hidden Chronicles, Zynga Bingo, Scramble With Friends, Slingo and Dream Heights.

Social Games

The Company designs its social games to provide players with shared experiences. Its social games leverage the global connectivity and distribution on Facebook, other social networks and mobile platforms, such as Apple iOS and Google Android. Its games are free to play, span a number of genres. It operates its games as live services and updates them with content and features. Its games include CityVille, Zynga Poker, FarmVille, CastleVille, FrontierVille, Mafia Wars and Word with Friends.

Virtual Goods

The Company�� primary revenue source is the sale of virtual currency, which players use to buy in-game virtual goods. Some forms of virtual currency are earned through game play, while other forms can only be acquired for cash or, in some cases, by accepting promotional offers from its advertising partners.

Advertising

The Company�� advertising services offer ways for marketers and advertisers to reach and engage with its players. Its advertising offerings include branded virtual goods and sponsorships, engagement ads, mobil! e ads and display Ads. It offers branded virtual goods and sponsorships integrate advertising within game play; Engagement Ads and Offers, in which players can answer certain questions or sign up for third party services to receive virtual currency; Mobile Ads through ad-supported free versions of its mobile games such as Words with Friends and Display Ads in its online web games include banner advertisements.

The Company competes with Crowdstar, Inc., DeNA, Electronic Arts Inc., King.com, The Walt Disney Company, Vostu, Ltd. wooga GmbH, Amazon.com, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corporation , Tencent Holdings Limited, Apple, Electronic Arts, GREE, DeNA Co. Ltd., Gameloft, Glu Mobile, Rovio Mobile Ltd , Storm8, Inc., Activision Blizzard, Inc., Big Fish Games, Inc., Electronic Arts, SEGA of America, Inc., and THQ Inc..

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Tim Beyers]

  An 8-bit departure from the likes of Sim City, which has caused trouble for Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA  ) in recent weeks, or Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT  ) megahit Halo series, Minecraft is a throwback that includes the sorts of in-app purchasing features that fueled Zynga's (NASDAQ: ZNGA  ) earnings in years past.

• [By Rick Munarriz]

  Last year Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA  ) couldn't keep its executives. They left in droves.

  Now the social gaming leader can't keep its underlings. Zynga's letting them go in droves.

• [By Eric Volkman]

  AP/Jim Mone Is Bitcoin a slam-dunk as the currency of the future? The Sacramento Kings seem to think so. The NBA team recently became the first pro sports franchise to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. Basketball fans will be able not only to purchase tickets and merchandise online with the digital cryptocurrency, but also to use it to buy souvenirs at the arena come game time. The team is the latest in a growing number of commercial entities finding a slot in their virtual cash registers for Bitcoin. Little by little, momentum is building for a widespread acceptance of the upstart currency. Overstocking The Kings' drive towards the Bitcoin basket comes a week after the big online retailer Overstock.com (OSTK) announced it would start accepting payments in the currency. The move was an instant hit -- the first day the company had the nifty Bitcoin button as an option in its shopping cart, its customers used it to make more than 800 transactions for total sales of around $130,000. Overstock.com was by no means the first online marketplace to accept the currency. Numerous web retailers have been doing so for some time. It's a natural fit, %VIRTUAL-article-sponsoredlinks in a way, since Bitcoin exists solely in the digital realm. Customers booking flights on discount travel operator CheapAir.com, for example, can use Bitcoin to buy their tickets, as can love seekers on dating site OkCupid, owned by IAC/InteractiveCorp (IACI). These digital players are going to have plenty of company. Earlier this month, online games purveyor Zynga (ZNGA) started to dip its toes in the water, announcing that it was testing Bitcoin payments for some of its titles in conjunction with specialist transaction facilitator BitPay. But if Overstock.com didn't get there first, it's still the largest and most prominent e-retailer to take the Bitcoin plunge thus far. This is a big win for the currency and its advocates, and Overstock.com will surely be followed by more well-known comp

Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: North American Oil & Gas Corp (NAMG.OB)

Calendar Dragon Inc., incorporated on April 7, 2010, is a development-stage company. The Company was formed to create a new calendaring tool that incorporates a range of features not offered by other providers, all in one lean online package. Its Website www.calendardragon.com was formed to bridge the gap between current social networking, e-mail and calendaring / scheduling activities for the individual, with applications to business, government, law enforcement, and medical.

The calendardragon.com Website focuses on having each of the various windows within the interface: Contacts like an email app, traditional left location; Events & to do lists along with ability to hide / show events and to do lists with others; Calendar customizable view; Message text (thread), along with list of participants in a separate pane, and Options. During the fiscal year ended November 30, 2010, the Company did not generate any revenue.

Is Microsoft Well-Positioned for the Future?

With shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) trading around $36, is MSFT an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY? Let's analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework:

T = Trends for a Stock’s Movement

Microsoft is engaged in developing, licensing, and supporting a wide range of software products and services. The company also designs and sells hardware and delivers online advertising to customers. It operates in five segments: Windows and Windows Live, Server and Tools, Online Services Division, Microsoft Business Division, and Entertainment and Devices. As a mature company, Microsoft is also offering a stable dividend, which is currently yielding around 3.32 percent annually.

After compiling a list of more than 100 CEO candidates, Microsoft settled on Satya Nadella a home-grown leader who joined the software maker in the early 1990s. That's back when Google's founders were teenagers and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in elementary school. Tuesday's hiring of Nadella as Microsoft's CEO after a five-month search is a safe move that's likely to be greeted with sighs of relief around the company's Redmond, Washington headquarters, industry analysts say. But the methodical, almost predictable decision is likely to reinforce perceptions that Microsoft is a plodding company reluctant to take risks as it competes against younger rivals who relish going out on a limb.

While Google founder and CEO Larry Page boasts about his company taking "moon shots" and Zuckerberg promises to "move fast and break things," Microsoft has fallen behind the technological curve after underestimating the importance of Internet search more than a decade ago and reacting too slowly to the rise of mobile devices during the past seven years. Meanwhile, the sales of personal computers running on Microsoft's Windows software are shrinking.

T = Technicals on the Stock Chart Are Mixed

Microsoft stock has seen its fair share of volatility over the last several years. The stock is currently pulling back and may need time to consolidate before heading higher. Analyzing the price trend and its strength can be done using key simple moving averages. What are the key moving averages? The 50-day (pink), 100-day (blue), and 200-day (yellow) simple moving averages. As seen in the daily price chart below, Microsoft is trading between its rising key averages which signal neutral price action in the near-term.

(Source: Thinkorswim)

Taking a look at the implied volatility (red) and implied volatility skew levels of Microsoft options may help determine if investors are bullish, neutral, or bearish.

	Implied Volatility (IV)	30-Day IV Percentile	90-Day IV Percentile
Microsoft options	26.90%	53%	51%

What does this mean? This means that investors or traders are buying a significant amount of call and put options contracts, as compared to the last 30 and 90 trading days.

	Put IV Skew	Call IV Skew
March Options	Average	Average
April Options	Average	Average

As of today, there is an average demand from call and put buyers or sellers, all neutral over the next two months. To summarize, investors are buying a significant amount of call and put option contracts and are leaning neutral over the next two months.

On the next page, let’s take a look at the earnings and revenue growth rates and the conclusion.

E = Earnings Are Increasing Quarter-Over-Quarter

Rising stock prices are often strongly correlated with rising earnings and revenue growth rates. Also, the last four quarterly earnings announcement reactions help gauge investor sentiment on Microsoft’s stock. What do the last four quarterly earnings and revenue growth (Y-O-Y) figures for Microsoft look like and more importantly, how did the markets like these numbers?

	2013 Q4	2013 Q3	2013 Q2	2013 Q1
Earnings Growth (Y-O-Y)	2.63%	-3.08%	11.94%	20.00%
Revenue Growth (Y-O-Y)	14.26%	7.36%	10.17%	17.71%
Earnings Reaction	2.05%	5.96%	-10.85%	3.36%

Microsoft has seen increasing earnings and revenue figures over the last four quarters. From these numbers, the markets have had mixed feelings about Microsoft’s recent earnings announcements.

P = Excellent Relative Performance Versus Peers and Sector

How has Microsoft stock done relative to its peers, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), and sector?

	Microsoft	Apple	Oracle	Google	Sector
Year-to-Date Return	-3.18%	-8.30%	-5.38%	2.54%	-2.58%

Microsoft has been a relative performance leader, year-to-date.

Conclusion

Microsoft is a technology company that provides valuable software products and services to consumers and companies worldwide. The company on Tuesday announced Satya Nadella as its new CEO. The stock has been moving higher in recent years, but is currently pulling back. Over the last four quarters, earnings and revenues have been rising. However, investors have had mixed feelings about recent earnings announcements. Relative to its peers and sector, Microsoft has been a relative year-to-date performance leader. Look for Microsoft to OUTPERFORM.

Foreign-based airlines already have cell service

As U.S. regulators debate allowing cellular service on planes, airline passengers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia have been making calls, sending texts and checking e-mail for years.

Foreign airlines now turn off the service as planes approach U.S. airspace. But if the Federal Communications Commission agrees to lift its ban on calls — the agency faces a key vote Thursday on the issue — cellular service could continue unabated on foreign airlines and be switched on quickly aboard U.S. airlines with the right equipment.

Two dozen foreign airlines now offer cellular service that began eight years ago for calls, texts and data. Tens of thousands of flights each month offer the service.

"Those subscribers are already using the service," said Kevin Rogers, CEO of AeroMobile, which provides cellular service aboard 170 planes of nine airlines for 400 flights a day. "What I'm sincerely hoping is that pragmatism will prevail here."

Another major provider, Mobile OnAir, is aboard 250 planes of 14 airlines for 16,000 flights a month. An average of 380,000 passengers use the service each month, according to the company.

"Outside the U.S., all the major airlines offer the service. If they haven't got it today, they're planning to," said Ian Dawkins, CEO of OnAir. "In the coming years, it will be standard on all commercial aircraft."

The technology already exists at home. Gogo, which provides wi-fi service aboard 2,000 commercial planes when they are at least 10,000 feet in the air, says the same technology will handle voice calls and texting after downloading an app from Apple or Google.

"The great part about this technology is that it doesn't require us to install anything new to an aircraft and we can bundle it with or without connectivity," said Ash ElDifrawi, Gogo's chief marketing officer.

Gogo airlines include American, Alaska, Delta, Frontier, United, U.S. Airways and Virgin America. Gogo hopes to launch the texting service in the first three months of 2! 014, but the open question is whether airlines will allow voice calls.

"Our airline customers show little interest in the phone service," said Gogo spokesman Steve Nolan.

The FCC is considering lifting the 1991 ban, with an initial meeting scheduled Thursday, because phones now connect through cellular towers aboard planes rather than searching for signals from ground towers.

Several lawmakers complained about the prospect of voice calls during flights. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and the head of the House transportation committee, Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., have introduced legislation to keep the ban in place by law rather than regulation.

"Let's face it, airplane cabins are by nature noisy, crowded and confined," Shuster said. "For those few hours in the air with 150 other people, it's just common sense that we all keep our personal lives to ourselves and stay off the phone."

Foreign providers anticipate an appetite for using cellular service on planes. But they say the demand abroad is mostly for texts and data rather than voice calls that spark incendiary opposition in the U.S.

The Federal Aviation Administration and its European counterpart have been certifying the equipment for use aboard for years aboard Boeing 737s, 747s, 777s and 787s, and Airbus A318s, A320s, A330s, A340s and A380s.

A demonstration of how cellular service would work for U.S. passengers – if the FCC lifts its ban – is available overseas. OnAir and AeroMobile have agreements with phone companies to serve customers of AT&T, T-Mobile and hundreds of other phone companies while flying.

For example, Aer Lingus offers connectivity on all its A330 aircraft. Etihad offers connectivity on every flight between Abu Dhabi and New York JFK aboard a 777-300ER.

If a passenger is an AT&T or T-Mobile customer with a contract allowing international roaming, all the traveler has to do is turn on the phone. Billing from the phone company doesn't even mention AeroMobile as service ! provider ! on the flight.

OnAir's Dawkins said an average of nearly 24 passengers a flight use the cellular service and about 10% make voice calls, with the rest using text and data. AeroMobile's Rogers said about 10% of a plane's passengers use the cellular service, with about 30% of them making voice calls and the rest using text and data. Both companies say calls average less than 2 minutes long.

"Even though there's an emotive reaction to voice, most of the usage that comes on these aircraft is from text and data," Rogers said. "When you're on one of these aircraft, you do not have lots of people hanging on phone calls."

Part of the reason the companies expect U.S. passengers to use cellular service is because travelers already prefer it to wi-fi on foreign airlines. Cellular service doesn't require passwords or a credit card sign on.

"The number of passengers using the phone is higher than the number of passengers using wi-fi," Rogers said of flights where both services are available. "My firm belief is that is because everybody knows how to use the phone."

Detroit's bankruptcy fees near $14 million - so far

Protestors outside the federal court considering the Detroit bankruptcy case.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Detroit owes nearly $14 million to lawyers and consultants for work during the first three months of its bankruptcy proceedings.

A new report shows that the city has incurred fees of $13.3 million from the time of its July 18 bankruptcy filing through the end of September. It will also have to pay out an additional $400,000 more in expenses for the firms.

And those bills don't even include the most labor-intensive part of the bankruptcy case. That came in late October and early November, when Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes held a two-week hearing on whether Detroit qualified for bankruptcy court's legal protections. He ruled in December that the city could go forward with its bankruptcy reorganization.

There has been some progress in the case since that ruling. Mediators have reached tentative deals on issues including how to pay for retiree health care, one of the most expensive issues facing the city, and to keep the city-owned art collection on display at its museum.

But the case still likely has months of legal arguments and negotiations before it is concluded.

As steep as the bankruptcy fees may be, they're just a fraction of the city's financial problems. Detroit was struggling with $18 billion in liabilities at the time of its filing. About $11.5 billion of that is unsecured debt such as pension funds, retiree health care costs and bonds sold by the city to investors.

Detroit's biggest bill came from its primary law firm, Jones Day, which submitted fees that amount to nearly half of the $14 million total.

Kevyn Orr, the emergency manager appointed by the state a year ago to oversee the city's finances, was a bankruptcy attorney with Jones! Day, but resigned at the time of his appointment. The filing noted that Jones Day gave the city a 10% discount on its bill.

Jones Day's lawyers billed the city at rates from $300 an hour for an associate to up to $1,000 for partners.

The restructuring firm Conway MacKenzie submitted the city's second largest bill, for a total of $2.3 million.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014

U.S. stock futures were trading slightly higher Thursday as investors continued to focus on signals from the Federal Reserve on when it will begin tapering its monetary stimulus.

Ahead of the opening bell, Dow Jones industrial average index futures added 0.2% and Standard & Poor's 500 index futures rose 0.2%. Nasdaq index futures rose 0.2%.

On Wednesday, the Dow lost 0.4% to 15,900.82. The S&P 500 shed 0.4% to 1,781.37. The Nasdaq lost 0.3% to 3,921.27.

WEDNESDAY STOCKS: Fed news whacks Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq

In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 1.9% to 15,365.60, boosted by a weaker yen. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 0.5% to 23,580.29.

Benchmarks across Europe were mixed. Britain's FTSE 100 index was flat at 6,681 and Germany's DAX index fell 0.3% to 9,171.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Cree Inc.(CREE)

Cree, Inc. develops and manufactures light emitting diodes (LEDs), LED lighting, and semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications. Its LED products include blue and green LED chips that are used in various applications, including video screens, gaming displays, function indicator lights, and automotive backlighting; LED components comprising a range of packaged LED products and LED modules for lighting applications; LED lighting products, such as LED downlights, LED troffers, and LED lamps or bulbs for construction, retrofit, and renovation projects in commercial, governmental, and residential applications; and silicon carbide (SiC) wafers, which are used in the manufacture of optoelectronics, microwave, power switching, and other applications. The company also provides semiconductor materials and devices primarily based on silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), and related compounds. Its power and radio frequency (RF) products include SiC-based power products comprising 600, 1,200, and 1,700-volt Schottky diodes, as well as 1,200-volt SiC metal semiconductor field-effect transistor switches that are used in power factor correction circuits for power supplies in computer servers and other applications, such as solar inverters; and RF devices, including a range of GaN high electron mobility transistors and monolithic microwave integrated circuits for military or commercial applications, as well as 10 watt and 60 watt SiC transistors and metal semiconductor field effect transistor products. The company primarily operates in China, the United States, Europe, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Cree, Inc. was formerly known as Cree Research, Inc. and changed its name in January 2000. Cree, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Paul McWilliams]

  Cree (CREE) reported fiscal Q4 revenue of $375M and non-GAAP earnings of $0.38 per fully diluted share. The consensus estimates were $378.4M and $0.38 respectively.

• [By Lauren Pollock]

  Cree Inc.(CREE) said its fiscal second-quarter earnings rose 75% on broad sales growth for the maker of LED lighting products and semiconductor components. Shares edged up 2.5% to $64.39 premarket.

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Cree (NASDAQ: CREE) is expected to post its Q2 earnings at $0.39 per share on revenue of $412.36 million.

  Woodward (NASDAQ: WWD) is projected to post its Q1 earnings at $0.71 per share on revenue of $548.45 million.

• [By David Sterman]

  I took a close look at all of the companies that appeared in the first part of this series, and there were some great companies in the mix. If price were no object, I'd be a huge fan of:

  Oceaneering (NYSE: OII), which is prospering form the ongoing trends toward undersea naval warfare and undersea oil drilling. Oceaneering is poised to grow at a sustained double-digit pace, which is something few other defense contractors can say. Cree (Nasdaq: CREE): LED lighting is a revolutionary game-changer, and Cree's heavy emphasis on R&D is leading the charge towards ever-lower prices for these low-energy light sources that also have remarkable longevity compared to regular bulbs. Still, profit margin gains may be tough in a very competitive environment.  Polaris Industries (NYSE: PII): If Winnebago's (NYSE: WGO) recreational vehicles are suitable for retirees, Polaris has become the go-to name for activity-oriented vehicles. Notably, it has a revenue base that is four times larger than Winnebago as well. If S&P wants to position for future demographic trends, then Polaris is a great choice.

  I love these companies, but I don't love their stock prices, and I'd prefer to wait for some sort of pullback before singing their praises. That said, there are two investment ideas that hold great appeal on their own. If they get added to the S&P 500, then they are also set up for a timely trade.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Arch Therapeutics Inc (ARTH.OB)

Arch Therapeutics, Inc. (Arch), formerly Almah, Inc., incorporated on September 16, 2009, operates as a life science company developing polymers containing peptides intended to form gel-like barriers over wounds to stop or control bleeding. Arch is a medical device company offering an approach to the rapid cessation of bleeding (hemostasis) and control of fluid leakage (sealant) during surgery and trauma care. Arch�� products are in preclinical development. The first product, AC5, is designed for hemostasis in minimally invasive (laparoscopic) and open surgical procedures.

AC5

AC5 is a synthetic peptide consisting of naturally occurring amino acids. When squirted or sprayed onto a wound, AC5 intercalates into the nooks and crannies of the connective tissue where it builds itself into a physical, mechanical structure. That structure provides a barrier to leaking substances, including blood and other bodily fluids, regardless of type of surgery or, based on early data, clotting ability.

Top 5 Cheap Companies To Invest In Right Now: Standex International Corporation(SXI)

Standex International Corporation manufactures and sells products and services for various industrial markets worldwide. It provides commercial food service equipment, including refrigerated cabinets, cases, display units, and walk-in coolers and freezers; commercial ranges, ovens, griddles, char broilers, holding cabinets, and toasters; custom-fabricated food service counter systems, buffet tables, and cabinets; cook and hold units, rotisseries, pressure fryers, and baking equipment; merchandizing display cases; and rotary vane pumps used in beverage and industrial fluid handling applications. The company offers commercial food service equipment to restaurants, convenience stores, quick-service restaurants, supermarkets, drug stores, hotels, casinos, and corporate and school cafeterias, as well as health science and medical markets. It also provides metal ducts and fittings for residential heating, ventilating, and air conditioning applications; provides texturizing servi ces for molds used in producing plastic components; produces embossed and engraved rolls and plates; and process tooling and machinery for various industries. In addition, the company offers customized solutions in the fabrication and machining of engineered components to aerospace, energy, defense, marine, aviation, healthcare, medical, oil and gas, and general industrial markets; and single and double acting telescopic and piston rod hydraulic cylinders for the manufacture of dump truck and dump trailers, and other material handling applications. Further, it manufactures reed switches, electrical connectors, sensors, toroids and relays, fixed and variable inductors and electronic assemblies, fluid sensors, tunable inductors, transformers, and magnetic components to automotive, white goods, lighting, HVAC, aerospace, military, medical, security, and general industrial applications. Standex International Corporation was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Salem, New Hamp shire.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: 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.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Lupus Capital(LUP.L)

Lupus Capital plc engages in the manufacture, supply, and distribution of building products to the door and window industry. The company?s building products include weatherproof seals; compact balances and reinforcers, which enable windows to function effectively; and a suite of window and door hardware, including high security locks and electronic access controls. It also manufactures composite doors for the trade and social housing markets, as well as provides sash window renovation services. In addition, the company offers breakaway couplings that are used in hostile marine environments to ensure the transfer of oil, gas, and LPG products from rig to ship to shore; and industrial couplings, such as quick release and breakaway couplings that are used in the transfer of hazardous and non-hazardous liquids and gases. It operates in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australasia. The company was formerly known as Environmental Property Service Plc and changed its name to Lupu s Capital plc in June 1999. Lupus Capital plc is based in London, United Kingdom.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Hartco Income Fd(HCI.TO)

Hartco Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides information technology products, services, and solutions to private and public organizations in Canada. It operates in two segments, Franchising and Distribution, and Commercial. The Franchising and Distribution segment offers logistics, marketing, and other services to its franchise network partners in Canada. It is also involved in distribution activities; and the franchising of businesses that sell a range of IT infrastructure solutions. This segment?s franchises operate under the banners of Metafore and MicroAge. The Commercial segment, through its subsidiary, Metafore Technologies Inc., designs, supplies, installs, and supports IT infrastructure solutions. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Universal Corporation(UVV)

Universal Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a leaf tobacco merchant and processor worldwide. It engages in selecting, procuring, buying, processing, packing, storing, supplying, shipping, and financing leaf tobacco for sale to, or for the account of, manufacturers of consumer tobacco products. The company processes and/or sells flue-cured and burley tobaccos, dark air-cured tobaccos, and oriental tobaccos; and provides value-added services, including blending, chemical and physical testing of tobacco, just-in-time inventory management, and manufacturing reconstituted sheet tobacco. Its flue-cured, burley, and oriental tobaccos are used principally in the manufacture of cigarettes; and dark air-cured tobaccos are used in the manufacture of cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco products. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rupert Hargreaves]

  Universal Corp (NYSE: UVV  ) has paid out and raised its dividend for 41 consecutive years. This puts the company in an elite club of dividend aristocrats.�Aside from Altria (NYSE: MO  ) , which has been paying and increasing its payout for 43 years, Universal actually has the longest dividend history of any company within the tobacco sector.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Celanese Corporation (CE)

Celanese Corporation, a technology and specialty materials company, engages in manufacture and sale of value-added chemicals, thermoplastic polymers, and other chemical-based products. It operates through four business segments: Advanced Engineered Materials, Consumer Specialties, Industrial Specialties, and Acetyl Intermediates. The Advanced Engineered Materials segment offers specialty polymers for application in automotive, medical, and electronics products, as well as other consumer and industrial applications. The Consumer Specialties segment provides cellulose acetate flake, film, and tow that are primarily used in filter products applications; Sunett, a sweetener; and food protection ingredients, such as sorbates and sorbic acid for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. The Industrial Specialties segment produces emulsions and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) performance polymers. Its emulsions products are used in applications, such as paints and coatings, adhesives, construction, glass fiber, textiles, and paper; and EVA performance polymers are used in flexible packaging films, lamination film products, hot melt adhesives, medical products, automotive, carpeting and photovoltaic cells. The Acetyl Intermediates segment offers acetyl products, including acetic acid, vinyl acetate monomer, acetic anhydride, and acetate esters for use as starting materials for colorants, paints, adhesives, coatings, and medicines. It also provides organic solvents and intermediates for pharmaceutical, agricultural, and chemical products. The company offers its products directly, as well as through distributors and electronic marketplaces in North America, Europe, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and South America. Celanese Corporation was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Celanese (NYSE: CE) is estimated to report its Q3 earnings at $1.04 per share on revenue of $1.59 billion.

  Posted-In: Earnings scheduleEarnings News Pre-Market Outlook Markets

• [By Travis Hoium]

  What: Shares of chemical maker Celanese (NYSE: CE  ) jumped as much as 16% today after the company released earnings.

  So what: Revenue fell slightly in the first quarter, to $1.61 billion, but adjusted earnings per share jumped 44%, to $1.14. Revenue was in line with expectations, and earnings crushed the $0.79 that analysts expected.�

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Meadwestvaco Corporation (MWV)

MeadWestvaco Corporation (MWV) provides packaging solutions to the healthcare, personal care and beauty, food, beverage, home and garden, tobacco, and commercial print industries worldwide. The company?s Packaging Resources segment produces bleached paperboard, Coated Natural Kraft paperboard, and linerboard. Its Consumer Solutions segment designs and produces multi-pack cartons and packaging systems primarily for the beverage take-home and tobacco market. In addition, it offers a range of converting and consumer packaging solutions, including printed plastic packaging and injection-molded products used for personal care, beauty, and pharmaceutical products; and dispensing and sprayer systems for personal care, beauty, healthcare, fragrance, and home and garden markets. In addition, this segment has a pharmaceutical packaging contract with a mass-merchant, and manufactures equipment that is leased or sold to its beverage and dairy customers to package their products. The c ompany?s Consumer & Office Products segment manufactures, sources, markets, and distributes school and office products, time-management products, and envelopes in North America and Brazil through both retail and commercial channels. Its Specialty Chemicals segment manufactures, markets, and distributes specialty chemicals derived from sawdust and other byproducts of the papermaking process in North America, South America, and Asia. Its products include activated carbon used in emission control systems for automobiles and trucks, as well as for water and food purification applications, and performance chemicals used in printing inks, asphalt paving, adhesives, and lubricants for the agricultural, paper, and petroleum industries. MWV?s Community Development and Land Management segment involves in real estate development, forestry operations, and leasing activities. MeadWestvaco Corporation was founded in 1888 and is based in Glen Allen, Virginia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Seth Jayson]

  Calling all cash flows
  When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on MeadWestvaco (NYSE: MWV  ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.

• [By Lauren Pollock]

  MeadWestvaco Corp.(MWV) expanded its cost-cutting efforts and said it plans to simplify the structure of its packaging businesses, as it strives to improve its performance.

• [By Ray Merola]

  International Paper Co Share Price versus Competitors RockTenn (RKT), MeadWestvaco Corp (MWV), Packaging Corporation of America (PKG), and S&P 500 (March 2009-to-date)

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Teryl Resources Corp. (TRC.V)

Teryl Resources Corp., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of natural resource properties; and acquisition, drilling, and development of oil and gas properties. It primarily explores for gold ores. The company holds a 100% interest in the Westridge property that consists of 53 state mining claims covering approximately 5,200 acres located in the Dome Creek area of the Fairbanks district of Alaska; a 50% option interest in the Fish Creek property located in the Fairbanks district of Alaska; a 1% royalty interest in the Gil property in Fairbanks, Alaska; a 10% net profit interest in the Stepovich claims, near the Fort Knox deposit; and a 40% interest in a silver property located in northern British Columbia. It also has revenue interest in three producing oil and gas wells in Texas. The company was formerly known as Candy Mountain Gold Corporation and changed its name to Teryl Resources Corp. in February 1984. Teryl Resource s Corp. was incorporated in 1980 and is based in Richmond, Canada.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: LandMark White Ltd(LMW.AX)

LandMark White Limited operates as a valuation and property consultancy company in Australia. The company primarily focuses on commercial, industrial, residential, retail, special use, and tourism and leisure properties. It provides valuation services for mortgage security, ownership restructuring, rating objections and appeals, rental assessments and determination, purchase and sale, and asset value. The company offers reports, which consist of executive summary detailing the property and business; site appraisal related to land particulars, improvements, market comments, income analysis, sales evidence, and rationale; and valuation reporting summing up the analysis. LandMark White Limited also provides advisory services, including mortgagee and receiver services and strategic asset reviews based on market intelligence from an independent base. It serves trading banks, lending institutions, developers, ASX listed and unlisted property trusts, government, liquidators and a dministrators, lawyers, accountants, and private investors. LandMark White Limited was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Flotek Industries Inc (FTK)

Flotek Industries, Inc. (Flotek), incorporated on May 17, 1985, is a diversified global supplier of drilling and production related products and services. Its core focus is oilfield specialty chemicals and logistics, down-hole drilling tools and down-hole production tools used in the energy and mining industries. Flotek operates in three segments: Chemicals and Logistics, Drilling Products and Artificial Lift. The Company operates using third party agents in Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. In May 2013, Flotek Industries Inc through its wholly owned subsidiary acquired the entire share capital of Florida Chemical Co Inc.

Chemicals and Logistics

The chemical business provides oil and natural gas field specialty chemicals for use in drilling, cementing, stimulation and production activities. The Company�� specialty chemicals are manufactured to withstand a range of down-hole pressures, temperatures and other well-specific conditions. Flotek operates two laboratories, a technical services laboratory and a research and development laboratory, which focus on design, development and testing of new chemical formulations and enhancement of existing products, often in cooperation with the customers. Its micro-emulsions are stable mixtures of oil, water and surface active agents, forming complex nano-fluids, in which the molecules are organized into nanostructures. The micro-emulsions are composed of renewable plant derived cleaning ingredients and oils and are biodegradable. Flotek�� logistics business designs, project manages and operates automated bulk material handling and loading facilities. These bulk facilities handle oilfield products, including sand and other materials for well-fracturing operations, dry cement and additives for oil and gas well cementing, and supply materials used in oilfield operations.

Drilling Products

Flotek is a provider of down-hole drilling tools used in the oilfield, min! ing, water-well and industrial drilling activities. It manufactures, sells, rents and inspects specialized equipment for use in drilling, completion, and production and workover activities. The rental tools include stabilizers, drill collars, reamers, wipers, jars, shock subs, wireless survey, and measurement while drilling (MWD) tools and mud-motors. Equipment sold primarily includes mining equipment, centralizers and drill bits. Flotek focuses its product marketing primarily in the Southeast, Northeast, Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, with international sales conducted through third party agents.

Artificial Lift

Flotek provides pumping system components, electric submersible pumps (ESPs), gas separators, production valves and services. The products address the needs of coal bed methane and traditional oil and gas production to move gas, oil and other fluids from the producing horizon to the surface. The Artificial Lift products employ technologies to improved performance. The Petrovalve product optimizes pumping efficiency in horizontal completions, heavy oil and wells with high liquid to gas ratios. Artificial Lift products are manufactured in China, assembled domestically and distributed globally.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By David Smith]

  Flotek Industries (NYSE: FTK  )
  I've mentioned Flotek Industries to Fools in the past. The relatively small ($940 million capitalization and growing) company provides a range of products and assistance for oil and gas operations, from well construction to production. It's also the only services company -- and one of but a handful of companies in any sector -- that's been accorded a perfect consensus of one (strong buy) by the analysts.

• [By David Smith]

  Flotek Industries (NYSE: FTK  )
  The smallest member of the trio, with a market cap of about $815 million, Flotek operates on the services side of the energy sector. As I've previously pointed out to Fools, it also constitutes a rare instance wherein the analysts who monitor the company all accord it strong buy ratings. But with Flotek's share price having risen by more than 40% year to date, it is difficult to contest that unanimous confidence.

Hot Net Payout Yield Stocks To Buy For 2014: Nabi Biopharmaceuticals(NABI)

Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company, develops vaccines for nicotine addiction in the United States. It is developing NicVAX, a proprietary investigational vaccine under Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of nicotine addiction and prevention of smoking relapse. The company also engages in the contract development of PentaStaph, a pentavalent vaccine to prevent S.aureus infections. It has license agreements with National Institutes of Health and Brookhaven National Labs. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Rockville, Maryland.

Forest Labs Up 8% After Unveiling $500M Restructuring Plan

Two months since becoming chief executive at Forest Laboratories (FRX), and Brenton Saunders is putting his mark on the drug maker.

On Monday, Forest outlined "Project Rejuvenate," a plan to cut costs $500 million by 2016, while scaling back research and development efforts and reducing the company's work force.

It's been a common story among big pharmaceutical companies. The industry has grown to depend on acquisitions and licensing deals or partnerships with small drug makers rather than in-house efforts to produce the blockbuster products needed to grow sales and offset revenue lost to generic rivals.

Investors seem to approve. At $55.54, the stock surged 8.2% during afternoon market action.

It was actually a pretty busy day for Forest. Though it restructuring plans attracted the most attention, the company also announced the sale of $1 billion of new debt to help fund $400 million in accelerated stock buybacks as part of a larger $1 billion share repurchase plan and a $250 million deal to acquire exclusive rights to the schizophrenia medication Saphris from Merck & Co. (MRK).

Altogether, it could be quite a boon for Forest's bottom line. Leerink Swann analyst Seamus Fernandez raised his per share earnings estimate for 2015 and 2016 to $2.89 and $3.24 respectively from the previous $1.87 and $1.19. Fernandez writes:

We see several potential accretive Saphris-like opportunities for FRX particularly as companies like MRK partner or exit cost-intensive primary care/specialty categories (e.g., respiratory, antibiotics/antifungal, cardiology, GI, CNS). Incorporating these changes (and assuming no impact to sales ests of FRX’s existing portfolio), our new DCF valuation increases to $63/shr.