Two companies are making life a lot easier for people with diabetes. Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) and DexCom (NASDAQ:DXCM) market devices that allow for convenient monitoring of blood sugar levels without the need for daily finger sticks.
The success of these companies' glucose monitors for diabetic patients has helped make Abbott Labs' and DexCom's shareholders winners, too. Last year, while many stocks languished, Abbott Labs' share price jumped nearly 27% and DexCom's share price more than doubled.
But which of these stocks is the better pick for investors now? Here's how Abbott Labs and DexCom stack up against each other.
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The case for Abbott LaboratoriesAbbott Labs' FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system has been one of the most successful products ever for diabetes patients. Abbott CEO Miles White said in the company's Q4 conference call that global sales for FreeStyle Libre doubled in 2018 from the previous year to more than $1 billion.
Hot Performing Stocks For 2022: Lannett Co Inc(LCI)
Lannett Company, Inc. develops, manufactures, packages, markets, and distributes generic versions of branded pharmaceutical products in the United States. It offers solid oral, extended release, topical, nasal, and oral solution finished dosage forms of drugs that address a range of therapeutic areas, as well as ophthalmic, patch, foam, buccal, sublingual, soft gel, and injectable dosages. The company provides its products for various medical indications comprising glaucoma, muscle relaxant, migraine, anesthetic, congestive heart failure, thyroid deficiency, dryness of the mouth, gout, bronchospasms, hypertension, and gallstone. It also manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients. Lannett Company, Inc. markets its products under the Diamox, Lioresal, Fioricet, Fiorinal, Fiorinal w/ Codeine #3, Lanoxin, Levoxyl/Synthroid, Salagen, Benemid, Brethine, Dyazide, and Actigall brands. The company sells its pharmaceutical products to generic pharmaceutical distributors, drug wholesalers, chain drug retailers, private label distributors, mail-order pharmacies, other pharmaceutical manufacturers, managed care organizations, hospital buying groups, governmental entities, and health maintenance organizations. It has development and supply agreements with Azad Pharma AG, Aenova of Switzerland, Pharma 2B, the GC Group of Israel, HEC Pharm Group, and Sunshine Lake LLC, as well as with Jerome Stevens Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cerovene, Symplemed, Inc., and Summit Bioscience LLC. The company was founded in 1942 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Lannett (NYSE:LCI) Q2 2019 Earnings Conference CallFeb. 6, 2019 4:30 p.m. ET Operator Shares of Lannett Company, Inc. (NYSE:LCI) have earned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the nine analysts that are covering the company, MarketBeat.com reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation and six have issued a hold recommendation on the company. The average 1-year target price among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $24.88. Lannett Company, Inc. (NYSE:LCI) has earned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the eight research firms that are covering the stock, MarketBeat reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation and six have given a hold recommendation to the company. The average 1 year price target among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $24.88. Lannett Company Inc. (NYSE: LCI) traded down nearly 16% Thursday to post a new 52-week low of $4.60 after closing Wednesday at $5.45. The stock’s 52-week high is $30.35. Volume was about six times the daily average of around 1 million shares. The generic drug maker is still getting pounded on the loss of a major customer. Rexnord Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, and services process and motion control, and water management products worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Process & Motion Control Platform and Water Management Platform. The Process & Motion Control Platform segment designs, manufactures, markets, and services mechanical components used in complex systems. It offers gears and gear drives, couplings, industrial bearings, tabletop and engineered chain, aerospace bearings and seals, conveying equipment, and specialty components, as well as repair and on-going service under the brand names of Steelflex, Thomas, Omega, Rex, Viva, Wrapflex, Lifelign, True Torque, Addax, Autogard, FlatTop, Shafer, PSI, Cartriseal, Precision Gear, Micro Precision, Rexnord, Falk, and Link-Belt. This segment offers its products through distributors to mining, general industrial, cement and aggregates, agriculture, forest and wood products, petrochemical, energy, food and beverage, aerospace, and wind energy markets. The Water Management Platform segment designs, procures, manufactures, and markets products that provide and enhance water quality, safety, flow control, and conservation. It offers specification drainage products, flush valves and faucet products, backflow prevention pressure release valves, PEX piping used in nonresidential construction end-markets, and engineered valves and gates for the water and wastewater treatment market under the brand names of Zurn, Wilkins, VAG, GA, Rodney Hunt, and Fontaine. This segment sells its products through independent sales representatives, sales agencies, and direct sales and marketing associates to customers in the commercial construction, infrastructure, and residential construction end-markets in 49 countries. Rexnord Corporation was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ILLEGAL ACTIVITY NOTICE: “Todd A. Adams Sells 30,000 Shares of Rexnord Corp (RXN) Stock” was originally posted by Ticker Report and is the property of of Ticker Report. If you are reading this story on another website, it was illegally stolen and republished in violation of US and international copyright laws. The legal version of this story can be accessed at https://www.tickerreport.com/banking-finance/4170556/todd-a-adams-sells-30000-shares-of-rexnord-corp-rxn-stock.html. First Trust Advisors LP boosted its stake in Rexnord Corp (NYSE:RXN) by 11.9% in the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 442,205 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after purchasing an additional 47,044 shares during the period. First Trust Advisors LP’s holdings in Rexnord were worth $12,850,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Get a free copy of the Zacks research report on Rexnord (RXN) For more information about research offerings from Zacks Investment Research, visit Zacks.com Paradigm Capital Management Inc. NY raised its stake in shares of Rexnord Corp (NYSE:RXN) by 64.8% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 68,400 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after acquiring an additional 26,900 shares during the quarter. Paradigm Capital Management Inc. NY’s holdings in Rexnord were worth $1,988,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. New Media Investment Group Inc. (New Media), incorporated on June 18, 2013, is a holding company. The Company owns, operates and invests in local media assets. It has a focus on owning and acquiring local media assets in small to mid-size markets. With its collection of assets, it focuses on two business categories: consumers and small to medium size businesses (SMBs). The Company's operating segments include Eastern US Publishing, Central US Publishing and Western US Publishing. The Company is a publisher of locally based print and online media. Its portfolio of media assets spans across approximately 490 markets and over 30 states. Its products include approximately 560 community print publications, over 490 Websites, approximately 480 mobile sites and over six yellow page directories. The Company's other products include over 120 daily newspapers with total paid circulation of approximately 1.5 million; approximately 320 weekly newspapers (published approximately three times per week) with total paid circulation of approximately 321,000 and total free circulation of approximately 2.0 million; approximately 120 shoppers (advertising-only publications) with total circulation of approximately 2.8 million, and Propel digital marketing services. The Company produces publications that address specific local market interests, such as recreation, sports, healthcare and real estate. GateHouse Live, its events business, concentrates on local markets and interests. Its content is primarily devoted to topics, such as local news and politics, community and regional events, youth sports, opinion and editorial pages, local schools, obituaries, weddings and police reports. The Company's product mix consists of four publication types: daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, shoppers and niche publications. Eastern US Publishing The Company's Eastern US Publishing segment operates in approximately six publication group clusters: the New England Publishing Group, Cape Publishing Gr! oup, Providence Publishing Group, Mid-Atlantic Publishing Group, South Atlantic Publishing Group and Coastal Publishing Group. The Company is a community newspaper publisher in Massachusetts and also publishes a concentration of weekly newspapers, serving approximately 110 communities in markets across eastern Massachusetts. It also has over 170 Websites, with approximately 3.5 million combined monthly visitors in Massachusetts. Cape Publishing Group includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the Cape Cod Media Group, the Southcoast Media Group and the Seacoast Media Group. Providence Publishing Group includes the Providence Journal Group, the Nantucket Island Media Group, and Norwich, Connecticut. Mid-Atlantic Publishing Group includes the Hudson Valley Media Group and the Pocono Mountains Media Group. South Atlantic Publishing Group includes publications in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Coastal Publishing Group includes publications in Florida and Alabama. The Florida cluster publishes approximately nine daily newspapers, over 10 weekly newspapers, and approximately four shoppers. In the northwest Florida panhandle, the Company publishes approximately two dailies and over eight weeklies across a 10-county area stretching from Franklin in the east to Santa Rosa in the west, and north to the state line. In Alabama, it publishes approximately two daily publications, which include The Tuscaloosa News and The Gadsden Times. The Company competes with the Boston Globe, boston.com, Gannett Company, Inc., 21st Century Media, Inc., Edward Sherman Company, Sun Publishing Company, RISN Operations, Inc., Tribune Publishing, The Observer Group, Hometown News, McClatchy, Sun Coast Media Group and Advance Local. Central US Publishing The Company's Central US Publishing segment operates in the states of Illinois, Ohio, New York, Michigan, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia. The Company publishes approximately 20 paid daily newspapers, over 20! paid wee! kly newspapers, and approximately 20 shopper, which provide coverage across the state, and is supported by approximately four print production facilities. The Journal (Freeport, Illinois) Standard is published Tuesday through Sunday. The newspaper's coverage area includes Caroll, Jo Daviess, Ogle and Stephenson counties. The newspaper has a daily circulation of approximately 5,560. The Journal Standard also publishes a Website journalstandard.com and receives monthly page views of over 975,000 and average monthly visitors over 135,000. The Peoria Journal Star with its daily paid circulation of approximately 52,230 is a newspaper in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties, and is also distributed in an additional approximately 20 surrounding counties. The Columbus Dispatch is a metropolitan daily newspaper and is the source for news, politics, sports and entertainment coverage across Central Ohio. The Ohio cluster is anchored in Canton, Ohio and covers Stark and Tuscarawas counties. The Company comprises approximately three daily newspapers, one weekly publication and approximately two shoppers. The Utica operations include approximately one daily and two weekly newspapers in Hamilton. Utica also has Websites with combined monthly visitors of over 395,000. In New York, the Company operates and owns a combination of approximately 20 publications in Suburban Rochester that span over four counties and have a combined circulation of approximately 111,605. In southwestern New York, its operations are centered around approximately five publications based in Steuben county. In Delaware, it publishes approximately seven weekly newspapers and various specialty papers that cover the state of Delaware and range from suburban Wilmington in the north to Georgetown, Delaware at the southern end of the state. Its Honesdale cluster, approximately 30 miles from Scranton, Pennsylvania, consists of over four publications in the cities of Honesdale and Hawley, Pennsylvania. Its Pennsylvania/West Virginia cluster! includes! dailies in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Keyser and Ripley, West Virginia. It also has two weeklies in Ripley and a commercial printing operation in Ravenswood, West Virginia. The Company competes with Lee Enterprises, Gannett Company, Inc., Times-Shamrock Company, Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. and Ogden-Nutting. Western US Publishing The Company's Western US Publishing segment operates in the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, California, Kansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon, North Dakota and Tennessee. The Company's southern Missouri operations are clustered around Lake of the Ozarks. Located midway between Kansas City and St. Louis and approximately 90 miles from Springfield, Missouri, its approximately three daily newspapers, over seven weekly newspapers and approximately three shoppers that serve the Lake of the Ozarks area reach approximately 165,000 people. This segment also includes its Kansas City cluster with approximately nine publications (two daily and five weekly newspapers and two shoppers) located in the eastern Kansas cities of Leavenworth and Lansing, and in Independence, Missouri. The Wichita cluster consists of over two dailies, approximately five weeklies and over three shoppers in the towns of El Dorado, Pratt, Wellington, Newton and McPherson near Wichita, Kansas. The Herald Democrat principally serves Grayson county, Texas, with the metropolitan area served located in Sherman, Texas with a daily circulation of approximately 13,650. In Louisiana, the Company has an operating cluster in the southwestern part of the state, located between Lake Charles and Alexandria. This cluster consists of approximately five publications located in the cities of Leesville, Sulphur, DeRidder and Vinton. Its Baton Rouge cluster consists of approximately three dailies, over four weeklies and approximately three shoppers in the southeastern Louisiana cities of Houma, Thibadaux, Donaldsville, Gonzales and Plaque! mine. In ! Oregon, the Company publishes approximately two paid daily papers and one shopper with the publication being the Medford Mail Tribune. La Junta, in the southeastern part of the state, represents the Colorado properties. Along with La Junta, it also serves Bent county and Fowler, and produces the weekly agricultural newspaper, The Ag Journal. It also has clusters in and around Grand Forks, North Dakota (home to the Grand Forks Air Force Base and the University of North Dakota) and Iowa. The Company competes with The Advocate, The American Press, The Joplin Globe, Wichita Eagle, The Dallas Morning News, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Pine Bluff Commercial and Des Moines Register. New Media Investment Group (NYSE:NEWM) and Torstar (OTCMKTS:TORSF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability and risk. New Media Investment Group Inc (NYSE:NEWM)Q4 2018 Earnings Conference CallFeb. 27, 2019, 9:00 a.m. ET Operator Jane Street Group LLC bought a new stake in New Media Investment Group Inc (NYSE:NEWM) in the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund bought 31,929 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $590,000. Formed in 2007, New Media Investment Group (NYSE: NEWM) has spent over $1 billion building its portfolio -- acquiring 145 daily newspapers and 340 weekly newspapers across 37 states with a combined reach of over 4 million. Throw in the 538 websites and GateHouse Media, the holding company for New Media, reaches over 22 million people in the United States each week and serves over 200,000 business customers through advertising and related marketing services. Intl Fcstone Inc. increased its position in shares of Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc (NASDAQ:SVVC) by 35.8% during the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 30,087 shares of the investment management company’s stock after acquiring an additional 7,924 shares during the period. Intl Fcstone Inc.’s holdings in Firsthand Technology Value Fund were worth $510,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Activision Blizzard, Inc. develops and publishes online, personal computer (PC), video game console, handheld, mobile, and tablet games worldwide. The company develops and publishes interactive entertainment software products through retail channels or digital downloads; and downloadable content to a range of gamers. It also publishes online subscription-based games in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game category; and real-time strategy and role-playing games. In addition, the company maintains a proprietary online-game related service, Battle.net that facilitates the creation of user generated content, digital distribution, and online social connectivity in its games. Further, it provides warehousing, logistical, and sales distribution services to third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software; and manufacturers of interactive entertainment hardware products. The company serves retailers and distributors, including mass-market retailers, consumer electronics stores, discount warehouses, game specialty stores, and consumers through third-party distribution, licensing arrangements, and direct digital purchases. Activision Blizzard, Inc. is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. There are a number of ways you can take advantage of this promising industry. You could invest in the “big boys” like Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: EA), which makes popular franchises FIFA soccer, Madden NFL, Apex Legends, and the Star Wars series Battlefront. Then there’s Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI) which produces games like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Candy Crush, and Overwatch. For this episode, it's time to check in on not one but two such samplers. First, it's been one year since he offered up "Five Stocks I Own That You Should Too." Those were Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG), Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG), Match Group (NASDAQ:MTCH), and Zillow (NASDAQ:Z) (NASDAQ:ZG), and he'll review their progress with senior analyst Jim Mueller. Broadcom Limited (Broadcom), incorporated on March 3, 2015, is a designer, developer and supplier of a range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions with a focus on analog III-V-based products, and digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor-based devices. The Company operates through four segments: wired infrastructure, wireless communications, enterprise storage, and industrial & other. The Company's product portfolio includes Broadband Access + Modems, Enterprise + Network Processors, Wireless Infrastructure, Wireless Connectivity, Ethernet Communication + Switching and Set-Top Box + Media Processors. The Company's products are used in end products, such as data center networking, home connectivity, broadband access, telecommunications equipment, smartphones and base stations, data center servers and storage, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and electronic displays. The Broadband Access + Modems' products include Universal 1024-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) Modulator, Universal Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 2.0-Based Downstream Modulator, Dual Universal DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS 2.0 Burst Receiver, Advanced Direct Conversion Cable Tuner, 1-gigahertz (GHz) Low-Power Digital Cable Silicon Tuner, Gigabit DOCSIS Cable Gateway Device and Gigabit DOCSIS Cable Gateway Device. The Enterprise + Network Processors' products include Enterprise-class radio frequency (RF) Interference Detection and Classification, Gigabit Internet protocol (IP) Phone Chip, wireless fidelity Voice over Internet Protocol (Wi-Fi VoIP) Processor, Wi-Fi Phone Reference Design, Persona Media Processor and Secure Applications Processor. The Wireless Infrastructure's products include Digital Front-End Processor, Digital Front-End Processor Development Board, Advanced Single-Chip Bluetooth Solution, Advanced Wireless Keyboard/Mouse Bluetooth Solution and Intensi-fi Single-Chip 802.11n Enterprise Solution. The ! Wireless Connectivity's products include WiMesh Technology for V-band mesh and WiGig-compliant infrastructure equipment, Low-Power 802.11b/g Transceiver, Intensi-fi 802.11n Full-Featured 10/100 Processor, Intensi-fi Single-Chip 802.11n Enterprise Solution, 802.11n (2.4/5 GHz) Router Reference Design and Single-Chip 802.11n Dual-Band 3x3 Wireless Solution. Its Ethernet Communication + Switching's products include Quad-Port Ethernet Server Adapter, Dual-Port Ethernet Server Adapter, Quad-Port 1GbE Network Interface Card, Quad Port 1GbE for Lenovo, Dual 1GbE for Lenovo, 12-Port Multilayer Gigabit Ethernet Switch and 12-Port Layer 2+ Gigabit Ethernet Switch. The Set-Top Box + Media Processors' products include Universal Satellite Receiver, Low-Cost Satellite Set-top Box System on Chip (SoC), Full-Band Capture Multidemodulator SoC, Full-Band Capture Satellite Channel Stacker Solution, Standard-Definition Satellite System on a Chip and High-Definition Video Graphics Subsystem. The company also has a Sentiment Grade of A, indicating it is well-liked by Wall Street analysts, as four out of six analysts rate the stock a “buy.” Plus, based on an average of analyst price targets, the stock has an upside potential of 45%. For the rest of SIMO’s grades (Value, Momentum, Stability, and Quality), click here. SIMO is ranked No. 3 in the B-rated Semiconductor & Wireless Chip industry. AVGO is the combined entity of Broadcom and Avago. Its Avago business is focused primarily on radio frequency filters and amplifiers used in high-end smartphones, such as the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy devices. Its Legacy Broadcom business includes networking semiconductors, such as switch and physical layer chips, broadband products, and connectivity chips. Taiwan Semiconductor primarily builds chips designed by others, such as Nvidia, Apple and Broadcom (AVGO). Business has been good, and it should only get better. Broadcom, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO)Q1 2019 Earnings Conference CallMarch 14, 2019, 5:00 p.m. ET OperatorHot Performing Stocks For 2022: Rexnord Corporation(RXN)
Hot Performing Stocks For 2022: New Media Investment Group Inc.(NEWM)
Hot Performing Stocks For 2022: Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc.(SVVC)
Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek long-term growth of capital. The Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets for investment purposes in technology companies. It considers technology companies to be those companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues from products and/or services within the information technology sector or the cleantech sector Its investment portfolio by industry sector: Social Networking, Medical Devices, Semiconductor Equipment, Advertising Technology, Consumer Electronics, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing.. The Fund will invest at least 70% of its assets in private venture capital companies and in public companies. SiVest Group, Inc. serves as investment adviser for the Fund. Advisors' Opinion: Hot Performing Stocks For 2022: Activision Blizzard, Inc(ATVI)
Hot Performing Stocks For 2022: Avago Technologies Limited(AVGO)
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