Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Top 10 Stocks For 2022

tags:IOSP,DRNA,SGMA,ACRE,PF,AXTI,APL,ALTAF,ROIC,NEA,

Tata Motors has surged 27 percent since February 19, making it one of top five gainers among Nifty50 stocks in the current market rally.

The stock reclaimed and started trading above the psychological Rs 200 level on April 2  for the first time since November 2018. During the session, the stock rallied as the company said it expects improved earnings performance in March quarter and an increase in cash flow from operations.

Despite the surge, analysts are not yet convinced to buy the stock due to its high inventory levels in China, Brexit issues and concerns over its overall growth.

While having a neutral call on the stock, Naveen Kumar Dubey, Research Analyst at Narnolia Financial Advisors told Moneycontrol that he will look at March quarter earnings before taking a further call on the stock because of global concerns.

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"The current rally is on account of low valuation and incrementally improved guidance. Going forward important trackable for the stock are: Higher inventory levels in China and Europe, and uncertainty regarding Brexit (plant could be shut for 2-3 weeks in April 2019)," he said.

Top 10 Stocks For 2022: Innospec Inc.(IOSP)

Innospec Inc., incorporated on January 13, 2006, develops, manufactures, blends, markets and supplies fuel additives, oilfield chemicals, personal care and fragrance ingredients and other specialty chemicals. The Company operates in three segments: Fuel Specialties, Performance Chemicals and Octane Additives. The Company's products are sold to oil and gas exploration and production companies, oil refineries, personal care and fragrance companies, and other chemical and industrial companies. Its oilfield specialties business supplies drilling and production chemicals for exploration and production. Its Octane Additives business manufactures products for use in automotive gasoline and provides services in respect of environmental remediation.

Fuel Specialties

The Company's Fuel Specialties segment develops, manufactures, blends, markets and supplies a range of specialty chemical products used as additives to a range of fuels. Its fuel additive products help improve fuel efficiency, boost engine performance and reduce harmful emissions, and are used in the operation of automotive, marine and aviation engines, power station generators, and heating and diesel particulate filter systems. The Fuel Specialties segment also includes its activities in the oilfield services sector, which develops and markets products to prevent loss of mud in drilling operations, chemical solutions for fracturing and stimulation operations and products for oil and gas production.

Performance Chemicals

The Company's Performance Chemicals segment provides technology-based solutions for the processes or products focused in the Personal Care, Polymers and Fragrance Ingredients markets. The Performance Chemicals segment has customers that include manufacturers of personal care and household products, and specialty chemical manufacturers.

Octane Additives

The Company's Octane Additives segment produces tetra ethyl lead (TEL). The Octane Additives segment con! sists of sales of TEL for use in automotive gasoline, and provides services in its environmental remediation business. Sales of TEL for use in automotive gasoline are made to state-owned refineries located in Northern Africa. Its environmental remediation business manages the cleanup of redundant TEL plants.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Motley Fool Transcribers]

    Innospec Inc  (NASDAQ:IOSP)Q4 2018 Earnings Conference CallFeb. 20, 2019, 9:00 a.m. ET

    Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks:

    Operator

  • [By Logan Wallace]

    Press coverage about Innospec (NASDAQ:IOSP) has trended somewhat positive this week, Accern reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Innospec earned a daily sentiment score of 0.08 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned media stories about the specialty chemicals company an impact score of 46.0007935851604 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the next few days.

  • [By Logan Wallace]

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  • [By Shane Hupp]

    Innospec (NASDAQ: IOSP) and JOHNSON MATTHEY/S (OTCMKTS:JMPLY) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and profitability.

Top 10 Stocks For 2022: Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(DRNA)

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery and development of treatments for liver diseases and cancers based on a proprietary RNA interference technology platform in the United States and internationally. The company's development programs include DCR-PH1 for the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) through targeting the gene encoding the liver enzyme glycolate oxidase; and other rare inherited diseases involving genes expressed in the liver. It is also developing DCR-MYC, which is in Phase I clinical study for the treatment of various cancers in patients with solid tumors, multiple myeloma, or lymphoma, as well as in Phase Ib/II clinical trial to treat cancer in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. In addition, the company is developing KRAS oncogene, a gene that is mutated in various cancers, including non-small cell lung cancer, colorectal cancer, and pancreatic cancer; and a therapeutic targeting a second cancer-related gene. It has a research collaboration and license agreement with Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. for the research, development, and commercialization of Dicer substrate short interfering RNAs (DsiRNA) molecules and drug delivery technologies for therapeutic targets in oncology; license agreement with City of Hope, an academic research and medical center to manufacture, use, offer for sale, sell, and import products related to DsiRNA for the prevention and treatment of various diseases in humans; and license agreement with Plant Bioscience Limited to research, discover, develop, manufacture, sell, import, and export products incorporating short RNA molecules. Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Advisors' Opinion:

  • [By Logan Wallace]

    Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:DRNA) – Equities research analysts at B. Riley issued their Q1 2019 earnings per share estimates for shares of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals in a report released on Tuesday, March 12th. B. Riley analyst M. Mamtani anticipates that the biopharmaceutical company will earn ($0.22) per share for the quarter. B. Riley has a “Buy” rating and a $24.00 price target on the stock. B. Riley also issued estimates for Dicerna Pharmaceuticals’ Q2 2019 earnings at ($0.23) EPS, Q3 2019 earnings at ($0.24) EPS, Q4 2019 earnings at ($0.26) EPS, FY2019 earnings at ($0.96) EPS, FY2020 earnings at ($1.48) EPS and FY2021 earnings at ($1.51) EPS.

  • [By Motley Fool Transcribers]

    Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc  (NASDAQ:DRNA)Q4 2018 Earnings Conference CallMarch 11, 2019, 4:30 p.m. ET

    Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks:

    Operator

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

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Top 10 Stocks For 2022: SigmaTron International, Inc.(SGMA)

SigmaTron International, Inc. operates as an independent provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS). Its EMS services include production of assembled products, such as printed circuit board assemblies and completely assembled (box-build) electronic products. The company also offers automatic and manual assembly, and testing products; material sourcing and procurement services; manufacturing and test engineering support services; design services; warehousing and shipment services; and assistance in obtaining product approval from governmental and other regulatory bodies. It primarily serves appliance, gaming, industrial electronics, fitness, medical/life sciences, semiconductor, telecommunications, and consumer electronics industries in the United States, Mexico, China, Vietnam, and Taiwan. The company markets its services through independent manufacturers' representative organizations. SigmaTron International, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.

Advisors' Opinion:

  • [By Max Byerly]

    Media coverage about SigmaTron International (NASDAQ:SGMA) has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern. Accern rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. SigmaTron International earned a coverage optimism score of 0.25 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave news coverage about the technology company an impact score of 47.5987310031013 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company’s share price in the near term.

Top 10 Stocks For 2022: Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation(ACRE)

Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation, incorporated on September 1, 2011, is a specialty finance company. The Company is a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), primarily focused on directly originating, managing and servicing a portfolio of commercial real estate (CRE) debt-related investments for its own account. The Company operates in two segments: principal lending and mortgage banking. Its target investments include senior loans, bridge loans, subordinated debt, preferred equity and other CRE investments. The Company is engaged in the mortgage banking business through its subsidiary, ACRE Capital LLC (ACRE Capital). In mortgage banking business, the Company directly originates long-term senior loans collateralized by multifamily and senior-living properties, and sells them to third parties pursuant to programs overseen by government agencies and government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), such as the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) and the Federal Housing Administration, a division of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (together with Ginnie Mae, HUD).

Principal Lending Business

The Company's Principal Lending Business includes all business activities of the Company, which represents investments in real estate related loans and securities that are held for investment. In its principal lending business, the Company targets borrowers whose capital needs are not being suitably met in the conventional bank market by offering customized financing solutions. Through the Company's manager, Ares Commercial Real Estate Management LLC, it has investment professionals located across the United States and in Europe and they directly source loan opportunities for the Company with owners, operators and sponsors of CRE properties.

Mortgage Banking Business

The mortgage banking business includes all bus! iness activities of the ACRE Capital business. The Company operates its mortgage banking business under a combination of programs, including Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae and HUD. ACRE Capital is approved as a Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS) lender, a Freddie Mac Program Plus Seller/Servicer, a Multifamily Accelerated Processing (MAP) and Section 232 LEAN lender for HUD, and a Ginnie Mae issuer. In the mortgage banking business, the Company utilizes such platforms to originate, sell and service multifamily and senior-living related loans. It also retains the rights to service the loans, which are known as mortgage servicing rights (MSRs), and receive fees for providing such services during the life of the loans.

Advisors' Opinion:
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    Ares Commercial Real Estate  (ACRE) - Get Report: "Historically, when I've recommended these, it's been a mistake."

    Willis Towers Watson  (WLTW) - Get Report: "This is a very good brokerage company. It's profitable and it's doing well."

  • [By Ethan Ryder]

    ACRE (CURRENCY:ACRE) traded up 19.6% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 21:00 PM E.T. on March 13th. One ACRE coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0002 or 0.00000006 BTC on exchanges. Over the last seven days, ACRE has traded up 20% against the dollar. ACRE has a total market capitalization of $1,028.00 and approximately $0.00 worth of ACRE was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.

  • [By Motley Fool Transcribers]

    Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp  (NYSE:ACRE)Q4 2018 Earnings Conference CallFeb. 21, 2019, 11:00 a.m. ET

    Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks:

    Operator

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

    Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp (NYSE:ACRE) hit a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Thursday . The stock traded as high as $14.78 and last traded at $14.74, with a volume of 18790 shares. The stock had previously closed at $14.03.

Top 10 Stocks For 2022: Pinnacle Foods, Inc.(PF)

Pinnacle Foods Inc., incorporated on July 28, 2003, is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of branded food products in North America. The Company operates through three segments: the Birds Eye Frozen segment, the Duncan Hines Grocery segment and the Specialty Foods segment. The Company's products are sold through supermarkets, grocery wholesalers and distributors, mass merchandisers, super centers, convenience stores, dollar stores, drug stores and warehouse clubs in the United States and Canada, as well as in military channels and foodservice locations.

Birds Eye Frozen Segment

The Birds Eye Frozen segment manages its brands in the United States retail frozen vegetables (Birds Eye), frozen complete bagged meals (Birds Eye Voila!), and frozen seafood categories, plant based protein frozen products, as well as its Foundation Brands in the frozen and refrigerated bagels, frozen pizza for one (Celeste), full-calorie single-serve frozen dinners and entrees, and frozen breakfast categories. The Company offers steamed and non-steamed products. It also offers Birds Eye Flavor Full and Birds Eye Protein Blends platforms. Birds Eye Flavor Full pairs vegetables with flavors, such as buffalo, ranch, teriyaki and barbeque. Birds Eye Protein Blends provides a line of dishes that contain plant-based protein through vegetables, legumes and whole grains. The Company's Birds Eye Frozen Division also includes Van de Kamp's and Mrs. Paul's frozen prepared seafood, Hungry-Man frozen entrees, Aunt Jemima frozen breakfast products, Lender's frozen and refrigerated bagels and Celeste frozen pizza.

Duncan Hines Grocery Segment

The Duncan Hines Grocery segment manages its brands in the baking mixes and frostings (Duncan Hines), shelf-stable pickles, liquid and dry-mix salad dressings and table syrups categories, and its Foundation Brands in the canned meat, pie and pastry fillings, barbecue sauces and salad dressing (Bernstein's) categories. The Company's Duncan Hines G! rocery Segment includes cake mixes, ready-to-serve frostings, brownie mixes, muffin mixes and cookie mixes. The Company offers a line of shelf-stable pickle products that it markets and distributes nationally, primarily under the Vlasic brand, and regionally under the Milwaukee's and Wiejske Wyroby brands. The Company's Duncan Hines Grocery Division also includes Mrs. Butterworth's and Log Cabin table syrups, Wish-Bone and Western salad dressings, Armour, Nalley and Brooks canned meat, Comstock and Wilderness pie and pastry fillings, Open Pit barbecue sauce and its Canadian operations.

Specialty Foods Segment

The Specialty Foods segment consists of snack products, foodservice and private label businesses. Its snack products primarily consist of Tim's Cascade, Hawaiian kettle style chips, Snyder of Berlin and Husman's. The Company also manufactures and distributes products, mainly in the frozen breakfast, canned meat, and pie and pastry fruit filling categories, through foodservice channels. The Company also manufactures and distributes private label products in the canned meat, shelf-stable pickles and frozen prepared seafood categories.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Ethan Ryder]

    Pinnacle Foods (NYSE:PF) was downgraded by stock analysts at Piper Jaffray Companies from an “overweight” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research report issued on Monday, Marketbeat.com reports. They currently have a $68.00 target price on the stock, down from their prior target price of $69.00. Piper Jaffray Companies’ price target suggests a potential upside of 2.69% from the company’s previous close.

  • [By Shane Hupp]

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  • [By Stephan Byrd]

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  • [By Shane Hupp]

    Here are some of the news articles that may have impacted Accern’s rankings:

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    Several equities analysts have commented on TRGP shares. Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of Targa Resources from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, August 24th. ValuEngine raised shares of Targa Resources from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, July 14th. UBS Group increased their target price on shares of Targa Resources from $60.00 to $61.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, August 10th. Seaport Global Securities downgraded shares of Targa Resources from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and increased their target price for the stock from $53.00 to $55.00 in a research report on Friday, July 27th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $53.00 target price on shares of Targa Resources and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, May 4th. Twelve equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have given a buy rating to the company. The stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $56.00.

Top 10 Stocks For 2022: AXT Inc(AXTI)

AXT, Inc. ("AXT", "we," "us," and "our" refer to AXT, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries) is a worldwide developer and producer of high-performance compound and single element semiconductor substrates, also known as wafers. The dominant substrates used in producing semiconductor chips and other electronic circuits are made from silicon. However, certain chips may become too hot or perform their function too slowly if silicon is used as the base material. Alternative or specialty materials are used to replace silicon as the preferred base for the electronic circuits in these situations. We provide such alternative or specialty materials in the form of substrates or wafers, including compound and single element substrates. Our compound substrates combine indium with phosphorous (InP) or gallium with arsenic (GaAs). Our single element substrates are made from germanium (Ge).   Advisors' Opinion:

  • [By Joseph Griffin]

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Top 10 Stocks For 2022: Atlas Pipeline Partners L.P.(APL)

Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. engages in gathering and processing natural gas in the Mid-Continent and Appalachia regions; and transporting natural gas liquids (NGL) in the Mid-Continent region. The company owns and operates approximately 9,100 miles of intrastate natural gas gathering systems located in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, and Tennessee that gather gas from wells and central delivery points, and deliver natural gas to the company?s natural gas processing plants, as well as to the third-party pipelines; approximately 100 miles of active natural gas gathering systems located in Tennessee; and 7 natural gas processing plants with an aggregate capacity of approximately 610 million cubic feet per day in Oklahoma and Texas. It provides natural gas gathering and processing services in the Permian, Anadarko, and Appalachian Basins. The company also owns approximately 2,200 mile common-carrier pipeline system that transports NGLs from New Mexico and Texas to Mont Belvieu, Te xas. Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. was founded in 1999 and is based in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Logan Wallace]

    Apollo Currency (APL) uses the hashing algorithm. It launched on July 28th, 2018. Apollo Currency’s total supply is 21,165,096,531 coins and its circulating supply is 14,685,096,531 coins. Apollo Currency’s official Twitter account is @ApolloCurrency and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official website for Apollo Currency is www.apollocurrency.com.

  • [By Logan Wallace]

    Apollo Currency (APL) uses the hashing algorithm. It was first traded on July 28th, 2018. Apollo Currency’s total supply is 21,165,096,531 coins. Apollo Currency’s official Twitter account is @ApolloCurrency and its Facebook page is accessible here. Apollo Currency’s official website is www.apollocurrency.com.

  • [By Logan Wallace]

    Apollo Currency (CURRENCY:APL) traded 4.9% higher against the dollar during the 1 day period ending at 23:00 PM E.T. on August 14th. One Apollo Currency coin can currently be bought for $0.0010 or 0.00000016 BTC on major exchanges including IDAX and CoinBene. During the last week, Apollo Currency has traded 24.2% lower against the dollar. Apollo Currency has a total market cap of $0.00 and $33,150.00 worth of Apollo Currency was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Top 10 Stocks For 2022: Altura Mining Limited (ALTAF)

Altura Mining Limited is an Australia-based company engaged in the supply of lithium raw materials. The Company is engaged in the exploration and development activities, including completion of a feasibility study at its Pilgangoora Lithium project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Company's segments include coal mining, exploration services and mineral exploration. Its coal mining segment is engaged in the sale of coal. Its exploration services segment provides a range of drilling services to its customers, primarily mining and exploration companies. Its mineral exploration segment is engaged in exploration activities. The Company also has interests in producing Delta Coal project in Indonesia, which produces medium energy thermal coal, and the Tabalong Coal project, a thermal coal deposit located in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Tabalong Coal project consists of approximately five mining licenses. Advisors' Opinion:
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    Altura Mining [ASX:AJM] (OTC:ALTAF)

    On April 30, Altura Mining announced: "Stage 2 Definitive Feasibility Study at Pilgangoora delivers outstanding results." Highlights include:

Top 10 Stocks For 2022: Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.(ROIC)

Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. (ROIC), incorporated on March 22, 2011, is an integrated, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company's primary business is the ownership, management and redevelopment of retail real estate properties. The Company specializes in the acquisition, ownership and management of necessity-based community and neighborhood shopping centers on the west coast of the United States, anchored by supermarkets and drugstores. The Company's portfolio consists of approximately 70 retail properties totaling over 8.6 million square feet of gross leasable area (GLA).

The Company focuses on leasing to retailers that provide necessity-based, non-discretionary goods and services, catering to the basic and daily needs of the surrounding community. The Company's properties include Paramount Plaza, Santa Ana Downtown Plaza, Claremont Promenade, Sycamore Creek, Desert Springs Marketplace, Glendora Shopping Center, Cypress Center West, Harbor Place Center, Diamond Hills Plaza, Five Points Plaza, Peninsula Marketplace, Creekside Plaza, Moorpark Town Center, Ontario Plaza, Sunnyside Village Square, Johnson Creek, Four Corner Square and Warner Plaza Shopping Center. Its properties are located in Southern California, Northern California, Portland Metropolitan and Seattle Metropolitan.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Steve Symington, Leo Sun, and Reuben Gregg Brewer]

    But Exxon isn't the only high-yield dividend stock our market has to offer. To that end, we asked three top Motley Fool investors to each find a dividend stock that pays even more than Exxon does. Read on to learn why they like Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC), Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS-A)(NYSE:RDS-B), and Seagate (NASDAQ:STX).

  • [By Reuben Gregg Brewer]

    Shares of real estate investment trust Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. (NASDAQ:ROIC) jumped 10% in January, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. That beat the gain of about 8% from the S&P 500 Index, but it was a tad behind the broader REIT sector's advance of a little under 12%.

  • [By Shane Hupp]

    Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and Global Medical REIT (NYSE:GMRE) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.

Top 10 Stocks For 2022: Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Income Fund(NEA)

Nuveen Insured Tax-Free Advantage Municipal Fund (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax and alternative minimum tax applicable to individuals, by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of municipal obligations issued by state and local government authorities or certain United States territories. Nuveen Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc., serves as the investment advisor of the Fund.

The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (including net assets attributable to preferred shares) in municipal securities that are covered by insurance. It may also invest up to 20% of its net assets (including net assets attributable to preferred shares) in municipal securities, which are either backed by an escrow or trust containing sufficient United States Government or the United States Government agency securities, or rated, at the time of investment, within the four highest grades (Baa or BBB or better by Moody's Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's Group or Fitch), or unrated but judged to be of comparable quality by the Fund's investment advisor. The Fund invests in sectors, such as healthcare, utilities, transportation and other sectors. The Fund is authorized to invest in inverse floating-rate securities and certain derivative financial instruments.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Stephan Byrd]

    BB&T Securities LLC cut its holdings in Nuveen Amt-Free Quality Municpl Incm Fnd (NYSE:NEA) by 3.7% in the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 260,949 shares of the company’s stock after selling 10,037 shares during the quarter. BB&T Securities LLC owned about 0.10% of Nuveen Amt-Free Quality Municpl Incm Fnd worth $3,392,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

  • [By Joseph Griffin]

    Wells Fargo & Company MN raised its holdings in Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal (NYSE:NEA) by 8.7% during the first quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 4,674,452 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 372,370 shares during the period. Wells Fargo & Company MN’s holdings in Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal were worth $60,768,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

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