One of my heuristics for investing is that if you have a small cap company with poor governance and an eccentric CEO, then it is bound to outperform. Not really, but the eccentricities of National Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ:FIZZ) caused an SEC investigation that sent shares tumbling even though the company posted solid Q4 results to finish off a year of impressive growth in revenue and earnings. In fact, after solid Q4 results, I am raising my fair value range to $120-139 from $115-134. Let's take a look at the SEC investigation, which is a non-event, as well as the fourth-quarter results, something FIZZ does not make easy to do.
SEC Investigation: A True Non-EventBeing investigated by the SEC is never a good thing. If there's misconduct, you are likely to get caught. If there's nothing wrong, you are likely to deal with reputational damage and an overall hassle. Fortunately for FIZZ shareholders, the company experienced one of the more innocuous investigations I have seen. The Wall Street Journal reported on the investigation, which probably is why shares fell.
Top Growth Stocks To Own For 2022: Diana Shipping inc.(DSX)
Diana Shipping Inc. provides shipping transportation services. The company transports a range of dry bulk cargoes, including commodities, such as iron ore, coal, grain, and other materials in shipping routes through its ownership of dry bulk vessels worldwide. As of May 11, 2016, it operated a fleet of 46 dry bulk vessels comprising 2 Newcastlemax, 14 Capesize, 3 Post-Panamax, 4 Kamsarmax, and 23 Panamax vessels. The company was formerly known as Diana Shipping Investments Corp. and changed its name to Diana Shipping Inc. in February 2005. Diana Shipping Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Athens, Greece.
Get a free copy of the Zacks research report on Diana Shipping (DSX) For more information about research offerings from Zacks Investment Research, visit Zacks.com Over the past year, dry bulk vessel owner Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE:DSX) has seen its stock fall around 3%. Meanwhile, shipping peer DryShips Inc.'s (NASDAQ:DRYS) stock has rocketed higher, more than doubling in price over the span. There are good reasons for that advance, but it doesn't make DryShips the better investment option. Here's why Diana Shipping is the better company if you are interested in the volatile shipping space. US Ecology, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides environmental services to commercial and government entities in the United States. It operates in two segments, Environmental Services; and Field & Industrial Services. The Environmental Services segment offers hazardous material management services, including transportation, recycling, treatment, and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste at its landfill, wastewater, and other treatment facilities. The Field & Industrial Services segment provides packaging and collection of hazardous waste; on-site management, waste characterization, and transportation and disposal of non-hazardous and hazardous waste at customer sites; and high-pressure and chemical cleaning, centrifuge and materials processing, tank cleaning, decontamination, remediation, transportation, spill cleanup and emergency response, and other services. It serves oil refineries, chemical production plants, steel mills, electric utilities, real estate developers, waste brokers/aggregators serving small manufacturers, and other industrial customers. The company was formerly known as American Ecology Corporation and changed its name to US Ecology, Inc. in February 2010. US Ecology, Inc. was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho. US Ecology Inc (NASDAQ:ECOL)Q4 2018 Earnings Conference CallFeb. 22, 2019, 10:00 a.m. ET Operator Get a free copy of the Zacks research report on US Ecology (ECOL) For more information about research offerings from Zacks Investment Research, visit Zacks.com Shares of US Ecology Inc (NASDAQ:ECOL) have been assigned an average rating of “Hold” from the seven brokerages that are currently covering the firm, MarketBeat.com reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating, two have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. The average 1 year price target among brokerages that have covered the stock in the last year is $70.80. FBR & Co., incorporated on August 29, 2013, is an investment banking and institutional brokerage company. The Company focuses on the equity capital markets. The Company operates through two segments: capital markets, which includes investment banking, institutional brokerage and research, and principal investing. Through its broker-dealer operating subsidiaries, the Company focuses its business on providing: capital raising services, including underwriting and placement of public and private equity, equity-linked and debt securities; financial advisory services, including merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory, restructuring, liability management, recapitalization and strategic alternative analysis; institutional sales and trading services focused on equities, equity-linked securities, listed options, high-yield bonds, senior debt and bank loans, as well as securities lending activities, and differentiated securities research. Capital Markets The Company's capital markets business is conducted by its investment banking, institutional brokerage and research professionals through its broker-dealer subsidiaries, FBR Capital Markets & Co. (FBRCM) and MLV & Co. LLC (MLV). The Company provides investment banking services, including capital raising and financial advisory services for its corporate issuer clients, and institutional brokerage services, including sales, trading, research and securities lending services to its institutional investor clients. The Company provides capital raising services through industry specific investment banking teams that focus on the diversified industrials, energy and natural resources, financial institutions, healthcare, insurance, real estate and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industries. The Company's financial sponsors group delivers investment banking products and solutions to the private equity community and their portfolio companies, and the Company's financial advisory group delivers a range of financial advisory services to ! its investment banking clients. The Company offers a range of financial products and services to its investment banking clients, including private, initial public, follow-on, at-the-market (ATM) and secondary offerings of common equity, convertible debt offerings, preferred stock offerings and high-yield debt offerings. The Company focuses on helping its investment banking clients to assess strategic alternatives, including advice on M&A, liability management and financial restructuring, and strategic partnerships. In addition, it provides valuation advice, fairness opinions, market comparable valuation analysis and other corporate finance advice. Through its institutional brokerage professionals, the Company provides research, institutional sales and trading services, and securities lending to institutional investors, such as mutual funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and broker-dealers, family offices, money managers, and pension and profit-sharing plans. It operates desks that cover the trading of equity securities, convertible securities, high-yield debt securities and loan products, and the borrowing and lending of equity and fixed income securities. It also provides stock buy-back services to corporate issuer clients. The Company makes markets in the United States exchange-listed and other securities, it trades listed and unlisted securities and loan products, and services the trading desks of institutions in the United States and Europe. Principal Investing The Company's principal investing activity consists of investments in merchant banking, marketable equity securities, non-public equity securities, corporate debt investments, non-registered investment funds that are managed by third parties and the United States treasury securities. Its merchant banking investments include investments in selected private transactions that its investment banking group underwrites and investments sourced by its investment banking team unrelated to an investment ! banking t! ransaction. Media headlines about FBR & Co (NASDAQ:FBRC) have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern. Accern rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. FBR & Co earned a news impact score of 0.14 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave press coverage about the financial services provider an impact score of 44.0509600232626 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company’s share price in the next several days. Top Growth Stocks To Own For 2022: US Ecology, Inc.(ECOL)
Top Growth Stocks To Own For 2022: FBR & Co(FBRC)
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