The United States Oil Fund LP (ETF) (NYSE: USO) is up roughly 2 percent this week after Saudi Arabia energy minister Khalid al-Falih and Russia energy minister Alexander Novak said they would be on board with an OPEC plan to extend November’s crude oil production cuts by nine months.
Top 5 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: Partner Communications Company Ltd.(PTNR)
Partner Communications Company Ltd., incorporated on September 29, 1997, is a telecommunications company. The Company is engaged in the business of cellular telephony, provided on its second generation (2G), third generation (3G) and fourth generation (4G) networks. The Company is engaged in providing a range of cellular and fixed-line telecommunication services. The Company operates through two segments: cellular segment and fixed-line segment. The Company offers its subscribers a range of products and services to address their communications needs, as well as a range of tariff plans. The Company's products and services are marketed under the Partner brand.
The Company's cellular business segment includes basic cellular telephony services, text messaging, data, airtime, interconnect, roaming, content services and other value added services. The Company's services are provided over its cellular network, including wholesale services to other operators, as well as equipment and device sales. As of December 31, 2015, the Company had approximately 2,718 thousand cellular subscribers. The Company's basic offer includes cellular telephony services, text messaging, data, airtime, interconnect, roaming, international dialing, voice mail, call waiting, call forwarding, caller identification, conference calling, short message services (SMS), network services (such as virtual private network (VPN) and funtone), fax transmission, mobile broadband and other services as a mobile portal of content services and applications. Its services are provided over its cellular network, including wholesale services to other operators, as well as equipment and device sales. In addition to standard mobile value-added services, it offers a range of value-added services, including various content services, 4G television video content, a range of television and music applications, backup and synchronizing services, and vehicle fleet management. It offers its customers roaming services abroad. It offers data only packag! es, as well as packages that combine calls, data and SMS. The equipment and devices sales in the cellular segment include sales of cellular handsets, cellular modems, tablets, laptops and related accessories, as well as handset maintenance and spare parts through the Company's repair services and labs. It also sells a range of digital audio visual equipment, including televisions, digital cameras, games consoles, media streamers, earphones and other related equipment.
The fixed-line segment includes a range of services provided over fixed-line networks, including Internet service provider (ISP) services that provide access to the Internet (both infrastructure and ISP services), business information storage in a data center and cloud services. The Company also provides wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) networks, including certain value added services, and fixed-line voice communication services provided through voice over broadband (VOB), and session initiation protocol (SIP) voice trunks; transmission services and primary rate interface (PRI), and international long distance (ILD) services, outgoing and incoming international telephony, hubbing, roaming and signaling and calling card services. In addition, the fixed-line segment includes sales of related equipment. It offers additional value added services, such as anti-virus and anti-spam filtering. It also offers a bundled package that includes infrastructure and ISP services. It offers international telephony services, including direct international dialing services, international and domestic pre-paid and post-paid calling cards, and call-back services. It offers its business customers international toll-free numbers that offer fixed rates on calls from anywhere in the world.
The Company provides fixed-line transmission and data capacity services. The Company's fixed-line capacity also includes capacity, which it leases from other fixed-line telecommunications service providers, as well as inland fiber optic infrastructure and comp! limentary! microwave radio links. It offers services, including primarily connectivity services, on Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) transmission network. The VOB service allows business and residential customers to make and receive telephone calls over the Internet through an Internet connection. In addition to standard fixed-line value-added services, it offers a range of value-added services that include defense and security services for the computer and e-mail that include parental monitoring control, firewall, Web hosting, anti-virus and site filtering based on the customer's restriction definition, and other value added Internet services, including hosting, cloud-based hosted services and virtual switchboard. Equipment and devices sales in the fixed line segment include sale of landline phones, modems, domestic routers, servers, smartboxes and related equipment, media streamers, WI-FI-only tablets and other telecommunications and audio-visual devices and accessories to fixed-line segment customers.
The Company competes with Palestine Telecommunication Co. Ltd., Golan Telecom International Ltd., Bezeq-The Israel Telecommunication Corp., Ltd., Cellcom Israel Ltd., Xphone 018 Ltd., Telzar International Telecommunication Service Ltd, Home Cellular Ltd., Hashikma N.G.N International Communications 015 Ltd., Hashikma Communications Marketing Ltd., Xfone, Pelephone Communications Ltd., Altice Group and Israel Broadband Company.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Motley Fool Transcribers]
Partner Communications Company Ltd. (NASDAQ:PTNR)Q2 2018 Earnings Conference CallAug. 15, 2018, 10:00 a.m. ET
Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks:Operator
- [By Stephan Byrd]
Partner Communications (NASDAQ: PTNR) and Cellcom Israel (NYSE:CEL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability and dividends.
- [By Max Byerly]
Partner Communications (NASDAQ: PTNR) and Deutsche Telekom (OTCMKTS:DTEGY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.
- [By Logan Wallace]
Deutsche Telekom (OTCMKTS: DTEGY) and Partner Communications (NASDAQ:PTNR) are both utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
Top 5 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: Verizon Communications Inc.(VZA)
Verizon Communications Inc. (Verizon), incorporated on October 7, 1983, is a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides communications, information and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses and governmental agencies. The Company offers voice, data and video services and solutions on its wireless and wireline networks. Its segments include Wireless and Wireline. The Wireless segment offers communications products and services, including wireless voice and data services and equipment sales that are provided to consumer, business and government customers across the United States. The Wireline segment offers voice, data and video communications products and services, such as broadband video and data, corporate networking solutions, data center and cloud services, security and managed network services, and local and long distance voice services. The Company provides these products and services to consumers in the United States, as well as to carriers, businesses and government customers both in the United States and around the world.
Wireless
The Company's Wireless segment, doing business as Verizon Wireless, provides wireless communications services across wireless networks in the United States. Verizon Wireless has approximately 112.1 million retail connections. It also provides fourth-generation (4G) Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology and third-generation (3G) Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) networks.
The Company offers wireless services on a postpaid and prepaid basis. Retail (non-wholesale) postpaid accounts primarily represent retail customers under contract with Verizon Wireless that are directly served and managed by Verizon Wireless and use its branded services. The Company offers various postpaid account service plans, including shared data plans, single connection plans and plans to the needs of its business customers. Its shared data plans feature domestic unlimited voice minutes, unlimited domestic and inter! national text, video and picture messaging, cloud storage and a single data allowance that can be shared over 10 devices on a customer's account.
The Company provides its customers an option of sharing long distance and roaming minutes among their devices for calls from the United States to, and calls while within Canada and Mexico. The Company also offers a range of wireless services accessible on a range of its devices. Its messaging services enable its customers to send and receive text, picture and video messages. In addition, access to the Internet is available on all of its smartphones and nearly all of its basic phones. It also offers service that enables its customers to access the Internet wirelessly at broadband speeds on notebook computers and tablets that either have embedded 4G LTE or 3G EV-DO modules or that are used in conjunction with separate devices that enable access to this service, such as universal serial bus (USB) modems, Jetpacks and other devices that provide a mobile wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) connection. The Company also enables its customers to access multimedia offerings, provided by third-parties, consisting of applications providing music, video, gaming, news and other content. The Company's location-based services provide its customers with directions to their destination and enable them to locate, monitor and communicate with their mobile field workers. Its global data services allow its customers to access data services and the Internet on all of its smartphones and many of its tablets and basic phones from hundreds of international destinations. In addition, depending upon their wireless device's operating system, its customers have access to over one million applications and services offered by Google Inc. (Google) through Google Inc. (Google) through Google Play, Apple Inc. (Apple) through iTunes, Microsoft Inc. (Microsoft) through its Windows Phone operating system and BlackBerry Limited (BlackBerry) through its BlackBerry App World Webstore.
The Com! pany's customers can make and receive calls on their home phone handsets using its wireless network through its Home Phone Connect service or Verizon 4G LTE Broadband Router with Voice service. It also offers LTE Internet (Installed) that provides customers with Internet connections in their homes using the Company's 4G LTE network. In addition, the Company provides network access and, in some cases, delivers services to support wireless connections for the Internet of things (IoT). Its IoT services support devices that are used by a range of market segments, including health monitoring, education, manufacturing, utilities, distribution and consumer products.The Company offers a range of wireless devices, including smartphones and basic phones, tablets and other Internet access devices. The smartphones offered by the Company are enabled to utilize the Company's 4G LTE and/or 3G EV-DO high-speed data services and run on operating platforms, such as Apple iPhone Operating System (iOS), Google Android, Windows Phone operating system (OS) and BlackBerry OS. The basic phones it offers are 3G EV-DO-enabled and have HTML-browsing capability. The Company offers tablets from a range of manufacturers. The tablets run primarily on the Apple iOS, Google Android or Microsoft Windows operating systems. In addition, the Company offers Jetpacks that provide a mobile Wi-Fi 4G LTE and/or 3G EV-DO connection and are capable of connecting multiple Wi-Fi enabled devices to the Internet at one time. The customers can also access the Internet wirelessly at broadband speeds on their computers through data cards, universal serial bus (USB) modems or with certain laptop computers and netbooks with embedded 4G LTE and 3G EV-DO Mobile Broadband modules.
The Company also offers a range of international wireless voice and data services to its customers through roaming arrangements with wireless service providers outside of the United States. Its primary network technology platforms are 4G LTE and 3G code d! ivision m! ultiple access (CDMA). The Company also offers mobile Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service, known as Voice over LTE (VoLTE).
Wireline
The Company's Wireline segment provides voice, data and video communications products and services, including broadband video and data, corporate networking solutions, data center and cloud services, security and managed network services, and local and long distance voice services.
The Company organizes its service and product offerings by the primary customers targeted by these offerings, such as mass markets, global enterprise and global wholesale. Mass Markets operations provide broadband services, including high-speed Internet, Fios Internet and Fios Video services, and local exchange, including basic service and end user access and long distance, including regional toll voice services to residential and small business subscribers. The Company offers Fios Internet and high-speed Internet services with varying throughput speeds, including Fios Quantum, which includes speeds of over 50 megabytes per second (Mbps).
The Company offers video service over its fiber-optic network. Fios Video is available to approximately 20 million homes across 10 states, as well as the District of Columbia. Fios Quantum TV (television) provides Fios TV customers with features, including the ability to record over 10 shows at once and control live television from any room in their home. Fios Custom TV, which offers customers the option of purchasing a package of channels that, includes a base set of select national networks and local broadcast stations plus their choice of two sets of channels grouped into various content categories, such as news, sports and entertainment. Fios on Demand gives Fios customers the ability to watch content anytime and anywhere, on any compatible device. It offers voice services that include local exchange, regional and long distance calling and voice messaging services, as well as VoIP services, which u! se the In! ternet or private broadband networks to transmit voice communications.
Global Enterprise offers services and other communications services to medium and large business customers, including multinational corporations, as well as state and federal government customers. Verizon Enterprise Solutions offers an array of advanced information and communication technology services, including Global Internet protocol (IP) network, cloud, and information technology solutions, and business communications, IoT, data, security and mobility services.
The Company's networking products and solutions primarily include Private IP, and Ethernet access and optical networking services. Private IP service enables customers across the world to communicate over a private, secure network using a range of access methods, including Ethernet and Verizon Wireless 4G LTE. Ethernet access services allow customers to connect network environments across the world.
The Company offers IT infrastructure services, including collocation and managed hosting in over 50 data centers around the globe. Its cloud services include computing, storage, backup, recovery and application platforms its customers rely on to run their business operations. Business communications services include IP communications services, which simplify network management by enabling the convergence of voice and data traffic on the same access connection; Internet access, which provides enterprise customers with access to Verizon's global network; unified communications and collaboration capabilities, which enable customers to communicate in real time through VoIP and IP conferencing, and emergency communication services, which allow customers to respond to emergencies while maintaining business continuity. It offers IoT services to customers. Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which is enabled by secure network connectivity and cloud infrastructure, can transform data into useful information for consumers, businesses and instituti! ons. The ! Company offers ThingSpace for customers and developers to develop, manage and market IoT devices and applications. It offers a suite of data security services to help companies secure their networks, data, applications and infrastructure from security threats. Core services include core voice and data services, which consist of a portfolio of global solutions utilizing traditional telecommunications technology, such as conferencing and contact center solutions, and private line and data access networks. Core services also provide customer premise equipment, and installation, maintenance and site services.
Global Wholesale provides communications services, including data, voice, local dial tone and broadband services primarily to local, long distance and other carriers that use the Company's facilities to provide services to their customers. Global Wholesale's services include data services, voice services and local services. The Company offers a portfolio of data services with varying speeds and options. Its data services include digital data offerings, such as Ethernet and Wavelength services, as well as core data circuits, such as DS1s and DS3s. Data services also include business services, including Managed services, Mobility offerings and Security services. Managed services offer wholesale customers to outsource the management of their networks, security, remote access and Web applications to Verizon. Mobility enables wholesale customers to enhance their portfolio to triple-play or quad-play capability by leveraging wireless devices and services offered through Verizon Wireless that can be packaged and resold under their own carrier brand. Security provides wholesale customers integrated solutions to help their enterprise end users secure their networks and data.
The Company provides switched access services that allow carriers to complete their end user calls that originate or terminate within its territory. It offers an array of local dial tone and broadband services to c! ompetitiv! e local exchange carriers. In addition, the Company offers services, such as colocation, resale and unbundled network elements in compliance with applicable regulations.
The Company competes with AT&T, Sprint Corporation, T-Mobile USA, Microsoft Inc., Google Inc. and Apple Inc.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Danny Vena, Chris Neiger, and Leo Sun]
Verizon (NYSE:VZ) (NYSE:VZA) is the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. and is well-known to income investors. Its dividend currently yields an impressive 4.3% and the company has raised its payout in each of the past 11 years. With a payout ratio of just 31%, it can easily handle its current dividend, with the potential for future increases. That said, although finding a better-paying income stock may be difficult, it's certainly not impossible.
- [By Danny Vena, Chris Neiger, and Leo Sun]
With those factors in mind, we asked three Fool.com contributors to choose solid income payers with yields over 4%. Read on to find out why they chose AT&T (NYSE:T), Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) (NYSE:VZA).
Top 5 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: REC Silicon ASA (REC)
REC Silicon ASA, formerly Renewable Energy Corp ASA (REC), is a Norway-based company active in the solar energy sector. REC Silicon ASA is engaged in production of advanced silicon materials to customers in the solar and electronics industry. It offers three types of products: solar grade polysilicon for production of solar panels; electronic grade polysilicon for semiconductor industry and green energy technologies; and silane gases for semiconductor industry, flat panel displays and thin film technologies. The Company uses three technologies: Siemens process, based on decomposition of silane and deposition of elemental silicon; Fluidized Bed Reactor (FBR) technology, aimed at production of polysilicon at lower cost; and REC Business System (RBS) to manufacture gas and liquid silicon molecules. Advisors' Opinion:- [By Logan Wallace]
Regalcoin (CURRENCY:REC) traded up 10.1% against the US dollar during the 1 day period ending at 22:00 PM E.T. on February 7th. One Regalcoin coin can now be purchased for about $0.0047 or 0.00000139 BTC on popular exchanges including YoBit, CoinExchange and BTC-Alpha. Regalcoin has a total market capitalization of $60,267.00 and $9.00 worth of Regalcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last week, Regalcoin has traded down 2.2% against the US dollar.
- [By Shane Hupp]
Regalcoin (REC) is a PoW/PoS coin that uses the
X11 hashing algorithm. Its launch date was September 28th, 2017. Regalcoin’s total supply is 16,491,413 coins and its circulating supply is 12,799,009 coins. The Reddit community for Regalcoin is /r/RegalCoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Regalcoin’s official Twitter account is @regalcoinx and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official website for Regalcoin is regalcoin.co. - [By Logan Wallace]
Regalcoin (CURRENCY:REC) traded up 5.2% against the U.S. dollar during the 1 day period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on May 27th. Regalcoin has a total market cap of $496,466.00 and $1,256.00 worth of Regalcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last week, Regalcoin has traded 1.9% higher against the U.S. dollar. One Regalcoin coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0388 or 0.00000529 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges including BTC-Alpha, CoinExchange and YoBit.
Top 5 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: Energy Focus, Inc.(EFOI)
Energy Focus, Inc., incorporated on May 2, 2007, along with its subsidiaries is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, installation and sale of lighting systems. The Company is engaged in developing and selling of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting products for military maritime market, and general commercial and industrial markets.
The Company produces, sources and/or markets a range of lighting technologies to serve its primary end markets. The Company offers military maritime products, including Military Intellitube, military globe lights and military berth light to serve the United States navy and allied foreign navies. The Company offers commercial products, including direct-wire tubular LED (TLED) replacements for linear fluorescent lamps, LED dock lights, vapor tight lighting, low-bay and high-bay lighting for high-intensity discharge (HID) applications and LED retrofit kits to serve commercial and industrial markets. The Company produces its lighting products and systems through a combination of internal manufacturing and assembly at its Solon, Ohio facility, and sourced finished goods. Its internal lighting system manufacturing consists primarily of final assembly, testing, and quality control.
The Company competes with Royal Philips, CREE, Inc., Osram Sylvania and GE, Inc.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Max Byerly]
Shares of Energy Focus Inc (NASDAQ:EFOI) have been assigned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the six brokerages that are currently covering the company, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating on the company. The average 1-year price objective among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $4.00.
- [By Joseph Griffin]
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Top 5 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: 1st Source Corporation(SRCE)
1st Source Corporation operates as the bank holding company for 1st Source Bank that provides commercial and consumer banking services to individuals and businesses in the United States. Its consumer banking services include checking accounts, online and telephone banking, savings programs, installment and real estate loans, home equity loans, lines of credit, drive-through and night deposit services, safe deposit facilities, automated teller machines, debit and credit card services, financial literacy seminars, and brokerage services. The company also offers commercial, small business, agricultural, and real estate loans for various general corporate purposes, including financing for industrial and commercial properties, equipment, inventories, accounts receivables, and acquisition; and commercial leasing and cash management services. In addition, it provides a range of trust, investment, agency, and custodial services comprising administration of estates and personal tru sts, as well as the management of investment accounts for individuals, employee benefit plans, and charitable foundations. Further, the company offers equipment loan and lease finance products for auto and light trucks, environmental equipment, medium and heavy duty trucks, new and used aircraft, and construction equipment; and leases construction equipment, medium and heavy duty trucks, automobiles, and other equipment. Additionally, it provides corporate and personal property, casualty, and individual and group health and life insurance products and services to individuals and businesses; and investment advisory services to trust and investment clients. As of December 31, 2011, the company operated through 75 banking center locations in 17 counties in Indiana and Michigan; and 23 locations of its Specialty Finance Group in the United States. 1st Source Corporation was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in South Bend, Indiana.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Ethan Ryder]
1st Source (NASDAQ:SRCE) was upgraded by stock analysts at BidaskClub from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a note issued to investors on Thursday.
- [By Stephan Byrd]
1st Source (NASDAQ:SRCE) was downgraded by investment analysts at BidaskClub from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report issued on Thursday.
- [By Joseph Griffin]
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