Top Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty stoked for the NFL draft this Thursday. As an avid Detroit Lions fan, I begrudgingly admit that I'm very familiar with the triumphs and failures of draft day having endured quite a few high-ranking selections over the past decade.

Keeping with the spirit of the upcoming NFL draft, I thought it would be a fun exercise to essentially "draft" the perfect biotech company. What I intend to do is break the biotech sector into three basic components -- the CEO position, the lead drug, and the blockbuster pipeline candidate -- and select what I feel would be an all-star biotechnology company.

The CEO
The success of a biotech company all begins with its leader. A biotech CEO is the person who's ultimately responsible for the success of a company's pipeline and the launch of any drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration. In this category, there isn't a CEO that I'd rather have leading my biotech dream team than Biogen Idec's (NASDAQ: BIIB  ) George Scangos.

Top Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: Strike Resources Ltd(SRK.AX)

Strike Resources Ltd. engages in the exploration and evaluation of iron ore projects in Peru. The company primarily holds a 56% interests in Apurimac Iron Ore project that comprises 72 concessions covering approximately 59,000 hectares located in the Apurimac district, Peru; and a 56% interests in Cusco Iron Ore project, which consists of approximately 22 concessions covering approximately 18,000 hectares located in Cusco district, Peru. It also owns a 100% interests in Berau Thermal Coal project that comprises 5,000 hectares in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The company was formerly known as Fast Scout Limited and changed its name to Strike Resources Ltd. in January 2006. Strike Resources Ltd. is headquartered in Perth, Australia.

Top Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: Transview Holdings Limited (T19.SI)

Transview Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the retail and wholesale of golf equipment and related products. The company offers golf equipment, apparel, shoes, bags, accessories, wedges, irons, drivers, and gloves. It is also involved in the wholesale of compression garments; and management of a public golf course and golf driving ranges. The company operates as a distributor for various brands of golf equipment and accessories, such as S-Yard, Maruman, Fourteen, ENA, Srixon, XXIO, J. Lindeberg, and Skins in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Philippines, and Myanmar. It operates 49 outlets. Transview Holdings Limited was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Top 5 International Companies For 2014: Universal Display Corporation(PANL)

Universal Display Corporation engages in the research, development, and commercialization of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies and materials for use in flat panel display, solid-state lighting, and other product applications. It owns exclusively license or has the sole right to sublicense approximately 1,400 patents issued and pending worldwide. The company licenses and supplies its proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED technologies and materials to display manufacturers and others. It is also involved in the research, development, and commercialization of other OLED device and manufacturing technologies, including TOLED, which are transparent OLEDs for the fabrication of OLEDs that have transparent cathodes; FOLED that are flexible OLEDs for the fabrication of OLEDs on flexible substrates; OVPD, an organic vapor phase deposition process to deposit the layers of organic material in an OLED; UniversalP2OLED, which are printable phosphorescent OLEDs; OVJP that is an organic vapor jet printing technology; and encapsulation technology for the packaging of flexible OLEDs and other thin-film devices, as well as for use as a barrier film for plastic substrates. In addition, the company provides technology development and support services to third parties for the commercialization of their OLED products. It has strategic relationships with Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.; LG Display Co., Ltd.; AU Optronics Corporation; Sony Corporation; Pioneer Corporation; Panasonic Idemitsu OLED Lighting Co., Ltd.; Tohoku Pioneer Corporation; Moser Baer Technologies, Inc.; Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.; Denko K.K.; LG Chem, Ltd.; Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.; NEC Lighting, Ltd.; Seiko Epson Corporation; and DuPont Displays, Inc. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Ewing, New Jersey.

Top Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: Bennett Envir Inc Com Npv (BEV.TO)

BENEV Capital Inc. engages in remediating contaminated soil and contaminated construction debris using its thermal oxidation technology. It treats soils contaminated with organics, and dioxins and furans. The company is also involved in removing and transporting the contaminated materials to its facilities for processing and disposal. It primarily serves government agencies, utilities, environmental services companies, and industries in the United States and Canada. The company was formerly known as Bennett Environmental Inc. and changed its name to BENEV Capital Inc. in June 2012. BENEV Capital Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Oakville, Canada.

Top Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: Euromoney Pub(ERM.L)

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, a business-to-business media group, provides business information on the finance, law, energy, metals, transport, and commodities sectors in the United Kingdom, North America, and internationally. Its Financial Publishing division offers various titles covering the international capital markets, as well as specialist financial titles, including magazines, newsletters, journals, surveys and research, directories, and books under Euromoney, Institutional Investor, Euroweek, Latin Finance, Asiamoney, Global Investor, Project Finance, Futures and Options World, EuroHedge, InvestHedge, AsiaHedge, and AR brands. The company?s Training division provides public and in-house banking, finance, and legal courses under the Euromoney and DC Gardner brands, as well as various courses for the audit and information security market. Its Business Publishing division produces specialist magazines and other publications covering the metals and mining, le gal, telecoms, and energy sectors under Metal Bulletin, American Metal Market, International Financial Law Review, International Tax Review, Managing Intellectual Property, Capacity, Petroleum Economist, World Oil, and Hydrocarbon Processing brands. The company?s Conferences and Seminars division runs sponsored conferences and seminars for the international financial markets under the Euromoney, Institutional Investor, Metal Bulletin, and IMN brands. Its Research and Data division offer subscription-based research and data services for financial markets; news and data on global emerging markets; time-series macro-economic data for emerging markets; and global capital market databases. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in London, the United Kingdom. Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC is a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust plc.

Top Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index Fund (SOXX)

iShares S&P North American Technology-Semiconductors Index Fund (the Fund), formerly iShares S&P GSTI Semiconductor Index Fund, seeks investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, as represented by the S&P North American Technology-Semiconductors Index. The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index.

The Index has been developed as an equity benchmark for United States-traded semiconductor stocks. The Index includes companies that are producers of capital equipment or manufacturers of wafers and chips.