Top 5 Low Price Companies For 2014

Given the overall performance of the midstream industry during the past year and a half, a company that repeatedly offers up a poor performance come earnings time is going to stand out. Enbridge Energy Partners (NYSE: EEP  ) is one such company. In this video, Fool.com contributor Aimee Duffy takes a quick look at what is hurting EEP, how it compares to its midstream peers, and whether or not this master limited partnership has a bright future ahead of it.

The growing production of natural gas from hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling is flooding the North American market and resulting in record-low prices for natural gas. Enterprise Products Partners, with its superior integrated asset base, can profit from the massive bottlenecks in takeaway capacity by taking on large-scale projects. To help investors decide whether Enterprise Products Partners is a buy or a sell today, click here now to check out The Motley Fool's brand-new premium research report on the company.

Top 5 Low Price Companies For 2014: Reading International Inc (RDIB)

Reading International, Inc. engages in the development, ownership, and operation of entertainment and real property assets in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. The company operates in two segments, Cinema Exhibition and Real Estate. It operates multiplex theatres; and invests, develops, owns, operates, and rents commercial, retail, and live theater assets. The company manages its cinema exhibition businesses under the Reading, Angelika Film Center, Consolidated Theatres, City Cinemas, Beekman Theatre, The Paris Theatre, Liberty Theatres, and Rialto brands. As of December 31, 2012, it had interests in 54 cinemas comprising approximately 462 screens; fee interests in 4 live theaters; and fee ownership of approximately 24.0 million square feet of developed and undeveloped real estate assets. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Top 5 Low Price Companies For 2014: Discovery Metals Ltd(DML.AX)

Discovery Metals Limited engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Australia and Botswana. It primarily holds a 100% interest in the Boseto copper project covering approximately 8,877 square kilometers of tenement area in north-west Botswana. The company, through a joint venture with Japan Oil Gas Metals & Energy Corporation, also holds a 40% interest in the Dikoloti nickel project in north-east Botswana. The company was formerly known as Discovery Nickel Limited and changed its name to Discovery Metals Limited in 2006. Discovery Metals Limited was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia.

Best Sliver Companies To Watch For 2014: Cattolica Ass(CASS.MI)

Societa Cattolica di Assicurazione, through its subsidiaries, provides various life and non-life insurance products for individuals, families, and small and medium-sized productive activities in Italy. It offers vehicle insurance; home and family insurance; travel and leisure insurance; pension coverage; and health care insurance, including accident and sickness insurance products, as well as index-linked policies and unit-linked bonds. The company offers its products through various agencies, branches of partner banks, and brokerage firms. It also engages in the development and improvement/valuation of real estate assets, as well as the provision of real estate services. Societa Cattolica di Assicurazione was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Verona, Italy.

Top 5 Low Price Companies For 2014: Koss Corporation(KOSS)

Koss Corporation, together with its subsidiary, Koss Classics Ltd., designs, manufactures, and sells stereo headphones and related accessories primarily in the United States and Europe. It offers a line of high-fidelity stereo headphones, speaker-phones, computer headsets, telecommunications headsets, active noise canceling stereo headphones, wireless stereo headphones, and compact disc recordings of American Symphony Orchestras under the Koss Classics label. The company sells its products through national retailers, international distributors, audio specialty stores, the Internet, direct mail catalogs, regional department store chains, discount department stores, military exchanges, and prisons under the Koss name. It also sells its products to distributors for resale to school systems, and directly to other manufacturers. The company was founded in 1953 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Top 5 Low Price Companies For 2014: Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc.(SCHN)

Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. engages in recycling ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, and used and salvaged vehicles; and manufacturing finished steel products. The company operates through three segments: Metals Recycling Business (MRB), Auto Parts Business (APB), and Steel Manufacturing Business (SMB). The MRB segment involves in the purchase, collection, processing, recycling, sale, and broking of ferrous scrap metals. It processes mixed and large pieces of scrap metal into smaller pieces by sorting, shearing, shredding, and torching. This segment?s products include ferrous products, including ferrous scrap metal, a feedstock used in the production of finished steel products; and nonferrous scrap metals, including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel, brass, titanium, lead, high temperature alloys, and joint products, such as zorba (mixed nonferrous material) and zurik (stainless steel). The MRB segment sells its products to steel mills and smelters. The APB segment purchases used and salvaged vehicles and sells serviceable used auto parts from these vehicles through its 45 self-service auto parts stores, which are located across the United States and western Canada. It also sells other vehicles, including auto bodies; cores, such as engines, transmissions, alternators, and catalytic converters; and nonferrous materials to metal recyclers. The SMB segment engages in the purchase of recycled metal, and processing of the recycled metal and other raw materials into finished steel products. Its product portfolio comprises semi-finished goods and finished goods consisting of rebar, coiled rebar, wire rod, merchant bar, and other specialty products. This segment serves steel service centers, construction industry subcontractors, steel fabricators, wire drawers, and farm and wood product suppliers. The company exports its products worldwide. Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is based in Portland, Oregon.