Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014

WASHINGTON ��Labor-management agreements that help unions organize workers in exchange for concessions ran into skepticism at the Supreme Court Wednesday, but perhaps not enough to end a common practice that has served both sides well for decades.

The case involves a Hollywood, Florida, racetrack and casino that gave a hospitality services union a list of employees, access to its property and a pledge to remain neutral in the union's labor-organizing bid. In exchange, the union agreed not to strike or picket, and it spent $100,000 to support a state ballot initiative that led to legalizing slot machines.

A groundskeeper opposed to the union took the case to court and won a surprising victory at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that Mardi Gras Gaming gave the union "things of value" barred under the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947. If the Supreme Court upholds that verdict, labor groups say, it would cut off an increasingly important avenue for union organizing.

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014: Choice Hotels International Inc. (CHH)

Choice Hotels International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a hotel franchisor worldwide. It franchises lodging properties under its proprietary brand names, including Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge, Rodeway Inn, MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, Cambria Suites, and Ascend Collection brands. As of March 31, 2011, it operated 6,128 open hotels comprising 492,733 rooms, as well as 606 hotels consisting of 49,908 rooms under construction, awaiting conversion, or approved for development in 49 states, and the District of Columbia in the United States; and approximately 40 countries and other territories. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Jeremy Bowman]

    What: Shares of Choice Hotels (NYSE: CHH  ) were getting picked last by investors today, falling 11% after cutting EPS guidance in its quarterly report.

  • [By Sean Williams]

    Don't make the wrong Choice
    I predict that 2013 will be the return of the "staycation." In the depths of the recession, instead of taking expensive getaways, consumers chose simply to take time off work and stay home or locally. I think we have the perfect confluence of factors that could make life difficult for Choice Hotels International (NYSE: CHH  ) , operator of Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, and a multitude of other mid-price-point hotels.

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014: Storm Resources Ltd(SRX.V)

Storm Resources Ltd. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids reserves in the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada. It owns interests in undeveloped lands totaling approximately 117,200 net acres in the Horn River Basin, Umbach, and Cabin/Kotcho/Junior areas in north eastern British Columbia; undeveloped land in the Red Earth area of Alberta; and a property at Mica in north eastern British Columbia. As of December 31, 2011, the company had proved plus probable reserves of 8,322 thousands barrels of oil equivalent. Storm Resources Ltd. is based in Calgary, Canada.

Best Penny Stocks To Watch Right Now: MICRO FOCUS ORD GBP0(MCRO.L)

Micro Focus International plc provides enterprise application management solutions worldwide. The company offers software that allows companies to develop, test, deploy, assess, and modernize business-critical enterprise applications. Its product portfolio includes i.Sight, an application portfolio management and analysis tool that enable strategic planning, and application overhaul and modernization; Caliber, a enterprise software requirements definition and management tool, which is used to drive the development and testing of applications to the exact and changing needs of end users; and Rumba, a terminal emulation and user interface modernization tool that streamlines and modernizes key business processes. The company also offers Enterprise, a platform modernization tool, which modernizes application portfolios and platforms; StarTeam, a software change and configuration management tool that tracks changes across the software development lifecycle; and VisiBroker, a CO RBA middleware and application server. In addition, it provides Micro Focus Developer COBOL and software developer tools to modernize business-critical enterprise applications; and Silk software test management, test automation, and performance testing suite. Further, the company offers professional services comprising value profile day services; test process, portfolio, language, platform, and resource modernization services; test data management; value assurance; health check; field development solutions; software process improvement; project review services; customer care and education; and training services. Micro Focus International plc was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Newbury, the United Kingdom.

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014: Morgan Crucible(MGCR.L)

The Morgan Crucible Company plc designs, manufactures, and markets carbon and ceramic components in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and internationally. The company operates in two divisions: Morgan Engineered Materials and Morgan Ceramics. The Morgan Engineered Materials division offers electrical brushes, which are used in industrial and rail traction applications; seals and bearings that are used in fluid handling applications; protective ballistic armor, which are used in lightweight protective systems; ultra-high-temperature insulation for the production of silicon wafers; crucibles and furnaces that are used in the processing of non-ferrous metals; and lithium ion battery anode materials. It primarily serves industrial, security and defense, transportation, energy, electronics, and petrochemical markets. The Morgan Ceramics division offers insulating fiber, insulating bricks, and monolithics; ceramic cores for complex turbine blades; components for electr on tubes; feedthroughs for medical implants; and piezoelectric ceramic actuators. It principally serves industrial, transportation, electronics, petrochemical, energy, and healthcare markets. The company was founded in 1856 and is headquartered in Windsor, the United Kingdom.

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014: St. Jude Medical Inc.(STJ)

St. Jude Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures, and distributes cardiovascular and implantable neurostimulation medical devices worldwide. It operates in four segments: Cardiac Rhythm Management, Cardiovascular, Atrial Fibrillation, and Neuromodulation. The Cardiac Rhythm Management segment offers products for cardiac arrhythmias, or irregular heart beats. Its products include tachycardia implantable cardioverter defibrillator systems to provide therapy to patients suffering from lethal heart conditions, such as sudden cardiac arrest; cardiac resynchronization therapy devices to treat heart failure patients; pacemakers to help people whose hearts beat too slowly or who suffer from other cardiac arrhythmias; and leads, which connect devices to the heart and carry the electrical impulses to the heart and information from the heart to the device. The Cardiovascular segment offers mechanical and tissue replacement heart valves, as well as heart valve repair products. It also pr ovides disposable interventional devices, including vascular closure devices, compression assist devices, percutaneous catheter introducers, diagnostic guidewires, and temporary bipolar pacing catheters, as well as diagnostic coronary imaging technology. The Atrial Fibrillation segment offers a system of products for access, diagnosis, visualization, and ablation that assist physicians in diagnosing and treating various irregular heart rhythms used in the electrophysiology lab and cardiac surgery. It provides electrophysiology introducers and catheters, cardiac mapping, navigation and recording systems, and ablation systems. The Neuromodulation segment offers a range of neurostimulation systems, such as rechargeable implantable pulse generators, primary cell implantable pulse generators, and radio frequency powered systems. St. Jude Medical markets its products through a direct sales force and independent distributors. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Dan Carroll]

    The Food and Drug Administration has approved�St. Jude Medical's (NYSE: STJ  ) new Ellipse implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and its Assura cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D), high-voltage devices with new safety features.

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014: Roper Industries Inc.(ROP)

Roper Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes radio frequency (RF) products and services, industrial technology products, energy systems and controls, and medical and scientific imaging products and software. Its Medical and Scientific Imaging segment offers patient positioning devices, 3-D measurement technology, diagnostic and therapeutic disposable products, ultrasound bladder volume measurement instruments, and video laryngoscopes; digital imaging products and software; and handheld and vehicle mount computers and software. The company?s Energy Systems and Controls segment produces control systems, fluid properties testing equipment, industrial valves and controls, sensors and controls, and non-destructive inspection and measurement products and solutions. Its Industrial Technology segment produces water and fluid handling pumps, equipment and consumables, leak testing equipment, flow measurement and metering equipment, water meter, and automatic meter reading products and systems. The company?s RF Technology segment provides radio frequency identification communication technology and software solutions that are used in toll and traffic systems and processing; security and access control; campus card systems; software-as-a-service in the freight matching and food industries; and metering and remote monitoring applications. It markets its products to RF applications, medical, water, energy, research, education, software-as-a-service-based information networks, and security markets. The company distributes its products through direct sales personnel, manufacturers? representatives, value added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, and distributors. It principally operates in the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Roper Industries, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in Sarasota, Florida.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Seth Jayson]

    Roper Industries (NYSE: ROP  ) reported earnings on July 29. Here are the numbers you need to know.

    The 10-second takeaway
    For the quarter ended June 30 (Q2), Roper Industries met expectations on revenues and met expectations on earnings per share.

  • [By Rich Duprey]

    It's a bit incongruous, but industrial manufacturing specialist Roper� (NYSE: ROP  ) is now the proud owner of Managed Health Care Associates, a New Jersey-based supplier of services for�alternate site health-care providers.�The transaction was valued at approximately $1 billion, and was funded from Roper's�available cash and borrowings under its credit facility.

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014: Petro Vista Energy Corp (PTV.V)

Petro Vista Energy Corp. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and exploitation of oil and natural gas properties in Brazil. The company holds interests in the Tartaruga block located in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin of Brazil; and Block 170 located in the Rec么ncavo Basin of Brazil. Petro Vista Energy Corp. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014: St.James Place(STJ.L)

St. James's Place plc is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to individuals, trustees, and corporations. It launches and manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in public equity and fixed income market across the globe. It employs a combination of in-house and external research to make its portfolio. St. James's Place plc was founded in 1977 and is based in Cirencester, United Kingdom. St. James's Place plc operates as a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group plc.

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014: Beacon Federal Bancorp Inc.(BFED)

Beacon Federal Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Beacon Federal that provides various banking services. The company?s deposit products include savings accounts, health savings accounts, certificates of deposit, interest and noninterest-bearing checking accounts accounts, money market accounts, and individual retirement accounts. Its loan products portfolio comprises one-to four-family residential mortgage loans, consumer loans, home equity loans, commercial real estate loans, multi-family mortgage loans, and commercial business loans. The company also sells tax preparation services, as well as investment and insurance products on an agency basis. It operates from its corporate office located in East Syracuse, New York; and from eight full-service branches located in Syracuse, Marcy, and Rome, New York; Smartt and Smyrna, Tennessee; Tyler, Texas; and Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in East Syracuse, New Y ork.

Top 10 Heal Care Companies To Invest In 2014: Black Bull Resources Inc. (BBS.V)

Black Bull Resources Inc. engages in mining, processing, and marketing industrial minerals under the trademark Scotia White in Nova Scotia, Canada. The company holds 100% interest in the White Rock property located in Nova Scotia that contains quartz, kaolin, and mica minerals. It serves ferro silicon, specialty glass, swimming pool stucco, specialty flooring and counters, decorative landscape stone, paving stone, pre-cast concrete, exterior wall systems, golf course bunker sand, and textured coatings markets. Black Bull Resources Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Shelburne, Canada.

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