Best High Tech Companies To Watch For 2014: Super Group Ltd. (S10.SI)
Super Group Ltd, an investment holding company, engages in manufacture and distribution of beverages and food products. Its products include instant coffee mixes, soluble coffee powder, instant cereal, instant soymilk, instant tea-mixes, instant cup noodles, canned drinks, and non-dairy creamers. It also manufactures and distributes botanical herbal extracts; and provides vending machine services. Super Group Ltd offers its products under the brand names of Super, Caf茅 Nova, Super Power, Owl, Y茅 Y茅, Coffee King, Gold Eagle, Negresco, Eagle King, Superkids�, and Liang Bao primarily in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, and the People�s Republic of China. The company, formerly known as Super Coffeemix Manufacturing Ltd, was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Best High Tech Companies To Watch For 2014: Bentley International Ltd(BEL.AX)
Bentley International Limited, an investment company, invests primarily in equity securities listed on the world's major stock markets. It also invests in fixed interest securities and money market instruments denominated in various currencies. Constellation Capital Management Limited serves as the investment manager of the company. Bentley International was incorporated in 1986. It was formerly known as BT Global Asset Management Limited and changed its name to Bentley Equities Limited in 2003, and then to Bentley International Limited in March 2004. Bentley International is based in Double Bay, Australia.
Best Small Cap Companies To Invest In Right Now: Natuzzi S.p.A.(NTZ)
Natuzzi S.p.A., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets leather and fabric upholstered furniture. The company?s products comprise sofas, loveseats, armchairs, sectional furniture, motion furniture and sofa beds, and living room furnishings and accessories. It sells its products primarily under the Natuzzi, Italsofa, and Natuzzi Editions/Editions brand names. The company sells its Natuzzi branded furniture primarily through franchised Divani & Divani by Natuzzi, and Natuzzi furniture stores. As of March 31, 2011, it sells its furniture through 111 Divani & Divani by Natuzzi, and 178 Natuzzi stores, as well as had 358 Natuzzi galleries worldwide. The company was founded in 1959 and is based in Santeramo in Colle, Italy.
Best High Tech Companies To Watch For 2014: Visa Inc.(V)
Visa Inc., a payments technology company, engages in the operation of retail electronic payments network worldwide. It facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities. The company owns and operates VisaNet, a global processing platform that provides transaction processing services. It also offers a range of payments platforms, which enable credit, charge, deferred debit, debit, and prepaid payments, as well as cash access for consumers, businesses, and government entities. The company provides its payment platforms under the Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS, and Interlink brand names. In addition, it offers value-added services, including risk management, issuer processing, loyalty, dispute management, value-added information, and CyberSource-branded services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Ben Levisohn]
Financial stocks are taking the brunt of the damage this morning. The Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) has dropped 1.1% to $129.83 at 9:38 a.m., making it the biggest loser among sector ETFs. Visa (V) and American Express (AXP) have dropped 1.8% and 1.7%, to lead the Dow lower.
- [By David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer]
Stocks jumped during the early hours of trading, but credit card network monster Visa (NYSE: V ) was lagging behind.
In this video, Motley Fool financial analysts David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer discuss the business of Visa and tell investors if they believe the stock is fairly valued or overvalued.
- [By Associated Press]
NEW YORK (AP) -- The National Retail Federation on Tuesday urged a federal judge to reject a proposed $7.2 billion settlement with Visa (NYSE: V ) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA ) over alleged fee-fixing.
Best High Tech Companies To Watch For 2014: Columbus McKinnon Corporation(CMCO)
Columbus McKinnon Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets material handling products for commercial and industrial end-user markets in the United States, Europe, Canada, and internationally. The company offers electric, lever, hand, and air-powered hoists; hoist trolleys; winches; industrial crane systems, such as bridge, gantry, and jib cranes; alloy and carbon steel chains; closed-die forged attachments comprising hooks, shackles, textile slings, clamps, logging tools, and load binders; industrial components, including mechanical and electromechanical actuators and rotary unions; below-the-hook special purpose lifters; tire shredders; and light-rail systems. It offers its products through commercial distributors and end-users under various names, including Budgit, Chester, CM, Coffing, Duff-Norton, Little Mule, Pfaff, Shaw-Box, and Yale. The company sells its products to various industries that include manufacturing, power generation and distribution, utilities, w ind power, warehouses, commercial construction, oil exploration and refining, petrochemical, marine, ship building, transportation and heavy duty trucking, agriculture, logging, and mining, as well as to the entertainment industry comprising permanent and traveling concerts, live theater, and sporting venues. Columbus McKinnon Corporation was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Amherst, New York.
Best High Tech Companies To Watch For 2014: DCT Industrial Trust Inc (DCT)
DCT Industrial Trust Inc. (DCT) is an industrial real estate company that owns, operates and develops bulk distribution and light industrial properties in distribution markets in the United States and Mexico. The Company is structured as an umbrella partnership real estate investment trust (REIT), under which substantially all of its business is, and will be, conducted through a majority-owned and controlled subsidiary, DCT Industrial Operating Partnership LP (the operating partnership), a Delaware limited partnership, for which DCT Industrial Trust Inc. is the sole general partner. The Company owns properties through its operating partnership and its subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2011, DCT owned approximately 90% of the outstanding equity interests in its operating partnership. In March 2012, DCT acquired a 32.6 acre land parcel in Romeoville, within the southern I-55 industrial submarket of Chicago. In May 2012, the Company acquired two Class A industrial buildings totaling 98,000 square feet in Houston, known as DCT Claymoore Center. Located in the Northwest submarket of Houston, DCT Claymoore Center encompasses a bulk and light industrial facility and is 95.8%-occupied.
During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company acquired 24 buildings comprising 2.8 million square feet and controlling ownership interests in three buildings totaling 0.4 million square feet. In 2011, the Company sold 16 operating properties totaling approximately 2.7 million square feet to third-parties. As of December 31, 2011, the Company�� consolidated operating properties had leases with approximately 900 customers with no single customer accounting for more than 1.7% of the total annualized base rents of its properties. As of December 31, 2011, the Company owned interests in, managed or had under development approximately 75.5 million square feet of properties leased to approximately 900 customers, including 58.1 million square feet comprising 408 consolidated properties owned in its operating portfo! lio, which were 90.6% occupied; 0.2 million square feet comprising one consolidated property under redevelopment, and 17.2 million square feet comprising 52 unconsolidated properties, which were 86.3% occupied and one managed-only property operated on behalf of five institutional capital management partners. As of December 31, 2011, its total consolidated portfolio consisted of 409 properties with an average size of 142,000 square feet and an average age of 20.2 years.
Best High Tech Companies To Watch For 2014: Stellar Pacific Ventures Inc. (SPX.V)
Stellar Pacific Ventures Inc. engages in the exploration and development of gold mining assets in Canada and West Africa. The company�s principal projects include the Monster Lake in the Quebec Chibougamou Mining Camp; and the GoldenFrank BALANDOUGOU that covers an area of approximately 429 square kilometers in north eastern Guinea. Stellar Pacific Ventures is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
Best High Tech Companies To Watch For 2014: Stage Stores Inc.(SSI)
Stage Stores, Inc. operates as a specialty department store retailer that offers branded and private label apparel, accessories, cosmetics, and footwear for women, men, and children in the United States. The company also offers sportswear, dresses, intimates, home and gift products, outerwear, swimwear, and other products. It primarily focuses on consumers in small and mid-sized markets. The company operates stores under the names of Bealls, Goody?s, Palais Royal, Peebles, and Stage. Stage Stores, Inc. also sells its products through its Web site. As of March 06, 2012, it operated 819 stores in 40 states. Stage Stores, Inc. is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Dan Caplinger]
On Friday, Stage Stores (NYSE: SSI ) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they'll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever inevitable surprises arise. That way, you'll be less likely to make an uninformed knee-jerk reaction to news that turns out to be exactly the wrong move.
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